Wednesday One-Liners Toot Their Own Horns

Guy on cell: Guitars… guitarists, guitarists… drummers, yeah, any musicians… Girls, yeah! Girls!

–Prospect Heights

Suave European guy: I am playing the piano and the flute. At the same time. It’s a metaphor.

–1 Train

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Librarianish-looking woman: He asked me if I wanted to blow his tuba, and I said, "sure!". It was amazingly harder than I thought it would be. And, he’s bringing his organ tomorrow so I can play with it.

–Battery Park Starbucks

30-something woman: My consultant was telling me I should try not to sound elitist. But that’s really hard for me. I mean, I have two master’s degrees and I play the violin.

–14th St & 1st Ave

Bodybuilder on cell: I’m thinking a harpsichord, a wig, and a whole lotta talcum powder.

–Chinatown Bus

Blonde high school girl: Grinding is as practical as playing the harpsichord was for Jane Austen.

–Upper East Side

Posted on January 11, 2018
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Exactly.

Four-year-old girl, jubilantly: The letter y!
Father: Z.
Four-year-old girl: Good-bye.
Father: Four.
Four-year-old girl: What?
Father: Yes.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Christin

Posted on January 10, 2018
Dads, Default, Girls, Kids, Parents, Questions, Times Square, Weirdness, Words

Its Genius Is in Its Simplicity

Girl #1: What do you want to do now?
Girl #2: I don't know, what do you think we should do?
Girl #1: Let's drink beer!
Girl #2: Okay!

–Brewtopia, Pier 92

Overheard by: its that or clean the port-o-pottys

Posted on January 8, 2018
Drinking & Drunk People, Girls, Offers and requests, Parades & Festitivites, Restaurants & Cafes, Wishes & desires

Yeah, He’s Still Allergic to Me

Guy: How were things with your ex last night?
Girl: You know… He threw up and started crying, so I gave him a hug. He got an erection, threw up two more times and passed out.
Guy: So, same old same old.

–E 51st, b/w 1st & 2nd

Posted on January 6, 2018
Crying, Default, Erections, Girls, Guys, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, Relationships, Vomit, Weirdness

Quick– Push Me Down and Take My Wallet!

Girl #1, getting off the Newark express bus: It's so good to be home.
Girl #2, after walking away from crowd: Stop pretending that you live here!
Girl #1: But it's fun!

–41st & Broadway

Overheard by: really does live here

Posted on January 4, 2018
Girls, Home, Sweet Home, Lies, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On the Bus

You Can't Wear That Kind Of Silk Ascot and Not Be at Least Bi

Hobo to girl who just gave him a two-dollar bill: Would you look at that, two dollars! Thomas Jefferson is on this bill. He was a queen. That's right, he was a gay old faggot.
(girl walks away very quickly) Do you want to help me and Thomas Jefferson go to Hawaii? That's right! Hawai-iiiiiii!

–13th & 6th

Posted on December 31, 2017
Crazies, Crazy, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Hobos, Money & Class, Panhandling, Weirdness

If This Conversation Goes on for Much Longer, There Definitely Isn't a God.

Boy, after watching An Inconvenient Truth: Do you believe in god?
Girl: I believe in mother nature.
Boy: You don't believe in god?
Girl: I mean, I do… But I believe this is happening because of nature.
Boy: But you believe in her?
Girl: What?
Boy: Mother nature?
Girl: Mother nature is not like a person… It's just a saying for nature.
Boy: Wait… What? Oh… (pause) I thought she was like a tree or something.

–Regal Cinema, Union Square

Overheard by: Noeman Samdani

Posted on December 27, 2017
Animals & Nature, Boys, Girls, God, Movie Theaters, Movies, Religion, Trees and plants, Union Square and East Village

…So Go Ahead and Make Your “Hardwood” Jokes

Slick guy: So, do the curtains match the carpet?
Hot bleached blonde: There is no carpet.
Slick guy: Oh.

–Starbucks, Times Square

Posted on December 22, 2017
Girls, Guys, Home, Sweet Home, Questions, Starbucks, Times Square

“It's Not You. It's Wednesday One-Liner.”

Screaming, sobbing middle-aged woman to man: Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this to me? We made beautiful love last night! Why are you doing this to me?

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Laura

Angry woman on cell: You don't feed me, fuck me, or fulfill me! We are done!

–147th & St Nicholas

Man on cell: I'm going to fucking dump that job, like girls dump me.

–45th & 8th

Girl on phone: No wonder he broke up with you, you are a pain in the ass!

–Columbus Circle

Overheard by: Laura

Teen girl on cell: Are you fucking kidding me? You're breaking up with me because I didn't let you lick chocolate off my coochie? That shit's fucked up!

–Bloomingdale's

Posted on December 20, 2017
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You're Gonna Get an Electron Complex

Girl #1: I think I want to take advanced physics.
Girl #2: What? That's math and science.
Girl #1: I know.
Girl #2: Together.
Girl #3: That's gay.

–Queensborough Community College

Posted on December 18, 2017
College, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, School and studying, Science, Wishes & desires