Comebacks

Guy in moose costume, sarcastically, on Halloween: Like people are really gonna remember a random-ass character from Sesame Street
Guy in Yip Yip costume: So you'd rather be a fucking moose?

–Rivington & Clinton

Overheard by: TR

Metrosexual guy: If I was some fish…
Girl, not looking up from her bus schedule: Grammar just cried.
Metrosexual guy: I don’t follow you.
Girl: Good, because if you did, I would have to have you arrested.
Metrosexual guy: I am so confused.
Girl: Do the words ‘you are an idiot’ confuse you?
Metrosexual guy: I hate you.

–28th & 5th

Black Santa takes off his beard, puts a cigarette in his mouth and starts to adjust his crotch.

Little girl in stroller: Daddy, why is Santa smoking?
Daddy: Well, obviously it’s a fake Santa…
Other passersby, scolding: Santa!
Black Santa: What? Santa’s gotta friggin’ fix himself sometimes, don’t he?

–Rockefeller Christmas tree

Overheard by: Megan Cowles

Man, pleading: But, honey…I love you.
Woman, cold as ice: I love you, too…yesterday.

–FAO Schwarz

Drunk old guy: That’s a very nice dress… You’re a very beautiful woman. If I were thirty years younger, I–
Woman: –Would wear this dress?

–A train

Overheard by: Kirk

Dude #1: Mmm, avocados!
Dude #2: Nature’s butter.
Dude #1: I thought butter was nature’s butter…

–34th St Diner

Overheard by: Lauren

Crackhead: Excuse me, miss, but you don’t look so good. Are you okay?
Hot, drunk chick vomiting in a trashcan: I’m supposed to be asking you that!

–66th St, Lincoln Center station

Thug: Lookin’ fine, snowflake.
Blonde: Wait… Did that guy just call me a snowflake? That’s good, right?
Friend: I feel a new screen name coming on…

–Bleecker & Sullivan

Lady approaching friend and her child: Well, hello Sabrina! What are you going to ask from Santa Claus for Christmas?
Little girl: Look, lady — I’m eight, not ignorant.

–Christmas market, Union Square

Overheard by: jaded

Queer: You’ve got pretty natural eyebrows, sweetheart.
Asian girl: Thanks, but yours look sooo fake.

–L train