Little kid: Grandma, I want a dollar.
Ghetto grandma: Nigga, we had to work to get money, sometimes we would get beat.
Little kid: Can I get my dollar now?
–The Bronx
Overheard by: Julio Pena
Little kid: Grandma, I want a dollar.
Ghetto grandma: Nigga, we had to work to get money, sometimes we would get beat.
Little kid: Can I get my dollar now?
–The Bronx
Overheard by: Julio Pena
Thug on cell: Will I accept payment in what? In coke? Fuck no, I won’t accept an eight-ball as payment. No. No way, bitch, I don’t care how pure it is. Uh-uh, the only coke I do comes in five dollar rocks. I can’t afford to get hooked on that expensive shit.
–49th & 7th
Oveheard by: Prefers the expensive shit
Drunk guy, to his date: The reason I’m buying all of this coke is so that we can fuck.
–6th St, between 2nd & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Danielle
Girl: Can you imagine saying your vows when you’re that coked up?
–Remsen St, Brooklyn Heights
Party girl: Oh my God, she took a picture of me one time while I was doing a line, and I was, like, so pissed!
–Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park
Dude: America runs on cocaine.
–W Broadway
Overheard by: ritajones
Goth chick: I just want to buy some fucking groceries so we don’t spend all our money on coke.
–Whole Foods, 14th St
Black kid to father: Dad, were you ever a slave?
Father: No, son.
Black kid: Was I ever a slave?
Father: No.
Black kid, sighing: Good.
–Doctor’s Office, Upper East Side
Overheard by: Mike F.
Teen girl: Don’t you like how my bracelet matches my shirt?
Boyfriend: Are you serious? They don’t match.
Teen girl: Yes they do! What’s wrong with you?
Boyfriend: I’m color blind.
–L Train
Guy #1, about cover of art book on dadaism: What is that?
Guy #2: It’s art.
Guy #1: No it’s not, it’s a urinal.
Guy #2: Some guy put his initials on one an called it art.
Guy #1: Oh. (pause) Yeah, so it’s art.
–Bookshop, Met Museum
Hobo: Where are you going?
Drunk guy: Bermuda. I’m connecting to the plane.
Drunk guy: Is that your cousin?
Hobo: Yeah!
Drunk guy: He didn’t even say nothing to you. That’s fucked up!
Hobo: My name is Peter. Peter Parker. I’m Spider-Man’s father.
The hobo shows the drunk guy his bottle. The drunk guy takes out a can of beer and a bottle of whiskey
Drunk guy: So what? You trying to beat me? You started a competition and I beat you. I came prepared.
–PATH train
Overheard by: Tony Gabriel
Customer to cashier: Can I have a job application, please?
Cashier to manager: I need a job application for this guy.
Manager: Why in the hell would you want to work here? I’m trying to quit!
–McDonald’s, Queens College
Girl: Yeah, so, did you hear that the bald eagle isn’t extinct anymore?
–Central Park
Jamaican man, talking to himself: At the next stop I’m going to be white with blue eyes and blond hair.
Trashy, red-lipsticked middle-aged white woman with blue eyes and blonde hair: I can tell you from experience it’s not all that.
–Downtown N Train
Overheard by: veronica
Ghetto guy: Yo, I gotta be careful and hurry up and catch this midget before she leave me.
–59th & Lex
Overheard by: Wonkanobi
Short lady: And I told him, ‘I may be an ugly midget, but at least I’m not a Neanderthal.’
–Outside Starbucks, Court & Dean St
Little girl watching midget walk by: Look, Mommy! Mini-Me’s wife!
–91st & Broadway
Man to son: … And that’s because New York was founded by midgets.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Nina Milnes
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