Lady #1: Hey, Bonnie.
Lady #2: Hi, how are you?
Lady #1: I don’t know… One of my nurses quit today.
Lady #2: I was arrested yesterday.
–Elevator near Union Square
Lady #1: Hey, Bonnie.
Lady #2: Hi, how are you?
Lady #1: I don’t know… One of my nurses quit today.
Lady #2: I was arrested yesterday.
–Elevator near Union Square
Guy #1: I hate it.
Guy #2: You hate circles, too.
Guy #1: Yeah, but circles suck.
–NYU
Overheard by: sunwonbay
Angry chick: Yeah, so I am in this really fuckin’ Zen place. I’ve been doing fucking yoga, and I’m really calm and Zen. Can’t you tell how fucking Zen I am?!
Friend: Ummm… Yeah, totally.
–8th St & Astor Pl
Overheard by: Alyson Leigh
Black teen girl to friends refusing to get on train: Why you gotta be so stupid? Get on the damn train!
Black teen guy: They gonna just stand there like that? Let the train go!
Black teen girl: Bitch said she thought that guy’s gonna blow up the train [points to gloomy white kid in RadioHead shirt].
Black teen guy: What?! Why you gotta say that when we goin’ over the bridge?!
–Brooklyn-bound J train
Overheard by: cp
Upset girlfriend, hitting boyfriend: Look at you! There you go again!
Boyfriend, caught looking: What?! She was looking at me.
Girlfriend: How you know? How you know?!
–Court Square
Overheard by: Running Late
Conductor, as lady’s bag keeps catching on door: One woman is single-handedly holding up the entire New York City transit system.
–F train
Headline by: Tad Allagash
Runners-Up:
· “Atlas Shopped” – Rosie
· “More Specifically: One Poor, Tattered Pomeranian Is Single-handedly Holding Up the Entire New York City Transit System.” – criffer
· “Not True- There’s a Hobo Asleep On The Tracks 3 Stops Ahead” – Dangello
· “Passengers: (Continued Indifference)” – Chuckles
· “Then the Lord God Said to the Woman, “What Is This You Have Done?”” – amanda p.
Guy #1: Dude, you know what I realized? I really miss Allison*.
Guy #2: Yeah?
Guy #1: Yeah. Like, we talk on IM, but I haven’t seen her since the summer, and I was just such a dick at the end, y’know?
Guy #2: Yeah…
Guy #1: I told her we should hang out over break.
Guy #2: Yeah… You wanna get a beer?
Guy #1: Are you even listening?
Guy #2: Yeah. Hey, you want Thai?
Guy #1: Unbelievable. Next time you come crying to me about how the girl in your building has a boyfriend, I’m gonna hang up on you.
Guy #1: This might be the gayest conversation we’ve ever had.
Guy #2: Agreed. Can we go Saki-bombing?
–49th St
Queer #1: Ewww, that’s sooo disgusting.
Queer #2: It’s a puddle, you fag. Get over it.
–14th & 7th
Overheard by: Luke
Teen #1: Fuck, man. Fuck.. Fuck!
Old black lady: Respect yourself — you better respect yourself.
Teen #2: [Mumbles.]Old black lady: What did you say?! Oh, I thought so. This is why they created more prisons — just for you.
–Q train
Hipster to man pressing napkin against Annie Leibovitz picture to write down a number: What are you doing?! You can’t do that!
Russian man: Is okay — it happens.
–Brooklyn Museum
Overheard by: I swear, I didn’t know him!
