Shady guy rolling an oriental rug on a hand truck: New rug! Good price I give you!
Couple standing outside: Nah, that’s okay.
Shady guy: It’s brand new! You can make love on it!
–Madison Ave & 28th St
Overheard by: Marie Z.
Archive for 2008
The Wrong Way to Acquire Insight
Pretty girl: So are the fries here good?
Foreign cashier: Yes, de fries here – they are like your eyes. They are very beautiful. You will not forget de taste.
Pretty girl: Oh, thank you…
Foreign cashier: Yes, you eat de fries, I eat your eyes. Yes!
–Burger Joint, The Village
They Can Breathe Through Their Skin
Boy #1, watching hobo who is asleep on the train: That motherfucker looks dead. I don’t think he’s breathing.
Boy #2: He doesn’t need to breathe, he’s a ninja.
–Uptown 1 Train
Overheard by: Daniil
Wednesday One-Liners See London and France
30-something guy to another: She works for Sesame Street so she gets a lot of free underwear.
–Brooklyn Label, Greenpoint
Girl: Yeah, dude. She wasn’t wearing any underwear so everyone was trying to pull down her skirt!
–St. Mark’s Place
Overheard by: Mollie
Tourist mom in matching pink jumpsuit, struggling with too many children: Oh my Jesus, I wore the wrong thong today!
–42nd St
Overheard by: Emily
Puzzled hipster on cell: Wait…how did wearing a thong fuck up her eye?
–7th St & Ave A
Hipster girl on cell: Did you get your underwear? Lindsey! Goddamn it! “Eat” sounds nothing like “get!” Fuck! What? Fuck you, bitch! Taste of my own medicine, bullshit! I heard nothing about gnawing on my own underwear!
–Baskin-Robbins, Mulberry
Overheard by: Hana
Very blond mother pushing baby carriage, on cell: I don’t care, we’ve talked about this! Don’t fucking touch my underwear!
–20th St & 7th Ave
Wednesday One-Liners … For Me to Poop On!
Girl yelling at guy wearing ridiculously oversized shorts: Eat my shit out the toilet! Stew my shit and eat it!
–109th & Manhattan
Random girl: The only thing is, you have to flush your own toilet paper.
–Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Overheard by: the old fashioned way
Teenager: So then I pooped my pants, and my belt buckle exploded!
–Fulton Street
Overheard by: The Lane Train
10-year-old boy walking with his mom and sister: I’m a good guy. I don’t pee on the floor. Or doo doo.
–Broadway, Astoria
Teen on cell: Alright, I’m gonna go home. I gotta clean up some poop.
–49th & 3rd
Girl: He called me last night and said he wanted to see me! When the maid knocked on the door I thought it was him and I thought, “I think I have to poop!”
–Milford Hotel Lobby
Wednesday One-Liners Are Too Cool for Shul
Six-year-old girl to middle-aged passenger: Well, I’m Jewish, but my parents are Aries. So I’m not really sure what that makes me.
–Amtrak
Overheard by: half Jewish, half Gemini
Guy: Oh, I know Jewish girls give good head!
–81st & Amsterdam
Awkward Catholic boy: These days there are more Jews in New York than Israel…and they all worship Barbara Walters as their Spider Queen.
–Steps of The Met
(outside the Marionette Theater’s showing of Jack and the Beanstalk)
Four-year-old: Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of a Jewish man.
–Outside the Marionette Theatre, Central Park
Drunk guy inside German bar, pointing at small guy with a jewfro: Juden!
–German Beer Garden, Williamsburg
Overheard by: POLA
Woman on cell: Well, he wasn’t as forthcoming with me as he is with you, probably because I keep telling him to stop dating that fat Asian girl and find himself a nice Jewish girl instead …
–Broadway & Prince
The Devil Wore Wednesday One-Liners
Man on phone: Well, I got a shirt but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for, so I’m gonna go to Whole Foods and get some breadsticks.
–Astor Place
Older, bespectacled white male at table with wife: Motherfuckin’ tube socks…
–Jazz Standard, 27th & Park
Overheard by: V
6′6″ man (earnestly): Honestly, if I were Hillary, I would never wear a pantsuit! You know what I mean?
–Bellevue Hospital
Overheard by: Ingwall
Cracker: I hate fighting rastas. Man, I really do. It’s those hats…you never know what they’re hiding in those fuckin’ hats!
–Marcy & Broadway
Man: Do you realize you just offended a man carrying an organic tote bag?
–6 Train
Overheard by: wb
Barfly to bartender: Is that your belt or a wrinkle in the fabric of time?
–Thirsty Scholar, 2nd Ave & 10th St
Overheard by: Jas
Wednesday One-Liners Don’t Jaywalk, They Strut
Old lady crossing the street waiting for cars to pass: C’mon people, shake a leg. (cars pass) Thank you very much.
–80th & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Peg
Woman leading tour group across 8th Ave: Okay people, walk quickly and walk with purpose. When the red hand stops the light changes and you will be hit by a car.
–54th & 8th
Overheard by: James
Female tourist to her friend: Why is everyone crossing the street when the light is red?
–Times Square
Girl Scout in uniform: No, it’s okay. You can jaywalk here!
–34th & 7th Ave
Overheard by: Marie
Woman running into middle of road waving arms: Stop, stop, I don’t want to get hit. Stoppppp! (cars slow down or slam on brakes) Hahahaha…just kidding.
–Union Turnpike & Utopia Parkway, Queens
(cab turns in front of guy crossing) Guy: Hey, I’m walking here! (turns to his friend) I always wanted to say that.
–42nd St & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Alex
I’m Not a Wednesday One-Liner — You’re a Turkey!
Hootchie, about subway smell: It smells like gooood chicken in here. Like McDonald’s.
–86th St Subway Platform
Overheard by: EthanK
Barnard girl, indignantly: Chickens don’t have thighs!
–Columbia University
Overheard by: The Thighless Wonder
Kid to friends: Oh, shit! I forgot there’s a chicken in my backpack!
–Canal St Subway Station
Overheard by: Mel
Cracked out lady on one crutch to cashier: Do you guys still carry like, hamburgers and chicken sandwiches and stuff?
–McDonald’s
Overheard by: Ben
Perspiring panhandler on definitely non-organic substances holding a can and singing: I love chickennn…chicken breastsss and thighhhs…chicken heads…mmmmmmm…I love them goooood (keeps going) Thank you. (extends his can for donations)
–7 Train
Overheard by: OG Bergenfield
Woman on phone with friend: I mean he wouldn’t even cut my chicken in half for me at dinner. I was all givin’ him shit for it. We got in this fight and I told him, “That’s what people do to show each other that they care! They cut each other’s chicken in half or make them a can of soup or whateva’!” You know what I’m sayin’?
–88th St & Broadway
Wednesday One-Liners Taste the Rainbow
Teen hipster on cell: You know, light pink is the navy blue of India. It’s true! Don’t ask me how I know this but I do.
–6th & 51st
Overheard by: simon
Flamboyant nasal-voiced man on cell: I’m feeling blue…like, royal blue…a little lighter…no, not baby blue…like, American flag blue…like…yeah.
–Jamaica LIRR Station
Aussie on cell: There were all these dudes wearing pink shirts…and they weren’t even gay!
–55th & 8th Ave
Overheard by: wearing a pink shirt and gay
Girl to friend: So he made carrot salad and I said “Your poop is gonna be orange!”
–The Frying Pan, Chelsea
Latina: Well, she said “It wasn’t white! It was yellow!” So I was like, “Well, was it at least shaped like a penis?”
–4th Ave & 40th, Brooklyn
