Teen girl #1: Having a disease must suck.
Teen girl #2: Yeah. If I had AIDS, I would die.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Snoopy
Teen girl #1: Having a disease must suck.
Teen girl #2: Yeah. If I had AIDS, I would die.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Snoopy
Brainiac: Maybe AIDS wouldn’t be such a problem in Africa if they’d stop buttfucking each other so much.
–Midtown office
Old man #1: Man, that’s nasty.
Old man #2: Why do you say that? You don’t like to orally please your woman?
Old man #1: Man, I am afraid of getting AIDS in my teeth.
–51st & 5th
Pissed off gay guy on phone: What should you have said? Oh, I don’t know, maybe “Hi, I’m Michael, I have syphilis!”
–13th & Broadway
Guy: That’d be a great gig, but I don’t know if you want to be the face of venereal disease.
–Cafe Esperanto
Woman coming off train: Get away from me! You got AIDS on yo’ dick!
–R Train
Overheard by: going to the clinic
Chick: As long as it’s not AIDS it’s okay. I’m vaccinated against everything except AIDS.
–Columbia University
20‐something male talking to friend: You know the way I see it: AIDS will kill you, herpes is just an inconvenience…
–34th between 2nd and 3rd
Overheard by: LadyEDdy
Columbia student, on her public health exam: I just didn’t know where to put the gonorrhea! It had to go somewhere, I just couldn’t figure out where!
–School of Public Heatlh, Columbia University
Loud guy: So he gave her a venereal disease. That’s not a reason to marry her!
–Blue Hill Restaurant
Girl, 9: Is that your ADD talking?
Boy, 9: What? I don’t have that disease!
Girl, 9: A‑D‐D doesn’t spell AIDS!
−−1÷9 train
Overheard by: Nicole A.
Teen girl #1: I hated those guys sitting behind us. I just wanted to bash their heads in!
Teen girl #2: What? The HIV people?
Teen girl #1: Wait…what?
–Paley’s Museum of Radio and Television
Black guy #1: Lady, don’t sit next to that man, he’s got aids, motherfucker.
Black guy #2: Who you talkin’ bout aids? I went to prison for ten years and I don’t have no aids. Peace, brother.
Black guy #1: I tell you he got aids, motherfucker!
Black guy #2: Peace, brother, peace.
Black guy #1: Aids, motherfucker!
–PATH Train
Gay dude to girl friend: Stupid‐ass Aids‐filled cancer patient.
Girl friend: That’s why you’re gonna die tomorrow.
–1 Train
Overheard by: Glory
Blonde: There were three of them; they were twins.
–Lunasa Bar, East Village
Guy on cell: You thought you had the right information, but you didn’t have your dots crossed.
–B46 Bus
Overheard by: Brooklynluva
Latino girl in park: Don’t read it, bitch, just put it on. It’s good, it’s sunblock. It protects you from the UVs and huh… The HIV positives, or whatever.
–125th St & Riverside
Overheard by: nearby park bather
Middle‐aged guy: It took me forever to find this building; it was confusing because all the numbers were written with letters.
–One (oops, “1”) E 53rd Street
Guy: Nathan’s the only one that’s never lied to me.
Ditzy girl: Oh, yeah? What about me? I’ve never lied to you!
Guy: You did lie to me. That one time you told me you had Aids/cancer. I looked that up. It doesn’t exist!
–Bobst Library, NYU
Overheard by: Krys
