Hipster #1 (sighing): I'm sorry, I'm just super cracked out right now.
Hipster #2 (pleased): That's good!
–Union Square
Hipster #1 (sighing): I'm sorry, I'm just super cracked out right now.
Hipster #2 (pleased): That's good!
–Union Square
Queer: So, I had a great time with Dave last night.
Fruit fly: What’d you guys do?
Queer: He took me to this really great bar, [giggles], and he bought me a drink.
Fruit fly: So, does that mean you’re the girl?
Queer: What?
Fruit fly: So, does that mean you’re the girl?
Queer, offended: Well, not in the bedroom!
–9th & 1st
Well-dressed bridge & tunnel young girl: I'll have a cosmopolitan.
Bartender: We don't serve cosmos here.
Well-dressed bridge & tunnel young girl: Fine, I'll have a gin and tonic.
Bartender: We've got two types of beer. Light and dark.
(woman pauses in thought)
Bartender: Here, honey. Try the light. It's kind of like a cosmo.
–McSorley's, Bowery & 7th
Girl: Can we call a truce? Can we just say we won't bring this up again?
Guy: Well, you're the one who brought it up before.
Girl: That is bringing it up again!
–Chelsea Flea Market
Overheard by: Mike
Clearly-an-out-of-towner #1: Dude! I just saw Jessica Alba go into Red Lobster!
Clearly-an-out-of-towner #2: Whoa! Dude! New York is different than Wyoming!
–E Train
Overheard by: Lee
50-something woman: Do you have baked goods?
Girl with empty wicker basket: Excuse me?
50-something woman: Baked goods. Where are you going with them?
Girl with empty wicker basket (slowly looking into basket and then back at woman): To grandmother's house.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Little Red Riding Ho
Black lady #1: Dr. Marbles? Like marbles? Like marbles you pick up and play with?
Black lady #2: Girl, you need to change your tonation…
–Columbia
Overheard by: Tonation hopefully in check
Guy: I hate coming-of-age stories.
Girl: Why?
Guy: They’re boring.
Girl: Yeah, but this one has boobs in it.
–F Train
Overheard by: kim
Girl #1: I’m sick of college. Too much work.
Girl #2: Let’s just go to Funkytown.
–LaGuardia Airport
Atlantic Avenue announcement: The 2, 3, 4, 5, b and q trains are not running into Manhattan. As an alternative, take the n, d, or r trains.
Pacific Street announcement: The n, d and r trains are not running into Manhattan. As an alternative, take the 2, 3, 4, 5, b or q trains.
–Atlantic/Pacific Subway Station
Overheard by: Jen Diff
