Girls

Pretty girl #1, after hugging pretty girl #2: Oh, you smell good! What is that?
Pretty girl #2: It's the best fragrance ever! It's called “soap and water”!

–Borough of Manhattan Community College

Overheard by: i am sooooo using this!

Girl #1: He keeps calling. What should I do?
Girl #2: I know! Pretend you only speak French. So when you answer your phone, be like (in awful French accent) “Allo?”

–52nd St & 9th Ave

Overheard by: Lindsay

Girl #1: Tell me how you bagged him 'cause I need to bag someone for myself!
Girl #2: All I said was, “you're fly, I'm fly, we could be fly together!”
Girl #1: Dead ass?
Girl #2: Dead ass!

–Brooklyn College

Overheard by: Puzzled Psychology Major

Ditzy girl: Omigod, I just had deja vu. Except it was like for the third time, so it was deja vu of my deja vu.
Ditzy friend: That's really cool.
Ditzy girl: I know. It's like deja vu or something.

–Stuyvesant High School

Overheard by: WHAT?!

Girl to coughing guy: Dude… Go to the doctor. You sound like the heroine of La Boheme right before the end of the third act.
Guy: Whatever that means?!
Girl: Means you're about to die of tuberculosis. Everyone in opera seems to die of tuberculosis. I mean, unless it's opera buffa, in which case everyone just ends up getting married after first switching places with really inadequate disguises… (pause) Sorry, ignore me…
Guy: No, that was quite interesting, actually…

–Mannes College of Music

Woman: Nothing says "ferry terminal" like fish with moustaches.

–Battery Maritime Building

Overheard by: Jon A.

Guy in quiet, crowded elevator: Do you know if jellyfish reproduce sexually?

–Google's NYC Office, 15th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Derek

Teen girl to friend: But your shrimp ate a fish alive? Is that what happened? I don't believe you. Shrimp can't eat fish. It's like part of a food chain or something.

–Metro North Railroad

Overheard by: Jessica S.

Excited tourist girl among crowd of Chinese people: I can smell the fish!

–Grand Street Subway Station

Overheard by: Angelina

30-something female customer to H&M employee: Do I smell like I just ate fish?

–H&M

Overheard by: julia

Really drunk girl in front of gallery: I would fuck him for lobster!

–26st St & 10th Ave, Chelsea

Overheard by: Charlotte

Guy, yelling to girl unsuccessfully trying to light cigarette: Yo, smoking is bad for you!
Girl, yelling back: It's assholes like you that are bad for us!

–Hunter College

Girl #1, dressed in St. Patty's gear: Slow down!
Girl #2, similarly attired, jogging ahead: No! The faster we go, the faster I metabolize what I just drank.

–58th St & Madison Ave

Overheard by: Not drunk yet, but Irish

Girl #1: I knew it was over when he sat Indian-style on his bed.
Girl #2: It should have been over when he cried after sex.
Girl #1: Yeah, I guess you're right.

–Hell's Kitchen

Overheard by: Native American Love

Girl to drunk friend: You are drunk!
Friend: No! I am a human being!

–The Bronx

Overheard by: Emm