Woman getting into cab: I need to go to Wall Street.
Cabbie: Can you give me directions?
–27th & Broadway
Woman getting into cab: I need to go to Wall Street.
Cabbie: Can you give me directions?
–27th & Broadway
Hobo in a hurry to a stopped cabbie with open window: Yo, yo, dude! What time it is?
Indian cabbie: 21 hundred.
Hobo: Huh?
Indian cabbie: 21 hundred.
Hobo: Man, that’s not funny.
–4th St, between 1st & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: Dan
Cabbie: So, you and your husband are looking for property?
Chick: No, he’s just my boyfriend. We live together.
Cabbie: That is not good. You have to leash your camel tight or else they run away. Run away fast.
–Cab
Overheard by: Friend of Unmarried Gal
Limo driver: What are you trying to do?!
Cabbie: Did you not see the other guy, what he was doing? I had to move.
Limo driver: So he tries to kill you, and you move over and try to kill me?
Cabbie: What you want me to do?
Limo driver: So, you try to kill me so you don’t die — you try to kill me, then.
Cabbie: Well, then you have to die.
–7th Ave South & Perry St
Passenger: Have you ever run anyone over?
Cabbie: No. Do you want me to try it right now?
–West Village
Yellow cab driver, leaning out window: Hey.
Gypsy cab driver: Yeah?
Yellow cab driver: Uh, West Side Highway?
Gypsy cab driver: Ri’on Dy’man.
Yellow cab driver: What?
Gypsy cab driver: Right on Dyckman.
Yellow cab driver: Oh! Okay.
Gypsy cab driver: Fuckin’ tourists.
–204th & Broadway
Overheard by: amused passenger
Headline by: NYwannabe
Runners-Up:
· “GPS: Gypsy Positioning System–Taxi Technology of the Future” – also amused
· “Adventure Tourism For Rich People With Everything” – Julie
· “Headline Be Damned, I’m Shocked There Were 2 Cabs in Inwood!” – erak
· “Hey, My Mother Was a Fucking Tourist” – Eugene
· “Real NYC Cabbies Just Head in the Wrong Direction” – Gary
· “So I Guess Asking For Grey Poupon Is Out of the Question” – Jen
· “They Never Come to a Complete Glottal Stop” – markle
