Teen girl #1, about nearby Shoot the Freak booth: So, what is it — some kind of set-up or something? Like, it’s not a real freak, right?
Teen girl #2: No, it’s a real guy. Want to go see?
Teen girl #1: No! I’m a Quaker!
–Coney Island
Archive for January, 2019
Itching, Burning, Flaking Wednesday One-Liners
Girl to friend: I told him you had fucking mad STDs because he said he wanted to fuck you. (pause) You’re welcome!
–Washington Square Park
Suit exiting cab: Yo, make sure you don’t give him your number. He’s got crabs.
–30th Ave & 30th St, Astoria
Overheard by: OhKellyO
Blonde 20-something on phone: Either the universe just proved there is no god, or he is a motherfucking cunt! (pauses, then in low tone) Because… I think I have herpes.
–Battery Park
Overheard by: close enough to hear the herpes part
Thug to thugette: I didn’t have warts on my body till I met you.
–Metro North
Overheard by: baconista
Guy on cell, leaning casually against fire hydrant: Hey, so, I just got my test results back, and… uh… so I got herpes. So… maybe you should get yourself tested. (pause) No, no, no. No. No! Dammit, Jessica, listen, I… fuck. Sorry, Jennifer. No, I – no, I’m sorry, I’ve just been making this call a lot today. (pause) Hello?
–Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Kytt
Putting the Man Back in Mandarin
Guy #1: No, he’s a draq queen not a trannie; he didn’t get it cut off.
Guy #2: So then RuPaul must be the most famous drag queen ever, man…
Guy #1: Probably not.
Guy #2: Who, then? Like…Fu Manchu?
–52nd & 6th
My Words Are a Well-Oiled Team
Friend: How are you not wasted?
Birthday dude: It’s one of my many talents — I can be drunk and still be cohesive.
Friend: You mean ‘coherent’?
Birthday dude: Fuck you.
–Black Bear Lodge
Wednesday One-liners Look Busted
Man: Wow, that woman looks exactly the way Nina is going to look in about ten years…Oh shit, it is Nina. Don’t tell her what I said, okay?
–Emerald Planet, Great Jones Street
Gotta Watch ‘Em Every Minute During the Terrible Twos
Concert girl #1: You totally missed it.
Concert girl #2: Missed what?
Concert girl #1: You know those girls that were really drunk and dancing in front of us? Well, they ended up taking their clothes off…
–Brooklyn
Wednesday One-Liners: “Chug! Chug!”
Child to father: No dad, I want the whole fucking beer!
–Union Square
Stoned guy: Iced tea is just like water and lemon and shit.
–5th Ave Diner
Overheard by: oliviz
College student to another: So we can go to an expensive club tonight, where it’s really hard to look good… or go to a cheap bar where there’s premium beer and women actually born in this country.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: melbert
New Yorican girl: So I bought this juice and brought it home, right, later my mother must have torn through the fridge and taken it. And she was like “I’m really sorry I took your juice.” And I was like, “okay, whatever.” I mean, what was I gonna do about it? Drink her piss or something?
–Coffee Shop, 77th & 1st
Earlier, It Asked Me What the Meaning Of Life Is
40-something male watching 20-something female bending over: Holy shit! That girl’s got no panties on!
30-something male: Yes she is, it’s a thong.
40-something male: If she is wearing panties, that’s the deepest thong I’ve even seen.
–Dewey’s Flatiron
Overheard by: Gmoney
Yum! Wednesday One-liners
Queer: You are all a bunch of crackers…What are you laughing at, Jew? We have a cracker and a Jew, it’s like a Lunchable.
–1 train
I’m Not Going to Detroit to Find Out
Girl: I mean, which came first, “Ford,” or “affordable”?
Guy: Uh, “affordable,” I think.
Girl: Are you sure?
–L Train
