Girl: Why are you in a Dunkin’ Donuts t-shirt from Key West?
Guy: It was the best thing in Key West.
Girl: The Dunkin’ Donuts?
Guy: Yeah.
–Freeze Peach Cafe, Astoria
Overheard by: Greg
Girl: Why are you in a Dunkin’ Donuts t-shirt from Key West?
Guy: It was the best thing in Key West.
Girl: The Dunkin’ Donuts?
Guy: Yeah.
–Freeze Peach Cafe, Astoria
Overheard by: Greg
Girl #1: You know, if you think all songs are sung by a penis, they suddenly become funny.
Girl #2: You are high, you know that?
–91st & Amsterdam
Overheard by: SexyJewThang
Guy: I touched your eyeball, doesn’t that mean I love you?
Girl: Touch it again!
Guy: No you freak!
–N/W Broadway station
Girl #1: Shit, yo, I just talk to him, I don’t fuck him.
Girl #2: You don’t fuck him? You lyin’.
Girl #1: Well, only if I’m bored.
–M57 bus
Overheard by: pete
Chick #1: Do you think I should have another Texas-sized margarita?
Chick #2: I think your eyes are bigger than your liver.
–Dallas BBQ, 166th & Broadway
Overheard by: djlindee
Girl #1: Oh my God, I watched American Treasure last night.
Girl #2: What, no good?
Girl #1: Oh my God it was horrible.
Girl #2: The trailer made it look kind of cool.
Girl #1: That’s what I thought too. But then you actually watch it and there’s nothing about American currency.
–Bar 288, Elizabeth Street
Overheard by: Margaret
Girl: Oh my god, I read today that a woman who won a million dollars in the lottery last year won another million again.
Guy: Yeah, I heard that. That’s amazing. She seems really nice and humble about the winnings.
Girl: Yeah, fuck her.
–23rd & 10th gas station
Girl #1: She’s, like, a total socialist. She’s all like, “Capitalism is bad. America is bad.” And she’s always plotting about how we can get their money. You can’t take other people’s money. What’s wrong with you?
Girl #2: Yeah.
Girl #1: But as extremists go, she’s pretty cool.
Girl #2: Totally.
–L train
Overheard by: Samuel Bennett
Chick: I think the difference between a blog and a website is that a blog is something you can set up without doing any of that website shit.
—Black Table party, Slainte, The Bowery
Girl: How come music downloads here cost $1 and they cost $0.10 in Europe?
Guy: Because anything that makes sense can’t happen in America any more.
Girl: Fair enough.
–86th & 1st