Businessguy #1 If I were gay I would change my name to Paul.
Businessguy #2: Why Paul? I would go with something more Latin.
–A train
Overheard by: Cory Agid
Archive for the ‘Multiculturalism, Overheard Style’ Category
Hence Shonen Knife’s Tomato Head
Black chick: Hey, come here, look. Did you know that Asians can’t drink? Look at her face. It’s all red.
–Diesel, West Broadway
You Should Hear What Puerto Ricans Say About Pride
Queer #1: When is the Puerto Rican Day parade?
Queer #2: Omigod, today!
Queer #1: Hmm. Don’t people get gang-raped at those things?
Queer #2: Maybe, I guess? Let’s go!
–West Side Highway & Jane St
Looks Like “Like White on Rice” is Over
Black guy #1: Ooh, ladies? Konichiwa!
Black guy #2: Arigato!
Asian girl: We’re Korean, motherfuckers!
Black guy #1: Sayonara!
–7th & A
Overheard by: M!J
Black guy: Yo, I’d fuck the Chinese out of those bitches.
–23rd & 6th
Overheard by: JD
You White People — That’s Your Answer for Everything
Asian girl: I should totally be on that white rapper show on TV.
White girl, sincerely: Oh, yeah! Just, like… change your skin!
–R train
Overheard by: Dani
A UN for Assholes
Jerk: I love making fun of the German. I love making fun of the French, too. I’m an equal opportunity destroyer.
–D Train
I Grudgingly Obey the Laws of This Godless Democracy
Middle East man, exiting his vendor cart: But I miss you!
Retreating American woman: You have, like, five wives and three girlfriends.
Middle East man: No! I do not!
–13th & 5th
Overheard by: Colleen
Giving Racism the Boot?
Italian woman #1: He looks like a sand digger!
Italian woman #2: What’s that, like a bug?
Italian woman #1: No, you know, a sand digger.
Italian woman #2: What’s that?
Italian woman #1: A camel jockey! That’s what people in Bay Ridge call them, sand diggers, because they are always shoveling sand in the desert.
–John & Pearl
Still Boasting About the Mayflower
Chick: So, where are you from?
Guy: I’m from Brooklyn.
Chick: No, you have an accent.
Guy: Oh yeah, well, my parents are Eurotrash.
–Broad & Exchange
And There’s Nothing Worth Stealing in There
During trailer for horror movie where young girl peeks in door of creepy house and says, ‘Hello?’…
Thugette: Why they be goin’ into some abandoned-ass house like that?
Thug: ‘Cause they white.
–Court Street cineplex, Brooklyn
Overheard by: MrStench
