Girl: Oh my God! That’s the Match guy who ate my salad two weeks ago! What should I do? Should I say something?
Guy: Wait, what? That guy? Salad?
Girl: I’ve got to get out of here!
–Mary’s Dairy, W. 4th Street
Overheard by: BBW
Girl: Oh my God! That’s the Match guy who ate my salad two weeks ago! What should I do? Should I say something?
Guy: Wait, what? That guy? Salad?
Girl: I’ve got to get out of here!
–Mary’s Dairy, W. 4th Street
Overheard by: BBW
Girl: Ugh. I hate it when guys come up to me and start talking about current events. Like I care. I just dismiss them.
–Queens College
Girl: Well, one of my relatives on my grandmother’s side was one of Blackbeard’s First Mates…So, I have some pirate in me.
–56th & Park
Teen girl: Wow, that’s so sad…
Woman: Yeah, they have no electricity, no water to drink, no food to eat, nothing.
Teen girl: Well, can’t they just boil the water on the ground and drink it? They say the city is flooded with like six feet of water.
Woman: No, honey, that water is way too contaminated to be boiled, and besides that, they don’t have electricity.
Teen girl: Oh that’s so sad. Where is that?
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: Holly Percey
Woman: So, what is it you like about New Orleans?
–Becco, W. 46th Street
Chick: Apparently there will be another September 11th this month.
–65th & Lexington
Girl: Looks like you got a tan this weekend.
Guy: Yeah, I was out on my friend’s boat but we ran out of gas in the harbor so we were out on the water for a while.
Girl: You know, that was one thing I kept thinking about all weekend, how inflated the price of marine diesel fuel must be.
Guy: It wasn’t my boat so I really don’t know.
They get off the elevator.
Human being: You know, the one thing I kept thinking about all weekend was all the fucking dead people.
–Elevator, Madison & 49th
Overheard by: Captain Obvious
Girl #1: …so we are at this audition and they ask us to step out and say what we like to do in our spare time. So this guy steps out and says “discussing philosophy”. I mean, how pretentious can you get?
Girl #2: Well, what did you expect him to say? “Getting my dick sucked by total strangers”?
–68th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: Betty Noir
Girl: Excuse me, do you have Anbesol?
Cashier guy: Animals? No. No animals.
Girl: No, Anbesol…it’s for gums.
Cashier guy: All of the gums are right here.
–Deli, Astoria
Overheard by: Someone who thought it was “Ambesol”
American girl: Do you know who I think wants my brother’s friends?
Polish girl: Who is a twat?
American girl: No. Do you know who wants my brother’s friends?
Polish girl: Oh. Great.
–B61 bus
Girl #1: …I mean there was blood everywhere in that lobby! It was all over the walls, the lamps, the floors. And I was like, “What the fuck?”.
Girl #2: Well, obviously.
–Bleecker & West 10th
Dude: Look at those people there on the bench?
Chick: Which ones?
Dude: Those six people, all sitting there, all talking and animated and engaged with each other, each a representative of a different family of hair color. We totally just walked through their sitcom and we didn’t even know it.
–Washington Square Park
Chick #1: Oh look, you’ve got color back in your cheeks! What did they give you?
Chick #2: Oxygen.
–St. Vincent’s, W. 12th Street
