Pedicab driver: I lost all my money there.
Tourist lady: Oh, really?
Pedicab driver: Yes. I was rich once. And a genius.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Fern
Pedicab driver: I lost all my money there.
Tourist lady: Oh, really?
Pedicab driver: Yes. I was rich once. And a genius.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Fern
California chick: I was doing ketchup commercials in fourth grade; imagine where I could be now.
–Gatsby’s, Spring Street
DVD bootlegger: Counterfeit? How can these be counterfeit products if they haven’t even made the real ones yet?
–34th & 7th
Girl: Ohmigod! She keeps sending me tea! She’ll send me tea but not money! I don’t need tea! I need money! She’s freakin’ crazy!
–MailBoxes Etc., Columbus & 82nd
Overheard by: Sophia
Girl: That’s why I wanna take a business class, so my album can sell.
–BMCC
Overheard by: Goadster
Street vendor: Rims, Rims…buy some rims. Don’t have to own a car to buy rims!
–28th & 5th
Overheard by: Larissa Kyzer
Boy: Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please? My name is Dante, and I’m not selling candy for my basketball team. I’m selling candy for myself, trying to get some cash in my pockets.
–4 train
Blockbuster girl: Well, Sideways is supposed to be totally good. It won a Grammy for Best Picture.
–Astoria Blockbuster
Overheard by: L.C.P.
Girl: Is that soup place the Soup Nazi? Did he go out of business?
Guy: Yeah, ever since Soup V.E. Day…
–55th & 8th
Overheard by: Lindsay Robertson
Waitress: Hey, would you mind taking that table for me?
Waiter: How come?
Waitress: That guy’s just a little too sassy for me.
–Chat n’ Chew, E. 16th Street
Overheard by: Gus Colletti
Clerk: What’s in the box you’re shipping?
Customer: A computer.
Clerk: Where’s it going?
Customer: Spain.
Clerk: Is that domestic?
Customer: No, that’d be fairly international.
–Kinko’s, Duane Street
Overheard by: Joshua Cody
Girl: Bitch, for the last time, Spain is not part of Latin America!
–Columbia University dorm
Boy, 10 #1: What’s credit? How do you get credit?
Boy, 10 #2: It’s like, you know when you take out a book with your library card? If you don’t return it like forever, then you get bad credit.
–6 train
Overheard by: bluesdog
Suit #1: So what did you think of the title I handed in for [Henderson]’s new job?
Suit #2: I was in Albany when you sent that out. I didn’t get a chance to read it.
Suit #1: I was going to write “potentate” but I wasn’t sure that I could spell it!
Suit #3: Well, most Caesars were murdered…
–Burger Heaven, 49th St.
Hipster girl #1: Yeah, so she has her own nail business now. You know, she mixes her own colors and everything.
Hipster girl #2: Yeah, kind of like Satan.
–79th & Broadway
Guy #1: Hey, what did you do this weekend?
Guy #2: Dude, I bought a crock pot.
Guy #1: Awesome.
–80 Hansen Pl, Brookyln
Old Jewish lady: How are you today?
Old Jewish man: If I sold ice cream, I’d be great. If I sold ice cream in Central Park, that would be perfect. But me? I sell chickens in Bedford.
–8th St & Bedford Ave
