Tween daughter: I have to study this Shakespeare sonnet for school. It’s really hard.
Dad: Put that away. You won’t be able understand it anyway.
Tween son: Just because you can’t understand it–
Dad: –Of course I can’t! It was written in old English like a thousand years ago.
–Grimaldi’s waiting line, DUMBO
Overheard by: big willy style
Little boy: How much farther is it?
Father: Well, we’re on 116th now…
Little boy: Oh, no! I don’t wanna do math now!
Father: And we’re going to 112th… What do you think?
Little boy, sighing heavily: Okay… 116 minus 112… That’s three streets!
Father: No…
Little boy, halting and releasing father’s hand: What do you mean, ‘No’?! Hey! Come back here!
–116th & Broadway
Little boy: Daddy, I think you and Mommy should have a baby. I want a little brother.
Dad: No, your mother and I aren’t having anymore kids.
Little boy: But how will you and Mommy have any fun?
Dad: We’ll have fun with you!
–Port Authority
Dad: A geek is someone ugly but very smart.
Six-year-old son: Ugly, but very smart…
Dad: Actually, a geek is really someone in the circus that bites the heads off of chickens.
–75th & Roosevelt, Jackson Heights
Overheard by: geek lover
Son: Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea…
Daughter: And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.
Son: Little Mikey Draper…
Daughter: You mean ‘little, ummm, Harry Safer’?
Son: Little Harry Safer…
Father: You mean Johnny Walker!
–57th & Broadway
Father: Is he asleep over there?
Mother: Yeah, he’s dozing. [Looks at other son.] Are you asleep, too?
Son #2: I’m bored.
Mother: He’s always bored. I must’ve been bored when I made him. [Stands up and leans on father’s knee and starts humping.] I’m bored, I’m bored[yawns], I’m bored.
Father: That guy is looking at you.
Mother: So? He doesn’t look boring like you.
–Queens-bound F train
Overheard by: That guy on the F Train
Headline by: Jason
Runners-Up:
· “Charles and Diana Ride the Subway?” – Shawn
· “Most Priests Aren’t That Exciting” – Brock
· “They Don’t Call It the F Train for Nothing” – Sean McGurr
· “This Is the Express Train: From Boring to Whoring” – Sim Etrias
· “Try the Middle Leg….it’s Less Boring” – nicky c.
Teen boy: Your wife’s a bitch, you know that?
Man: My wife is your mother!
Teen boy: Well, I’m just saying.
–Broadway
Rushing dad dragging kid along: Well, most super guys are good guys.
Four-year-old son: No, some super guys are bad.
Rushing dad: What would make a super guy a bad super guy?
Four-year-old son: Well, he might suck. Like, if he couldn’t walk fast…
–Penn Station
Overheard by: klutch
Dad: You don’t have to talk all the time!
Small boy: … But I don’t.
Dad: Oh, really?!
Small boy: Yeah. I don’t talk in my sleep.
Dad: How the hell do you know that?
Small boy: When I’m sleeping I can actually hear myself not talking…
–27th & 7th
Overheard by: Kleid
Little girl: I like hitting my head against my daddy’s bottom!
Dad, shocked but chuckling: Oh… Well… Honey… Those conversations are left for at home…
Lady: Yeah, I really didn’t need to hear that.
–Water St
