Business and Commerce

Vendor guy: Just buy it! Come on…
Tourist guy: Chill out, we’re thinking.
Vendor guy: All right, all right. Half price? All right? Half price, now will ya just buy it?
Tourist guy: Half? How come?
Vendor guy: Because it’s fucking 30 degrees, man, it’s cold, I wanna
go home! Buy it!

–Whitehall & State

Suit: I read that they’re gonna be replaced by robots soon. A robot’s not gonna complain about pension.

–4 train

Overheard by: Charles

Speaker girl: Any questions?
Audience girl: Were you able to find out about how much women paid for the abortion procedures?
Speaker girl: About $200 a pop.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Julia Kite

Bags woman: Ladies…Gucci, Prada, Louis! Ladies…
Hot dog guy: Ladies, get your Gucci hot dogs here…Prada hot dogs!

–Canal & Broadway

Overheard by: Lori

Man: You still have sex with your ex-husband?
Woman: He paid me!

–Rudy’s, 9th Avenue

Girl on cell: I cannot believe you just said that! I can’t tell my roommate…Because she’s Indian!
Girl #2: What can’t you tell her?
Girl on cell: Shh.
Girl #2: Probably outsourcing.

–Starbucks, West 4th Street & Washington Square East

Ad guy #1: “Up Your Budget”? I don’t get it.
Ad guy #2: It’s for the rental car company.
Ad guy #1: But it makes you think of Up Your Butt. Is that the point? Budget wants people to think about stuffing things in their ass?
Ad guy #2: I don’t know.
Ad guy #1: “Look at me, I’m stuffing things in my ass!” “We try harder, we’re number two. We’re stuffing things in our ass!”…Hertz!

–Madison & 50th

Overheard by: Kevin

Guy on cell: I don’t want your money, just the rights to your son.

–44th & 5th

Overheard by: Anonymous