Girl #1: Well, you know, you are very pretty…
Girl #2: Look at my fucking hands! Do I look like a fucking tranny to you?! [Throws shopping bag at #1.]
–14th & 6th
Overheard by: wtf???
Archive for 2020
What? I’m Diabetic!
Mom to fussing toddler: I’m right here, sweetheart!
Crazy guy: Sweetheart. Sweeeetheart. Why not “salt” heart? Saaaaaaaaaalllllllttttt heeeeaaaaaarrt!
–Starbucks
Melinda Experiences Multi-Level Embarrassment
Guy: I have a confession to make.
Girl: Can’t you make it to me after the movie?
Guy: I can’t help it, but I took a picture of your butthole last night while you were dozing.
Girl: You what?!
Obese lady in front row: Would you queers shut the fuck up?! I’m trying to watch this shit!
–AMC Theater, 42nd St
Overheard by: Scott
The Pitter-Patter of Tiny Wednesday One-Liners
Young boy: Fuck school! When I’m old enough, I’m just going to stay home and make babies.
–1 Train
College professor: Everything that is wrong in this world can be traced back to babies.
–40th & 8th Ave
Overheard by: Just Trying to Smoke in Peace
Girl on phone: I’m going to have to cancel for a few different reasons. First, the baby hasn’t gotten all her shots. And more importantly, there’s something pecking through my wall! I’m really freaked out!
–Bleecker and Lafayette
Woman with three kids, after watching the eldest push the middle to the ground: What are you pushing him down for? Are you trying to upset my stomach so I lose this baby inside me?
–St Marks Place, Staten Island
Girl on cell: Well if she likes to have babies so much, why don’t she just be a … doctor!
–52nd & 7th
Professor: 42-year-old babies don’t have bones.
–Schenectady County Community College
Two Leading Causes of Injury for the Married Man
Customer: I could use that cane. I pulled my hamstring last night.
Bartender: Doing what, changing diapers?
Customer: No, having sex with myself.
–Bar, 78th & 1st
What Happens When You Use the TV As a Babysitter: A Simulation
Skinny girl: I’m sorry you have to go through this.
Sobbing girl: I just…I just hope he’s going to… be okay.
Skinny girl: Do you think that maybe you want to go and compose yourself in the office?
Sobbing girl: I was just… there. And I would… but the candy… sucks.
Skinny girl: I’ll… I’ll give you my last Mentos.
Sobbing girl: The Freshmaker?
–The Met
Unless, Of Course, They Have the Runs
Vapid girl: It’s like how some people go on long runs to train for marathons. I eat cheese to condition my stomach for when I don’t eat vegan.
Neighboring diner to girlfriend: The world will a much better place once we start eating people like her.
–Atlas Cafe, 2nd Ave
History Did Not Bear out Little Oedipus’s Assertion
Woman, leaning over toddler: Do you love me?
Toddler: No.
–81st St & Amsterdam
England’s Sketchy Stepchild
Girl: So where’s he from? He’s from California, right?
Guy: No, he’s from England.
Girl: Oh, Montreal!
–Union Square
Overheard by: Christopher Columbus
How Much Is That Wednesday One-Liner in the Window?
Man eating brunch to male friend: We both came out seven years ago. We are puppy gay in dog years.
–Big Daddy’s Diner
Overheard by: Morgan
Very loving mom talking to daughter about her son: Hey! He is not an animal, he is not a dog. Well, at least not today!
–Hell’s Kitchen
Outraged woman to man: What? No! Do not put the dog in the furnace, Ted!
–Court Street
Chick with cigarette, on cell: … Leathery fetish dog-masks, or just Halloween style dog-masks?
–Outside Tagine, 40th & 9th
Overheard by: Ladle
Philosophical suit: The only reason I haven’t divorced my wife is because of the dog.
–Upper East Side
