Ghetto girl #1: What, the actor?
Ghetto girl #2: Fuck the movie, I’m talking about the book. I love Harry Potter and if there’s someone like him, I wanna date him.
–Jamaica, Queens
Overheard by: Shane
Ghetto girl #1: What, the actor?
Ghetto girl #2: Fuck the movie, I’m talking about the book. I love Harry Potter and if there’s someone like him, I wanna date him.
–Jamaica, Queens
Overheard by: Shane
Little girl to mother: I like the way you taste.
–SoHo
Overheard by: nicky d
Dude on cell: Mice are cannibalizing other mice? Oh, god, that’s awful!
–7 train, Queens
Overheard by: Anthony
Goth chick to another: I don’t care, I am not eating Matthew’s mother’s flesh!
–Hunter College
Overheard by: Me neither
Ghetto dude: Heh, heh… Heh… Fried nigga-fingers!
–13th St & 5th Ave
Overheard by: Rebecca Odorisio
Ghetto girl to two others: He said he was gonna marinate me for a while… Yes, he did!
–Manhattan-bound E train
Overheard by: Julz
Chick on cell: We’ll never run for office on the conservative Christian ticket now that we’ve discussed eating fetuses with teriyaki sauce.
–Harlem
Biotech: Me and all my sisters went to that bitch’s house.
Friend: Did you all fight?
Biotech: My sister was like, ‘You’re not fighting, you’re having a baby!’ I told her, ‘What the fuck? I’m killing it tomorrow.’
–7th St & 8th Ave
Crazy guy: Next person to stand in the way of the closing doors… Now it’s on!
Thugette #1: That’s right, mister! Next one that…
Thugette #2: You don’t even remember what he just said?
–6 train, 77th St
Overheard by: Drewster
Woman: You on the buses?
Girl: Yes.
Woman: You can’t trust nobody on buses. ‘Specially when you sleepin’. You know how to hide yo’ money, girl?
Girl: In my pocket?
Woman: No. In yo’ pussy an’ yo’ ass. Ain’t nobody touchin’ yo’ pussy without you noticin’!
–Port Authority
Girl on cell: I don't know what it is with me and virgins. I think I've collected like four virgin scalps.
–Q58 Bus
Overheard by: Tom
Cashier, screaming to friend cashier: But why do you have to tell everyone that he's the guy who popped my cherry?
–72nd & 1st
Overheard by: tomas
Ghetto girl: If you got finger-popped, you ain't no virgin.
–Downtown 6 Train
Overheard by: Jake M
Teen boy on cell: Of course I don't have any kids! Girl, you know I'm pure–like water in Africa.
–Manhattan Ave & 123rd St.
Overheard by: CreativeBunny
Hispanic girl, loudly to a group of friends : I mean, I'm still a virgin and I have three STDs!
–Ave C
Ghetto girl #1: Girl, was he there when you got shot in the ass?
Ghetto girl #2: No!
Ghetto girl #1: Well, was he there when you got shot in the leg?
Ghetto girl #2: No.
–28th & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: Wasn’t there either
Asian guy: I’m not Japanese; I’m Chinese.
Black girl: Yeah, but who has more Chinky eyes?
Asian guy: What?
Black girl: Whose eyes are Chinkier?
–A train
Overheard by: John W. Eddy
Thugette #1: I can’t believe she said that shit! That shit will get you killed!
Thugette #2: I know, that’s why I’m laughing!
–Union Square
Ghetto goth girl putting black eyeliner on lips: Do you know what he said?
Friend in stall: What?
Ghetto goth girl: He said I was aggressive. I can’t help if I’m aggressive ’cause I’m half-vampire, half-werewolf.
–Pyramid club, Ave A, between 6th & 7th St
Overheard by: not a goth
