Girl #1: You can’t eat that chicken. There was a bug in it.
Girl #2: But I’m so hungry.
Girl #1: What kind of bug is it anyways?
Girl #2: I don’t know. I feel like crying.
–Waverly Diner
Girl #1: You can’t eat that chicken. There was a bug in it.
Girl #2: But I’m so hungry.
Girl #1: What kind of bug is it anyways?
Girl #2: I don’t know. I feel like crying.
–Waverly Diner
Black cyclist guy: Where’s all the black people around here? Did y’all eat all the black people?
White girl: They taste yummy!
–Houston & West Broadway
Overheard by: alyssa
Guy on cell: When you get here I will make you breakfast sausage. And I am not talking euphemistically.
–63rd & 1st
Overheard by: Alison Foster
Old lady #1: What are you eating? It smells good.
Old lady #2: Nicorette.
–DR2 theater, E. 15th Street
Guy #1: I realized what the worst food ever is.
Guy #2: What?
Guy #1: Lean Pockets.
–Gold’s Gym, W. 54th Street
Overheard by: Blake Henderson
Woman: So, yesterday I think I ate dog food again.
–Elevator, 90th & Colombus
Overheard by: Louise XIV
Guy: I think your soul would taste awesome.
Chick: Are you saying I’m a bad person?
–1 train
Overheard by: djlindee
Old woman: Can you put five shrimp in a bag for me to hold for a minute and then I’ll give you two back?
Seafood guy: Excuse me?
Old woman: Just put five shrimp in a bag for me, I need to hold it. I get energies from them. Just put five shrimp in a bag and give it to me to hold, and then I’ll give you two back. I get energies.
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Girl #1: Do you want a sandwich?
Girl #2: Making a sandwich on the subway is so ghetto!
Girl #1: Shit girl, we are ghetto.
–A train
Girl: I wonder what kind of cheese they put in these.
Guy: Me too. It’s good.
Girl: What do you think it is?
Guy: Maybe Mozzarella, I’m not sure.
Girl: It doesn’t taste like Mozzarella. I doubt it.
Guy: You’re right. I don’t know. Probably one of them Italian cheeses.
Girl: I wonder. I like it.
–Diner, Astoria
Overheard by: Jenna Vee
