(woman walks into packed theater looking for boyfriend)
Woman, yelling: Jim*? Jim, where are you?
Random guy in the audience #1: Here!
Random guy #2: Over here!
Random guy #3: Here!
(entire theater starts shouting “here!”)
Woman: C'mon, gimme a break.
–Imax Theater
Overheard by: Goober
Guy giving out Kellogg's Special K chocolate bars: Free cereal bars! Free cereal bars!
Hobo (to Kellogg's guy): Hey, why isn't anyone giving me any money? They all be paying attention to you!
Kellogg's guy: Because I'm giving out free candy. You're giving out lies.
–Outside Penn Station
Creepy old man to teenage girls: Oh my god! Your feet! They're so beautiful. The toes and everything!
Teenage girl #1: Did he just say my… feet?
Teenage girl #2: Yes, he definitely just said our feet. Toes and everything.
Teenage girl #1: Figures.
–14th & 6th
Middle-aged woman (begging): Excuse me, but you wouldn't happen to be carrying any hairspray in your purse, would you?
Slightly younger woman (patronizing): Um, nobody does that any more.
–Lobby Bathroom, Grand Hyatt Hotel
Gay or foreign guy #1: But it has sentimental value to you. So you can say, “I have this memory.”
Gay or foreign guy #2: But that's not why I have the picture of Mario Lopez.
–Uptown 1 Train
Overheard by: Ladle
Guy #1: The Caribbean? I would never move down there man. I mean you got all those hurricanes and shit.
Guy #2: You crazy man, you know Chi Chi Rodriguez lives down there?
Guy #1: Chi Chi lives down there?
Guy #2: Hells yeah, and you know it, with a name like Chi Chi you can’t go wrong.
Guy #1: (nods in agreement)
–Bank Line, 50th & 3rd
Overheard by: luigimen
Girl eating chocolate cake to woman in next cubicle: Oh my god, this is so good–I think even you would eat this cake.
Woman in next cubicle: I don't eat nothing coming off of Long Island.
–Random NYU Administration Office
Overheard by: Betty Noir
Trendy Latina #1: Is it an insect?
Trendy Latina #2: Yes!
Trendy Latina #1: So it's an ant-eater?
Trendy Latina #2: No!
–Long Island RR
Hipster teen boy: Wouldn't it be like, fucking crazy if straight edge was cool?
Teen girl: Yeah, I guess, but that would never happen because I mean like, ciggs just make you like, cool.
Hipster boy: Yeahhh.
–A Train
Girlfriend: Why do you always lie to me?
Boyfriend: Because it is the only way you will take me seriously!
–Plaza Street, Brooklyn
Overheard by: roux42
