Young woman: Do know anywhere where I can get nuts?
Hot dog vendor: No!
Young woman: Cashews!
–Madison Square Garden
Young woman: Do know anywhere where I can get nuts?
Hot dog vendor: No!
Young woman: Cashews!
–Madison Square Garden
Hobo: Got any change?
Man: No. [Hobo walks away.] You want some of this bread?
Hobo: Naw! I don’t eat that shit!
–3rd & Bleecker
Overheard by: julian
Passionate man: You have to be able to voice your own opinion! Stand up for yourself! You’re the CFO of a four billion dollar company — you have to be able to make these kinds of decisions!
Lady with him, totally baffled: I was just so overwhelmed — I’ve never seen so many different kinds of rice pudding…!
–Outside Rice to Riches, Spring St
Overheard by: leah
Exhausted executive: Woman, I am telling you — it is Friday, and what I’m saying to you is, all I need is some alcohol and some stuffed mushrooms. Do you hear me?
–Grand Central
Old lady, screaming: It’s not the quiche, Harry, it’s the whole seven years!
–Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Rowanhood
Creepster: I’d like to spread Jessica Fletcher and Rose Nylund on a cracker and down ’em with a shot of Ensure!
–81st & Madison
Man: I don’t trust upstate food anymore.
–Cab line, JFK
Overheard by: Sean McGurr
Budding entrepreneur: You mean, I can copyright the sandwiches I make? Put them in an envelope and mail them to myself?
–Stanton & Attorney
Freshman girl #1: Yeah, I’m totally getting into this whole finals mentality thing, you know?
Freshman girl #2: Yeah, and then all the holidays with good food are coming up…
Freshman girl #3: Oh, yeah, like Christmas with cookies and Hanukkah with gelt…
Freshman girl #2: Wait, what did you just say?
Freshman girl #3: Gelt?
Freshman girl #2: What about Kwanzaa?
Freshman girl #3: Um… I mean, I don’t really know what they eat…
Freshman girl #2: Nuts and berries, right?
–Barnard College
Drunk boyfriend at party: Babe, get me some chicken on a stick.
Annoyed girlfriend: Get it yourself.
Drunk boyfriend: But I might make a mess and embarrass you…
Annoyed girlfriend: I don’t care anymore.
Girl passerby, handing him chicken on a stick: Here, have some chicken!
Annoyed girlfriend: Maybe you should date her.
Male passerby: Yeah, she seems like a keeper.
–Gibson Studios, W 54th, between 9th & 10th
Man on cell: I’m on my way to Outback Steakhouse! No one knows I go there.
–E 13th & 5th
Mom to teen daughter: This is a very interesting place. It kind of has a European feel.
–Au Bon Pain, 8th St
Pixie-hipster girl: Yeah, y’know, I haven’t done much since I moved here. I’ve mostly been walking around the village eating at vegan restaurants.
–Rocks Off Concert Cruise
Loud chick on cell: You know I don’t believe in going to chains in New York…
–Cosi, 77th & Broadway
Overheard by: me neither
Chubs: Restaurant week is like Hanukkah for us fatties!
–Little West 12th & 9th
Overheard by: j9
Customer: Hi, I’d like a ham and cheese sandwich, please.
Deli worker: We’re out of roast beef.
Customer: A ham and cheese sandwich, please.
Deli worker: I told you, there’s no roast beef.
Customer, slower: A sandwich with ham and cheese?
Deli worker: But there’s no roast beef.
–Broadway & Exchange
Teen girl #1: What do you want to do now?
Teen girl #2: Get something to eat.
Teen girl #1: Ew!
–59th & Columbus
Woman, about guy in giant pirate hat: Maybe he works in a seafood restaurant… It’s that or his mom didn’t love him enough.
–Ditmars stop, N train
Overheard by: fan of the hat
Woman to friend: I don’t deserve to have ACS called on me! I’m a good mom! Sort of.
–Astoria Park Track, Astoria
Overheard by: Bridgettttttt
Loud man on cell: Can you hear me? Your mother! Can you hear me now? No? Your mother!
–83rd & Amsterdam
Overheard by: Loud and Clear
Large black lady running down crowded street: My mama didn’t raise me right!
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: anna
