Now Try to Explain Cell Phones vs. Cordless

Cell phone chick: So if you upgrade to this new plan for $10 more a month, we’ll give you a totally free phone. $0, free of charge. All you have to do is mail in a $50 rebate form.
Woman: Wait, I thought it was free.
Cell phone chick: It is, you just pay me $50, and then send in the rebate form and they’ll mail you a $50 check.
Woman: Wait, but it’s not free? My husband will kill me if I spend
money on a new phone. What’s 50 minus 50?…I went to Syracuse University, I’m a college educated person, and I’m still confused. Is it free?

–Verizon, 34th between Broadway & 7th

Overheard by: Jordan the Intern

Posted on July 3, 2015
Business and Commerce, Cell Phone, Clerks, Family Ties, Girls, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Questions, Shopping, Store, Stupidity, Women

Heather Gave Sir Paul Exactly What He Wanted

Hobo to one-legged girl walking by: Damn you're sexy, even without that leg!
Bag lady: He wants you to fuck him with your nub.

–Thompkins Square Park

Posted on July 3, 2015
Alphabet City, Backdoor, Bag ladies, Body Parts, Girls, Hobos, Homeless, Horny, Parks, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

It’s a White Thing; You Wouldn’t Understand

Girl #1: I bought him white eyelashes and white lipstick but I don’t know how much he’s willing to let me put on him.
Girl #2: Does he do drag?
Girl #1: Well, he used to; when he lived in San Francisco, back when he danced. But he did it more for the kink than anything else.

–Rockefeller Center

Posted on July 3, 2015
Girls, Guys, Kink, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Street

At Least She Said “Please”?

Girl: Can I get a pack of Camels, please?
Cashier guy: Sure…Need a lighter?
Girl: No, thanks.
Cashier guy: Matches?
Girl: I’m all set.
Cashier guy: Receipt?
Girl: No.
Cashier guy: A bag?
Girl: Can I get the fuck out of your store, please?

–Duane Reade, 53rd & 8th

Posted on July 3, 2015
Assholes, Duane Reade, Girls, Offers and requests, Questions, Shopping, Smoking, Talking/Convos, Vendors & Street Performers

But I Can Quit Smoking

Older woman: Smoking is a sin!
Young pretty girl, looking perturbed: Yeah? (takes a long drag) So is being ugly.

–54th & 3rd

Overheard by: LeatherJacket

Posted on July 2, 2015
Beauty, Compare/Contrast, Girls, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Old People, Religion, Smoking, Women

Before We Rejoin the Pod

Girl #1: How's this look? Does it make me look fat? Like super obese fat?
Girl #2: You are fat. So, uhhh…yeah, sorta.
Girl #1: Let's get some cupcakes.

–92nd & 3rd

Posted on July 2, 2015
Clothing, Diet/Weight, Girls, Junk Food & Fast Food, Physical appearance, Questions, Upper East Side

Not as Fast as Bolivian Marching Powder

TA guy: There are different types of pains, some of which go all the way to the brain and others that only go to the spinal cord.
Ashley Olsen: So do, like, emotional pains go to the brain?

–NYU Psychology building, Washington Place

Overheard by: bvo

Posted on July 2, 2015
B-List, Education, Girls, Idiots, Medicine, NYU, Psychology, Talking/Convos, Tattoos, Teachers/Professors

And, Non-Coincidentally, the Last Time We Were Hired to Babysit

Girl #1: Where should we go, posh?
Girl #2: Posh? When did we go to posh again?
Girl #1: That was the night we left those Irish kids on the park bench.

–LIRR

Overheard by: Daniel

Posted on July 2, 2015
Girls, Kids, Questions, Trains Not Subway, Weirdness

…My Parents, Teachers, Mailmen, That Guy at the Bodega…

Middle-school boy: Yeah, you’re a pathological liar.
Middle-school girl: What do you mean? When have I lied to you? I never lie. I only lie to my therapist.

–1 train

Overheard by: cate

Posted on July 1, 2015
Boys, Elementary & Middle School, Girls, Kids, Liars, Lies, On the Subway, Psychology, Time, Tweens

New Yorkers Have No Time for Set Theory

Tourist lady: So, this is New York…
Chick: No. This is Manhattan.

–R train

Overheard by: miraclemidgit

Posted on July 1, 2015
Ahhh! Real New Yorkers, Comebacks, Girls, NYC Geography, Tourists, Women

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