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
Little boy: My favorite part of the game is when I get to kill, but you only get to kill other people in the wilderness.
–1 train
Overheard by: STD
Santa: Hey, can you reach into my backpack and hand my my wig and the Zoloft?
–52nd & 5th
Overheard by: gear baachz
Woman: It’s about an old depressed cat and her friends put her in a tire and shoot her to heaven.
–R train
Overheard by: Misha Lonergan
Guy: I don’t want to visit my miserable family unless it’s for a funeral.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Incident on 33rd St.
Guy: Well, she was like 35, so she wasn’t hot…
–21st & 6th
Overheard by: Tommy Raiko
