Girl: I think my mom’s a virgin.
–4 train
Overheard by: DRock
Girl: I think my mom’s a virgin.
–4 train
Overheard by: DRock
White guy on cell: You ain’t got nowhere to smoke?…You ain’t got nowhere to smoke?…You can’t smoke at your grandmother’s house?
–N train
Overheard by: Vanessa Robinson
Guy: Imagine living in the Midwest where there is no happiness.
–Metro-North train
Chick: I’m gonna beat that girl like she never went to school.
–77th & 3rd
Queer on cell: So I saw this store that was going out of business…Yeah, so I got a faith and three hopes…Or was it two faiths and three hopes?…Ha, yeah, there wasn’t any love or anything. I bet I could sell a faith to Madonna for a hundred million dollars. Like, “Here you go, this is the most religious thing ever. More than you….bitch.”…Ha, ha, yeah. “It has holy waters from all over the world. The Pope came on it.”
–New School, West 13th Street
Overheard by: jimster
Woman: I mean, what kind of person marches their daughter into their sixth grade class and announces that their daughter just ate a whole chicken? Who does that? I never forgave her for that.
–Nails & More, Broadway between 98th & 99th
Overheard by: Jennifer Anderson
Girl on cell: I know! $100 for pills that aren’t even for something that important….it’s not like they’re AIDS pills!
–Carroll Gardens
Guy: Don’t ever give up your dreams. This is New York. It’s not even about the numbers. I’ve come too far to give up my dreams. Don’t give up your dreams…So Canal Street is this way?
–Houston & Broadway
Overheard by: Esther
Girl on Nextel: Oh baby, you shoulda woke me up…We coulda done the do again.
–Commerce Bank, 42nd & 9th
Overheard by: Meghan
Waitress: I just don’t get it. Like, how can you be infatuated with me when you don’t even know me?
–Deluxe, 112th & Broadway