Female 20-something: People used to get dressed up to go to the theater. Now people are here in jeans and UGGs.
Flouncy 20-something wearing cowboy boots: I used to wear UGGs, but I wasn't getting checked out by the kind of guys I want to get checked out by.
–Imperial Theater Line
Overheard by: Emily
Boy: I've never drinken anything like this before.
Girl: You mean “drank”.
Boy: I've never drunk anything like this.
Girl: No, I think it's “drank”.
Boy: When would I use “drunk”?
Girl: When you're drunk.
–Time-Warner Bulding, Columbus Circle
Overheard by: Barbara
Girl with scarf: So that's when I just, you know, decided that I'd have to just give up.
Blonde girl: Well, you're only human.
Girl with scarf: I know, I know.
Blonde girl: We're all only human.
(pause)
Blonde girl: Except for Terry. He's a robot.
Girl with scarf: Ohmigod! I am so glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks that!
–N Train
Lady to foreign friend: These 13 circles have the names of the original colonies from when Columbus landed in America.
–Conservatory Garden, 105th & 5th
Teenage girl to friend: But Trotsky was totally doing Lenin, you can't deny it.
–1 Train
Friend in elevator showing old photos from Rome: There's the Colosseum. You know. Where the lions and the Catholics had their thing.
–7th & 31st
Overheard by: Greg
Teenage boy to another: Y'know what I'd like to see? Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson in a cage fight.
–6th Ave & 54th St
Overheard by: Dale
Gay guy, angrily looking at woman eating sausages: And that is why I hate lesbians!
–Gay Pride Parade
Man on cell: I went to San Francisco last month to find me a lesbian girlfriend.
–Big Apple BBQ
Overheard by: skibs
Angry lady to another: Why would I have sex with another woman?
–Greenwich Village
Hobo on platform: Men… do not have sex with women! Any man who has sex with a woman should be arrested. Women do not like sex–women are all lesbians!
–7 Train
Crazy hobo to young girls on bench: You girls are a box full of lesbians!
–Union Square
Overheard by: Daphne
Mother, during tour: I noticed a lot of students have piercings. Can you recommend a good place around here?
–NYU
Grad student on cell: Hey, it's me. Tomorrow, dress appropriately. It's supposed to be 65, so I'll bring a frisbee. Afterward, I want to go to your place because there's certain things I want to do, and your place is much more (pause) conducive for certain activities.
–NYU
Overheard by: DrNels
Girl to another: I used to drink sangria before my classes at NYU.
–Rockefeller Center
NYU student to friend: Man, you gotta remember, you gotta know–you have to stuff that bitch. You gotta know.
–Weinstein Hall, University Place
NYU law student: You know what I love about this building? It smells like a new BMW.
–NYU Law Building
20-something guy dressed as Edward Cullen for Halloween: So anyway, I walk in, and they are both sitting there, playing with each other's erections…
–Bedford Ave & Berry St
Overheard by: Marie Miller Barnes
Ginger kid in audience, as photo of awkward Asian teen sticking banana in his mouth is projected on movie screen: I am definitely aroused.
–Tisch School of the Arts
Joggers to another: Raging hard-ons!
–Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Katie
20-something girl to another: How could he not go out with you? I mean, you gave him a boner at Relay For Life!
–Union Square
Overheard by: Becca
Girl: Dave! I haven't seen you in ages! How are you?
Dave, completely serious: Who are you?
–St. Mark's Place
Guy: Okay: he's bad, but he's not that bad.
Girl: No, seriously! He's like Miley fucking Cyrus. Fucking annoying, way too into himself, and everywhere. He is the Party in the USA.
Guy: Dude!
–4th Ave & 9th St
Girl leaving apartment: Are you fucking for real? A gas mask!?
Guy, following: What do you mean?
Girl: You think I'm going to have sex with you after that?!
Guy: Huh… I still don't get it?
Girl: If you don't get how a gas mask and sword don't work, I can't help you!
–Greenpoint
Overheard by: Smokey
