Girl: Do you sell tights with feet?
Store chick: Sorry, we only sell stuff that’s trendy.
–Urban Outfitters, 14th & 6th
Overheard by: Amusled
Girl: Do you sell tights with feet?
Store chick: Sorry, we only sell stuff that’s trendy.
–Urban Outfitters, 14th & 6th
Overheard by: Amusled
Mom: If you don’t stop acting up I’m going to push you back into my tummy.
Little girl: No you can’t.
Mom: And why not? You came out of me, so I can certainly shove you back in.
Little girl: Because if you do, I’ll start screaming and call the cops on you.
–Daffy’s, Atlantic Center
Overheard by: Need a Belt
Guy #1: You should feel honored to live in New Jersey.
Guy #2: I like living in Jersey. It just really sucks commuting here every day.
Guy #1: It’s like the Jews being kosher. It’s the price you pay for being chosen.
–12th & 5th
Girl #1: Randy won’t stop coming on my face.
Girl #2: …Are you going to finish your bagel?
–Waverly & University
Overheard by: S.A.F.
Man: You could turn people to stone with your eyes.
Girl: Dude, there are lots of other people on this train, go hit on someone else.
Man: I know, but you’re the closest and I don’t want to move because I have to pee.
–2 train
Ghetto guy #1: You got a Hasidic for a boss? Ha, ha, ha.
Ghetto guy #2: Yeah, that guy is cheap.
Ghetto guy #1: Yo. They got all the dough. All the dough…Dude wear the same clothes every day!
Ghetto guy #2: Ha, ha, ha. Yo, that motherfucker is cheap.
Ghetto guy #1: Same clothes, man. You got the little boy shit, the teenager shit, then the man shit. Three sets of clothes for the entire life. They got all the dough.
–Verb, Williamsburg
Overheard by: Jarrah TG
Teen girl: God, you are so self-conscious sometimes I want to punch you in the face.
–A train
Overheard by: Niki
Guy #1: Excuse me, sir, but do you know you’re white?
Guy #2: Yes, I do know that. Now will you stop following me?
–40th & 8th
Overheard by: Suriya
Woman #1: I really wish they wouldn’t let musicians play here.
Woman #2: Why?
Woman #1: I mean, seriously, it’s such an invasion of my privacy.
–42nd Street 1/2/3 station
Guy: Hey! Don’t touch me! You can’t sit here. People don’t just sit on the floor on the train.
Drunk woman: I have…a very bad…back…
Guy: Then ask somebody to give you their seat. Then go see a doctor.
She flips him off.
Woman #2: Oh no, she didn’t!
–A train
Overheard by: wish I’d been drunk at 9am
