An Infestation of Wednesday One-Liners

Woman on phone: I am being nice, but I'm not going to describe to you in great detail what a bug looks like!

–Staten Island Ferry

Overheard by: R&L

Man in zoot suit: When I talk, I don't want you bitches saying nothing! I only wanna hear the cockroaches fornicating on the walls!

–F Train

Overheard by: Reagan

Hipster: It was like watching a praying mantis have a seizure.

–16th & 8th

Wasted girl on sidewalk: No, I am so upset, I am so upset, I lost the back of my phone and there is a bug, a bug!

–11th & Broadway

Old lady: She looks pretty much like a roach.

–Central Park

Overheard by: Adam Nathan

Posted on January 2, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Cell Phone, Central Park, Compare/Contrast, Girls, Hipsters, Insects, Men, Offers and requests, Old People, On Cell, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Sensory Experiences, Sex, Staten Island Ferry, The Village, Weirdness, West Village, Wishes & desires, Women

Are You Even an Authorized Spokesperson?

Woman preaching: Jesus loves you!
Obviously Jewish girl: Well, supposedly we killed him, so I don’t think so.

–Grand Central

Overheard by: G

Posted on January 2, 2015
Compare/Contrast, Default, Girls, God Squad, Grand Central, Jesus, Jews, Judaism, Love, Preachers, Women

Wednesday's One-Liners Sell Themselves

Teenage nerd: My boss and my dealer have the same name. One time I called my boss asking for weed, and he was like "hey!" and I was like "yo, lemme cop" and he was like "I think you have the wrong number" and I hung up.

–Tompkins Square Park

Overheard by: joy

Yuppie 30-something in black coat and white scarf: I'm going crazy! I've got his dealer's number programmed into my phone, but I can't remember her name, so if I call, I won't know who to ask for. And you have to know who to ask for, or they'll think you're a cop!

–16th St & 7th Ave

Loud, mildly intoxicated girl at dinner: People who litter are so much worse than drug dealers.

–Brooklyn

Lady on cell: Tourism is the only industry that doesn't depend on drug cartels.

–14th St & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Diaz

Posted on December 31, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Alphabet City, Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Crime and Punishment, Drugs, Girls, Jobs & Careers, Names, Nerds, On Cell, Parks, Questions, Stupidity, Teens, Tourism, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Weed, Weirdness, Women, Yuppies

New Yorkers Never Look at You, Anyway

Man carrying camera and subway map: Do you think we look like tourists?
Woman carrying huge fanny packs, dead serious: No, I think we look okay.

–N Train

Posted on December 31, 2014
Compare/Contrast, Men, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Questions, Stupidity, Tourism, Women

How PhDs Say “That Shit Sucked”

Girl, after watching Annie Hall: So, that was your first Woody Allen movie? What did you think?
Guy: It was very Larry David-esque.

–Movies Under the Brooklyn Bridge

Overheard by: Smart Alex/ You Know Nothing of My Work!

Posted on December 30, 2014
Brooklyn, Compare/Contrast, Film, Girls, Guys, Movies, Questions, TV

The Wednesday One-Liner Monologues

Drunk hipster: Since when did the vagina become the font of all morality?

–110th & Amsterdam

Girl running in pajamas: Oh my god my vagina is so cold!

–50th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Matt

Girl proclaiming: I saw the vagina.

–NYU

Acting student: You have a vagina and he’s all into that. I have a penis and he’s not all into that. That’s why you have to do this for me.

–Archbold Theater

Overheard by: nice

Crazy black woman: I know my pussy! You don’t know my pussy! Haha! You can’t say you know my pussy, I know my pussy! Haha, hah! If you can’t find my pussy, you can’t say you’re not too big!

–114th & Broadway

Overheard by: Xiao Hoah Dze

Nondescript guy on cell phone: So, were the vaginas ok?

–55th St & 8th

Posted on December 30, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Compare/Contrast, Crazies, Crazy, Default, Drunks, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Hipsters, Laughter, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Not New York, NYU, Offers and requests, On Cell, Penis, Questions, Students, Theater, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Vagina, Weather, Women

…For When I Go Predator-Trolling

Young Hispanic mother, on Disney princess dresses: So, sweetie, which one do you like the best?
Three-year-old girl: I like Jasmine's.
Young Hispanic mother: Oh yeah, that one's sexy.
Three-year-old girl: Seeeeeeexy.

–Prospect Park

Overheard by: Marina

Posted on December 30, 2014
Brooklyn, Clothing, Compare/Contrast, Disney, Kids, Latinos, Moms, Parks, Questions

Sorry, Pal, Majority Rules. Oh, Wait…

Old suit: Why can't we cross?
Police officer: The President's coming through.
Old suit: He's not my President. Where do you think you are?

–50th & 3rd Ave

Posted on December 29, 2014
Compare/Contrast, Cops, Default, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Old People, Politics, Questions, Suits, Weirdness

Wednesday One-liners Need an MRI

Man on cell: Hello?…Yeah, I’m at the movies…Yeah, I know…I’m in the fucking theater!…I don’t care if she needs brain surgery, I’m at the movies!

–Loews 19th Street East

Posted on December 28, 2014
Assholes, Cell Phone, Compare/Contrast, Medicine, Men, Movie Theaters, Movies, On Cell

So I Can Totally Identify

(at an academic conference on Renaissance aesthetics)
Student #1: You know it's gonna be good when all the speakers are British.
Student #2: Pretty sure they're Australian.
Student #1: Oh… Posers!

–Gallatin Building, NYU

Overheard by: harker

Posted on December 27, 2014
Compare/Contrast, Default, Global Geography, Insults, NYU, Students, Washington Square Park

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