Guy #1: Yeah… she’s bipolar.
Guy #2: Really? I thought she was straight.
–Spring & Broadway
Overheard by: Kat
Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
And I Said, “Is This a Rhetorical Question?”
Guy on cell: So he said, ‘If you imagine yourself as a hot dog, would you eat yourself?’
–Tribeca
Overheard by: brrrrrrrrrrrrrt
This Season, Neuroses Are the New Black
Brunette teenage girl: So I was doing my once-a-month therapy session and…
Blond teenage girl: I’m getting a therapist!
Brunette: Score! (they high five)
–Park Slope
Wednesday One-liners Belt It Out
Guy: It’s good to like music. Wait, that came out really bad,
–35th & Lexington
Overheard by: Spooner
Not Another Teen Wednesday One-Liner
Teen in sideways cap: I touched it, but I didn’t like it.
–Uptown A Train
Overheard by: Ladle
Student: Dude, I think I’m dyslexic with stairs.
–Stuyvesant High School
Teen, seriously: No… Webkinz are definitely a lot more high-maintenance then neopets.
–Downtown 6 Train
Teenage boy: I want to be a Senator or something like that. Like, the Government is the best place to have sex.
–Bard High School, Queens
Overheard by: Sunny
Punk teen to friends: Even though it seemed like she was into things, now she’s not into anything.
–Union Square
Overheard by: i don’t like stuff either
Or She’s Participating in Some Sort Of Emotional Scavenger Hunt
Middle-aged girl #1: Yes, she was sincerely apologetic for the things that she’d done, and she really took responsibility for them.
Middle-aged girl #2: She must have a new therapist.
(both nod sagely)
–1 Train
Overheard by: Suze V
But How Could He Know?
Guy: I don’t know what happened. I was talking to my roommate, and then next thing I know, I’m sitting on the couch in front of the TV eating peanut butter with a spoon. I don’t know how I got there.
Girl: Wow…Do you do that a lot?
Guy: What, black out?
Girl: No, eat peanut butter like that.
Guy: Oh, um…yeah, I guess so.
–G train, Greenpoint Ave
Overheard by: G train enthusiast
Wednesday One-Liners Call the Hotline Every Week
Teen girl, despairingly: If they ever find out a way to bring people back to life, I’m going to kill myself!
–14th St Subway Platform
Overheard by: yoncto
Blonde on cell: Don’t send me stupid things about how you want to stab yourself in the heart. It’s inconsiderate.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Confabulation Nation
Hipster: I’m so stressed out right now; if I was going to NYU, I would’ve jumped out of a building.
–City College
Overheard by: Damn Right!
Guy on cell: You took them with alcohol? [Pause.] Wait, let me get this straight, you took all of them, then you got drunk? Yeah dude, that is just suicide.
–Elevator, Saks Fifth Ave
Old waitress: Were you here the time Jimmy crucified himself?
–Manhattan Restaurant, Greenpoint
Overheard by: chris
Disgruntled Latina to friend: And I told her bitch: “Kill yourself, you don’t even know how to smoke right!”
–4 Train
I Mean, We All Feel That Way About the State Of the Economy
Young businesslady: I mean, I’m used to it. I go in the bathroom, and they’re all in there sticking they finger down their throats, all the fuckin time!
Young businessman: Yeah…
–57th St
Overheard by: Lagster
Trick or Treat with the Homeless
Hobo: …damn, this is some fucked up shit. Most fucked up shit I’ve ever seen. Motherfucker arguin’ with himself. Who argues with himself? Man, this is some fucked up shit…
–West Village
Overheard by: Matt Muscari
