Man #1: The only thing I don’t like about the job is all the lying I have to do.
Man #2: Yeah, but you’re a salesman.
Man #1: Yeah, I know.
–34th & 8th
Overheard by: daver
Man #1: The only thing I don’t like about the job is all the lying I have to do.
Man #2: Yeah, but you’re a salesman.
Man #1: Yeah, I know.
–34th & 8th
Overheard by: daver
Asian princess: #1: You know what’s annoying?
Asian princess: #2: What?
Asian princess: #1: When, like, people carry, like, two bags.
Asian princess: #2: Oh my god, I know! Like, when they have their school bag and then their coach bag…
Asian princess: #1: Totally! It’s like, sooo annoying.
Asian princess: #2: Yeah! That’s why I put my bag in my school bag.
–Q11 bus
Thug to tourist taking picture: Yeah, bitch, I’m in your picture! I’m in your picture! Put it on MySpace, bitch!
–W 34th & 7th
Overheard by: nisey79
Thug to friend: Nigga, it’s hard to explain… It looked… like a decorated cosine curve!
–110th & Lenox
Overheard by: Curly Ku
Thugette to thug boyfriend: This ain’t Valentine’s Day. You slap me I’ll slap you back!
–Bronx-bound D train
Overheard by: Krissss
Thug to his baby, after carrying her stroller down the subway steps: Woo-hah, I got you all in check.
–6 train station, 59th St
Overheard by: Jackie
Thug: Shit. Jimmy Hoffa’s lucky he don’t gotta pay taxes.
–Brooklyn-bound F train
Overheard by: In debt on the F train
Thug: That thang was so big you could put a whole paragraph on it!
–6 train
Guy, about man on Bluetooth ear piece: Man, look at that guy. He’s nuts.
Girl: Oh, geez. He’s just on the phone.
Guy, to Bluetooth man: Are you crazy? She doesn’t think so.
–Near City Hall
Overheard by: Matt
NYU girl #1: Okay, so we’re all really, really mad at Paul.
NYU girl #2: What’d he do?
NYU girl #1: Nothing, but it’s us versus him.
–Hayden Residence Hall, Washington Square
TA: Is anyone in here Canadian? Good. I didn’t want to offend anyone.
–NYU
Woman with thick German accent about people with thick Indian accents: You can’t understand anything these people say because of their accents!
–LaGuardia airport
Overheard by: Lolo
Girl on cell: They are Mexicans dressed up as soccer moms in minivans dressed up as dirty Mexicans, and on the back of their minivans they have a Mexican flag and a bumper sticker that says, ‘Cross country is my favorite sport’!
–Train from Secaucus to Penn Station
Overheard by: uulovesuu
Foreign street vendor to another: If you kill a German, it’s different.
–Prince & Greene St
Shocked waiter to very smug waiter: Whoa! You’re even more expensive than a Russian girlfriend!
–Bread restaurant, Prince St
Overheard by: Sheila Michaels
Woman to friend: Hey, you know, this is where that lesbian touched my ass!
–W 3rd Ave & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Sakura
Chick on cell: We’re, like, the best pseudo-lesbian couple who send out erotic postcards in the world. And you can quote me on that, missy!
–Columbia University
Overheard by: McFreaky
Man wearing rainbow wig and playing a ukulele: This next song is dedicated to all the fathers out there who play with their children and take them places. To the fathers who don’t — the lesbians have a point.
–In line for Statue of Liberty
Overheard by: Stas
Nine-year-old boy: I am a lesbian, I am a lesbian…
–Central Park
Girl showing necklace to friend: You’re a raging dyke! Would you wear this?
–Canal & Church St
Overheard by: NYCDoll
Thug #1: Yo, when I go to McDonald’s I don’t just want a fuckin’ Number One with a mothafuckin’ Coke. I want a Number One, a Coke, and a mothafuckin’ smile.
Thug #2: Word.
–Q train platform, Union Square
Overheard by: Audrey Monaco
Guy: No, I don’t wanna see that bitch again.
Girl: Oh, it’s not that bad. It’s like… You have your arm around me, and you’re wearing a bra.
–E 93rd St & Lex
Overheard by: Kerri
Old guy to wife: Why have they got the sound turned up so loud?
Movie buff: So we can hear the fucking movie over your conversation.
–Loews Theatre, Lincoln Square
Overheard by: woodrow t parker
