How Do You Get a Flyer Guy to Shut Up? Discuss

Flyer guy: Rainbow room! Discount admission! Observatory! Rainbow room!
(goth chick unbuttons her shirt)
Flyer guy: Rainbow room… Uh…
(goth chick reveals a Batman t-shirt)
Flyer guy, recovering: Discount admission! Observatory!
Goth chick (in menacing voice): I'm Batman.
Flyer guy: Rainbow room! Discount admission! Batman! We got batman in Gotham! Observatory! Rainbow room! Batman! Discount admission!

–Rockefeller Plaza

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on August 12, 2008
Buildings, Default, Flyer people, Free stuff!, Girls, Goths, Offers and requests, Rockefeller Center, Superheroes, Weirdness

Wait 'Til He Finds Out a Coffee Is Four Dollars

Man, eyeing stranger's iced coffee: So… does that come already sweetened?
Stranger with coffee: Yeees…
Man: So… They just put ice in the coffee, and it becomes iced coffee?
Stranger with coffee: Dude, you really need to get out more.

–Elevator, Centre Street Municipal Building

Overheard by: Emma

Posted on August 1, 2008
Advice, Buildings, Coffee, Default, Elevators, Men, Questions, Strangers, Weirdness

Though I'd Probably Have Been Smited by Now

Suit #1: I have to leave at five today.
Suit #2: Why?
Suit #1: I have to go to church.
Suit #2: Jesus Christ! I wish I was religious.

–New York Post

Posted on July 29, 2008
Buildings, Church, Coworkers, Default, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, Religion, Suits, Time, Wishes & desires

Goin’ to the Chapel and We’re Gonna Get Wednesday One-Liners

Big bald guy: No, no, you don’t have to be ordained to marry people at the show. Just put on the Pope robe if you want to marry people.

–Office Building, Hudson St

Guy: I took your advice, bro. I’m gonna marry her in a little over three weeks. But… I gotta get drunk first.

–Houston & Broadway

Overheard by: erin

Suit #1 to suit #2: Well, maybe she won’t sign the pre-nup and then you’ll be free.

–Wall Street

Black chick: No! No! Ain’t no one gettin’ lynched at my wedding!

–Food Dimensions, Myrtle & Broadway

Overheard by: off white

Woman on cell: The only time he gets to be himself is when he goes away and that’s the way he saves the marriage… Otherwise it’s "Mommy, I don’t feel well’ and ‘Mommy, may I be excused from the table."

–23rd St & 5th Ave

Overheard by: Mugsy’s Moll

Goth chick on phone: He proposed to me while he was in me… Yea, well, I mean he told me after that he really meant it!

–Penn Station

Posted on April 16, 2008
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Buildings, Clothing, Compare/Contrast, Drinking & Drunk People, Family Ties, Girls, Goths, Guys, Marriage, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Offers and requests, On Cell, Penn Station, Pope, Restaurants & Cafes, Sex, Show business, Soho, Staten Island, Suits, Violence, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Wishes & desires, Women, Words

A Dumb Bitch Who Just Took Your Wallet, Bucko

Fat guy: I love you.
Cute girl: Do you really mean what you say, or are you just saying it?
Fat guy: Of course I mean it. [They make out, then chick leaves.] What a dumb bitch.

–W4 station

Overheard by: Ting

Posted on October 12, 2007
Assholes, Buildings, Couples, Fat People, Foreplay, Insults, Liars, Lies, Love, Questions, Stupidity

… Five Tequila Shots, and a Long Island Iced Tea

Dude #1: Do anything this weekend?
Dude #2: Yeah, went to my cousin’s wedding.
Dude #1: Open bar?
Dude #2: Yeah, but I don’t drink, ’cause I’m an alcoholic, so I only had a couple vodka tonics.

–Jacob Javits Convention Center

Posted on July 17, 2007
Buildings, Celebrations/Parties, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Friends, Guys, Idiots, Lies, Stupidity

It Was More of a Baton Handoff Than a Throw, Really

Desperate wannabe bridezilla: Let me ask you a question — if you’re at a wedding and the bride throws the bouquet directly to you instead of to the whole crowd, does it still count?
Friend: I don’t think any of it really counts.
Passerby: Way to kill the mood.

–Elevator, 11th & University

Overheard by: MissPinkKate