Bimbette #1: Oh my god! I just realized my brother and I have the same last name!
Bimbette #2: Really?
Bimbette #1: Yeah, it never hit me before.
–BX10 Bus
Overheard by: My mom and I too
Bimbette #1: Oh my god! I just realized my brother and I have the same last name!
Bimbette #2: Really?
Bimbette #1: Yeah, it never hit me before.
–BX10 Bus
Overheard by: My mom and I too
Girl to friend: I don’t even know what Morocco’s like.
Friend: Well, they filmed Sex and the City 2 there–that’s what it’s like!
–M15 Bus
Overheard by: AMC
Hispanic man #1, on bus: Yo, my hand smells like pussy.
Hispanic man #2: Yeah, now she gonna go home and kiss the other guy, and then he gonna, and you were just there.
(hysterical drunken laughter)
Hispanic man #3: I haven’t gotten pussy in a while, though. Since last summer.
Hispanic man #1: Yeah, you know I just love getting my dick sucked.
–Q58 Bus
Loud woman: You’d better be opening up this back door.
Driver: Yeah, well, you’d best be pushing the tape.
–M15 Bus
Girl on bus looking at a Six Flags sign: Why do they call it Six Flags?
Guy: Yo, bitch! Count the flags!
–Bus, Queens
Overheard by: Nicoletta
Guy #1, after telling something to friend: You should write that down.
Guy #2: On my arm?!
Guy #1: No, not on your arm, in a note.
Guy #2: I’m not gonna remember to check my note!
Guy #1: Then write on your arm, “check your note”!
–Q60 Bus
Girl: I have to pee sooooo bad!
Mother: You just went to the bathroom ten minutes ago.
Girl: But I have to pee again! Can you put something in my vagina to hold it up?
–M104 Bus
60-year-old man on cell: I want you to do a big fave for me, okay? Call my aunt’s house. If my aunt picks up, hang up.
–B4 Bus
Overheard by: Victoria Tarasova
Dude on cell: No, it’s okay, my cellphone is attached to my hand. It’s part of my hand!
–Restaurant Bathroom, 7th Ave
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
NYU guy on cell, snottily: No wait, wait… Is it full because you keep leaving them for me and I never bother to listen? (pause) Voicemail is a dead technology, dad.
–Bus
Overheard by: liz
Woman on crutches: People think I’m talking on one of those Bluetooth-headphone-cell phones. Nah. I’m just talking to myself. Pfft! I ain’t got no cell phone! I just talk to myself! That’s right!
–Food Stamp Office, 14th St
Overheard by: Erica Schreiner
African American man on cell: I gotta go. I got Richard Simmons on the other line.
–30th St & Madison Ave
Overheard by: mike v
Hip Indian chick #1: We should totally go to Raj’s party tomorrow night.
Hip Indian chick #2: Oh my god, we totally should! Except it’s in Brooklyn. Like, how would we even get there? Are there like, bridges or something?
Hip Indian chick #1: You’re kidding, right?
Hip Indian chick #2, laughing: Wow! I am so one of those people who are like total geniuses but always forget like, really basic stuff.
Hip Indian chick #1: Umm, yeah. Totally.
–M14D Bus
Overheard by: Cody
Old woman to old man: So, where are you going?
Old man: To the doctor.
Old woman: Nothing terribly wrong, I hope.
Old man: Nah. (pauses) I’m just having trouble breathing, is all.
–Q49 Bus, Jackson Heights
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