Girl on first date: Are you texting someone?
Guy on first date: No, I’m just playing Tetris.
Girl on first date: Okay… You know what? I gotta go, it’s getting late.
–Sushi bar
Girl on first date: Are you texting someone?
Guy on first date: No, I’m just playing Tetris.
Girl on first date: Okay… You know what? I gotta go, it’s getting late.
–Sushi bar
Hobo #1: Hey, that cell phone you sold me — that’s a crackhead cell phone! I want my money back! You sold me a crackhead phone!
Hobo #2: What do you expect? I’m a crackhead.
–Madison Square Park
Overheard by: annulla
Guy #1: I can’t wait until June.
Guy #2: Because of the iPhone?
Guy #1: Uhhh… No.
–Christopher St & 6th Ave
Dude #1: Did you talk to Kelly last night?
Dude #2: Yeah — I texted her, and now she won’t talk to me.
Dude #1: What did you text her?
Dude #2: That I wanted to put it in her.
–Penn Station
Seven-year-old ghetto kid: This is the Earth, yo!
–Earth Science Hall, Museum of Natural History
Dad to seven-year-old son: If you’re gonna steal somethin’, you gotta steal somethin’ you can sell.
–Museum of Natural History gift shop
Overheard by: rufus
Cowboy squinting at museum pamphlet with wife and kids: The Big… Bang? What’s that?
–Museum of Natural History
Child passing the Australopithecus couple: Look, Ma! It’s like you and Dad on your honeymoon!
–Museum of Natural History
Overheard by: Dottie
Employee: Welcome to the Hayden Planetarium. Please turn off your cell phones, digital cameras, and small children.
–Museum of Natural History
Mother: Stop screaming! They can’t hear you!
–Museum of Natural History
Confused college student: My new cell phone is so ghetto. It lights up when it rings. It’s like a Las Vegas show. But I think the inside is nice. It’s like when you have a really crappy house, but it’s well-decorated. Like, on the interior…
Queer friend: Yeah, that’s how Koreans live.
–ArtePasta Restaurant, Greenwich Ave
Overheard by: Smarter College Student
Guy, about man on Bluetooth ear piece: Man, look at that guy. He’s nuts.
Girl: Oh, geez. He’s just on the phone.
Guy, to Bluetooth man: Are you crazy? She doesn’t think so.
–Near City Hall
Overheard by: Matt
Chick: So, my friend called me yesterday and said, ‘I called you because I had diarrhea and it made me think of you.’
–Starbucks, 110th & Broadway
Overheard by: Fudd
Frustrated man: You call me back and I’ll tell you where the food is!
–23rd & 6th
Girl on cell with ex-boyfriend: Wait a second, I don’t get good service here. Let me go outside so I can yell at you.
–Loehmann’s, 16th & 7th
Yuppie dressed as hipster: Hey. Oh, sorry I didn’t call… So, yeah, I was in a kidnapping today…
–Bleecker
Bus driver over intercom: And to your right you will see a sleazy motel. If you notice any cars that look familar please give a quick call home.
–Q46 bus
Angry black lady: I’m gonna 69 that motherfucker!
Friend: What?!
Angry black lady: I mean, 68 or 67 or… I dunno. Star 67! That way the bitch won’t know it’s me callin’.
–City Hall Park
Overheard by: This is what makes New York City so great
Old lady #1: Oh, something is vibrating in my purse.
Old lady #2: Oooh, is it something handsome?
–New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center
Overheard by: I wiggle, not vibrate
