Does It Come in Flavors?

Teen guy #1: Yo, I was Christmas shopping with Julia and her other friend at Sephora, and they got the weirdest fuckin’ gift for Anne.
Teen girl: What was it?
Teen guy #1: Well, we walked into the store, and Julia asked if they sold this cream that you put on your ass that takes away, like, stretch marks and pimples on your ass and shit. It was fuckin’ nasty. They got her ass cream.
Teen guy #2: That’s fuckin’ weird, yo. It’s like, ‘Oh, Anne, I was thinking of getting you this really nice sweater for Christmas–‘ ‘–Forget the sweater! All I want is some Grade A ass cream!’

–Movie theater, Battery Park

Posted on February 20, 2015
Battery Park, Friends, Gifts

He Looks So Cute in His Jammies

Woman picking out watch for Christmas list: I'll put this one on my list. Carl'll get it for me.
Friend: What are you gonna get him?
Woman: I'm taking him to the eye doctor and getting him glasses.
Friend: So he can see how pretty you are.
Woman: Actually, it's so he can see his Nazi zombies on his Xbox.

–Bloomingdale's

Overheard by: yeppers

Posted on January 27, 2015
Beauty, Compliments, Friends, Gadgets, Gifts, Health and Hygiene, Hitler/Nazis, Store, Vampires, Ghouls, and Ghosts, oh my!, Video Games, Women

Don’t Forget Dinner at a “Celebrity Hangout”

Chick #1: My brother got me a $50 gift certificate for Anthropologie.
Chick #2: Well, I got you a manicure. That must qualify as the best given by someone who didn’t come out of the same womb as you.

–Senor Swanky’s, Bleecker Street

Posted on January 15, 2015
Beauty, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Family Ties, Friends, Gifts, Girls, Restaurants & Cafes

Lead-In to the Gay Porno “Doin' It Indian Style”

Indian guy: You better not buy me anything!
Slightly older Indian guy: Okay, I won't buy you anything. C'mon.
Indian guy: Where are we going?
Slightly older Indian: We're going to the dark alley.
Indian guy: The place I really like?
Slightly older Indian : No, the place I really like.

–138th St & Amsterdam Ave

Posted on January 14, 2015
Creepsters, Gifts, Harlem & Morningside Heights, India Indians, Lies, Wishes & desires

Oooh, and Asparagus

Angry guy: Fuck her and fuck her wedding. I piss on her nuptials. I shit on her nuptials.
Angry wife: I know. I know. But we still have to send a gift.
Angry guy: A gift? I should shit in a box! Tomorrow you get a box from Tiffany’s. Today I eat walnuts!

–Trader Joe’s, 14th St

Posted on October 16, 2014
Assholes, Celebrations/Parties, Couples, Gifts, Grocery Stores, Insults, Poop

There's a Wednesday One-Liner in My Hair! Get It Out! Get It Out!

Guy: I don't think bees even have vaginas.

–23rd & 3rd

Suit to another: I want him scrutinized. At a gnat's ass level!

–Midtown Office

Middle school thug: I been radioactivatin' spiders in my kitchen.

–C Train

Overheard by: Emily B.

Mother to five-year-old boy: No, you can't buy grandma a plastic spider for Christmas!

–74th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Harriet Vane's Husband

Guy on cell: Hey, did I tell you I got drunk last night and ordered 1,500 ladybugs off the internet?

–Brooklyn

Overheard by: Ashley

Posted on October 15, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Ass, Brooklyn, Drinking & Drunk People, Family Ties, Gifts, Guys, Insects, Internet, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Money & Class, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Office, On Cell, On the Subway, Parents, Science, Sensory Experiences, Shopping, Street, Suits, Teens, Thugs, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Vagina, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

Another Year Older and None the Wednesday One-Liner

Guy on cell: Happy birthday! (pause) Okay, call me when you're drunk!

–45th St

Girl on cell: Then when I volunteered to give her to him on his birthday.

–Court St, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Vincent L.

Crazy guy: I'm turning 65 tomorrow… Stayin' away from hoes…

–St. Mark's & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Bruce Lee

Guy to friend: I am boycotting your birthday if I can see your butt cheeks in your outfit.

–23rd & 3rd

Posted on September 29, 2014
Age/Aging, All Wednesday One-Liners, Ass, Birthdays, Brooklyn, Clothing, Crazies, Drinking & Drunk People, Friends, Gifts, Girls, Guys, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Murray Hill and Gramercy, On Cell, One-liners, Physical appearance, Street, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

Your Insults Are All Dead, Miss

Hostess #1: So the day after he dumped me, he bought me a copy of The Latin Sexual Vocabulary.
Hostess #2: And this is why classicists should never be allowed to meet one another.
Hostess #1: Yeah, now I know ten ways to say “fuck you, asshole” in Latin.

–Boat Basin Cafe, W. 79th Street

Posted on September 27, 2014
Breaking Up, Etiquette, Gifts, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Restaurants & Cafes, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Waitresses

Wednesday One-Liners: Great for Bachelor Parties!

16-year-old girl on cell: So like, for Halloween my mom told me about this strip club we could go to…

–110th & Central Park West

Overheard by: sophie Balis-Harris

Drunk stumbling Yankee meathead to fellow meatheads: Yo! Let's get some fucking strippers! I don't give a fuck about my girlfriend! (pauses and looks around) If I drop any more beer on this woman… (spills half his cup on her back) Ah, fuck.

–Yankee Stadium

Overheard by: seat 12 section 23

20-something woman on cell: What, you had sex with that stripper?!

–Union Square

Overheard by: Liz

Drunk suit: Yeah…we did it up fo' my son's 18th birfday. He be graduatin and all this year, so we sprung fo' a stripper.

–Q67 Bus

Overheard by: Kate

Teen screaming into cell: Stripper. (pause) No, stripper!

–Little Italy

Posted on September 26, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Birthdays, Celebrations/Parties, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Family Ties, Friends, Gifts, Girls, Infidelity, Insults, Little Italy, Meatheads, On Cell, On the Bus, One-liners, Questions, School and studying, Sex, Strippers, Suits, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Yankee Stadium

They Pull You in With Candy –Then, Bam, You’re a Sinner!

Little girl: Daddy, daddy, will you buy me some Easter candy?
Father: No, sweetheart. We don’t celebrate Easter–we’re Jewish.
Little girl: But mommy buys me Easter candy!
Father: It’s not my fault your mother has abandoned her principles.

–Times Square

Posted on September 12, 2014
Compare/Contrast, Dads, Default, Food, Gifts, Girls, Holidays, Judaism, Kids, Offers and requests, Questions, Times Square, Wishes & desires

Gifts