All Wednesday One-Liners

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