Diet/Weight

Chick: Remember when I got drunk off that cake?…Kate was there, too, but she has better tolerance and I was skinnier then, too.

–Magnolia Bakery, Bleecker Street

Overheard by: alice ayers

Waitress: Is this your granddaughter?
Grandma: Yes.
Waitress: She looks just like you.
Grandma: No, she looks like my son’s mother-in-law.
Waitress: Mother-in-law?
Grandma: She’s a big woman.

–Chinese Restaurant, UWS

Man: Hey, Chris! Wow! You look great! You have lost so much weight!
Chris: Thanks. Not a diet though, I’m a crystal meth addict.

–Chelsea

Brit Businessman: I hate having to eat. Because you eat and you just feel like a fattie.
Brit Businesswoman: I haven’t eaten.
Brit Businessman: You haven’t eaten?
Brit Businesswoman: Well, I had breakfast and then lunch.

–57th and Park

Overheard by: Heather

Businessman: Maria, Maria, Maria. I eat like 5 times a day.
Maria: So how do you stay looking so good?
Businessman: I’m a vegetarian, so I have to eat all the time.

–Midtown office

Man holding pool cue: Rack ’em, fattie!

–SoHo

Hippie: What color is your aura?
FIT girl: I think my aura has black and white stripes.
Hippie: Vertical or horizontal?
FIT girl: Horizontal…no, vertical.
Hippie: Is that because vertical stripes make your aura look fat?
FIT girl: Yeah.

–26th & 8th

Overheard by: Armchair Messiah

Guy: Damn, this escalator’s small…fat bitches can’t get on this.

–Movie Theater, Times Square

Overheard by: Alayna

Guy: I massaged this girl today. She might as well have been a shar-pei.

–Restivo’s, 22nd and 7th

Overheard by: Steven Coombs

British Woman: So, what’s the purpose of the Empire State Building again?
British Man: It’s a sign of American power.

–Empire State Building

Overheard by: Katherine O’Brien

Little Italian Guy: I’ll bet this whole building weighs at least a thousand pounds.

–Empire State Building (365,000 tons)

Overheard by: Stomach Aches