Babies

CD vendor: Hey, baby, you like hip hop? C’mon, baby, it’s good. C’mon, I never shot nobody. Well, there was that one time, but baby, c’mon.

–Outside Virgin Megastore, Times Square

Security guard: Yeah, if some guy came in, I’d be the first one on the ground, screaming,”Oh shit, he got a gun!” I’d be screaming like a baby.

–Grocery store, Astoria

Man, excitedly holding up infant to the fence: Look, baby! It’s Ground Zero!

–Ground Zero

Overheard by: Rich Weksberg

Guy: I feel shaken like a baby being taken care of by a British woman!

–Chinatown bus

Overheard by: CG

Man on cell: Baby, butter that thang up ’cause I’m coming home.

–E 65th & Central Park

Guy: If I’m going to see pictures of someone pooping, I’d rather it be a baby…Or a kitten.

–Port Authority

Overheard by: B&T Bus Rider

Woman to dog: You can’t go in there. You want to be on TV, baby? You want to be a big TV star?

–ABC Building entrance, 66th & CPW

Overheard by: ABC employee who’s not on tv

Gallant Queer: You can go ahead of me with your “lady things.”
Woman in line behind him, holding infant and feminine products: You mean the maxi-pads or the baby?

–Duane Reade, Park Pl & Broadway

Tween boy: Then Tom Cruise and Will Smith get married and have babies.

–74th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Rachel

3 year old: Ahhh, my mouth is on fire! My mouth is on fire! Help me, Tom Cruise!

–89th & Broadway

Overheard by: Alex

Man to girlfriend: Shit, I like that Martha Stewart. She a gangsta in disguise.

–Kmart, Astor Place

Guy: He is like the L. Ron Hubbard of Teach for America.

–Lenny’s, 77th & 2nd

Overheard by: Rebecca

Crazy guy: You fuckers don’t deserve to be here! John Lennon died for peace and tolerance! Get the fuck out of here, queers! John died for peace and humanity!

— 72nd & Central Park West

Overheard by: emily

Chick on cell: Yeah, he wouldn’t watch my kid last night because he was hanging out with Wilmer Valderrama.

–1st Ave between 12th & 13th

Hobo: Betty Boop killed Martin Luther King!

–1 train

Overheard by: Harriet Vane

Female clerk #1: He’s about 300 pounds now!
Female clerk #2: There’s something wrong with that baby.

–Staples, Union Square West

Teen girl #1: I either want a dog or a baby.
Teen girl #2: Well, babies are free.

–American Kennels, Lexington Ave

Overheard by: kitsull

Thug: …’cause most doctors will tell you, most doctors will actually tell you that a little marijuana is good for the baby.
Pregnant girlfriend: Really?

–14th St

Overheard by: Rationalization Whiplash

Thug guy: Son, he was pissed. She swallowed his cousin’s babies, but she wouldn’t swallow his.
Thug girl: That ain’t true love.

–L train

Little girl: Mommy, can you go to the hospital and get me a baby sister?
Mother: Go ask daddy.

–Central Park

Overheard by: hbs

Little girl, loudly: ROAR!
Little girl’s dad: Leslie, stop it, you’re scaring the people.
Little girl, quietly: Roar…
Little girl’s dad: Very nice Les, scare them subtly.

–Payless, 225th & Broadway

Overheard by: NARS

Girl: I mean, I never want to get married. Like… never. But I really want babies. So I guess I’m just going to have a bastard.

–Marquet Cafe, 15 East 12th St

Overheard by: Grace