Girls

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

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

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

No — The Bong.

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

–Park Slope

Overheard by: E

In Their Original Form

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

–Central Park Zoo

…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

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

She’s Training for the Sextathlon

Guy: Hey, you’re limping! Did you run the marathon or something?
Gal: No, I fell doing a kegstand.

–Greenwich & Charles

Wednesdays Don’t Kill People; One-Liners Kill People

Large black man on cell phone: They did the deal with the diamonds, then the other guy got greedy and shot up the place.

–Union Ave

Overheard by: Seth Callaway

Teen, looking around: Where are we? Are we purchasing illegal arms?

–Turkish Restaurant, Montague St.

Overheard by: Mike N

Blonde chick in pink coat, perkily: … There was no exit wound, and no bullet.

–L train

Overheard by: Ladle

Girl talking to co-worker: I live near Wall Street and there are like army men down there with machine guns and it’s scary! How do I know they don’t have Tourette’s and won’t just start shooting their guns all over the place?!

–41st & 3rd

Older suit, calmly, to his two female coworkers: I’d like to put a gun to his head and say "Nickie do the right thing or I will blow your fucking head off."
[His companions nod in understanding.]

–Starbucks

Calm Jewish fraternity guy on cell: So, I’m being deported and drafted into the Israeli army… It’s okay, I’ll name my gun after you!

–NYU Waverly Building

I Dunno– He's Wearing Mittens

Random guy peeing in the corner to girl walking by: Hey girl, I like your scarf. I'd like to make love to you, but you could keep the scarf on. Keep the scarf on when we make love.
Girl's friend: He'd probably use it to choke you.

–14th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Julia

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