All Wednesday One-Liners

Wednesday One-Liners Have Been Left Behind

Girl: This has sterile in it. I can’t buy this; I’m allergic to sterile.

–Duane Reade, 17th & 3rd

Overheard by: mk

American woman, to Arab cashier: What, you didn’t understand what I said? Man, you illiterate.

–Classon Ave, Brooklyn

Chick: I mean, I wasn’t really mentally thinking about it.

–Great Lawn, Central Park

Frat boy: Why do they call it “Steak Shack” when it doesn’t sell steaks?

–Shake Shack, Madison Sq Park

Drunk teen girl, raising her beer: Here’s to independence…and the only country that’s got it!

–Waterside Plaza

Overheard by: David Slone

Teen girl: Rebecca wanted to get brown. But brown is such a black color…Well, not that it’s black. But you know.

–D train

Overheard by: Rachel

Young guy to his girlfriend: Shut your fuckin’ mouth when you’re talking to me!

–Outside of K-mart, Astor Place

Overheard by: snap snap

Wednesday One-Liners Get Asinine

Thug: Yo, money don’t grow on trees and come out your ass.

–82nd St, Jackson Heights, Queens

Overheard by: Jobee

Old woman on cell: I came to New York to see you. Now get your fucking ass down here right now!

–52nd & Lex

Overheard by: Laughing Seattlite

Junior high kid: Well you try shoving a tampon up a dog’s ass.

–L train

Girl: It’s so hot in here I feel like I’m swimming through the swamp that is someone’s ass.

–Madison Square Garden

Overheard by: TommyBP

Suit on cell: I will not be disrespected like this. I ain’t gonna be disrespected! I’m a grown ass man, damnit!

–Tribeca

Guy, after being yelled at by the driver who has rammed his car: Look, just calm down. Let me explain something: you’re an asshole, all right?

–2nd St & 7th Ave, Park Slope

Overheard by: johnnymac

Thug on cell: He get his ass whupped one time, he won’t testify. Plus, he all short, like 5’9″ or 5’10”, and carry all that weight. I whup his ass, we won’t have no more problems.

–DMV, Atlantic Center, Brooklyn

Wednesday One-Liners Have a Complicated Genealogy

Man on crowded train: If my mother were here, I’d sit on her lap.

–Downtown A train

Overheard by: not his mother

Amateur anthropologist: It’s not incest unless it’s, like, your brother.

–E 72nd

Mom, to teenage son: Darling, sweetie, love of my life, I’ve accepted that you’re gay, haven’t I? And there’s a lot more that I’m willing to accept. But if there is one thing I’m not ok with, it’s flat-ironing my son’s hair. Ask your sister.

–Uptown 6 train

Woman on cell: You did what?…Why the fuck would you do that?…Yeah, I know he’s your cousin, but you didn’t have to tell him that I slept with his brother. I was going to tell him…When?…After we got married!!

–13th & University

Girl, digging through purse: Shit, I think my cousin robbed me.

–Urban Outfitters, Bleecker & Broadway

Overheard by: intern

Screaming woman: I’m not in your house; I’m in the middle of the street! Stop making fun of my grandmother!

–W 139th St, 2 a.m.

Overheard by: Isha

Girl on cell: I don’t look at him like a father; I look at him like the man who gave birth to me.

–Port Authority

Overheard by: Cat

Wednesday One-Liners Are Working in the Olfactory

Loud girl, about some smelly hipsters: Damn, them muthafuckas is stank. The power of Christ compel that shit.

–M96 bus

Overheard by: Tommy

Guy near street vendor: Dude, that smell. It always smells like mouse or something.

–51st & Broadway

Overheard by: Atlanta girl

Thug teen, to friend who has just farted: Damn, nigga! Yo’ shit smells like hot dog water!

–L train

Overheard by: lauren cawdrey

Shrewd observer: She just looks like she would smell bad.

–Astoria Blvd, Queens

Ghetto woman on cell: Girl, I knew she would smell like fish the second I saw her!

–23rd & 1st

Can You Hear Wednesday One-Liners Now?

Metro-North conductor: If you have been on your cell phone more than 5 minutes, you are not only annoying all of the passengers around you, but have also probably started to annoy the person on the other end of the call, so hang up.

–Metro-North, Marble Hill

Guy on cell: I’m only calling because I have to walk ten blocks, and I can’t stand to be alone with my own thoughts.

–60th & Lex

Overheard by: tabubob

Queer: I could never respect someone with that ring tone!

–Duane Reade, 8th & Broadway

Wednesday One-Liners Are in the Kinsey Report

Stranger, to young business woman: Can I spank you?

–42nd St & 5th Ave

Gay co-worker, to female employee: Put your hands on the desk and assume the position.

–Office, midtown

Overheard by: Ariella Pink

Girl: If I have to, I’ll pull down my pants and spank myself.

–Cilantro, 89th & 2nd

Overheard by: Jules

Woman on cell: I mean, he’s my kid, and everyone is curious, and if he’s going to experiment let him. But I told this guy, “You cannot be the experiment with my son!”…I know, he thinks he’s going to grow up to be a rapist!

–Hunter College

Overheard by: Collegiate Cutie

Queer: Then we went underneath the staircase and fooled around. And then he grabbed my head, pulled it down, and licked my bald spot!

–El Cocotero, 18th St between 7th and 8th

Tween girl: Aww, no, he did not just pee on me!

–54th & 11th

Overheard by: office peon

Man on cell: Natalie? Nat, if you’re there, pick up! Oh my God, I just hooked up with a guy whose house smelled like cat pee, and he wanted me to spit in his face! Where the fuck are you?

–52nd & 2nd

Queer: What? I’m not the one who had sex with the chicken cutlet.

–83rd & Madison

Twink on cell: We met on the train…No, he’s a bottom…I don’t think I can have this conversation here right now. You’re making me feel awkward.

–Rite Aid, 22nd & 9th

British girl on cell: Hmm, there’s no answer. She must be whipping now.

–47th & 9th

Overheard by: Anthony

Pregnant girl: I like it when he hits me. You know, I hit him just so he could hit me back. I like it rough.

–Downtown A train

Chick on cell: She just told me a story about someone waking up with a dildo in her mouth. You need to meet this girl!

–125th & Broadway

Overheard by: McF

Customer to waitress: And then you have bestiality with a man and a sheep, and the sheep is the clear victim…

–Santa Fe Steakhouse, 70th Road, Forest Hills

Overheard by: Dining out

Brunette: What would make you think that I would like getting hit in the face with your cock?

–St. John’s & 7th, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Cowboy

Wednesday One-Liners Need GPS Badly

Older man, screaming at Middle Eastern booth operator: You playa hata! You uptight and ignorant! This is bullshit! Go back to Leban!

–59th St subway station

Overheard by: Marissa

Frat boy: You need to go south of the Mason Dickinson line. That’s where you find the really hot girls.

–14th & 2nd

Thug: I don’t understand the Middle East shit. How can you be in the east and still be in the middle?!

–F train

Overheard by: Braincurve

Lady: I heard it was going to be a big thunderstorm out on Long Island. You know, just the Hamptons, Montauk and Connecticut.

–NYSC, Cobble Hill

Southern woman: Yeah, come meet us! We’re on Long Island!

–Battery Park

Overheard by: Caty

Mexican girl: Most European countries make you join the army at 18. Colombia, Peru…

–28th & Park

Overhead by: Lindsay

Teen tourist: If I was in America, I would send this back.

–Thai restaurant, 34th St & 30th Ave, Astoria

Overheard by: Jamie M

Bus driver: I gotta get out of this country. It’s too damn hot. I’m going to Alaska.

–M4 bus

Overheard by: Gwenn

Wednesday One-Liners Can’t Decide Which Coldplay Lyric to Put in Their Profiles

Teen girl: Wow! I just realized I haven’t been online all day!

–34th & 6th

Overheard by: Different Generation

Middle-aged woman: 50% of the population is allergic to wheat. They just don’t know it. It’s true– I read it on the internet.

–Port Authority

Guy: You should start a fight with her on MySpace.

–75th & Amsterdam

Guy: I’m pretty sure my cat has Down’s syndrome…You can read about it on my MySpace blog.

–Spice, Chelsea

Overheard by: DJR

Thug: MySpace is like crack, yo. I’m addicted to that shit.

–F train

Overheard by: Laurence Lau

Girl: Google is, like, totally taking over the world!

–Terminal 4, JFK

Overheard by: Jess McGins

Girl on cell: We need, like, a slutty web-designer friend we can bring in on this.

–Harlem

Overheard by: Buttons

Scruffy dude: I should just bring her a bunch of photos of my ex-girlfriend and slam them down and be like, “Find one, just one of these, that you’re hotter than.” I can’t believe she wouldn’t give me her e-mail address. She must be out of her mind. I mean, just give me a fake one. Like, something at hotmail.com. Anything!

–54th & 10th

Overheard by: Waiting for The Colbert Report

Guy wearing t-shirt that says “You are so off my buddy list”: So I am thinking about creating another website that’s Jedi-friendly.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Palmala Handerson

Wednesday One-Liners Built the Tower of Babel

Guy: Hey! Where’s my Sudanese pussy from Chinatown?

–14th & University

Guy on cell: I’ll meet you at the corner by the store with Chinese writing…Hey, wait a minute. All the fucking signs around here have Chinese writing.

–Walker & Lafayette

Overheard by: Wolf

Guy on cell: So, if this is true, then Dracula’s native language would be Hungarian rather than Romanian. And I think that is important for my research.

–Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: nosy cinephile

Teen girl: This bag is mad Aztec.

–13th & University

Co-Worker: So, did she mention anything about Mexicans?

–Office, W 36th St

Overheard by: Evan

Well-Traveled girl: Mexico is not a Third-World country. JFK is.

–Tea Lounge, Park Slope

Small child: Mommy, look! You can tell he’s Mexican by his eyes!

–Bodies exhibit, South Street Seaport

White girl, to Asian girl: So wait, is he just not Japanese or not interested?

–Walgreens, Union Square

Overheard by: Goldie

Businesswoman: Well you can’t kill a Vietnamese man because that would just cost too much.

–I Trulli restaurant, E 27th St

Hobo: You’re not Polish; you just think you’re Polish!

–Tompkins Square Park

Voice over intercom: Will the foreign exchange student please come to the cashier.

–Century 21

Sassy chick: I can’t believe she’s moving to fucking Cambodia to live with a fucking cricket-hunter she’s only known for two months!

–TGI Friday’s, 52nd & 7th

Overheard by: Shaina

Wednesday One-Liners Hang the Cross Upside Down

Girl: It smells like blasphemy!

–Madison Square Park

Overheard by: I only smelled mulch

Tattooed chick: It’s Christa. You remember, Christ with an A, because I’m so fucking godlike.

–8th & A

Overheard by: Meredith

Guy: She looks like the female version of Dave, which is a bit disconcerting to me…He looks like traditional representations of Jesus.

–Manhattan bound L train

Overheard by: Philip

Guy: Me and Jesus don’t get along.

–W 30th, between 7th & 8th

Overheard by: Maggie

Femme on cell: So, like, our periods stopped at the same time for two hours so we could have sex and I was like, God loves me. Jesus was clearly gay.

–103rd & Broadway

Middle-Aged lady: Yeah, you can’t go switchin’ churches like that. That’s too many different spirits. You’ll be dealin’ with demons and stuff.

–F train

Overheard by: Yanni

College guy: No, really, dude. The guy’s a full-time, licensed exorcist!

–W 4th St A/C/E uptown platform

Overheard by: EJ

Muscular dude: I am devoted to crack but not to Christ! Please explain that to me. I’m a good crackhead, but I ain’t a good Christian!

–Downtown 1 train

Street vendor: NYU students, you gotta love them. They be going through hell and jumping out of windows and shit.

–Spring & Broadway

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