Fashionista #1: We really spent a lot of money on ourselves today.
Fashionista #2: Yeah, we did some damage.
Fashionista #1: Next week we need to, like–
Fashionista #2: –Do charity work?
Fashionista #1, laughing: Seriously. Can we buy something cute for that?
–50th & 5th
Overheard by: Amused
High school girl: Um, excuse me, Frenchie? Can I get a picture with you?
Frenchie Davis: I’m sorry, I simply don’t have time for this tonight. [Starts to walk away]High school girl: Please? It’s my birthday.
Frenchie, over her shoulder: Sweetheart, it’s always someone’s birthday. You are going to have to do better than that.
–Outside the Nederlander Theatre, W 41st St
Overheard by: AJ
Doorman #1: What if she was a Chinese woman, would you help her?
Doorman #2: Oh, hell no.
–W 77th St
Overheard by: Cole Goadbog
Teenage girl #1: Then he was kissing my forehead a lot after we hooked up so I told everyone there he was gay.
Teenage girl #2: Yeah, that is really gay.
–Houston St station
Wistful girl: I was thinking about that guy I used to hook up with all the time, and it really makes me sad for what I’m missing.
Practical girl: What, AIDS?
–Grand Central
Mother, to young son: It’s not a nice thing to say. It’s like saying a curse word.
Stranger on bench: Fuck you!
–Union Sq Park
Overheard by: the other stranger on the bench
Girl: But can’t the police seize it if it’s a crime scene?
Logistical genius: If the police could seize a crime scene, no one in Brooklyn would have a house.
–Backyard barbeque, Fort Greene
Overheard by: inge
Transparent guy: That’s why gay guys are the best.
The straight man: How so?
Transparent guy: Gay guys are just bags of hormones. If they want sex, they just ask for it. Girls are like, “Let’s all play coy and innocent!”
The straight man: I never thought of it like that.
Transparent guy: Gay guys are like, “Put your balls into my butt” kinda thing.
The straight man, laughing: Yeah, if I was gay I’d probably have sex all the time.
Transparent guy: Me too…Like just go out…find some gay dude… and touch his balls.
The straight man: Dude, what are you on?
–Tribeca
Overheard by: Nozomi
Technophobic lady: There was some crazy lady talking to herself in the bank.
Tech-Savvy lady: Are you sure? Did she have a Bluetooth?
Technophobic lady: I don’t think she had any teeth.
–54th & 10th
Girl in lacy red tank top, black bra and low-cut pants, with a lower-back tattoo, on cell: So I had an 8:45 meeting with a congressman today that I totally forgot about. It’s like 8:50!
–77th & 3rd