Wednesday One-Liners: Willing, but Unripe

Loud-mouthed girl to friends: She says, "I've had sex with over 100 men." And so I says, "girl! You fourteen!"

–R Train

Thirty-something black man to Catholic high school girls: So what's it take for a couple of black guys to get to play with y'all's skirts?

–Metro-North

Overheard by: kfkdjsdf

Father to infant daughter in stroller: Hey! Close your legs!

–SoHo

Professor: Your favorite teacher from high school turned out to be a pedophile? Seriously? Well was he a real pedophile, or just a hooking-up-with-teenage-students kind of pedophile?

–Fordham University

Overheard by: Jack Package

13-year-old girl on phone: So guess what… I lost my virginity last night… looks like you owe me a soda.

–H & M

Overheard by: Imani

Posted on September 30, 2009
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But Closer to Civilization.

Tourist daughter: Is it true that New Jersey is just like Kansas City?
Tourist dad: Yes, honey. Only dirtier.

–6 Train

Posted on September 29, 2009
Cleanliness, Compare/Contrast, Dads, Families, On the Subway, Parents, Questions, Tourism, Tourists

He Also Had Enemies Outside the Family

Young boy: Papa, did you kill grandfather?
Dad: No, I did not kill your grandfather.

–63rd Drive, Rego Park

Overheard by: Beatrice

Posted on September 29, 2009
Boys, Dads, Family Ties, Kids, Murder, Parents, Queens, Questions, Weirdness

Look Right Down Your Nose at Me– Excellent!

Dad to daughter: Upper East Side? The East Side is full of snobs. Did they take you there?
Daughter: Yeah.
Dad: Great, great.

–114th St & Broadway

Posted on September 28, 2009
Columbia University, Dads, Girls, Gripes, Parents, Questions

Yo Soy Wednesday-One-Liner!

Hobo with guitar, singing: My girl! That white girl is my girl! She may look like Brooke Shields but she's my girl! My girl! Oooh-ooh… Come on, everybody, sing with me, Puerto Ricans, too!

–1 Train

Overheard by: Tater

Drunk Puerto Rican father to man on train, yelling: The capital of Puerto Rico is the Bronx, bitch!

–6 Train

Overheard by: Alice Dalice

Guy, about some girls: I tried to tell them I was Puerto Rican, but they kept saying I was from Spain and called me a douchebag.

–East Village

Overheard by: NYCGlamDiva

Diner waitress: Just because he's Puerto Rican don't mean he's a cheetah.

–Park Slope

Overheard by: monkey girl

Asian girl to Hispanic guy: Come on! She's, like, the Puerto Rico of Asia!

–Jamba Juice, Mercer & Houston

Posted on September 16, 2009
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What's So Deadly About Wednesday One-Liners?

Gluttony

Cashier lady: Damn, thank the Lord it's Friday! I'ma go to the heights and get me some margaritas and some quesadittas and get drunk and fat and happy. Damn!

–Duane Reade

Overheard by: Sam

Lust

Woman to male friend: Oh, that sucks! I'm such a whore…

–5th Ave & 12th St

Greed

Teenager on school field trip eating sushi and talking to chaperon: Daddy, can I borrow some money for the gift shop? My credit card is down to its last $200.

–Metropolitan Museum of Art Cafe

Sloth

Hipster, seeing that there was construction on the train: Ugh, what are we–going to have to walk places now?

–L Train

Wrath

Library staff: Group study room people, we know who you are. Because we have your IDs. Please come downstairs and pick them up so we don't have to unleash our wrath on you.

–Brooklyn College Library

Envy

Two woman walking tall dog: I mean… can you believe that I used to carry him in my Givenchy bag and wrap him in cashmere as a puppy? I would be jealous!

–Bleecker & Spring

Pride

Girl, grabbing her ass: Don't you just love my ass? My ass rocks. I love my ass!

–Battery Park

Posted on September 16, 2009
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Dad's Heavy Into Semi-Intelligent Design

Woman to teen girl: Where did you get those fabulous blue eyes?
Brown-eyed dad: From her mother.
Woman: But blue eyes are recessive.
Brown-eyed dad: You have no idea what a bitch her mother is.

–City Hall Park

Overheard by: Big Larry

Posted on September 12, 2009
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I'm Not Mumbling, I'm Waffling

Jewish father: Here, let me zipper your jacket.
Three-year old girl: Hmm… yeah… let's. Yeah, well…
Jewish father: Stop mumbling already. You know no one can understand you?

–Lower East Side