Stoner: La la la babyyy hey hey! I lovee it today! All we wanna do is smoke weeed and get drunk and be CRAZZZYYYY! La la la!
Tourist teen to friend: See, this is why we should move to New York–we’d look like normal people here.
–Central Park
Stoner: La la la babyyy hey hey! I lovee it today! All we wanna do is smoke weeed and get drunk and be CRAZZZYYYY! La la la!
Tourist teen to friend: See, this is why we should move to New York–we’d look like normal people here.
–Central Park
Girl: Excuse me… you may not remember me, but I used to date you.
Guy: Uh, I don’t think so.
–Central Park
Overheard by: Marianne
JAP #1: I hate how he calls himself "Bobby" just to seem more Jewish!
JAP #2: Yeah, why isn’t he comfortable being a Bob?
–Central Park
Snob #1: This is exactly what kids in school should see.
Snob #2: Especially in the Midwest, where they don’t read.
–Delacorte Theater, Central Park
Overheard by: Literate Midwesterner
Girl, pointing at a white blob at the foot of a tree: Ewww, a giant mushroom… oh, it’s a beret. Still, ewww.
–Central Park
Overheard by: Lisa
Girl #1: Yeah, I just really don’t like Matthew McConaughey’s arms. I mean, he’s an attractive guy, but his arms are just…
Girl #2: I know what you mean, I guess… they don’t match his body.
Girl #1: I was going to say I hope he gets cancer in his arms, but I didn’t mean it.
Girl #2: I know.
–Columbus Circle
Daughter: Mom, when we go to Europe I want to go to Auschwitz, too.
Mom: No, Alex, one concentration camp is enough.
–Central Park
Overheard by: lol holocaust
Girl #1: Yeah, I need to buy a new cell phone; mine is broken.
Girl #2: How come.
Girl #1: I dropped it in the sand during my vacation.
Girl #2: That’s how it broke?
Girl #1: No, it was fine but the sand was all over it, so I decided to rinse it clean with pouring water from the bathroom sink.
–Central Park
Woman: So, did you hear so-and-so is getting married?
Man: Really? How does her fiancé feel about her being a lesbian?
Woman: She’s not a lesbian.
Man: Really? Does anybody else know that?
–Central Park Reservoir
Overheard by: Jill
JAP: Ew! I think the turkey in this salad is ham.
–30th & 7th
Overheard by: AJ Stone
Sparkling conversationalist: I couldn’t eat for a while. It destroyed my appetite, and it totally killed the tapeworm. So tonight I can eat a good amount, but not a tapeworm amount.
–Lafayette between 4th & Astor
Overheard by: uncle frank
Girl: I hate eating fish, except when my grandma makes it. She makes it taste like beef.
–Central Park
Girlfriend to boyfriend: It wasn’t just the egg roll, Jerry; it was all of last week.
–Washington Square
Discerning sniffer: It smells good in here…like Spam.
–Medical office, Canal & Bowery
Thug: Yo, do I still got mad hummus on my lip?
–F station, 2nd Ave
Overheard by: cara
Woman to little girl: You stick that in your mouth now before I shove it down your throat! I bought that ice cream, now stick it!
–11th & 1st
Overheard by: Jamieson
