Girl: I can't take the $100,000.
Guy: Why not?
Girl: Cause being poor is a part of who I am.
–Columbia Medical Center
Overheard by: Philips Loh
Archive for February, 2009
The Only Winners Here Are the Crabs Who Continue to Thrive.
Ghetto girl: So I used his razor to shave my armpits and he got all pissed talkin' bout germs and shit. I told him, “with all the humpin' we's been doin' I think I'm the one who needs to be worried about germs with all your STDs!”
Ghetto friend: Word.
–6 Train
Like, Elizabeth Taylor Sad
Blonde in stilettos: My boss told me that she slept with Mick Jagger.
Blonde in pumps: Recently?
Blonde in stilettos: No, back when he was beautiful.
Blonde in pumps: He was beautiful?
Blonde in stilettos: In the sixties.
Blonde in pumps: That's so sad.
–Marquee's
And at Least They Blow Me
Chick: You rotate girlfriends like handkerchiefs.
Dude: If they are confused bitches who like making me uncomfortable.
–Roebling Tea Room, Williamsburg
Another Successful Workday for Pedro
Drunk sorority girl #1: My feet hurt.
Creepy hobo: Do you need someone to rub 'em for you, baby?
Drunk sorority girl #2: Violated! Violated!
–Bleecker & McDougal
Fine, I'm Pee-Shy, Okay?
Little girl in stall with her mother: Are you going to go?
Mother: No.
Little girl: You aren't going to go?
Mother: No.
Little girl: You aren't going to go?
Mother: No, I don't have to go.
Little girl: But you said you had to go!
Mother: I changed my mind.
Little girl: That's not something you can change your mind about!
–Ladies' Room, Saks Fifth Avenue
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
Drinking Alcohol, Missing Curfew–It's a Nightmare.
Man: Say, how's your tapeworm doing?
Woman: Oh, don't even get me started!
–R Train
Overheard by: Chad L.
Did You Look in Aisle Seven?
Cashier: Hi ma'am, did you find everything you wanted?
Big funky black lady: Yeah, I guess so. Too bad you guys don't sell husbands here.
–Bath and Body Works, Park Ave & 23rd
Overheard by: thinking the same thing
Anyone Else Shocked a High School Student Could Identify Alan Greenspan?
TA pointing at picture of Alan Greenspan: Okay, who is this?
Front row student: Alan Greenspan.
TA: And what is he best known for?
Front row student: Being Jewish.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Just sitting in the back
And She Would've Gotten Away with It, Too, If It Weren't for Those Darned Kids
Guy #1: See, I was in a diner the other day, I ordered some food and, yeah, I kinda noticed that the waitress was hot. Once I'd got my food and gone outside, I saw they hadn't given me my hash brown. So I went back in thinking, you know, I could get my hash brown and ask the waitress for her number or something. But when I got back the waitress was like “I ate your hash brown.”
Guy #2: She ate your hash brown?
Guy #1: She ate my hash brown!
–Lexington Ave b/w 40th & 41st