Bimbettes

Hippie chick: They don’t use dryers in that country. I hung them outside.
Ditzy chick yelling over traffic: You what them?!
Hippie chick: Hung… Hung… Like a penis.
Ditzy chick: How do you hang a penis?

–Times Square

Overheard by: Kelly

Tipsy 15-year-old girl #1: … And then they gave her a breathalizer, and my mom said I couldn’t drink ’til ninth grade!
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #2: My brother got a breathalizer!
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #3: I want a breathalizer.
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #1: Why?
Tipsy 15-year-old girl #3: To play with!

–Indian restaurant, 6th St & 1st Ave

Overheard by: Ohmygodstopservingthem

Bimbette: I think Sandy* has dyslexia.
Friend: How do you know? You’re not in any of her classes.
Bimbette: I know, but she’s just so skinny.

–Madison Ave

Teen chick #1: So, like, how come you always hear about how they do tests and stuff to find out who babies’ dads are, but you never hear about dads checking who the mother is?
Teen chick #2: I guess the dads just never care that much.

–F train

Overheard by: please stop talking

Girl: I went to this awesome Italian restaurant last night.
Boy: Oh, yeah? What did you have?
Girl: This thing called ‘Prophylactic.’
Boy: That’s ‘Profiterole,’ you dumbass.

–20th St & 5th Ave

Bimbette #1: So yeah, he decided to quit working at Cold Stone’s and go into the military.
Bimbette #2: Oh, okay, what part?
Bimbette #1: The military.
Bimbette #2: Yeah, which part? The Army?
Bimbette #1: No, not the Army — the military.
Bimbette #2: No, I mean the Army? The Navy? Something? The military isn’t a separate part.
Bimbette #1: No, it was just a general thing. Not a separate part. Just the military.
Bimbette #2: [Pauses] Oooh, okay!

–Borough Hall Station, 4 & 5 platform

Overheard by: Trish

20-something chick: Dad, isn’t this bracelet cute?! It was made just for you! Look, it says ‘Dada’ on it.
Dad: [Silent.]20-something chick: I mean, we have to get one for you — they totally made these for Dads!
Dad: Um, ‘Dada’ was the name of a surrealist movement.
20-something chick: Oh, that they, like, named after dads?

–MoMa Design Store, Midtown

Overheard by: Addie Wagenknecht

Bimbette: What’s the plural of ‘Jesus’? Jesuses? Jesi?
Friend: Why would you ever need to pluralize ‘Jesus’? There’s only one!
Bimbette: Well, like, if you were at a Halloween party or something and you had to tell your friend ‘There were, like, eight Jesi at the party last night!’
Friend: Just stop talking.

–Grand Central

Overheard by: Irasian

Bimbo #1 picking up box of baking soda: I didn’t know soda was baked…
Bimbo #2: Thank god it’s not fried! Do you know how many extra calories that would be?!

–Upper East Side

Overheard by: Walford geog

Chick #1: Yeah, Lovely Bones is my favorite book. Totally. What’s yours?
Chick #2: Oh, this book called On the Road. It’s by this guy, Jack Kerouac.
Chick #1: Yeah? What’s it about?
Chick #2: It’s about this beat stuff. ‘Cause the guy — he was, ya know, beat.
Chick #1: Beat?
Chick #2: Yeah, like, him and Allen Ginsberg wrote stuff and hitchhiked and dropped out of Columbia.
Chick #1: Oh my god. Why would you ever drop out of Columbia? Must have sucked to be them.
Chick #2: Yeah, I dunno. I guess they were, like, broke.

–6 train toward Bleecker