Woman in line at bank: I got a twin.
Friend: I think everybody do.
–HSBC, Boreum Hill, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Tony Cimino, DMA
Woman in line at bank: I got a twin.
Friend: I think everybody do.
–HSBC, Boreum Hill, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Tony Cimino, DMA
Woman on cell: I have to get home so I can put away the b‑o‐n‑g.
–19th & Broadway
Overheard by: Kyle
Man in light green suit with orange‐red gators: Read the bible tonight. Don’t smoke that Scooby Doobie Doo. Don’t get high tonight!
–125th & Lenox
Overheard by: Plausible
Young hipster: So I said, “Mom, did you smoke with me?”
–Central Park Reservoir
Angry girlfriend to boyfriend: Okay, so you don’t want me smoking pot, you don’t want me smoking cigarettes or cloves, you don’t want me chewing gum and now you don’t like lollipops? So tell me, Peter, what can I put in my mouth that’s okay with you?
–L Train
Overheard by: It’s me, bitches.
Teacher: Steve*, I need to talk to your pot dealer, because the stuff you’re smoking is really good.
–Cooper Union
Overheard by: me too
Guy talking on blue tooth: I should be there in about 45 minutes. (pause) Yeah, I’m serious! (pause) Look. I got an idea for ya. Why don’t you go roll a big fat blunt, smoke it until you can’t see anymore and then I’ll be there. Alright? Bye.
–8th Ave & 27th St
Overheard by: Erica Friedman
Girl: I mean honestly, who at NYU doesn’t smell like weed?
–Washington Square Park
Yuppie woman: Her mother was recently diagnosed with clinical narcissism. One of the indicators was the time she went to a funeral and got angry that no one noticed her new dress.
–Downtown 6 train
Woman: I have this running joke with my kids. Whenever there’s a spider or a big bug, they’re like, “Kill it! Kill it!”, and I’m like “I can’t kill it! It might be your grandmother!” You know, like reincarnation?
–Office tower ladies room, Lex & 44th St
Guy on cell: Who are you to tell me who is of legal age for me? You’re not my mother! How can you tell me who is legal enough for me and who isn’t?
–Union Square
Little Boy: Mommeeee! Ah… I mean, Daddeee!
– 67th Ave & Yellowstone Blvd, Queens
Woman on cell: Mom, a building just got knocked over by a plane and you want to talk about my gambling?
–71st St & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: mike
Girl: I have no siblings! I can’t be a fuck up because I have no siblings!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: meghan
Goth girl wannabe: I fantasize about incest, but not with anyone I’m related to.
–East Village
Teenage girl: I want to be cremated into a diamond. Or…oh! A pearl!
Boyfriend: What, you want your family to put your ashes in a clam shell and hope for the best? Good luck with that!
–F Train
Overheard by: Should Ride the F More Often
Black guy: Yo, I can’t believe I turn 30 tomorrow.
Puerto Rican friend: Yeah, son.
Black guy: Like, I’ve got a family and a career! What the fuck is that all about?! What happened to my wrestling dream?!
Puerto Rican friend: Yeah, son.
–J Train
13‐year‐old girl #1: Oh my god, you totally weren’t paying attention to my shoes!
13‐year‐old girl #2: It’s because my cousin is not in town!
–Bus, Coney Island
Overheard by: Brainy
Girl on cell: So I bought this air conditioner for my living room, and it’s entirely too large for me to install by myself, because it weighs 78 lbs. No, seriously, I cannot even get it out of the box. I know – for the time being I’m just referring to it as a Duchamp “readymade.” Ew! Don’t you call me bohemian!
–19th & 6th
Art professor: You should look at Picasso and Matisse. These people will be more important to you than your family. Cousin Philly. I had a cousin Philly, and I loved him very much. But he’s dead now.
–Pratt Institute
Overheard by: traPt
Lawyer to friend, about Vincent van Gogh: You know, I could have gotten him disability.
–Van Gogh Exhibit, MoMA
Woman, discussing gallery: It was all modern stuff – but not, like, the kind of modern art that children can do.
–20th & 5th
Tourist boy: You can see his penis! It’s not art if you can see his penis!
–Petrie Court, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chick: Oh, yeah, you were gonna call your mom.
Dude: I was?
Chick: Yeah — about your sister.
Dude: Oh, yeah. What did you want me to ask her?
–Union Square
Overheard by: The Antithesis
Crackhead to French girls: This side of the station is for crackheads only. You are in violation of code 113, this area is reserved for crackheads only. So move now.
–110th St Train Station
Film man: Gimme five minutes and I’ll give you my left nut.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: S&J
Suit on cell: You hooked up with a 300‐pound girl?
–14th & 3rd Ave
Mexican guy: You look like 50 Cent. But in Mexico, your name would be 50 Pesos.
–Caliente Cab Restaurant , 488 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Mon
Thug: My wife hit me up for fitty bucks, and then my girl hit me up for another fitty bucks, and now I’m all tapped out.
–7 Train
Overheard by: Juliet
Conductor: Come on people! You were born with two eyes. If you would just use them to see that there are three different doors to the train, you would know that you’re holding people up trying to go home! Use your eyes and head and go in another door that people aren’t trying to get out of…Use the head people…Use the head!
–1 Train
Overheard by: megan
Econ major: So is that quadrillion as in past trillion?
–Classroom, NYU
Uniformed school girl: Aunt Diane, Jennifer is waiting for you to come get her.
Aunt Diane: I’m coming here now to give her this fucking money so she can go to the party.
Uniformed school girl: Really?! Can I go to the party?!
Aunt Diane: Shiiit, go back to the apartment and party with your‐fucking‐self. Why do you have a hole in your fucking stockings?
–Outside a school
Overheard by: Carl
