Lady #1: How’s Aunt Beth* doing?
Lady #2: Good. She needs a makeover.
Lady #1: A makeover?
Lady #2: Yeah, she lost all that weight.
Lady #1: Ohhh — an extreme makeover.
Lady #2: Yeah.
–V train
Lady #1: How’s Aunt Beth* doing?
Lady #2: Good. She needs a makeover.
Lady #1: A makeover?
Lady #2: Yeah, she lost all that weight.
Lady #1: Ohhh — an extreme makeover.
Lady #2: Yeah.
–V train
Young boy to mother: No! I didn’t call you fat!
–27th & 3rd
Overheard by: Andrea Leyton-Mange
Fat chick wearing tiny clothing: I got a belly with a fat pussy.
–4th & 6th
Overheard by: not what i needed to hear
Hobo: I was leaving my wife. I realized I didn’t have to run away, I could just walk. The bitch couldn’t fit through the door.
–A train
Black guy, about fat black girl: Damn, I know Anissa’s jacket be hurtin’! That zipper be like [in falsetto], ‘Heeelp! Let me down! Let me dooown!’
–Manhattan-bound 5 train
Overheard by: Lillian
Lady with sparkly blue eyeshadow: Real Women Have Curves? No, they just fat.
–Blockbuster, Broadway, between 9th & 10th
Skinny girl: Okay, just because I only eat every two days doesn’t mean I’m anorexic.
–Columbus Circle
Overheard by: rina
Man: I mean, I don’t see why people pay so much for weight loss surgery! They should just ask to be put in a coma for a few weeks. That will get rid of the weight.
–Central Park
Father, picking up four-year-old son: Can you say the word ‘diet’? Diet. Di-et. Can you say that? Daddy thinks you need one.
–Museum of Natural History
Girl: Do I look fat?
Woman: Yes.
Girl: Why you gotta be mean?
–72nd & Columbus
Tiny Asian girl: She was massive! And you know how, like, sometimes the trains don’t open both doors and they just open one? She could barely get in. And then when she finally squeezed through, she took up, like, three fucking seats.
Skinny brunette: That’s crazy. You never see fat people.
–24th & 8th
Overheard by: Frank P.
Fat woman, panting: Slow down! I can’t run in these heels.
Thin woman: You can’t run in that ass.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: invid
Dude #1: Dude, that girl is looking at you like a fat girl looks at cake.
Dude #2: She is a fat girl.
Dude #1: Fine. She is looking at you like you are cake.
–UES
Skinny girl #1, reading magazine: Why are they showing Jessica Biel’s diet? She’s not even skinny.
Skinny girl #2: Seriously! They should show Nicole Richie’s diet: don’t eat.
–73rd & Columbus
Skinny girl: We should volunteer at an eating disorder clinic.
Friend: Yeah, that would be fun. And we’d be, like, helping people.
Skinny girl: But wait — if we volunteer there, what if we get influenced and change our beliefs about food and think that not being skinny is sexy?
Friend: No, that wouldn’t happen… It would be motivation, because you would think, ‘Wow, she’s skinner than me.’
–NYU Silver Center
Ana JAP #1: Do you have fat free ice cream?
Cashier: Uh, no.
Ana JAP #1: What about, like, sorbet?
Cashier: We have sugar-free sorbet.
Ana JAP #2: Can we try it? [Cashier gets three sample spoons.]Ana JAP #3: Oh my god, I can’t do this.
Jap #1: Yeah. Sorry, we’re not going to get anything.
Ana JAP #3: Yeah. Sorry.
Ana JAP #2: That was a moment of weakness!
Ana JAP #1: My god. I know! [To the cashier] Is there an Urban Outfitters around here?
–Ben & Jerry’s, 3rd Ave
Overheard by: How can I walk with this heavy cream on my ass?
