Lady to friend about Magic Johnson AIDS ad: Look at Magic Johnson. Why’s he always look so happy? He’s got AIDS!
Friend: He don’t got AIDS anymore — that’s why he’s happy.
–125th & 5th
Overheard by: tiffanykapri
Lady to friend about Magic Johnson AIDS ad: Look at Magic Johnson. Why’s he always look so happy? He’s got AIDS!
Friend: He don’t got AIDS anymore — that’s why he’s happy.
–125th & 5th
Overheard by: tiffanykapri
White girl: I hear you, sister. Why can’t I have genital warts just like everybody else?!
–Mambi, 177th & Broadway
Lady suit: He’s like, ‘There’s a new chemically-resistant strain of gonorrhea going around…’ He said it’s beginning to seriously affect his choice of lifestyle.
–5h Ave
Chick on cell: Well, my mom has the clap and my dad has herpes, so I don’t know what that means for me.
–Graham & Conselyea, Brooklyn
Overheard by: imeyer
Lady on cell: I have had this cold for, like, two weeks now. I don’t know — maybe I have AIDS.
–28 bus, Flushing Main St
Woman on cell: It’s not AIDS. No, Mom, I don’t have gonorrhea, either. It’s just some STD — they just don’t know what yet.
–Bank of America, 86th & Lex
Overheard by: Visiting Bostonian
Office girl: … So I say to him, ‘I’m not the one who’s going around giving everyone herpes!’ And he said, ‘I don’t see how that affects either one of us!’ And at that point I snapped and just went off on him.
–47th & 3rd
Guy to girlfriend who stepped in huge, dirty puddle: Ewww, you just stepped in AIDS!
–W 4th St
Overheard by: Emily Leonard
Three-year-old girl on cell, walking with nanny: I will… I will, I will! Hey, don’t give me a hard time!
–54th & Lex
Little Dominican boy: … Because back in the day, people had names like Washington and York and Downtown.
–Social Studies class, PS 8, Brooklyn
Young child: Mommy, can you feel my forehead? I think I have AIDS.
–Prince St
Overheard by: Alaina
Small, weeping boy to mother pushing smaller kid in stroller: No! No! It’s not necessary! Every time I say you hurt my feelings, you say it right back to me! It’s not necessary!
–73rd & Broadway
Overheard by: Susan Volchok
Shrieking four-year-old: French fries! [Angry mother glares straight ahead and keeps on walking, gripping child’s hand.] You know what’s wrong with you? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with you. You don’t give me enough French fries!
–Waverly & 6th
Overheard by: Marisa
Little girl to mom: Shit is the same thing as sex, right?
–Garden of Eden, Brooklyn Heights
NYU girl: Nowadays if you get AIDS it’s like, ‘Whatever.’
Friend: Uh, no!
–6th St, between 2nd & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: uses a condom
Asian chick: I’m just so sick of failing in general.
–NYU Bobst Library
Overheard by: jason
NYU girl to friends: Well, he’s not always drunk. Sometimes he’s high.
–Prince & Mercer
NYU chick: I found out I didn’t have AIDS… I went to Whole Foods… It was a good day.
–27th & Park
Overheard by: It was a good day
NYU bimbette: All popular people have herpes. Just look at them!
–NYU
NYU chick: Yeah, we almost broke up like four or five times, so I think that’s indicative that we’re happy together.
–Bowery & Canal
NYU girl on cell: I don’t know what to do about going abroad. My parents want me to go to London, but I looked at my Tarot cards and they’re telling me Dublin. What should I do?
–721 Broadway
Overheard by: Tyler
Queer student: I don’t really have a problem with incest, but in my family there aren’t many lookers.
–NYU Silver Center
Study group girl #1: I totally had no idea that hepatitis had anything to do with your liver.
Study group girl #2: Oh, I know! I thought it was just a disease. You know, like AIDS.
–Hormann Library, Wagner College, Staten Island
Boy to friends: Last one to the car has herpes!
–Hylan Blvd, Staten Island
NYU co-ed to another: You gotta put on your STD face!
–Union Square
Overheard by: Jatmos
Drunk girl yelling at drunk guy down the street: I’m pretty sure I haven’t contracted anything from anyone tonight!
–12th & 3rd
20-something chick: How come all the nice guys I meet always have some sort of STD?
–Lincoln Center
Drunk NYU chick: You’re gay and you go to NYU — there’s no reason why your love life shouldn’t be flourishing… except AIDS.
–Union Square
Overheard by: that guy
Blonde: Just because you have syphilis doesn’t mean I have to listen to you!
–Max Breener’s Chocolate Shop, Union Square
Overheard by: Eskimo Child
Chick on cell: Brian? I love Brian… even though he gave me the herpe.
–E 9th & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: Raven
NYU kid #1: Man, I’m so over AIDS. I’m sick of people getting it, I’m sick of people spending money on it, and I’m sick of people giving it to other people.
NYU kid #2: Yeah, seriously, fuck AIDS.
–Outside an NYU dorm, University Pl
Ghetto woman on payphone: I got herpes, and they be killin’. Herpes. Herpes! I got herpes on my pussy! There, now the whole block knows.
–108th & Broadway
Overheard by: sapphirebluemica
Attractive 20-something businessman: Yeah, I’ve got herpes!
–65th & Lex
Overheard by: Brownsvillegirl
Guy: … Herpes … Chlamydia … Gonorrhea … Syphilis … Crabs … Oh! Sex warts!
–Bedford & 7th
Overheard by: where do i sign up
Lady to suitor: Leave me alone, I have chlamydia!
–Kevin St. James Bar
Overheard by: Maryann
Chick: What? He has a disease? [Pause] Well, I wish I knew that beforehand…
–Union Square
Skinny blonde: I’m going to sew my vagina shut, because I’m a walking STD.
–the Dojo’s near NYU
Guy: If you didn’t get AIDS when you slept with her, you’re not going to get AIDS by sharing a Band-Aid.
–14th St & 7th Ave
Optometrist #1: So, I went to his myspace to find out who his babymomma was, right? And then he calls me and says I have AIDS.
Optometrist #2: Wait? AIDS? You mean HIV, right?
Optometrist #1: No, AIDS.
Optometrist #2: Well, then I get HIV. You can get AIDS, but I want HIV.
–Roosevelt Optometrists
