Hipster girl: … And then there was this other weirdo I dated who kept talking about how we’re all just molecules. You know, little balls of energy?
Guy: Yeah… That’s exactly where we came from — balls of energy.
–116th & Broadway
Hipster girl: … And then there was this other weirdo I dated who kept talking about how we’re all just molecules. You know, little balls of energy?
Guy: Yeah… That’s exactly where we came from — balls of energy.
–116th & Broadway
Chick #1: He says he can fall in love with anybody, but he just sleeps with everybody.
Chick #2: Yeah, totally.
Chick #1: Also, he tried to date rape me, which is totally unromantic.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Jeff
Girl: Yeah, the room in the apartment is only four hundred bucks a month.
Guy: No way! No place in the city is only four hundred a month. You probably have to shit in the bathtub.
–Bainbridge & Malcolm X, Brooklyn
Little girl #1: So, I hear your mom is going to have a baby.
Little girl #2: Oh my god, I know! It’s going to totally ruin my social life!
–Bloomingdale Park, Staten Island
20-ish guy: You could transfer to the two, to the four, to the D…
20-ish girl: I could… I could also stick a glass dildo in my eye, but I don’t want to do that, either.
–Rush hour, 1 train, 86th St
Overheard by: Lulu
Junkie: Hey. Hey. What’s with all the ones? Are you a stripper? [Busy guy on phone doesn’t reply.] Hey, I’m talking to you! [Busy guy is oblivious, so junkie addresses bar] You know what? Nothing is worse than being ignored! You know what?! I used to fuck guys like him in prison!
–The Nancy Whiskey Pub
Overheard by: Definitely Not Ignoring Him
Crazy hobo: Give me some money. I lost my hat… I lost my hat!
Old black guy: Yo’ mind is what you lost.
Crazy hobo: I lost that years ago.
–6th Ave & Waverly Pl
Overheard by: matthew
Queer: Where’d you lose your voice?
Girl: Oh, no — I’m sick.
Queer: Oh, you weren’t screaming?
Girl: No, I’m just sick.
Queer: Oh, I wish you had, like, a party or something.
–Baruch College, Newman Vertical campus
Drunk girl yelling at her friend: The only thing I asked you to do was not to put any money in his boxers! [Sees staring passerby.] What?! You want to see a fight?!
Passerby: Yep.
–4th & 2nd
Overheard by: Tabitha Junkers
