Comebacks

Thug: Hey, Ma, you are one fine piece of ass. What do you like in a man?
Chick: I’ll tell you what I don’t like: fat mothafuckas calling me ‘Ma.’

–23rd & Lex

Overheard by: Renee

Thug #1: Yeah, me too. I get so much pussy… Sometimes I’m too tired to even fuck ’em all.
Thug #2: Nigga, you gay.

–M4 bus stop, 110th St & Amsterdam

Overheard by: High LiferforLife

Club promoter: Comedy tonight at the Improv!
Middle-aged woman: The real comedy is on the streets.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Kevin Motel

Little boy: Look, Mommy, that man is dressed up as the UPS man for Halloween!
UPS man: No, this is my life.

–Rockefeller Center Concourse

Overheard by: Micaela

Pharmacist: Do you have any allergies?
Woman: No, I’m not allergic to anything. Except maybe no good men. Yeah, write that down, I’m allergic to no good men!

–Duane Reade, 100 William St

Overheard by: shemah

Hobo: I’m tired of your bullshit.
Girl: Me, too.

–E 14th St & 1st Ave

Overheard by: Angie

Mom: Why don’t you go and help your uncle fix the car?
Young girl: Excuse me… I’m not a screwdriver and I’m not a mechanic.

–Astoria

Lady: Excuse me, do you know how to get to the Holliswood Hospital?
Teen: Holliswood Mental Hospital?
Lady: Yes, the Holliswood Psychiatric Hospital.
Teen: Yeah, like I said, the mental hospital.
Lady: Psychiatric.
Teen: Mental.

–Union Turnpike & 188th

Overheard by: Zeve

Woman #1: Why don’t you get a child of your own?
Woman #2: Girl, I already gots a car.

–Century 21, Cortlandt St

Guy #1: Don’t you hate when you are sitting on a toilet and need to spit, so you try to aim your spit in between your legs into the water, but you miss and get it all over your dick?
Guy #2: No, I never miss.

–G train