Girl, as train stops: What did you just say?
Guy : …oh. Did I say that out loud?
–B Train
Overheard by: mayafied
Girl, as train stops: What did you just say?
Guy : …oh. Did I say that out loud?
–B Train
Overheard by: mayafied
Arabic professor: “Qadam” means foot. How do you say more than one foot?
Male student: Feet.
(class laughs)
Arabic professor: In Arabic.
–Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Krisztina
Ditz #1: Ugh, Union Square could not be further away right now.
Ditz #2: I know.
–12th St & University
Overheard by: Jesse D
British chick: Do you think that you have an accent?
American guy: I've moved around a lot, so I've got a pretty basic American dialect. I've got a bit of a southern drawl, but that's more because I'm lazy.
–R Train
Student #1: What does “NB” stand for, at the end?
Student #2: Tuberculosis.
Student #1: That's “TB”, idiot.
–Newman Vertical Campus, Baruch College
Overheard by: I thought that stood for TELLYtuBBies!
7-year old looking at toy ad: I want this and this…
Dad: Do you have money to buy them? Because I am not going to, and nothing in life is free.
7-year old: What about those papers you take every morning from that man? You don't pay him.
(dad goes quiet)
–5 Train
Overheard by: Guy
Loud Latina #1: He was just, like, just so gross. He was all like, “Nobody loves me and my life is so lame.”
Loud Latina #2: Really? I didn't get that from him. I got, you know, “Hey, I'm a typical white guy.”
–Columbia University
Overheard by: anna
WASP to stodgy husband, after Blue Man Group performance: So how'd you like it?
Stodgy husband (grunting): Fine, except for the excessive noise.
–Astor Theatre, SoHo
Overheard by: ysabet
Old woman #1: Oh, the Brown lady…
(old woman #2 stares, horrified)
Old woman #1: Her husband is Brown. (long pause) The surname.
Old woman #2: Ohhhh…
–10th & 3rd
Woman screaming into cell: I hate fucking with you!
Man loitering near by scaffolding: Yo ma! Cut him loose. There's a million men in New York City.
–125th St & Lexington
Overheard by: Tizz
