Bimbette #1: I don’t even, like, know what it feels like not to, like, have something like that, you know?
Bimbette #2, after a long pause: Totally.
–President & Clinton St, Brooklyn
Overheard by: liza
Bimbette #1: I don’t even, like, know what it feels like not to, like, have something like that, you know?
Bimbette #2, after a long pause: Totally.
–President & Clinton St, Brooklyn
Overheard by: liza
HS girl #1: I’m just so tired of school boys.
HS girl #2: Yeah. Me too. I’m pretty much all about investment bankers now.
HS girl #1: Oh my god. I’m so going to invite you to my next investment banker party.
–78th & Lex
Construction worker #1 to hot girl: Damn baby, did it hurt? You know, when you fell from heaven?
Hot girl: (looks back and rolls her eyes)
Construction worker #2: Your name must be Candy 'cause you look so sweet!
Hot girl: (looks back and rolls her eyes again, laughing a little)
Construction worker #3: Nice shoes, wanna fuck?
Hot girl (laughs hysterically): That's gotta be the best I've ever heard!
–65th & Broadway
Overheard by: Right to the point. Nice.
Girl: Oh, look how pretty they are! Can we pleeease get a Christmas tree? A little one?
Guy: Uh, no.
Girl: Well, why not?
Guy: Because we’re Jewish.
–Astor Pl & Lafayette
Overheard by: Couple passing by
Girl #1: She is like, mad flat.
Girl #2: I know, right?
Girl #1: So I hear that she wears two pairs of pants to make her butt look bigger!
–A train
Bimbette art student #1, pointing at fresh grapes: I don’t get why they call ‘olive-skinned’ people ‘olive-skinned’. No one’s skin is that color!
Bimbette art student #2, after closer inspection of fresh grapes: Yeah, but those olives look messed up, I think they’re fake. Real olives are, like, darker or something.
Bimbette art student #1: Yeah, those olives are too light, that’s it. No one’s skin is that color of… of light green.
Cashier: Uhm, are you ladies in line? Can I get you some… Grapes?
Bimbette art student #3: Yeah, those olives are totally fake, that must be it.
[Group leaves deli.]Cashier: Did that really just happen?
–27th & 5th
Girl #1: Ugh, I hate Honda Elements. They’re so ugly!
Girl #2: Yeah, but did you know that you could, like, fill the whole thing with water and it would still run perfectly?
Girl #1: Why would you want to do that?
Girl #2: I don’t know… But you could!
–W 42nd & Broadway
Teen girl #1: I don’t care, I’ll talk booty all night for $50. Works for me.
–Keyspan Park
Overheard by: birdw0rks
Girl #1: Who is Tom Cruise anyway?
Girl #2: Just some old guy.
–Uptown 1 train
Overheard by: Adrienne Brand
Professor: All the students in the classroom are all the same — no one moves out of their little box.
Blonde: Everyone is the same unless they are different, except that they are the same.
–Modern Lit. Class, NYU
Overheard by: Brenda