Wednesday One-Liners Are Retaining Sperm

20-something woman on cell: I thought I was pregnant because I was nauseous all the time, but then I realized I was just always hungover.

–111th & Broadway

Overheard by: Ladle

Guy to chick: What the fuck did she get pregnant for? She needed to lose some weight.

–Bowery

Hyper chick: He got me knocked up with this giant pretzel!

–LIRR

Overheard by: Pretzel Vendor

20-something girl to friend: Oh, so you're thinking because it's Memorial Day weekend you're gonna get preggers?

–Hoyt-Schermerhorn Subway Sation

Guy, about a couple who'd broken up: She came back to pick up her shit, and when you come back to pick up your shit, you know, shit happens, and she got pregnant.

–Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Ashley

Lady suit on cell: Well, unless you want to get me pregnant, I'm not sure I see a way around this!

–Columbus Circle

Posted on September 22, 2018
All Wednesday One-Liners, Breaking Up, Brooklyn, Diet/Weight, Drinking & Drunk People, Friends, Girls, Guys, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Holidays, Junk Food & Fast Food, Lower East Side, On Cell, Penis, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Stupidity, Subway Stations, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Suits, Trains Not Subway, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Weirdness

…By Process Of Elimination

Guy: We should totally just trip out on acid and ride the subways all day.
Girl: Which train?
Guy: All of them.

–L Train

Overheard by: BB

Posted on September 20, 2018
Girls, Guys, Hard Drugs, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Public Transportation

Wednesday One-Liners Flunk the Polygraph

Woman on cell: I can't come. I'm in the Poconos right now.

–Rite Aid, The Bronx

Punk girl on phone: Hi mom…yeah… Yeah, me and Jane are just walking around in the neighborhood… Yeah, we're at the Time Warner center right now. No! No, of course I'm not on St. Mark's. No. I'd never go there. Of course I'm sober! Why wouldn't I be? Yeah. Okay, love you, bye! (hangs up phone, now to friend with beer) Gimme some of that!

–St. Mark's Place

Russian guy on phone (in Russian): Yeah, I'm on Avenue M. I just got off, I'll be there in a few.

–Q Train, Kings Highway

Overheard by: Robert

Dude on cell: Yo! What's up? I'm waiting at LaGuardia.

–Martin Luther King High School

Overheard by: Susan Volchok

Guy on cell: Yeah, I'm on Long Island right now. I'll be here for a little while.

–Park Slope

Female suit on phone: I have to cancel dinner tonight, I had that meeting I told you about, remember? And I'm still not back yet. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in Jersey still.

–Washington Square Park

Woman on cell outside a pub: Honey? It's mommy. We're still at the hospital. I don't know, we could still be here for hours.

–1st & 72nd

Overheard by: Well, there were hospitals nearby, at least

Posted on September 16, 2018
All Wednesday One-Liners, Apologies, Bars & Clubs, Drinking & Drunk People, Family Ties, Fast Times at New York High, Foreigners, Girls, Guys, Lies, Lower East Side, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Park Slope, Parks, Punks, Street, Suits, The Bronx, Time, Tourism, Travel, Upper East Side, Washington Square Park, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

Wednesday One-Liners Need to Be Consoled

Tech guy: It would suck to be a cow, then you couldn't play Street Fighter.

–Marymount Manhattan College

Blond girl, regarding Egyptian artifacts: This is just like a video game!

–The Met

Overheard by: Rachael and Ben

Mindless dude playing PSP: Damn! Why is this bitch calling me? (answers cell) What do you want, you made me stop my game! (pause) My game as in "my video game," psh! (pause) Shit, if I had any game I wouldn't be with a bitch that looks like you, now what do you want?

–A Train

Overheard by: token white chick

Ghetto kids, as 95-year-old Chinese lady walks into moving traffic: Damn, she think she playing Frogger!

–Chinatown

Friend to friend: I wonder how Super Mario Bros will influence my decision?

–Houston St & Broadway

Posted on September 12, 2018
Age/Aging, All Wednesday One-Liners, Anger Management, Animals & Nature, Chinatown, College, Compare/Contrast, Friends, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Kids, Nerds, Nicknames & name calling, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Questions, Street, Stupidity, The Met, The Village, Video Games, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

Want Some Lunch?

Girl: Yeah, like I mean, I would definitely say that I was in the best shape of my life when I had my eating disorder.
Guy, after long pause: Uhhhhh… at least you're honest!

–Fordham University

Overheard by: Rachel

Posted on September 11, 2018
Compare/Contrast, Diet/Weight, Fordham, Girls, Guys, Health and Hygiene

Just an Endless Conversation in a Big Room Full Of Chairs

Out-of-town girl: Is this a musical?
Parents: No… (mutters something unintelligible)
Out-of-town girl, flipping through Playbill: There's not even one song…

–Studio 54 Theater, Waiting for Waiting for Godot to Start

Overheard by: Jil

Posted on September 11, 2018
Girls, Music, Parents, Questions, Singing, Theater, Theater & Dance

No — The Bong.

Girl #1: So I like, panicked, and I ate it.
Girl #2: You ate the weed?

–Park Slope

Overheard by: E

Posted on September 10, 2018
Fears, Girls, Park Slope, Weed, Weirdness

In Their Original Form

Girl: Hey, it's the zoo!
Vendor, in response: Yep, that's hot dogs.

–Central Park Zoo

Posted on September 10, 2018
Central Park, Girls, Junk Food & Fast Food, Vendors & Street Performers, Weirdness

…Unless You Count Time As a Dimension

Box office employee: Would you like to add a ticket for the 3D movie?
20-something girl: Is it for the movie and the exhibit in 3D?
Box office employee: No, just the movie is in 3D.

–King Tut Exhibit

Posted on September 9, 2018
Clerks, Girls, More museums, Movies, Offers and requests, Questions, Stupidity

I Know. Wine and Beer Help Me Relax.

Guy: Hey, let’s go in there. They might have wine or beer.
Girl: Nah, I kinda wanna grab something hard.

–14th St, between 1st and 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Eve

Posted on September 6, 2018
Compare/Contrast, Default, Drinking & Drunk People, Drugs, Girls, Guys, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Offers and requests, Street, Wishes & desires, Words

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