Street vendor #1: Socks! Socks!
Street vendor #2: Your kids and my kids are down in the underworld together.
–Court & Livingston, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Sean McGurr
Street vendor #1: Socks! Socks!
Street vendor #2: Your kids and my kids are down in the underworld together.
–Court & Livingston, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Sean McGurr
Chick #1: What’s going on with these shopping carts?
Chick #2: It’s the race where people get drunk and dress up in stupid costumes.
Chick #1: Costumes?
Chick #2: Yeah.
Chick #1: Oh! I saw five guys dressed up as apostles down on Bedford earlier today! I thought they were just being ironic.
–Franklin Ave, Brooklyn
Latino cop #1 (directing traffic): Yo, why you stopping that guy? You let all the other people through.
Latino cop #2: Yo, Chinese people do not know how to drive.
–Broadway & Fulton, Brooklyn
Guy: Come on, baby, let’s just go inside.
Tranny: I’m not speaking to you unless you take me to Gucci.
–Carroll & 5th, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Overheard by: melizza
Hipster girl: Oh, by the way: why did your place smell like piss?
Hipster guy: Matt* got drunk and pissed everywhere last night.
Hipster girl: And when you say Matt* you mean you?
Hipster guy: Yeah, I might.
–Lorimer St
Professor: Has anyone seen an opera? Which was your favorite?
Student: Well, I only saw one.
Professor: Which one?
Student: Cats.
–Jay & Tillary
Where: Bedford Ave., Yuppietown
Hobo: …and the rest of you will be buried in cement!
Boyfriend: I would do just about anything for a job right now, maybe even take it in the ass.
Friend: Ew! Why would you want to do that? It burns and throbs for like a week after.
(long awkward pause)
Friend: Uh-oh. (blushes, runs away)
Boyfriend, yelling over crowd: Oh, great… You set me back months with my girlfriend.
Girlfriend: You're such an asshole!
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: nick
Black girl on stoop #1: What is the difference between us and white girls?
Black girl on stoop #2: They roll joints?
–16th St & Irving
Overheard by: Kristin
14-year-old #1: …a white car with a red stripe. Those are the people that steal shit.
14-year-old #2: They steal shit?
14-year-old #1: Yeah. Or murder. Something.
–Colonial Road & 74th St, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Jon A.
