Bench girl #1: So, do you guys go to church for Christmas?
Bench girl #2: Nah, my family’s Jewish.
Bench girl #1: … So do you go to temple to celebrate Christmas?
–Central Park
Overheard by: Doug
Bench girl #1: So, do you guys go to church for Christmas?
Bench girl #2: Nah, my family’s Jewish.
Bench girl #1: … So do you go to temple to celebrate Christmas?
–Central Park
Overheard by: Doug
Hipster guy: I just don’t think this is working out.
Chick: Oh, really? So are you, like, going to go home and write angry poetry about how my uterus oppresses you?
–Central Park
Overheard by: Linnea
White mom calling seven-year-old girl: Isis, come back over here! Don’t wander off – stay where I can see you!
Black man: Woman, you name me ‘Isis,’ and I wander as far away from you as I can get. I don’t blame that girl. Isis! What kind of name is that for a little white girl? Damn! Now I know white people crazy.
–Central Park
Prep chick: Is it amoebas that come from Mexico? Or am I thinking of armadillos?
–5th Ave
Overheard by: Francesca
White teen girl: So, is there a Friday next week?
–4 train
Overheard by: Gregorio
Girlfriend: If your friends told you to jump down a bridge, would you do it?
–D train, Grand Concourse
Suit to black gangster holding large chameleon: Excuse me, sir. What species of dinosaur is that?
–Manhattan-bound F train
Overheard by: Josh
Teen: So how much would the game cost if it was $17.99?
–Game Stop, Forest Hills
Future zoologist: They have sea lions here! They’re like lions — from the sea!
–Central Park Zoo
Overheard by: Andrew K.
Man, on a date with Woman, pointing at a statue of a man with a falcon: I used to do that when I was a kid. Falconry.
Woman: Ummm…
–Central Park
Overheard by: Matthew K Johnson
Boy #1: Oh shit, that’s where they filmed Home Alone 2 look!
Boy #2: What the fuck? what you talking about?
Boy #1: The hotel. The little white kid stayed at this hotel and shit.
Boy #2: What a fag.
Boy #1: Fuck you.
–Central Park, in front of Plaza Hotel
Female employee: So I think my old coworker might be a widower!
Male employee: That’s so awesome! I want to write a poem about it.
–Starbucks, Columbus Circle
20-something daughter: Mom, don’t you think it’s inappropriate to be drinking gin and tonics everyday before noon?
Mom: Oh, it’s ok. I only drink in the mornings.
–Central Park
Opera singer #1: So you gave up the rodeo to join the opera?
Opera singer #2: Yeah.
–Band shell, Central Park
Overheard by: Jason
Girlfriend: Will you love me forever and ever?
Boyfriend: Yes, even if you broke up with me and shot me and cut me into little bits and set the bits on fire.
Girlfriend: I would never break up with you.
–Central Park
