Teenage girl leaving pizzeria, gasping: Ronald Reagan!
–Pete's Pizzeria, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Ken
Teenage girl leaving pizzeria, gasping: Ronald Reagan!
–Pete's Pizzeria, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Ken
Guy who just bumped into a group of women from work, in incredulous tone: So, you're all just out shopping for yarn and stuff?
Group of very excited 30-something women who just bought yarn: Yeah!
–Smith St, Brooklyn, Outside Yarn Store
Overheard by: Zoe
Kid in car, screaming at top of his lungs in parked car: Just a small town girl living in a lonely world she took…
From random window: If she doesn't shut the fuck up she'll take a midnight train to my foot up her ass!
–Brooklyn
Woman #1: I, like, have a degree and still I can't even make a measly 200k.
Woman #2: Yeah, I know, it's ridiculous! Welcome to America!
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: Vinny Bogan
Five-year-old boy to mother, exiting store: When I grow up I want to be a cop!
Mother: You know that cops have to listen.
Five-year-old boy: Oh… I know!
–Century 21, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Nikole
Guy #1: I have never peed on anyone!
Guy #2: Yeah, and Abraham Lincoln never told a lie.
–Manhattan & Kent, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Chris
Girl #1: Tell me how you bagged him 'cause I need to bag someone for myself!
Girl #2: All I said was, “you're fly, I'm fly, we could be fly together!”
Girl #1: Dead ass?
Girl #2: Dead ass!
–Brooklyn College
Overheard by: Puzzled Psychology Major
Chubby Midwestern woman on cell: Yeah, I'm at Saks Fifth Avenue right now.
–Burger King
Overheard by: willy cheesesteak
Guy on cell: Yeah, I'm heading west on 23rd.
–1st Ave
Overheard by: Angela
Suit on cell, pacing around fountain: Yeah, baby I'm so sick, I could barely get out of bed this morning, I dragged myself to the kitchen. Didn't go to work or anything. Yeah, I think I'm just going to try to sleep it off, tonight. Guess dinner's off, sorry.
–Central Park Fountain
Overheard by: Knows Suits on cells are always lying
Man on cell, entering subway station: Yeah, I'm going to my limousine now, I'll talk to you later.
–Subway, 66th & Broadway
Dude in hoodie on cell, exiting subway: No, baby, I can't–I'm in Manhattan. No, I'm in Manhattan!
–86th St & 4th Ave, Bay Ridge
Man in jeans purchasing Doritos, on cell: Dude, I can't talk right now, I'm running in the marathon. Call you back in a few hours?
–Duane Reade, 87th & York
Overheard by: Upper East Sider
Punk teenager to girlfriend, watching ambulance pass: See, those people are good, they save lives.
Punk girlfriend: Yeah, yours. How many times now?
Punk boyfriend, offended: That's not funny.
–McKibbon Sreet, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Rachel
