Bimbettes

Girl #1: What language are they singing in? Is that German?
Girl #2: No, it’s European.

–Virgin, Times Square

Chick #1: You know why guys don’t like mushrooms?
Chick #2: Who said guys don’t like mushrooms?
Chick #1: Because they taste like cum!

–N train

Girl #1: Marilyn Monroe is, like, one of my idols.
Girl #2: Wait, isn’t he that guy with the glass eye?
Girl #1: Um…no.

–Brooklyn Tech, Fort Greene

Overheard by: alina suriel

Hobo: Hey, can you spare me something?
Girl: Like what?

–Times Square

Overheard by: subwayrat

Cheerleader girl #1: Terry, what are those people doing? Is that fake blood?
Cheerleader girl #2: I think they’re representing Chinese torture or something.

–51st & 7th

Overheard by: Alvin Cheung

Chick #1: So I told him I love him…
Chick #2: Aw. that’s so cute.
Chick #1: Yeah. And it was, like, true…I think.

–Lafayette Street Residence

Overheard by: bottom

Tween girl #1: Oh my god! They, like, totally have TVs in the bathrooms here!
Tween girl #2: Oh my god! You can so watch TV while you are peeing or whatever.
Tween girl #3: Except it’s only, like, sports and stuff.
Tween girl #1: Yeah, I don’t really like sports. Except cheerleading. Is that sports?

–ESPN Zone, 42nd & Broadway

Girl #1: So yeah, it was really cold out there, and he had to keep
building fires cause they had no heat.
Girl #2: What?
Girl #1: Yeah, and also they had to keep this tea kettle on top of the
fireplace so it wouldn’t get dry.
Girl #2: What? Who lives like that?
Girl #1: What? They live in the country.
Girl #2: Yeah, but they had to like, chop wood. Who lives like that? I have heat.
Girl #1: Yeah, that’s ’cause you live on the Upper East Side.

–Columbia University

Chick #1: I can’t wear wool, it gives me a rash…My mom likes argyle.
Chick #2: Isn’t that a kind of wool?
Chick #1: I don’t know. I used to have an argyle cat, and it didn’t make me itch, so maybe not.

–K-mart, East 8th Street

Girl: Like, I tried anorexia last year, and I only lasted, like, six months.

–Stuyvesant High School, Chambers Street

Overheard by: Mary Button