Teen boy: If we get a family plan we can talk for free.
Dad: I don’t want to talk to anyone, whether it’s free or not.
–78th & Broadway
Teen boy: If we get a family plan we can talk for free.
Dad: I don’t want to talk to anyone, whether it’s free or not.
–78th & Broadway
Businesschick on cell: Awww yeah…guess who doesn’t have work today?….Awww yeah, people trying to blow up my building and shit…I think I just saw a tank driving down my street…Wait, I gotta roll, some weird number is popping up on my cellie.
–51st & 3rd
Hobo: I’m homeless! I’m battling child abuse! The Jews and the Irish are spreading lies about me!
–14th Street between 5th & Union Square
Overheard by: a Jewish-Irish girl
Hobo: Nice chickie, hot, another one, good, love them, there’s a good one. No, wait: that’s a guy.
–29th & Madison
Bald hobo: If I was tall they’d braid my hair! But no, I’m short, so they won’t braid my hair!
–Grand Central
Overheard by: Jeremy
Hobo: I’m technologically impaired. Spare a cell phone? An iPod?
–St. Mark’s & 1st Ave
Overheard by: Rose Yndigoyen
Chick #1: Is that your cell phone ringing?
Chick #2: Julie, those are birds.
–Central Park tennis courts
Overheard by: Susan Vrona Bijina
An old Russian man has put his bag on the seat next to him. An old lady asks him to move it. He refuses as there are other seats albeit not in the front. Things get escalated until the old lady says: You’re a son of a bitch. I’d like to see you hit me with that. I’ll call the cops right now. I’ve got my cell phone!
–B1 bus
(After this exchange our editor handed her his card and told her that she would be on this site. She was confused on so many levels that they kind of cancelled out and she nodded & smiled.)
Teen chick: …so I shoved him and he fell. He lost his cell phone. He didn’t realize until later when he said “let me take a picture” and his phone was gone. He had it on silent, so we had to walk all around in the snow to find it.
–Bensonhurst
Woman on cell: Well what did you expect? Did you think you could just go into the subway and get a million bucks playing your guitar?
–Union Square
Overheard by: Domi
Crazy guy: Shaving is so much more important than your cell phone.
–6 train
Teen boy #1: Change your ringtone! Change it! [Slams table.]Teen boy #2: Don’t you like that song? I love it.
Teen boy #1, to others: His phone rings all day — I’m sick of it. I have to have a new song. He gets that many calls, he should have one song for each girl so I’m entertained!
–Little Italy
Ditzy girl #1: It's so weird. You can actually have arguments on Facebook.
Ditzy girl #2: Yeah! You can follow people's arguments on wall-to-wall.
Ditzy girl #3: That's so stupid. Why go to all that trouble when you can just pick up your phone and send them a text?
–Downtown F Train
Overheard by: sam
