Girl #1: If I was wearing a bikini right now, that’d be hot.
Girl #2: If I had a penis in me right now, that’d be hotter.
–Roseland Ballroom
Overheard by: gunstunna
Archive for June, 2021
Was There Rat Kissing?
Seven-year-old girl: I’m going to see a movie this weekend. Can anyone guess what I’m going to see?
Seven-year-old boy: Ratatouille! I already saw it.
Seven-year-old girl: Yeah, I’m going to go see Ratatouille this weekend.
Seven-year-old boy: Yeah, I already saw it. And there’s this one part — yuck — you don’t want to see it. It’s bad, you really don’t want to see that part — it’s gross. [Whispers it to another kid.]Seven-year-old girl: What? Is there kissing? I can see kissing… If you think I’ve never seen kissing before, there’s kissing in every other movie I have ever seen in my life!
–Bleecker St playground
From the People Who Brought You Seaman, Dyckman, and Gay Streets…
MTA conductor: Rector street is next. The next stop is rector street.
Old lady tourist to friend: Rector… Rector… Rectum.
–1 Train
Overheard by: Well, we’ve all thought it
Why the Fashion Police Keep Emergency Suspenders in Their Squad Cars
Asian boy: Why are you wearing a belt over your shirt?
Asian girl: I don’t know. I like the way it looks.
Asian boy: Belts are supposed to hold your pants up. It can’t hold anything up if it’s over your shirt.
Asian girl: It’s fashion, okay?! My god!
Asian boy: … I hope your pants fall down!
–Stuyvesant High
Overheard by: she was wearing a skirt
The Answer Is Shitting in the Wind
Man on a park bench #1: Betcha never seen a dandelion turn from yellow to white. Even catch one half-way in between.
Man on a park bench #2: Betcha ain’t never seen no baby pigeons. Ain’t noboby never seen no baby pigeons. See all them big fat ones? Where’s the babies at?
–Central Park
Endsday One-Liners
Irritated girl to imploring guy: I’m gonna have enough to answer for on Judgment Day–I’m not adding this to the list.
–Strip Club, Times Square
20-something prepster: If the zombie apocalypse happens tomorrow, we are all fucked.
–L Train
Thug, at sunset: Yo, it be gettin’ dark, nigga! It’s like the apocalypse or some shit!
–Cortelyou & E 17th St
Overheard by: Jon A.
Exasperated man: If you create a black hole, it’s going to destroy the world no matter *where* you put it!
–14th St & 6th
Overheard by: wishingscienceweretaughtinschool
Wooden Spoons! A Fire Hydrant! George Clooney!
Dude #1: … Saddam?
Dude #2: Nah, crocodiles!
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Sully
I Forgot You Have to Chop the Person Up First
Chick: Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?
Dude: Yeah, you tried to pack me in a suitcase once.
Chick: Oh, yeah! And you wouldn’t get in!
Dude: Yeah.
Chick: Yeah…
Chick erupts with nervous laughter.
–Uptown 6 train
Overheard by: kelsey
I See London, I See France, I See Wednesday’s One-Liners!
Blonde: So, I woke up and Jessica’s underwear was still on my head…
–P.S. 1, Queens
Drunk dude on cell: I want to take the blue panties you left at my place and wear them on my face! … I said I want to wear your blue panties on my face!
–Grand Central
Chick on cell: I do have underwear in my purse in case I need it.
–113th & Broadway
Overheard by: Ladle
Lady to son: Well, it is never appropriate to ask a woman about her undergarments.
–20th & 8th
Hoochie: He offered me 10 dollars for my underwear, but I wouldn’t do it.
–St. Mark’s & 1st
Overheard by: Nina
You Can’t Judge a Wednesday by Its One-Liner
College student: This is the best Barnes & Noble I’ve ever seen!
–Borders, Time Warner Center
Student: So, the author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-low… Fuck it, we’re calling him L‑train.
–Eugene Lang College
Overheard by: Harker
Large woman with friends: Oh, girl, I got to tell you about this book I’m reading. It’s off the hook! They’re sending in this undercover agent, and I think it’s his sister, but he’s all getting ready to have sex with her!
–White Castle, 36th & 8th
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
Woman on phone: I was in Union Square, so I stopped in Barnes & Noble. (pause) Nigga, I can read!
–Union Square
Little British boy: Oh my goodness, dad, look! They have books on dating. How to Date? is probably like, “Don’t take her to McDonald’s!”
–Barnes & Noble
Overheard by: Laura
Tattooed artsy guy, putting hand on artsy Asian girl’s shoulder: I read your book and really liked it… lotta pissing, huh?
–Mott & Prince
