Impatient, middle-aged Caribbean woman in bathroom line: There should be more women’s rooms.
Equally impatient 20-ish woman: Yeah, I know… It’s because men designed these buildings.
–JFK
Overheard by: Nina
Impatient, middle-aged Caribbean woman in bathroom line: There should be more women’s rooms.
Equally impatient 20-ish woman: Yeah, I know… It’s because men designed these buildings.
–JFK
Overheard by: Nina
Angry girl: What do you mean you didn’t fuck up?
Boyfriend: I didn’t fuck up!
Angry girl: You got a stripper pregnant! You fucked up!
–Sandwich shop, Bleecker
Overheard by: Catie
Suit on the run, after accosted by street charity worker: I don’t want to save a child! I want to go to a meeting!
–53rd & Lex
Suit: Yeah, I don’t think I could work for the government. All they do is kill people.
–23rd & Park
Suit: I don’t play hard to get; I play hard to like.
–Columbus Circle
Overheard by: Brian
Suit on cell: I just got back from São Paulo. That place looks like New York threw up on L.A.
–JFK
Suit on cell: What do you mean scientologists are following you? … No, you can’t stay at my place tonight…
–6th Ave
Overheard by: E.Major
Crazy lady, after announcement of impending closing: Don’t kick me out! You can’t kick me out — I’m handicapped! [Security guard stares.] I have my sticker! In my bag! [Announcement repeats in French.] I don’t even understand what she’s saying! [Minutes later] Hey! Is this a new Picasso? I’ve never seen this one before!
–MoMA
Overheard by: stoned assholes
Woman #1: I hate it. He never listens to me.
Woman #2: That guy listens out of his ass!
–W 96th near Amsterdam
Overheard by: clb72
Guy: Oh, man, my wrist hurts! I think I got carpal tunnel.
Friend: How?
Guy: I was fingering that bitch all night.
Friend: Oh.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Lucy and Emily
Customer: But I just gave you 10 dollars.
Male barista: No, I gave you 10 dollars, which was a mistake.
Customer: Wait. Wait. No, you gave me twenty.
Male barista: Can I have it back?
Customer: No! It’s my change!
Male barista: But you just gave me 10 dollars!
–Starbucks
Overheard by: alanna
Mom: Please eat your dinner.
Brat: Mommy, you’re meaner than God.
–Restaurant, Bay Ridge
Overheard by: Nikki Apostolou
Middle-aged man: Sorry, I thought you’d like it.
Middle-aged woman: Well, it hurt.
–Madison Ave
Overheard by: turbobread
Angry man pulling out of stadium lot: You’ve got to be nice to people…!
Parking attendant: I am nice. Don’t start this. This is not your lot, this is my lot. I was born in this lot.
–Yankee Stadium parking lot
Overheard by: Lucia
