Beauty

Chick to another: She’s a weed-smoking, modern orthodox girl. I mean, I don’t think she goes to her rabbi’s high, but…

–Brooklyn Museum

Overheard by: cole

Professor: … So the art department on the set just smokes pot all day and paints blue boulders.

–Media Productions class, City College

Mini thug: Yo, I wouldn’t even have to be high out of my mind to enjoy this shit!

–Brooklyn Cyclone, Coney Island

Overheard by: Alie

Smoking model on cell: Um, yeah, he’s cute… But, duh — he’s addicted to opiates!

–Houston & Laffayette

Overheard by: Jake

Hobo to girls: How are you smiling in a city filled with a million crackheads?

–56th & 5th

Guy on a rant in front of Imagine mosaic: In my next life I want to be an amoeba! Make more music, smoke more pot… Eating healthily is expensive! We should all have 40 acres and a mule and start all over!

–Strawberry Fields, Central Park

Overheard by: I’ll have what he’s having

Guy #1: Yo, that chick over there has huge tits. You think she’s hot?
Guy #2: Shit, man, definitely.
Guy #1: Man, we should totally be roommates next year.
Guy #2: God, you’re right. [Sip their beers and walk away from each other.]

–Bar, LES

Frumpy Asian guy: She’s a Hitler-lover.
Tall Aryan guy: I don’t care about the Hitler-lover thing as long as she’s hot. [High fives are exchanged.]

–Fordham University Rose Hill, Bronx

Suit #1: She’s smart, funny, beautiful… What more could you ask for?
Suit #2: Yeah, but she probably votes. I don’t like women that vote.

–Union Station

Overheard by: Jacksonian Democracy

Gym rat #1: Yeah, I go to a great gym… And it’s not a fashion show like other places — people are there to work out.
Gym rat #2: Yeah?
Gym rat #1: Yeah. And the girls there? Oh, man, they are so hot. That is the best thing about it.

–6 train platform, Union Square

Overheard by: rory solomon

30-ish investment banker on cell: She had so much makeup on her face she looked like she had just blown 20 clowns.

–44th & Park

Teen boy in suit: Wow, look at that cute girl!
Teen boy with rolling book bag: Oh, yeah… I’d like to walk next to that.

–Citibank, Forest Hills

Headline by: Trey

Runners-Up:

· “And then I’d hold the fuck out of her hand” – NJgal

· “Chicks dig my sweet wheels” – Marissa

· “I Would Awkwardly Avoid Eye Contact with That Like A Motherfucker” – Leland

· “I’d Carry Her Books So Hard” – Barry P.

· “I’d stick my pen in that pocket protector!” – wannabenyc


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Queer: Hey, that guy’s pretty attractive. At least from behind…
Friend: Yeah, I guess so.
Queer: Sometimes that’s all that matters.

The Apple Tree performance, Studio 54

Overheard by: whatever floats your boat

Little boy spinning DVD rack: Die, ugly people! Die! Die, ugly people!
Mom: Stop that!
Little boy: Die, millionaires, die!

–Duane Reade, 7th Ave & Flatbush, Brooklyn

NYU guy #1: Do you think the Greeks waxed?
NYU guy #2: What?
NYU guy #1: I mean, they always look so smooth in those statues.

–Lafayette & Walker

Overheard by: Chris