Bimbettes

Bimbette: Not a lot of people do meth anymore. It’s like one in ten million.
Guy: What?! It’s like the crack of the Midwest. Everyone does it.
Bimbette: No, it only seems like that because they’re all in one state.
Guy: Which one?
Bimbette: Oklahoma.

–Brooklyn Tech

Overheard by: Is Kathy Ireland, the designer, one of them?

Blonde #1: Look — a statue of Gandhi.
Blonde #2: Look how skinny he is.
Blonde #1: I’m hella-jealous.
Blonde #2: Ditto. I wonder how he did it.
Blonde #1: Anorexia, probably.
Blonde #2: Figures. Maybe him and Nicole Richie are related [giggles].
Blonde #1: I don’t get it — she’s not Indian, is she?

–Union Square

Overheard by: kwhatwhat

Girl: I’m an atheist.
Guy: What’s an atheist?
Girl: It means I don’t believe in God.
Guy: They have a word for that?

–Nectar Coffee Shop, 79th & Madison

Blonde: I want a baby.
Brunette: You can’t have a baby yet.
Blonde: Why?
Brunette: You just can’t!
Blonde: What do you mean ‘I just can’t’? You’re not the ruler of my vagina!

–Stuy Town

Hungover girl #1: You and Kevin* seemed to be having a good time last night.
Hungover girl #2: Yeah, it was weird, though… I think one of his teeth fell out while we were making out.
Hungover girl #1: … He has a tongue ring, you idiot.

–Columbia campus

Bimbette #1, after motorcycle zooms by somewhere in the distance: What was that?
Bimbette #2: I dunno… I kinda thought it was a cow.

–Washington Square West

Overheard by: i’m sorry…don’t we live in Manhattan?

Girl #1: Ooh, look at that cool Jesus jacket.
Girl #2: That’s not Jesus, that’s Rick James.

–Broadway & Spring

Overheard by: margie

Bimbette #1: I am so tired.
Bimbette #2: Ew, why?
Bimbette #1: I just, like, have not been able to sleep for the past week.
Bimbette #2: Oooh, that’s probably because of all the crack you’ve been taking.
Bimbette #1: And all the triple espressos! Right, right.

–F train

Guy: My 9 month old nephew visited today, then my dad and stepmom went sailing.
Girl: The baby went sailing too?
Guy: No, you don’t take a baby out on a sailboat!
Girl: Well, why not? I mean as long as it is wearing a life preserver, what’s the problem?

–45th & Broadway

Overheard by: Alex Duke

Hot hipster girl #1: Oh my god, that's a beautiful Buddhist temple!
Hot hipster girl #2: Umm no, that's a Chinese restaurant…
Hot hipster girl #1: Oh well, then it must be really authentic.

–Eldridge & Broome