Biotechs

Early-20s chick: Look at that girl! She’s, like, thirty! She should just give it up and go have some kids already.
30-ish guy nearby: Fuck you!

–Scruffy Duffy’s

Overheard by: 30 and kidless

Blood center rep: Ma’am, would you like to donate blood today and save a life?
Woman: No, I’m donating into my maxi-pad as we speak.
Blood center rep: Ewww.

–96th St & CPW

Overheard by: Cathleen B

Biotech: Like, the only reason I like living in Brooklyn is because everyone’s a mess, so it makes me so feel normal, you know?
Friend: Yeah.

–E 77th, between 2nd & 3rd

Ghetto nerd chick #1, to girl talking about Harry Potter on cell: Aw, hell, no she didn’t! I have not been reading that shit since I was 13 to have the final ending fucked up by some crackwhore-looking bitch on her stupid pink faggot phone! Oh, fuck you, bitch! Fuck you! I’m going to kill you, feed you to wolves, then nuclear bomb the entire planet!
Ghetto nerd chick #2, into cell: I know, yeah… What? Oh, just some crazy bitch. Yeah, and can you believe that they killed off–
Ghetto nerd chick #1, covering her ears and singing: –Stuck on a train with a big fat whore. Stuck on a train. La-lala-lala…

–S train

Biotech: Mary, go fuck yourself!
Mary: I… I don’t know how.

–Grand & Roebling, Williamsburg

Overheard by: Jordan Cooper

College girl: How many Asians are in there?
Bouncer: I don’t know.
College girl: Like, what’s the percentage?
Bouncer: Seventy? [Girls walk away.]

–Bowery & Prince

Girl wearing cargo capris: Do I look like a lesbian in these pants?
Stranger girl: Yeah, why?

–Bryant Park

Overheard by: Hal

Biotech #1: I hate fat people.
Biotech #2: Yeah, me, too. They should put them all in a concentration camp.

–Astor Pl & Broadway

Overheard by: Daniel

Girl #1: What do you mean I’m ‘the cutest thing ever’? I’m 21! What am I, a puppy?!
Girl #2: All I meant was you wear colorful clothes and smile a lot!

–Urban Outfitters

Overheard by: Abram

Girl #1: Can we get thin crust pizza instead?
Girl #2: Are you a fucking faggot?

–12th & Ave A

Overheard by: Liz