Cashier: Oh, is corduroy coming back into fashion?
Girl buying a pair of cord pants: Um, I don’t know.
Cashier: I don’t think it’s ever going to come back.
–TJMaxx, 6th Ave
Overheard by: champ
Cashier: Oh, is corduroy coming back into fashion?
Girl buying a pair of cord pants: Um, I don’t know.
Cashier: I don’t think it’s ever going to come back.
–TJMaxx, 6th Ave
Overheard by: champ
Black guy, popping white friend’s collar: Man, what’d I tell you about that?
White friend, putting it down: But I don’t want to.
Girl: Leave him alone — he ain’t ready for that yet.
–NYU Kimmel Building
Customer: Do you sell Lacoste here?
Sales associate: No, but they have a door right down on Spring Street.
Customer: How do I get there?
Sales associate: You go out our front door, make a right, and at the intersection make a left and the Lacoste store is right around the corner.
Customer: And they sell Lacoste there?
–Bloomingdales, Soho
Hardhat: Sir, what are you looking for?
Guy: There’s a store on this street that sells toupées for old ladies’ cunts.
–E 1st & 2nd
Overheard by: Cassie
Newspaper guy: Read all about it: girl passing me right now has holes in her jeans.
Girl with holy jeans: They’re made like that, asshole.
–Port Authority
Smug fashionista: My god, that’s a fashion faux pas if I ever saw one.
Confused companion: Oh, did she kill fashion again?
Smug fashionista: Not only did she kill fashion again, but she raped it after killing it! She’s like… like… the necrophiliac of haute couture or something…. Wait. What the fuck am I talking about?!
–Madison Ave
Overheard by: Minnie Sukthankar-Romanovich
Girl: Why are you wearing cowboy boots?
Guy walking other way: I just got off work.
Girl, to friend: Did that guy just call me a whore?
–East Village
Overheard by: James Triggs
Jesus-freak: … And let it be known that if you disobey the holy book and God’s laws, you are eternally damned.
Queer: So, what happens to me if I’m gay?
Jesus-freak: You’re going to Hell in a hand basket!
Queer: Well, that hand basket better be fucking Prada, bitch!
–42nd St station
Overheard by: you go, girl
Creepy man, about tourist’s rack: Are those real?
Tourist girl to friend: Whoa, I guess we should have left our nice purses at home…
–Broadway
Chick #1: You can’t, like, wear all black.
Chick #2: Well, not unless you’re a beatnik.
Chick #1: What’s that?
Chick #2: You know, the guys who wear berets and play the bongos?
Chick #1: Like the French?
Chick #2: [Nods.]Chick #1: Who knew they had bongos in France?!
–Manhattan-bound 7 train
Overheard by: Smarter than these two
