Bodega guy to old Dominican guy: What’s up, sister?
Old Dominican guy: I got your sister swinging!
–Throop & Vernon
Overheard by: johnny
Bodega guy to old Dominican guy: What’s up, sister?
Old Dominican guy: I got your sister swinging!
–Throop & Vernon
Overheard by: johnny
Guy on cell talking loudly: Where the fuck are you, Emily? (pause) Are you shopping? Don’t lie to me, Emily! I will come over there and fucking beat the dogshit out of you. (pause) I don’t care if I go to jail, it will be worth it to slap your lying ass around. (pause) You don’t buy me shit, Emily. Do you buy me my underwear? No! Do you buy me socks? No! I do. What about all those purses and shoes you have? Me!
Random Dominican teenage girl: Damn, Emily really don’t buy him nothing.
–Lucky Star Bus
Overheard by: chinatown bus traveler
Trendy Dominican teen girl #1: Like, I just don’t understand people who have this like, fetish about the beach. Like they looove the beach so much. I like, don’t even like to go there. It’s like weird, and you…
Trendy Dominican teen girl #2, finishing her sentence: …get lots of sand in your twat, yo!
–1 Train
Suit on cell: I swear, I’m going to make her the sorriest crippled girl in New York.
–Avenue C
Hipster on iPhone: Hello? I’m sorry. I can’t hear you–I have an iPhone.
–6th & 27th
Hipster girl to out-of-town friend: Sorry about the smell, this area just recently gentrified.
–Orchard Street b/w Broome & Grand
Loud, drunk, British girl to boyfriend: We don’t know each other’s minds ‑we can’t read each other’s minds! So when you do something I don’t like and I tell you and then later you do something I don’t like and I tell you again… Well that’s two sorries in one day! And “sorry” is just a word, but you’re learning about me! About my mind.
–Broadway & Waverly
Overheard by: rpk
Woman on cell: Oh sorry, I have to go. Remember that woman that got pregnant by a bear? Yeah, I just ran into her.
–Astor Place
Dominican to friend: And just wait until I tell them all he’s Dominican… he’ll really be sorry then!
–5th Ave, near Empire State Building
Overheard by: Rich Mintz
Dominican guy: I really like your haircut.
Brooklyn guy: Yeah, the women at work really liked it, but I never take anything they say seriously because I know how ugly I am.
Dominican guy: Yeah, I know what you mean. You know like when women say “I want to be with you,” but they really don’t do that…
Brooklyn guy: Okay, this is the only thing that is going to be true of what I say from now on. Every girl I asked out has said yes, but didn’t mean it.
Dominican guy: Is this a hypothetical situation?
–Harlem
Loud Dominican kid #1: Yo, that girl Adriana…
Loud Dominican kid #2: Who, that white girl?
Loud Dominican kid #3: Yeahhhh, with the big titties?
Loud Dominican kid #1: Yeaaahhh, she was, like, leaning over helpin’ me with a problem and I was like “yeaaahhhh…“
Loud Dominican kid: Word?
Loud Dominican kid #2: She got like c‑cups…
Loud Dominican kid #3: Wait, I don’t, like, know the alphabet…
–L Train
Overheard by: Larson
Chinese woman, sobbing to her husband: [Furious, angry Chinese] PSP! [More angry Chinese]Dominican kid, walking by: Yeah! PSP!
–Forsyth & Broome
Overheard by: Peter
Dominican girl #1: Yo, when you go to the Dominican republic, everyone is mad nice to you because they think you are rich and can help them out. Everyone there thinks people in the US are all rich.
Dominican girl #2: Yeah, but they don’t know we got poor people here, too.
Dominican girl #1: Word, they think the whole country’s rich, like Ireland.
–Vanessa’s Dumplings, 14th St
Ghetto Dominican guy: So I woke up and I was covered in blood, I broke my face on the soap dish.
Ghetto Dominican girl: Oh my god! Did you go get stitches?
Ghetto Dominican guy: No, nigga! I put duct tape on that shit, I cure myself!
–Queens
Dominican #1: But I’m a Jew, man!
Dominican #2: You’re a Jew?
Dominican #1: Shit yeah.
Dominican #2: Man, I didn’t know there was any Jewish Dominicans.
Dominican #1: Not that kind of Jew. You ever met a Dominican Jew? Dominicans aren’t Jews! I just feel Jewish, man. My whole life I’ve been feelin’ Jewish like that. You know, like if there’s a penny on the street I pick it up!
–168th St Subway
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