Girl #1: The following night we had sex.
Girl #2: Sex?
Girl #1: Yeah, but not normal sex.
Girl #2: What do you mean?
Girl #1, lowering voice: Butt sex.
Girl #2: In the butt?! What did he do?!
Girl #1: Nothing, it’s just tighter.
Girl #2: You’d have to be super drunk to do that.
Girl #3: Yeah, every time I’ve done it, I have been.
–96th & Lex
Overheard by: jc
Loud woman: That nigga stupid!
Friend: You right.
Loud woman: Nah, he worse than stupid. That nigga retarded! Re-tar-ded!
Friend: He didn’t even get good grades in college!
–F train
Girl #1: Oh my god, my roommate is so weird. She keeps farting, but I don’t smell anything.
Girl #2: She must be anorexic.
Girl #1: True! I didn’t think of that. I’m so glad I’m friends with someone that got a scholarship!
–Starbucks, 51st & Broadway
Overheard by: Or she’s bullemic.
Woman: Whoopsie!
Male friend #1, drunk: Whoooopsie!
Male friend #2: So, this train goes to Atlantic Avenue, right?
Woman: Right.
Male friend #2, pulling out mini map: So, we’re here… and Atlantic Avenue is…
Woman, lowering voice: You’re standing too close to that girl.
Male friend #1, drunk: What? No I’m not.
Woman: Yes, you are. You’re right in her face.
Drunk man: Oh, she doesn’t care. She’s Korean.
–Q train
Overheard by: the 6′ tall white girl he was standing WAY too close to
Guy with curly black hair: I’m not Jewish!
Friend: Sure you are — you have Bob Dylan hair.
–Stuyvesant High
Overheard by: It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Stereotype
Woman #1: … And she got in a fight with him, and she took her shoe off with the spike heel.
Woman #2: Yeah.
Woman #1: And she throws it at him, and it hits him in the head and he dies!
Woman #2: Oh my god, that’s terrible!!
–Kingsborough Community College
JAP with Barneys bag: … So she borrowed five dollars and still hasn’t paid me back yet. Like, what the fuck?
Friend: Shhh… Your Jew is showing.
–1 train
Overheard by: crazian
College girl to friend: Yeah, my roommate and I had a cute, girly apartment last year… with a fridge full of beer.
Old black guy nearby: Hahahaha.
–Target
Overheard by: alie
Young queer #1: I’m getting my tonsils out the day after next.
Young queer #2: Girlfriend, you’d better suck some dicks before then!
–14th & 8th
Girl #1: Eh, let’s get out of here. [They leave right after walking in.]Girl #2: I hate books.
Girl #1: Yeah, me too.
–St. Mark’s Book Shop
