Bouncing Souls guy: Hey, I’d really like to meet Debbie Harry! Debbie, if you can hear this–
Chick: As do we all want to meet Debbie!
–Save CBGBs, Washington Square Park
Overheard by: liz goldstein
Bouncing Souls guy: Hey, I’d really like to meet Debbie Harry! Debbie, if you can hear this–
Chick: As do we all want to meet Debbie!
–Save CBGBs, Washington Square Park
Overheard by: liz goldstein
Guy: Your dad has really cool sunglasses.
Girl: Yeah, they’re the kind that get darker when it gets light.
Guy: I knew a girl like that once.
–93rd & Park
Girl: So what does that mean? I don’t know how to read him. And when he does all these sexual things for me and asks nothing in return, does that mean he loves me or that I will owe him in the future?
Guy: Cut it out already, bunny boiler!
–Hudson Hotel, West 58th Street
Teen girl #1: What’s the body of water we’re crossing?
Teen girl #2: I think it’s the Long Island Sound.
–X1 bus, Verrazano Bridge
Girl #1: Who wants to be Jewish?
Girl #2: Stacy!
Girl #1: I mean, you either are or you aren’t.
Girl #2: That’s not a very nice thing to say!
Girl #1: Sorry, I mean, why would you if you didn’t have to?
–49th & 5th
Chick: Oh my god. I had, like, so many guys hit on me last night.
Queer: Puh-leeze, you know they only talk to you because you look like a total prostitute.
–A train
Girl: I need like an extra stomach outside my body that I can just dump out when it gets full so I don’t actually absorb all the calories.
Guy: They have that, honey. It’s called “bulimia”.
Girl: …Oh, like you haven’t considered it!
–Times Square
Overheard by: Rachel
Man: Table for two, non-smoking.
–Brooklyn Diner, W. 57th Street
Yuppie guy: See, it’s hard, because I see both sides of the argument, but I still don’t know who would win in a fight.
–Madison Square Park
Girl on phone: I didn’t like it when I was there…No, it was awful!…You’re taking him? So where’re you going?…An interview? How do you interview for a preschool? He’s 2.
–Office, 37th & Broadway
Guy: Wait. You lived 20 minutes from the Amish all the time…like they were there all the time?
Girl: Yeah. What do you mean?
Guy: I dunno. I thought they were out following the buffalo or something.
–Washington Square Diner, W. 4th Street
Puerto Rico chick: He likes that–what do you call it? That the black people make…that “tooka tooka tooka”…?
Nuyorican chick: Rap music.
–South Bronx
Overheard by: emilie