White girl #1: Dude, I just knocked off work.
White girl #2: Where you working?
White girl #1: The florist.
White girl #2: Dude, that’s pretty gangster.
–Central Park
White girl #1: Dude, I just knocked off work.
White girl #2: Where you working?
White girl #1: The florist.
White girl #2: Dude, that’s pretty gangster.
–Central Park
Bimbette daughter: So, you like, had to, like, grow corn and shit when you were little?
Old hippie father: Yeah, before I moved to Oregon. We had cows.
Bimbette daughter: Ewww! You had to milk cows?
Old hippie father: Yeah, but cows don’t help with household chores, though. Only crocodiles can do that.
Bimbette daughter: Word.
–Barnes & Noble
Promoter guy: Come see a great comedy show tonight! The tickets are just $5!
Chick: I can’t, I have to study.
Promoter guy: Oh come on, you don’t have to study.
Chick: I actually do, sorry.
Promoter guy: Studying will never get you anywhere.
Chick: Yeah, I’ll remember that next time I’m selling $5 tickets in the snow.
–West 3rd and Sullivan
Overheard by: sarahbelle
Girl to teenage posse: Either the pen was really weak or his butt was really strong.
–Jackson Heights, Queens
Overheard by: Newsbunny doesn’t want to know
Crazy guy to self, after average woman walks by: Damn, that was a fine ass, a fine ass, that ass was so fine I’d eat a sandwich out that ass!
–36th & Broadway
Overheard by: Dingleberry
Large grown woman to grown man: I thought you have all sorts of butt magazines…
–34th & 8th
Guy to girl: I like it when you wear jeans, girl! It’s like your ass is gift wrapped!
–33rd & 7th
Older woman to younger woman: If your booty deserves the credit, give it the credit!
–Central Park
Overheard by: Hell Yeah Give it the Credit!
Party girl: Did you see Mark last night? I mean, he was doing coke off a hooker’s ass.
Party queer, pouting: I so did that last week, and no one even said anything…
–Third North Courtyard, NYU
Overheard by: this is why I don’t want anyone to know I go to NYU
Ghetto girl #1: I’ma fuck her up! I’ma cut that bitch!
Ghetto boy: You gon’ kill her?
Ghetto girl #1: Nah, I’ma cut her!
Ghetto girl #2: You can’t do that, thas’ ya ex!
Ghetto girl #1: Exactly! Thas’ why I’ma fuck her up. She broke up with me!
–G Train
Guy #1: Yo, what’s the Louisiana Purchase?
Guy #2: You mad dumb, yo. That’s when they illegally sold all that alcohol.
–St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights
Overheard by: Cypher
Girl #1: Damn… It smells like a fart.
Girl #2: Yeah, I didn’t say anything ’cause I thought it might have been you… [After long pause] So, it was you, wasn’t it?
Girl #1: Fuck yeah!
–Fame Diner
Overheard by: Ms. Hazard
Father to kids: Do you know what’s in Florida!?
Kids: What?!
Father: Disney World!
Kid, happy and excited: Oh wow! Can we go to Disney World?
Father: No.
Kid, sad: Why?!
Father: Because mommy and daddy hate Disney World!
–Chinatown Brasserie
Overheard by: Vieve
Curious spectator: Are greyhounds easy to live with?
Greyhound owner: Honey, in the past forty years, I’ve had three husbands and only one breed of dog!
–Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Overheard by: Another Greyhound Lover
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist