Overheard In New York

Archive for 2006

Yeah, He Prob­a­bly Was Stronger Than Her

Girl: This is not go­ing to hap­pen. My moth­er taught me re­spect. I know you un­der­stand that. I do not give it out on the train. Not my name, not my num­ber. You un­der­stand that.
Dude: Yeah, I hear you. I can re­spect that. Noth­in’ but re­spect.

She gets off the train.

Dude: Man, I fucked way fin­er girls than that. I’m sayin’, I could’ve got off the train with her and fucked that bitch.

–4 train

Over­heard by: DA

Uh Oh, She’s Ra­dio­ing for Back­up

Cashier girl: You have more than 10 items.
White man: Who are you? Are you the items po­lice?
Cashier girl: You’re on­ly al­lowed to have 10 items.
White man: Fine, but I have two of the same items, so does that count as one item or two?
Cashier girl: I have to call the man­ag­er.

–D’Agosti­no, 76th & Lex­ing­ton

Over­heard by: An­drew Saint John Good­win

A Fist Will Make Her Deep

Guy: You should be­come a les­bian. It seems to be work­ing out for every­one else.
Girl: Yeah, um, I’ll have to pass.
Guy: You’re so shal­low.

–A train

Over­heard by: drewseph

This Sounds Bet­ter in a Court­room

Guy #1: All I re­mem­ber is walk­ing in­to your room and every­one was smok­ing opi­um and sit­ting on the bed that was two feet from the ceil­ing.
Guy #2: Yeah, and re­mem­ber Mr. Mil­lard?
Guy #1: Yeah, re­mem­ber when he died?
Guy #2: Oh my god, yeah, I was so hap­py, that fuck­er!

–L train

Over­heard by: Mary C.