Black guy #1: It ain’t Halloween until you hit the ground.
Black guy #2 to friend trying to help a drunken princess: Don’t touch the white girl!
–7th & Greenwich
Black guy #1: It ain’t Halloween until you hit the ground.
Black guy #2 to friend trying to help a drunken princess: Don’t touch the white girl!
–7th & Greenwich
Girl #1: But what exactly does that mean, ‘Doesn’t shit where he eats’? I’ll kick his ass…
Girl #2: It means ‘not dating someone you work with.‘
Girl #1: Oh, okay. I thought he was saying my pussy smells bad…
–Nation Bar, 45th St
Girl #1: So, he told me that I had the prettiest pussy he had ever seen.
Girl #2: Ew! What did you say?
Girl #1: I said, ‘Thank you.’ My mother told me to always take a compliment gracefully.
–Prince & Broadway
Bum, after lady hands him a pack of cigarettes: The whole pack?
Lady: Yeah, take them, you can have ’em.
Bum: That is so kind of you! I can’t believe it! How can I repay you?
Lady: No, no, just take them.
Bum: I know what I will do! I will make love to your dog.
–Ave A & 7th St
Overheard by: Anna Meyer
Ladies’ man #1: So just bang her out, then.
Ladies’ man #2: After what she did to me, I don’t think I can just give that to her.
Ladies’ man #1: The man always has the upper hand — you should just bang her out and then call her the next day and be like, ‘Hey, do you have any cute friends you could hook me up with?’ You know, make her feel like shit.
–Uptown A train
Overheard by: JD
Guy soliciting money: Just one penny. Just one penny to help the homeless.
Contributor: Where’s Eddie?
Guy soliciting money: Eddie? Oh, he’s on vacation this week.
–Outside Barnes and Noble, Union Square
Overheard by: Bob who gives at the office
Hot male nurse: Is there anything else that’s bothering you?
Drunk girl: Yeah, I want to puke, and I need to get laid.
–Saint Luke’s Hospital
Overheard by: evie
Girl: Seriously, I’d give, like, 20 blowjobs to get an apartment.
–Barna, 26th & Park
Overheard by: Greg
Crazy guy: I gotta stop eating pussy. I’m losing my breath.
–F train
Girl to guy: If you don’t like oral sex, don’t open your mouth.
–68th St station
Overheard by: liza
Guy defending self to group of friends: I’ve tasted pussy!
–Chelsea
Overheard by: Reina
Guy on cell: Which one? Me sucking dick or San Francisco?
–Wagner College, Staten Island
Teen girl: I need balls in my mouth.
–Disney Store, 5th Ave
Overheard by: Gin
Ghetto teen: And so she was suckin’ my dick, and there was a 10 dollar bill on the table, and — get this — when she stopped suckin’, it was gone! Bitch took my money!
–Fulton Mall, Brooklyn
Overheard by: djingo
Middle-aged man at Metrocard machine to MTA booth employee: You know these things don’t work, right? I mean, you know they don’t work? [Employee ignores him] Hey, do you care?
–Grand Central
MTA lady on loudspeaker: [Stops singing loudly] What? No, the speaker’s not on. You can hear me? But it’s not on. Huh? You can hear me, too? Damn.
–Union Street Station, Park Slope
Overheard by: Just wanna wait in peace
MTA guy with microphone: Please keep your eyes open — there is a large rat running around on the platform. Please keep your eyes open — large rat — very large.
–V Station, 51st St
Overheard by: Ethan
MTA lady talking to no one visible: You one-armed nuisance! You are really getting on my nerves!
–In front of Staten Island Ferry, Staten Island
Overheard by: Jackie
Happy hour queen ascending subway steps: Did you know all these spots are gum? This entire subway station is constructed of chewing gum!
–Subway station, 14th & 7th
Overheard by: wish i had a drink too
Disgruntled man: Who needs terrorists when you have the MTA?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Alice
Thug: Where you am?
–Penn Station
Girl: The cat keeps attacking the kitten and trying to dominate him. He’s wicked-dominal.
–Train from Boston, Penn Station
Thug girl: We is not stupid!
–Uptown 1 train
Overheard by: there’s no e in tracy
Teen boy: It’s like that Napoleon ice cream. You know: vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
–53rd & 5th
Overheard by: really?
Ghetto woman on cell: Yeah, yeah — he a drug addict. I couldn’t believe it. I had no agnostic he was on drugs.
–M15 Bus
Overheard by: Thirsty Violet
Girl: I’m like, so, you know, like, bad at, like… I’m really inarticulate.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: jaded intellectual
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