Queer to hippie chick: I read what you wrote, and it totally made me want to do mushrooms with you.
–T Salon Emporium, 20th & Broadway
Girl: I wish I could bleach my brain.
–F train
Overheard by: Braincurve
Queer to hippie chick: I read what you wrote, and it totally made me want to do mushrooms with you.
–T Salon Emporium, 20th & Broadway
Girl: I wish I could bleach my brain.
–F train
Overheard by: Braincurve
College chick: …its intended use is for tobacco and that’s my story.
–Barnard College
Guy on cell : Yo, it’s fine, I’ll just get some other dude’s piss.
–104th and Amsterdam
Lady standing all alone (aside from the contributor): Michael, you might want to move out of the way of those people.
–Penn Station
Woman #1: Why shouldn’t I trust him? Because he’s gay?
Woman #2: No. Because he might be Jeffrey Dahmer.
Woman #1: He might be Jeffrey Dahmer?
Woman #2: Yeah. I just don’t trust anyone.
Woman #1: You’re friends with crackheads!
–N Train
Man shouting to woman nearby: Yo! You better hurry up. I got you a ride. I'm going straight to the bridge, and I ain't stopping for no crack!
–Amsterdam Ave & 92nd St.
Overheard by: Dana
Girl in dress to friends: And that was the first time I sucked dick for crack…
–10th St & Ave A
Man to another as he walks away: Don't spend it all in one crackhouse.
–SoHo
Woman, yelling at man twenty feet ahead: Hey! Don't walk away from me. At least you got crack yesterday!
–Broadway & 96th St
Hipster chick: Popping a blister is like smacking god in the face!
–Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Alice
Homeless man on train begging for money by telling jokes: A black man and a white man go into a bar. They get into a fight with each other. And then they die. And then they go to heaven and god says to them: "What it is… what it is!"
–1 Train
Overheard by: Kristin
Girl to friend: I’m gonna have to get ghetto on god!
–61st & Broadway
Overheard by: lizzerd
Homeless man says to homeless woman: Now, these people are trying to hoodwink god!
–Seventh Ave & Lincoln Place, Park Slope
Overheard by: Annie
Professor to students: God is not a drug dealer!
–Fordham University
Girl #1: So, basically, if I keep having sex with him I continue to get drugs for free.
Girl #2: No one ever offers me drugs for sex.
Girl #1: Well, I guess you just don’t have that street-whore quality about you.
–E train
Overheard by: melanie
Passenger to woman stumbling on crowded train and talking to herself: Shut up and take a shower you crackhead!
Drug-addled woman: I'm not a crackhead, I'm a dope-fiend!
–A Train
Overheard by: david
Girl: What are you doing later?
Guy: Well, I was gonna go home, eat something, do some schoolwork, and then smoke some weed and do some coke. Want some?
Girl: Absolutely.
Guy: Really?
Girl: Only if we can do lines off Lina’s* tits.
Guy: … Oh my god, I want to date you.
–The Met
Guy on cell: I’m in a… Oh, what’s the word I’m looking for? … Crack-infested neighborhood.
–9th & 26th, Queens
Overheard by: B. D.
Disheveled punk teen girl: No! My 72-hour drug binge is starting now!
–14th & University
Overheard by: rachel
Crazy lady: … So I hung the crack pipe on the cross which gave me the right to say no to drugs… Hallelujah!
–2 train
Overheard by: with a K
Suit on cell: Yeah, I talked to him the other day. Right? I think he turned gay. Or he had a drug abuse problem.
–LIRR
Overheard by: Nick
Lady: I’m ready to yodel! Do I smell hashish?!
–Central Park SummerStage
Fiction professor: I would find writing about investment bankers very difficult because I find them boring when I meet them. I start to like them when they start snorting coke. Then their dialogue becomes much more interesting.
–The New School
Middle-aged lady on cell: I need to start sniffing more glue.
–Upper West Side
Overheard by: Amy Jill
Goth boy: Either I just saw Gollum eating sushi off of Rose Cotton’s naked body, or I am coked up to the gills!
–E train
Overheard by: Biff Largemeats
Chick: Ya know, I gotta say, you really do need to take drugs to be interesting. ‘Cuase without ’em, you’re really boring.
–Rue B, Avenue B
Overheard by: Lisa Ramaci
Guy: I can’t do acid but I can do shrooms. Especially shroom tea.
–Houston & Essex
Overheard by: Joel
Artsy girl: It’s made me so much more creative, and that’s, like, so much more important for my art than anything else. And the buzz is great, too.
–14th & 5th
Guy: Oh I always have a Metrocard on me…they’re great for cutting up coke.
–Astor Place station
Chick: It’s not like there’s a moral high ground when it comes to methadone.
–Carroll Gardens
Overheard by: Sara Beane
Girl on cell: I know, that’s the worst! You have to try that towel-on-the-floor thing, and that never works.
–18th & 5th
Overheard by: jaykayess
