Manager guy: You looking for the perfect bag now?
Director lady: There’s nothing festive. I don’t want to be seen walking with a Duane Reade bag. It screams beggar.
–Office, 39th between 8th & 9th
Overheard by: Frank I
Manager guy: You looking for the perfect bag now?
Director lady: There’s nothing festive. I don’t want to be seen walking with a Duane Reade bag. It screams beggar.
–Office, 39th between 8th & 9th
Overheard by: Frank I
Girl: I can’t get food for you guys tomorrow. I have school. I am not
leaving school just to come here and get food for all of us.
Guy: You know education isn’t going to feed you.
Girl: That’s funny, because my boyfriend said to me last night that
education wasn’t going to get me married.
–Office, Old Slip & South
Overheard by: Ioulia Fedorova
Accounting lady: What did you do to your hair?
Mailroom guy: It’s called the wet look.
Accounting lady: Oh yeah? What’s that?
Mailroom guy: I sprinkle some water on my head.
–Office, 58th & Broadway
Girl #1: I’m getting my hair cut when I go home next week. I don’t trust New York hairdressers. Last time, they charged me too much and gave me a crappy cut where one side was longer than the other.
Girl #2: It was probably some sort of hipster thing, that’s why it cost so much.
Girl #1: What, like I’m paying a licensing fee to rebroadcast her creativity on my head?…I guess so.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Julia Kite
