Drunk guy: If I'm not married by the time I'm twenty-five or twenty-six…
Drunk girl: You haaaaave to be married by the time you're twenty-five.
–Lower East Side
Overheard by: very single twenty-five year old. ouch.
Drunk guy: If I'm not married by the time I'm twenty-five or twenty-six…
Drunk girl: You haaaaave to be married by the time you're twenty-five.
–Lower East Side
Overheard by: very single twenty-five year old. ouch.
Pregnant teacher: Yeah, so my husband loves me and I'm pregnant. Yeah, that's life…everything works out.
Black girl to friend: Yo, she makes me mad depressed.
–Edward R Murrow High School
Moviegoer: Come on, I wanna see this potentially shitty movie!
–AMC Loews, 68th & Broadway
Overheard by: Robert Gleyberman
Guy on phone: I'm not trying to have sex with you, I just really want to see The Dark Knight.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Ross
Movie theater employee: I don't go to the movies. I watch them on the internet.
–AMC Loews, Lincoln Square
Overheard by: Holly
Guy on cell: Okay, love you, bye… Oh, and the reason she says "Foxy, you better work it out!" is because that's the name of her character in the movie.
–62nd & Broadway
Overheard by: Richard
Nerdy film major: Silent Night, Deadly Night II is the worst movie ever. It's so bad it's amazing. There's something cathartic about watching it; you leave thinking, "there is a god!"
–NYU Dining Hall
Guy leaving The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: You have to be some kind of anti-Christ to write a movie that retarded.
–AMC Loews, 68th & Broadway
Overheard by: Mark Nilges
Girl, as credits roll at the end of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Wow…they both lived way too long.
–AMC Loews, 68th & Broadway
Chick on cell: Look, there are only two people other than me who can construct a sentence that awesome: Severus Snape and Keith Olbermann, and one of them isn't even real!
–18th & 6th
Middle-aged man on cell: Hey man, guess what. I just saw Harry Potter's magic wand!
—Equus, Broadhurst Theatre
Overheard by: Kilfy
Chick on cell: Is he one of Voldemort's friends from high school?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Wild Dog Boy
Loud girl to friend: Because seriously, how many real redheads do we actually know? And Ron Weasley doesn't count!
–NYU
IT VP: This guy at work told me the ending to the last Harry Potter book before I read it. So I fired him.
–Astoria
Overheard by: Jason E
Not ghetto black girl: How do you bag a girl?
Ghetto black boy: Come sit on my lap!
–Pete's Pizza, Ave M
Brunette: Have you ever had to be saved before?
Blonde: Nope, but when I was a lifeguard I had to save someone.
Brunette: Oh my god, did you have to give them RSVP?
–5 Train
Overheard by: Ami
Girl: Am I turning into a unicorn?
Guy: No, you just have cancer.
–Boss Tweed's bar
Overheard by: Unicorns
Teen girl #1: So, I wanted to get these boots with fringe, but I think fringe is like so over.
Teen girl #2: Yeah, but you could totally get fabricated fringe.
Teen girl #1: Wait, what do you mean by that?
Teen girl #2: Like, fringe made of fabric–but not like cotton.
Teen girl #1: Oh my god! Like tweed fringe?! Totally!
–LIRR
Young female at happy hour #1: So getting a free dinner was cool.
Young female at happy hour #2: Yeah, it's not like that roach was on the plate.
–7th Ave & 23rd St
Overheard by: Ed
Teenage Asian girl: I have a question: would you want me to hang out with a vampire?
Old Hispanic woman: No!
Teenage Asian girl: Okay. I knew that.
–2 Train
Overheard by: Ryan