Girl #1: You look nice with curled hair!
Girl #2: Thank you!
Girl #1: You have the nice curls, not the ones that don’t know where they’re going.
–Baruch College
Overheard by: joann
Ethics lecturer, to room of lawyers: Can I call a witness I think is going to lie?
Lawyer: … On the telephone?
–Practising Law Institute, 52nd & 7th
NYU boy #1: Dude, let’s go to Delaware. I’ve never been there — I didn’t even know it was a state until the quarter came out.
NYU boy #2: Oh yeah, you told me that. That was like last week.
NYU boy #1: Yeah, man.
–University & Waverly
Overheard by: a girl who’s ashamed to go to NYU sometimes
Chick: What are you doing this weekend?
Guy: I’m going to a passover rave.
Chick: What the hell is a passover rave?
Guy: That’s where we have a Seder, then drop ecstasy and go dancing.
Chick: That is so awesome. Can I come?
Guy: You’re not Jewish.
–Waiting Room, Pacific College of Acupuncture Clinic
Overheard by: Colleen
Girl #1: …but I mean, it would have been so cute if we had gotten pregnant at the same time…
Girl #2: Yeah, i’m kinda bummed…
Girl #1: We would totally get our abortions together!
Girl #2: Oh my god, we would!
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Penelope Galleon
Chick on cell: I hope you fucking die! Die! … Well, not like now… but someday… like, when you’re eighty.. Okay, eighty-four.
–NYU
Overheard by: Kelly
Student: … And I was all, ‘Dude, don’t touch my side of the cadaver!’
–Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Overheard by: BuddyblueJD
15-year-old: Look! They’re dying because they suck!
—The Bucket List showing, AMC Empire 25
20-ish chick: After I died, I hardly did anything.
–45th & 3rd
Overheard by: mkr
Blonde to gal pals, on Heath Ledger: It just made me realize how real death is when even a celebrity can die!
–25th & 1st
Anthropology professor: If you have a young girl with a knife who starts ripping up her chest, wipes off the blood, and starts rubbing ash onto her, you might call her eccentric.
–SUNY
Stony Brook, New York
Overheard by: I don't think I'd call her at all.
Teen girl #1: Where did the stereotype that blondes are dumb come from?
Teen girl #2: Poland.
–Brooklyn Tech
Overheard by: Julie
Girl #1: Okay, I got it! We should all do coke for Melissa’s birthday!
Long pause.
Girl #2: Uhhhh, no.
Girl #1: I meant that as a joke…ehhh, I think. I mean who would actually suggest that? [under her breath] Awww, damn.
–Columbia
Math professor: This weekend I saw an exhibit at the Staten Island Zoo about dinosaurs.
Blonde bimbette: You mean with real dinosaurs?
–College of Staten Island
