Wednesdays Feel Virtuous When They Don't Eat One-Liners

Weird hobo: Ladies and gentleman, I am a disabled Vietnam vet. I'm asking help from all of you so I don't wind up on the streets. While in Vietnam, I was exposed to Agent Orange, which caused me my disability–I became a vegetarian.

–Downtown 3 Train

Overheard by: An Amused Former Vegetarian

Aging hippie to woman spouting PETA propaganda: I've been a vegan for 30 years. You're embarrassing me. Why do you do that?

–F Train

Overheard by: AeC

Guy: Yo, I'm vegetarian now, I don't eat no meat, but man I love that chicken. That chicken just keeps comin' back to me!

–Manna's

Overheard by: eatinginharlem

Crazy-looking woman on bench: Oh my gosh, I was totally a vegetarian yesterday. Like literally, I ate no meat.

–Central Park

Overheard by: Meat Eater

Clueless 20-something female: Do you have another menu? I'm a vegan.

–Brother Jimmy's BBQ, 31st St

Posted on January 12, 2018
Age/Aging, All Wednesday One-Liners, Central Park, Crazies, Food, Girls, Guys, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Health and Hygiene, Hippies, Hobos, Nostalgia, Offers and requests, On the Subway, One-liners, Panhandling, Parks, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Vegetarian & Vegan, War, Wednesday One-Liners, Women

Once You’ve Got That Down, the Handjobs Follow Organically

Chick #1: Wow, you’re really good at that!
Chick #2: Eh, I think the trick is to start young.
Chick #3, looking worried: Handjobs?
Chick #2: Uh… No. Using chopsticks.

–New Big Wong Restaurant

Posted on January 11, 2018
Bimbettes, Ethnic Food, Girls, Hand-Jobs, Restaurants & Cafes

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
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Always Bringing it Back to You!, Battery Park, Books & Writing, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Compare/Contrast, Education, Foreigners, Girls, Guys, Innuendo, Instruments, Music, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Bus, On the Subway, Questions, Starbucks, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Upper East Side, Weirdness, Women, Words

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