It's Wednesday One-Linas, Boo

Thug to girlfriend: Listen, baby, I'm not really lying, fully!

–Ave B & 10th St

Thug: Yo, I wanna go to yoga, son!

–St. Marks Place

Thug: Sometimes I look around and wonder if in my next life I might be a bird.

–1st & 3rd

Overheard by: Angela

Short thug on cell: I'm gonna get you some slippers, mami, so you can show off your feet. Show off your feet. (pause) Show off your feet!

–7th Ave, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Ladle

Thug to thug friend: Yo, man, you gotta wake up and smell them Arabica beans!

–CVS

Overheard by: freshly brewed.

Thug, yelling to female companion: When you gon' let me show you some dick? When you gon' let me show you some dick? Just let me show you to see if you like it! If not, you can go back to those bitches! At least we'll have something in common!

–7th Ave & 21st St, Brooklyn

Thug, excitedly discussing favorite cold stone flavor: Yo, no homo man! Peanut sensation!

–Downtown D Train

Overheard by: Raven

Posted on April 10, 2015
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If He Stabbed Her That Would Be the Perfect Punchline

Black girl: Did you put butter on that bagel?…That’s too damn fast to be any good. Hey, hey, don’t use that knife, it has egg on it and I do not eat eggs!
Deli guy: This is not eggs. This is cheese.
Black girl: And so what is your point?

–LA cafe, 23rd & 5th

Posted on April 10, 2015
Assholes, Customers, Food, Murray Hill and Gramercy

Like a Big Blue Monster Sitting in Your Heart

Guy #1: Cookies!
Girl: I don’t know if I want to bring in the cookies tomorrow; they’re so heavy.
Guy #2: You know what’s heavier? The guilt you’ll feel for disappointing us.

–The Strand

Posted on April 8, 2015
Food, Junk Food & Fast Food, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen

The Drawbacks of Freedom

Girl: Is the turkey club lunchmeat or carved turkey?
Waiter: Lunchmeat.
Girl: Great. I’ll take it.
Waiter: You can eat it whenever…in the morning, lunch…
Girl: Never mind, just gimme a minute.

–Morning Star, 9th Avenue

Overheard by: LJ

Posted on April 6, 2015
Food, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Restaurants & Cafes, Stupidity

His Colon is the Real Winner

Girl: Do you have any exciting plans for tonight?
Guy: No. Do you want to have a hot dog eating contest?
Girl: Not so much, since I’m a vegetarian.
Guy: I guess I win, then.

–Fordham University, Rose Hill

Overheard by: Andrea

Posted on April 5, 2015
College, Food, Fordham, Junk Food & Fast Food, Stupidity, The Bronx, Vegetarian & Vegan

Sausage or Smoked Salmon?

Girl #1: I don’t know if my sister is a lesbian or not.
Girl #2: I thought she was.
Girl #1: Yeah, but the other day some guy was like, oh yeah, your sister dated Nick for a long time, and now all I know is that she’s dating someone who makes omelettes. Omelettes are manly, right?

–Stuyvesant High School

Overheard by: djingo

Posted on April 4, 2015
Dating, Family Ties, Food, Friends, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Idiots, Questions, School, Stupidity, Talking/Convos

I Still Can't Remember Where I Left the Baby

Teenybopper #1: I really want some gum.
Teenybopper #2: Oh, here I have some. I bought this last night because I had some beers before babysitting, and I didn't wanna show up smelling like booze.

–Downtown 2 Train

Posted on April 3, 2015
Drinking & Drunk People, Food, Jobs & Careers, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Sensory Experiences, Teens, Wishes & desires

More Like Extra–Whipped–Cream

Woman: We’ll have the perfectly peanut butter sundae.
Store girl: Okay, sure.
Man: Come on, you know I fucking hate the taste of peanut butter!
Woman: Are you kidding me? I ate your jizz just a couple of hours ago, I think you eating the ice cream I want would be a decent fucking compromise!
Store girl: …Um…Yeah, so…I’m taking that as extra peanut butter.

–Dylan’s Candy Bar, 3rd Avenue

Posted on April 2, 2015
Anger Management, BJs, Food, People, Poop, Restaurants & Cafes, Sex, Sex & Relationships, Upper East Side

Wednesday One-Liners Would Like Fries With That

Very large man, pointing at a McDonald’s: Where were you last night at 3 a.m. when I was craving you?

–49th & 9th

Man wearing an “I Heart My Heart” shirt, to guy eating fast food: You’re just aching for that heart attack, aren’t you?

–46th & Broadway

Angry burger flipper: Making Big Macs is complex. It’s 2 all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun…And then it gets even more confusing, ’cause people all have their special requests, like no special sauce. And that just throws shit off. The Whopper is so easy. It don’t have shit on us.

–M11 bus

Asian girl, screaming into cell: I said, “Quiero Taco Bell!”

–33rd & Broadway

Overheard by: Kelsey

Foreign tourist to cabbie: How much to go to K…F…C?

–Broadway between 38th & 39th

Overheard by: Gregorio

Posted on March 31, 2015
Anger Management, Asians, Fat People, Food, Foreigners, Health and Hygiene, Junk Food & Fast Food, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, NYC Geography, On the Bus, One-liners, People, Places, Tourists

Today’s Special: In-bread

Guy: Ma’am, does the split pea with ham soup have wheat in it? I can’t have wheat. Do you know if it has wheat in it?
Soup Lady: Meat? Itâ€™s got ham, man! Says so on the sign!
Guy: No, wheat! Wheat?
Soup Lady: Oooh! Lemme check…HEY SAM, DOES THE SPLIT PEA HAVE WHEAT IN IT?
Sam: Meat?
Soup Lady: No, wheat!
Sam: Nah. It don’t have no wheat!
Guy: Okay, good. I’ll have a large cup of the split pea soup.
Soup Lady: Would you like a wheat roll with that?

–Juilliard cafeteria

Overheard by: H J W

Posted on March 30, 2015
College, Food, Idiots, Students

Food