Young girl: We can share!
Father: We’ll have to throw away the choking hazard pieces.
Young girl: These? I wanna keep the choking hazard!
–Rite-Aid, Hudson & West 10th
Archive for 2006
Faux-Hawks If It’s a Benign Mass
Dude #1: So what’s going on with *Paige?
Dude #2: Oh! She doesn’t have cancer!
Dude #3: Sweet! Let’s get mohawks!
Dude #1: Well, there goes my night.
–Arion & Broadway, Bushwick
Imagine a World Where Blondes Understand Things Asian Violinists Can’t Grasp
Girl with violin case: I asked Weijing and she said it was OK.
Hag with eye tick: She must not have understood you. She’s not blond, you know. She’s Chinese.
Girl with violin case: Um, I’m pretty sure she understood me.
–Juilliard
It Was All Fun and Games Right Up Until Then
Little kid: What happened to your eye?
Woman with eye patch: Some little kid poked it out.
–Park Slope Food Co-op, Brooklyn
The Baby Never Has Anything Intelligent to Say, So We Know You’re the Mother
Woman #1: I know he be my baby’s daddy.
Woman #2: Yeah? How?
Woman #1: They be lookin’ the same. He got no teeth and my baby ain’t got no teeth eitha’.
–6 train, Brooklyn Bridge
Overheard by: lauren
Would Someone Please Consult a Hipster to Determine Whether This Is Ironic?
Yuppie woman #1: I just couldn’t believe it. Just because I give my child everything he wants and asks for, she has the nerve to tell me that I’m giving my son a sense of entitlement.
Yuppie woman #2: I can’t believe she said that.
Yuppie woman #1: Yeah. The nerve!
–Downtown 2 train, Fulton St
Are They Talking About Water Sports?
Girl #1: Unisex bathrooms are so weird.
Girl #2: I know. It’s so Euro.
Girl #1: In Europe they pee in holes.
–Element, Houston & Essex
Overheard by: krizia
See, Because of You the Whole Class Got Punished
Woman #1: Yo! Hurry up in there!
Woman #2: Don’t you be tellin’ me to rush! I got my woman needs, too! I had to change my pads! Betcha didn’t wanna hear that, huh, didya? Didya?
Woman #3: No. We didn’t.
–Port Authority
Overheard by: Alanna
Tumors, On the Other Hand, Smell Great
Girl #1: You know how deodorant gives you cancer?
Girl #2: Yeah.
Girl #1: Well, I’d rather take the risk, because nobody’s going to like you for being smelly.
–R train
You Sure? ‘Cause You Guys Both Look Like Candidates for Lithium Therapy
Dork #1: So what’s your favorite element?
Dork #2: Ummm… I guess rhodium.
Dork #1: Rhodium, huh? Mine’s osmium. Why wouldn’t you pick chromium or cobalt?
Dork #2: I’m not sure. I just like rhodium.
–Madison Square Park