Girl #1: Ooh, if he was black he would have kicked your ass…
Girl #2: Yeah, if he was a nigga you’d be bleeding all over me.
–1 train
Overheard by: Dustin Ragland
Girl #1: Ooh, if he was black he would have kicked your ass…
Girl #2: Yeah, if he was a nigga you’d be bleeding all over me.
–1 train
Overheard by: Dustin Ragland
Guy #1: I found my old Nintendo yesterday
Guy #2: Yo, remember Game Genie and shit?
Hobo: I had a genie once.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Creighton
Girl #1: Is there a movie version of Catcher in the Rye?
Girl #2: No, but a lot of films based on the concept.
Girl #3: I have always been so attracted to that character.
–M27 bus
Girl #1: So how was France?
Girl #2: Pretty good, although we didn’t go out much. We only went to a restaurant like once.
Girl #1: That’s good.
Girl #2: Yeah, we hardly gave them any opportunities to be rude to us.
–Hunter North Building elevator, East 69th Street
Overheard by: Babs Monroe
Girl #1: So, he kept on calling me and calling me and calling me.
Girl #2: Well…what did you do? Did you answer your phone?
Girl #1: Yeah…I answered the phone and said to him, “Thanks for stalking by.” He hung up after that and I haven’t heard from him again.
–Cafeteria, 7th Avenue
Guy: I don’t want to be drunk in front of her.
Girl: What? Why not?
Guy: I don’t want her to see me like that.
Girl: But face down on the floor is really the only way to see you.
–84th & 2nd
Overheard by: mortimer stackendanch
Guy: You know what I hate about the word onomatopeia? It’s that it’s not an onomatopeia.
Girl: Shut up. Just shut up.
–A train
Overheard by: Okoska
Guy: So you still going to be an elf for Halloween?
Girl: No, actually I’m going to be a fairy, but fairies are part of the elf family.
–6th & B
Girl: I hear more Polish than English in my neighborhood.
Guy: You should write about that.
–The Magician, Rivington Street
Overheard by: Aileen Gallagher
