Dude: Do you guys sell bling?
Store guy: All the way in the back, under the skeleton pimp.
–Halloween Adventure, 4th Avenue
Overheard by: Hank Luxford
Dude: Do you guys sell bling?
Store guy: All the way in the back, under the skeleton pimp.
–Halloween Adventure, 4th Avenue
Overheard by: Hank Luxford
Teen boy: Do you have any matches?
Counter lady: Can I see ID?
Teen boy: You need ID for matches? For just matches?
Counter lady: I can’t give you matches without ID.
Teen boy: ID for matches…what the fuck is this world coming to?
–Bodega, Bay Ridge
Overheard by: Tim Noonan
Cashier chick: “You’ve got cigarettes, but you don’t have matches? That don’t make sense!” We sell lighters, stupidass. Buy one.
–Walgreens, 4th Avenue
Shopgirl #1: I can’t believe she’s in love with a guy who’s 26.
Shopgirl #2: Well, my dad couldn’t say anything if I went out with a guy who’s 28 even, ’cause he married someone like 20 years younger than him.
Shopgirl #1: Wow, is she a hottie?
Shopgirl #2: She’s a lawyer, so she can’t be.
–4 Play BK, Park Slope
Overheard by: Mr. Donutsu
Businessguy: Hi, small Earl Grey tea with milk, please.
Deli man: What kind of tea?
Businessguy: Earl Grey.
Deli man: How many sugars you say? Two?
–Deli, Wall & Water
Doorman #1: You know what I get to do with her? Besides cuddle, I mean. You know what I do?
Doorman #2: What?
Doorman #1: I get to expose my penis to her.
–43rd & 5th
Girl: Excuse me, is you popcorn kosher?
Counter guy: Um…I, ah, I dunno.
Girl: Do you even know what kosher means?
Counter guy: Hey, Geraldo. Is our popcorn kosher?
Geraldo: What the fuck’s kosher?
–Loews 84th Street Theatre 6
Dude: There are about 20 mice running around the glassed-in area over there.
Store guy: Oh yeah. We know. Every Starbucks has mice.
Store chick: They’re cute!
–Starbucks, Astor Place
Overheard by: The Tep
Store guy: Welcome to K-mart! Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!
Woman: Yeah, whatever. Um, where do you have the rat poison?
–K-mart, East 8th Street
Overheard by: Aerialist
Guy: I looked for that Sopranos DVD set in the section you told me to, but it wasn’t there.
Store guy: Well, the computer says it’s in stock. But that’s one of our most shoplifted items.
–Borders, Time Warner Center
Man: Can I see the takeout menu, please?
Counter guy: Do you want to stay?
–George’s Lunch, Greenwich Street
Clerk lady #1: There’s no price on this, no bar code. I can’t sell it.
Clerk lady #2: Hold on, just call accessories.
Clerk lady #1: How do I do that?
Clerk lady #2: Accessories!
–Century 21, Cortlandt Street
