All Wednesday One-Liners

Earnest sidewalk pollster: Sir? Have you got a minute to talk about the sanitation department? Do you think it's normal?

–51st St & Lexington

Overheard by: jake-e

Conductor, bending down before fainted man: C'mon! Dude! What did I tell you before? Get up and sit down and pass out in the seat like regular normal people. People think you're dead. Get up.

–Uptown 6 Train

Overheard by: I guess not a normal person

Girl, during History of Islam class: Miracles show us what's normal and what's, like, super above normal.

–Hunter College

Woman, bending down to adjust child: You have to walk normally now–like a normal person.

–Museum of Natural History

Nerd guy to friend: It wouldn't be child labor. You just hook them up to electrodes, connect them to the the power grid, and have them play on the playground like normal!

–Shuttle to Times Square

Guy: If I ever beat my kids during Christmas, this is the song I’d play.

–Ulysses, Pearl Street

Overheard by: Dennis Sugrue

Little old lady to little old hubby: Fuck you, Dick, I am not crossing against the light! I can’t do it. Fuck you!

–Houston & LaGuardia

Overheard by: Almost peed on myself from laughing

Little tourist to mom: We are jaywalking, yay!

–Outside Sak’s

Overheard by: also jaywalking

Guy on cell: … So it’s fucked up, nights in the city. Everyone jaywalks, and they all wear black… Shit, good point! Blacks! … Yeah, you get a black guy wearing black, jaywalking — that’s a perfect storm of trouble! … I dunno, but I bet it has something to do with why insurance is so high…

–Broadway & Bleecker

Two guys cross street on ‘Don’t walk’ signal as car is coming.

Traffic cop: Hit ’em! Hit ’em!

–35th & 5th

Overheard by: mike

Loud grandma tourist blocking crosswalk: What’s the matter with these people?! Why are they crossing the street? Can’t they see the ‘No crossing’ sign? Where do they think they’re going?

–Times Square

Tourist woman to crowd of pedestrians: No, don’t cross! Here comes the big red hand!

–51st & 5th

Overheard by: Micaela

Stewardess lady: If there is a sudden change in cabin pressure, a mask compartment above your seat will open automatically. If this happens, quickly reach for the nearest mask and pull it down firmly. Continue to breathe normally. If you are travelling with a small child, or someone who acts like a small child, please secure your mask and then assist them.

–JFK

Overheard by: Amy

Suit on cell: I said to him, "If I had my dick out on the bar, you think she wouldn't look at it?" and he kept telling me I owed her an apology, so I said, "Sweetheart, sorry I looked at your pussy." Listen, I gotta get off the train now. I'll call you back.

–LIRR

Overheard by: Pasty

Guy standing at lowered urinal to guy standing at regular height urinal: The low urinal is for the guys with big dicks, so they don't bottom out.

–Roc Restaurant

Guy to group of friends (boisterously): I only date chicks with small hands…makes my dick look huge!

–St. Andrews Bar

Overheard by: allimax

Woman (screaming into phone): Suck my dick, bitch!

–Near Manhattan Mall

Guy shouting into cell: We got a cab. And you can eat a dick.

–Hanover & Water

Overheard by: Kaitlen

Conductor: Ladies and gentlemen, we are being delayed because some dick is holding the door. We will be moving when the dick takes his arm out the door.

–4 Train

Overheard by: jessie

Girl on cell: No…Well yes, you can call me back, just not between the hours of 8 and 10PM…Why do you think? It’s Jack Bauer Power Hour!….Uh, times 2. It’s going to be motherfucking terrorist-kicking time. That whispering bad ass mofo is going to be going on strong tonight for 2 hours. Praise Jebus!…Bam! Pop! Pow! Jacky should be the father of my children. I will however totally call you directly after the show.

–1st Avenue & 5th Street

Female coworker to another: You look so cute! I didn’t recognize you!

–Hudson & Vandam

Buff man carrying small, pink, frilly umbrella: I better not hear anyone call me cute.

–Canal & Mulberry

Overheard by: Courtney Messer

Chick on cell: Mom, cute is a puppy dog. Cute is an Anne Geddes photo. Cute is not a 25-year-old guy fluent in sarcasm. Stop trying to set me up with him.

–Hudson St

Woman looking at Salvador Dali painting: That is so cute!

–Guggenheim Museum

Overheard by: Does she kill puppies for fun?

Girl on cell: So, you know, I was just lying there, like with my face to the wall and stuff and he just whips out his dick and starts hitting me in the back of the head with it.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Zac Stone

Naked suit: You know, if you’re a terrorist and you wanna get into a building, you should just say you’re from Price Waterhouse or Ernst & Young. Nobody asks any questions.

–Vanderbilt YMCA, East 47th Street

Overheard by: Palaverist

Male 9 to 5-er: And, you know, they’re all dwarves… But I wouldn’t be embarrassed to go out with them.

–Federal Plaza

Cigarette-voiced JAP: Yeah, he was lame. But I only fake-dated him in, like, eighth grade.

–54th & 11th

Hipster on cell: If you sleep together afterwards, it’s a date.

–Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint

Overheard by: Miss Heather

Thug: Yo, the rule is, if you take her out to dinner and a movie she has to suck your cock. That’s the rule.

–23rd & 8th

Overheard by: Liza

Girl on cell: Look, Peter, I’m not saying that I hate you. It’s just that you fucking annoy me so much that I’d rather eat my own spleen than go out with you again.

–Starbucks, 45th & 6th

Overheard by: always turning up my IPOD

Girl on cell: No, she didn’t dump him on you. She dumped him and then he got on you.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Steve O