Would It Be Feasible for Me to Throw Myself in Front Of My Own Train?

Conductor: This is a Manhattan-bound number three train; next stop is Sutter avenue-Rutland road; stand clear of the closing doors please.
[Doors close and open again.]Conductor: Please do not block the doors, stand clear, please.
[Doors close and open again.]Conductor: Do not block the doors. Stand clear, please.
[Doors close and open again.]Conductor: For the last motherfucking time, do not block the fucking doors! I know you ghetto-ass niggas don’t care about school, but some people want to get the fuck to work! Stand clear!
[Doors close and open again.]Conductor: I can’t fucking take this shit.

–3 Train

Overheard by: Morel Farember

Posted on October 10, 2021
Anger Management, Compare/Contrast, Default, Etiquette, Insults, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Public Transportation, Race, Subway conductors, Words

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Chick: Ugh! These aren’t even cold! I can’t believe this! Who’s the manager? I said, who’s the manager? Well, where is he?
Deli guy: Uh, over there.
Chick: Look! Look at these drinks! How do you expect me to drink these? They aren’t even cold!
Manager guy: We just put them in there.
Chick: I don’t care! I want a cold drink now!
Manager guy: I’m sorry you’re upset but it’s very hot today and we’re selling drinks faster than we can restock them.
Chick: I don’t care! I expect you to find me something cold to drink!

–Marche Madison, 74th & Madison

Overheard by: sarahg

Chick on cell: So, when are you going to watch the fireworks? Like, in the evening?

–Park Slope

Overheard by: Andy Travis

Posted on October 1, 2021
Anger Management, Brooklyn, Clerks, Customers, Holidays, Upper East Side

Wednesday One-liners by Peter

Suit: My dick was totally in one hand pissing while I was talking to the client.

–48th & Madison

Posted on August 23, 2021
Anger Management, Backdoor, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Elevators, Empire State Building, Food, Getting Off, Ghetto Chicks, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On Cell, One-liners, Penn Station, Poop, Restaurants & Cafes, Sex, Sex & Relationships, Suits, Tourist Attractions, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Spring is in the Air (Alongside TB)

Hobo #1: I love you.
Hobo #2: Get the fuck out of here.
Hobo #1: What?
Hobo #2: You are going to fuck with me and you are going to get yourself hurt. I mean it!

–Penn Station

Overheard by: bebe

Posted on June 20, 2021
Anger Management, Crazies, Dating, Hobos, Horny, Manhattan, Men, One Night Stand, Penn Station, Pick-up Lines, Psychology, Relationships, Train Station

Fashion Week Concludes on an iNote

Woman #1: Wow, everyone is wearing their iPod. I only wear mine to the gym.
Woman #2: Well, if you have a commute, it is good to take it with you.
Woman #1: Really, so it works underground?
Woman #2: Yea, it even works when you are wearing green.
Woman #1: Fuck you.

–43rd & 5th

Overheard by: dave

Posted on May 19, 2021
Anger Management, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Music, Pop Culture

All We Can Do Is Take Revenge on Their Ugly Stepsisters

Man #1, sounding exasperated: Some women are so beautiful that I can't–I just can't even look at them.
Man #2: I know. Beauty hurts.

–14th St & 3rd Ave

Overheard by: Evan

Posted on May 2, 2021
Anger Management, Beauty, Compare/Contrast, Men, Physical appearance, Union Square and East Village

Home Is Where You Hang Your Wednesday One-Liners

Saleswoman to customer on busy day: Some days you really should just stay at home. You’re cranky.

–Macy’s, Herald Square

Loud black lady on cell: Mothafuckah, I ain’t no one-night stand. If you think you can fuckin’ call me at 10:30 to 11:00 at night and fuckin’ pull me out of my home with my kids, then you must think I’m some other… [whispers] bitch.

–Mail room, Financial District

Woman on cell: Good, that way she won’t be able to beat on anyone else’s house guests! Let her sit at home and beat on her own house guests!

–M14 bus

Overheard by: Eyeteeth

Conductor: Jessica! Jessica! Girl, you on this train. Jessica Elizabeth! I’m taking you home, girl.

–6 train

Overheard by: fridaholic

Posted on March 23, 2021
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Anger Management, Black People, Conductors, Gossip, Gripes, Home, Sweet Home, Insults, Names, On Cell, On the Bus, On the Subway, Sex, Store, Vendors & Street Performers, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Women

My Money’s on Julie the Horse-faced Girl

Crazy guy: Jodie Foster is a top notch actress!
Girl: Okay.
Crazy guy: Julia Roberts is going down!
Girl: Are they going to fight?

–Shubert Theater, West 44th Street

Posted on March 3, 2021
About Celebrities, Anger Management, Arts & Letters, Jobs & Careers, Manhattan, Movies, Pop Culture, Stupidity, Theater & Dance, Times Square, Violence

You Keep Saying It, We’ll Keep Posting It

Black girl: Some motherfucker put me on this site called overheardinnewyork.com. It’s so fucked up. Why would anyone put what I said on the streets to a site? This shit is not fucking funny.
Black guy: What was put up? I gotta check this out, this shit sounds funny.
Black girl: You were there, it was the time I told this Chinese nigger to apologize and he ended up telling me to go fuck myself, and it was posted by some motherfucker called Ting. Is that even a real fucking name?
Black guy: Yeah, I remember that, that shit was hilarious.
Black girl: Fuck you laughing at? Don’t make me rip your balls out.

–Q46 bus

Overheard by: Ting (again!)

Posted on January 16, 2021
Anger Management, Black People, Bus, On the Bus, Queens

The Ant & the Grasshopper (NYC Edition)

Promoter guy: Come see a great comedy show tonight! The tickets are just $5!
Chick: I can’t, I have to study.
Promoter guy: Oh come on, you don’t have to study.
Chick: I actually do, sorry.
Promoter guy: Studying will never get you anywhere.
Chick: Yeah, I’ll remember that next time I’m selling $5 tickets in the snow.

–West 3rd and Sullivan

Overheard by: sarahbelle

Posted on August 8, 2020
Anger Management, Manhattan, The Village

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