All Wednesday One-Liners

Cheech & Chong’s Wednesday One-Liners, Man

Queer: When I get stoned, my grundle itches.

–6 train

Overheard by: sheerah

Street vendor, gesturing to enormous bong: No, no…this one is for tobacco.

–St. Mark’s

Elderly man: People are stupid! They don’t do pot!

–R train

Stoned guy: Man, why do chip manufacturers always put the crumbs at the bottom of the bag?

–Columbia University

Overheard by: bernard black

Teenage gangsta: Yo, when I was in the shower, it totally tasted like weed. For real.

–Lafayette & Houston

Passenger: If you see a suspicious package or activity on the platform or train, don’t keep it to yourself. Tell a cop or an MTA employee or me. There might be some money or some weed in there.

–4 train

Overheard by: Mike

Long-haired dude, picking up a cigarette butt: Man, that’s not what I wanted to smoke.

–72nd & Columbus

Overheard by: clarence rosario

Wednesday One-Liners Know the Guys Down at Vice a Little Too Well

Sassy woman: No, no, no, no. What I don’t think you understand is, his parents are his mother and a pimp.

–33rd & 8th

Overheard by: Alex

Drunk girl: I don’t want to be sold for five dollars on the street!

–1st Ave between 2nd & 3rd

Overheard by: Kira

Record label coordinator: This company needs a hit like a crackwhore on payday.

–150 5th Ave

Addiction expert: I don’t think he’s addicted to porn, but I think he does, like, coke off hookers’ asses.

–6 train, 68th St

Old Jewess: I couldn’t tell if they were singers or prostitutes.

–1 train, 42nd St

Overheard by: Kimdog

Man on cell: So then the hooker walked in with a squeegee. Then I knew it had gone way too far!

–Times Square

Guy: She’s kind of the President of the Prostitute Guild.

–Hughes Ave, the Bronx

Overheard by: Jess McGins

Wednesday One-Liners, Baby

CD vendor: Hey, baby, you like hip hop? C’mon, baby, it’s good. C’mon, I never shot nobody. Well, there was that one time, but baby, c’mon.

–Outside Virgin Megastore, Times Square

Security guard: Yeah, if some guy came in, I’d be the first one on the ground, screaming,”Oh shit, he got a gun!” I’d be screaming like a baby.

–Grocery store, Astoria

Man, excitedly holding up infant to the fence: Look, baby! It’s Ground Zero!

–Ground Zero

Overheard by: Rich Weksberg

Guy: I feel shaken like a baby being taken care of by a British woman!

–Chinatown bus

Overheard by: CG

Man on cell: Baby, butter that thang up ’cause I’m coming home.

–E 65th & Central Park

Guy: If I’m going to see pictures of someone pooping, I’d rather it be a baby…Or a kitten.

–Port Authority

Overheard by: B&T Bus Rider

Woman to dog: You can’t go in there. You want to be on TV, baby? You want to be a big TV star?

–ABC Building entrance, 66th & CPW

Overheard by: ABC employee who’s not on tv

Wednesday One-Liners Need to Go to the Free Clinic

Woman on cell: Wait, but he still has malaria, right?…Good. Go on.

–Grove & 7th

Overheard by: courtney clinton

Frat boy: Wow! Herpes for a dollar; that sounds like a good deal!

–108th & Broadway

Overheard by: Alison R.

Amateur historian: You know what was bad? Black Plague was bad.

–Toast, Lafayette St

Overheard by: Chris

Faux-Boho gal: And he said, “I don’t understand how I have STDs and you don’t.”

–N train

Overheard by: Kelly Green

Gay waiter: I’ll have to sterilize it and then burn it or it might give the fire an infection.

–SoHo

MTA employee: So I had a touch of pneumonia, and they had to remove part of my lung. I was coughing up Jello…But it was clear, so it was okay!

–Q train, Newkirk Ave

Overheard by: Ben Couch

Hobette: Excuse me, ladies and gentleman, I’m hungry and I’m homeless. If you could please spare some money or some food, I’d appreciate it. Oh, and I have cancer. Have a nice day.

–Downtown R train

Overheard by: Kat

Wednesday One-Liners Should Not Attempt to Operate Heavy Machinery

Girl on cell: Mom, are you drunk at Wal-Mart again?

–86th & Lex

Drunk man: I can’t believe they took Ray’s fucking Pizza out of the Ferry Terminal. How am I supposed to sober up before I go home now?

–Staten Island Ferry Terminal

Drunk guy: I have to move down to this end of the train because, if I don’t, I’m gonna hit that motherfucker down there. I know I only want to hit him because I’ve been drinking. If I wasn’t drinking, he wouldn’t bother me. If I had been drinking more, I’d just hit him. But right now I’m caught in a strange netherworld and I’ll just chill down here.

–1 train

Overheard by: Susan Elliott

Guy on cell: What? That ungrateful, lying bitch. I can drink more Jack through my dick than he could spill on a table!

–Times Square

Guy: Man, I don’t care if they call Protective Services on me. When my kid turns ten, I’ll be like, “You’re ready. Let’s go get hammered.” No fuckin’ way I’m waiting ’til he’s eleven.

–7th St & 2nd Ave

50-Something guy on cell: Yeah, I just spoke to Kate, and everything is wonderful. The liquor stores are open, and people are riding bicycles.

–1st Ave between 9th & 10th

Overheard by: LiAps

Enemy of Bill W.: If we pass a bar, do you guys mind stopping? I just need it chug a beer. It will literally take me 4 seconds.

–3rd St & 1st Ave

It Hurt at First, But Wednesday One-Liners Got Used to It

Barmaid: I’ll never feel lonely as long as someone, somewhere wants to stick it up my butt. Knowing that helps me sleep at night. Yes, sir, so long as I know that someone still wants to put it in my poop chute, I’m one happy camper.

–E Houston St

Woman to man: Just stick your dick in his ass. That’ll make him happy.

–Bleecker St

Overheard by: Jillian C

White girl on cell: And he put it in my ass and I was like, “Nuh-uh, nigga.”

–12th St & 6th Ave

Overheard by: Scott

Restaurant patron: So you’ll take a dick up the ass, but you won’t have that operation?

–Florent Restaurant, Gansevoort St

Yuppie: Can we not talk about anal sex at the opera?

–Met performance, Great Lawn, Central Park

Overheard by: @$#%!

Girlfriend to boyfriend: For every one you hit, you can put it in my ass.

–Batting cages, West Side

Overheard by: The King Adrock

Guy on cell: …and the next thing I know, I’m getting fucked up the ass with Chapstick for lube. …No, cherry! …I know!

–49th St

Overheard by: Manhattman

Wednesday One-Liners Are All About the Benjamins

Fashionista: I’m not ready for a rich man.

–East Village

Woman: Yeah, he’s got money. Like, when Michael Jackson tried to buy the Elephant Man? That kind of money. Giraffe money!

–Uptown 6 train

3-Year-Old: My daddy makes a lot of money so my mommy and me can live the life we want to live.

–Playground, DUMBO

Overheard by: grimrosary

Salesperson: Yeah, so he was like, “That’s what it means to be rich. I can buy whatever makes me and my fiancé happy. I can buy her all the Harry Potter memorabilia that she wants.”

–Paragon Sports, 18th & Broadway

Overheard by: LSB

Wall-Street-Intern chick: So, if the weather is bad here in the Hamptons I may just fly to California or South Beach for the weekend. Hopefully nobody at work will need me because I may have to get a flight on Friday morning. You know, I have to do what’s fiscally feasible for me…and by “me”, I mean my parents.

–D train

Overheard by: I hope she reads this, and then dies…

Male customer to deli worker: Do you know where can I get a fake Rolex with counterfeit money?

–19th & 6th

Overheard by: Hobo Hank

Little girl, talking for a teddy bear with a stocking over its head, to another teddy bear: Give me all your money!

–Goodwill

For Occasional Irregularity, Take These Wednesday One-Liners

Girl: I can’t go to the bathroom, I can’t eat grapes, I… I’ll be in a bubble!

–Brooklyn bound F train

Hipster girl, emerging from Port-a-Potty: Hey, guys, you have to feel this toilet paper! It’s like silk!… I know, I’m a weirdo.

–Great Lawn, Central Park

Overheard by: Roz

Suit: I swear to God, it came out sideways. It hurt coming out, then I got up and looked at it, and it was floating sideways.

–Manhattan bound J train

Overheard by: Barry P.

Voice from bathroom stall: Yes!

–Women’s bathroom, Hunter College

Overheard by: acep

Girl, to friend washing her hands: Come on, let’s just go. There are more germs on the sink than on the toilet.

–Restroom, Grand Central Station

Woman, walking out of stall: Left you something!

–Restroom, Yankee Stadium

Overheard by: alan b hutscar

Guy: When I clenched my jaw really hard while I was trying to poop, I think I chipped a tooth.

–14th & 3rd

Baby, You Can Drive My Wednesday One-Liners

Guy on cell: I don’t know, now she won’t sleep in the bedroom ’cause of the mobster, and she needs a ride to the Hamptons.

–7th & Ave A

Overheard by: Analt

Guy: He’ll be here in another twenty minutes. He’s sleeping in the back of a car.

–74th & 2nd

Overheard by: Wendy

Teenage girl: I know it’s so wrong, but I’m seriously lusting for luxury cars. I just want to lick them. I want to hump those leather seats!

–WTC Path station

Overheard by: Carine

Suburban boy: Oh my God, driving in the city is most fun thing in the entire world!

–Downtown R train

Overheard by: confused

Man: I had a bad night tonight. I stole a car, got two tickets. I shouldn’t-a stole that car.

–Bodega, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Flasteppi

Drunk guy on cell: If you don’t have my money by 12 tomorrow, I’m gonna get your mother’s car and your sister’s car…I still love your sister, too, but you better have my money.

–Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens E/F station

Young woman: Where did all these cars come from? New York doesn’t have cars.

–35th & 5th

Overheard by: Frank & Alex

Wednesday One-Liners Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Reverse-Necrophiliac: I hate dead people. They have such attitude.

–Time Warner Center

Elderly bathroom attendant, finding a used tampon on the floor: Whoever did this, I hope she die! That shit is nasty! I hope her pooty fall out and she die!

–Madison Square Garden

Overheard by: Leah Beirne

Hefty guy: No, I will not take pictures of a dead body… Not if it only died for a few hours.

–Target, Queens Blvd

Overheard by: barbat

Co-Worker on phone: If you do die 25 years ago, you don’t die now!

–52nd & 5th

Proselytizer: Listen! Listen to me! You must abstain! Abstinence is the only way! I tell you the truth–if you have sex, you will get pregnant, you will get an STD, and you will die!

–125th St

Overheard by: slightly intrigued

Woman: You’re born, yadda yadda yadda…You learn how to type. You get clarity. And then, ya die.

–24th & 7th

Overheard by: Dennis

Compassionate man on cell: The kid died from an overdose…[laughs] But the kid died from a drug overdose. So it’s not my fault.

–Whole Foods, Columbus Circle

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