Girl #1: Is he reading the Bible?
Girl #2: No, it's something about Nazis, can't you see the swastika?
–Q36 Bus
Archive for 2010
…Up Your Shirt.
Little boy to little girl: I like you.
Little girl: What?
Little boy: I said “I like looking for rocks.”
–Low Plaza, Columbia University
Your Editors Would Prefer Never to Hear About Gummi Bear Again.
Dude to friend: You know what I mean, right?
Friend: Yeah, you mean he's rich, right?
Dude: Yeah, he's rich, but he's not independently wealthy. I mean, if he didn't have all that money, he wouldn't be rich.
–88th St & Columbus Ave
Overheard by: P. Marino
I Bought This Jaunty Monocle for Just Such an Occasion
Punk kid, noticing sirens and flashing lights in the distance: I wanna go down there!
Friend: I don't care.
Punk kid: But I wanna be on Eyewitness News!
–57th b/w 3rd & 2nd
Overheard by: tori
Guess You Have to See the Movie to Understand This
Thug #1 to thug #2, during showing of The Mist: Man, I would've just stayed inside the fuckin' supermarket.
Thug #2: Yeah.
Thug #1: I'd be eatin' all those Doritos an' shit.
–11th St & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Jojo
Any Weirder Than Eating the Body Of Christ? Weigh In, Readers!
High school girl to raucous group of friends: Oh man, remember the time we dared him to lick the church?
Group of friends: (wild laughter)
–Outside Grace Church, Broadway & 10th St
He's Moonwalked Out Of the Babysitting Business, Hon
Woman #1: I wouldn't mind Michael Jackson looking after my kids.
Woman #2: Two words: child molester.
Woman #1: Two words: Not guilty.
–1 Train
Same Difference, Yo.
Tiny boy: I got freedom, yo!
Slightly less tiny brother: I got a bike, yo!
–Prospect Park
Overheard by: Sunny
They're in an Institution
Woman #1: So it turns out that the family is that cult family… Something-onian.
Woman #2: Smith…?
Woman #1: Smithsonian, no, that's a different family.
–Q Train
It's Written on My Apron
Little boy: Daddy, am I a mama's boy?
Perplexed father: No, I don't think so, why do you ask?
–7th Ave
Overheard by: Mel