Tranny teen #1: Y’all wig-wearin’ bitches just jealous ’cause my weave look fierce!
Tranny teen #2: I don’t care how fierce you think you look switching around with that horse hair tied all up in yo’ head. The minute you open yo’ mouf er’body know you ain’t got no pussy!
–PATH train from Newark to WTC
Overheard by: Manhattman
Malan Breton, from Project Runway: Is this where I come to have my lashes dyed?
–Beauty salon, Hudson & Perry
Overheard by: thaler
Dude: It was fun, but we felt like posers because we all had mohawks, and they had, like, holes in their faces.
–Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Man: … And I said, that’s my body hair, not a sweater!
–Broadway & Reade
Overheard by: Caitlin
Loud Southern chick: He looked fine except for the goatee, the moustache, and the unibrow.
–Queens-bound E train
Overheard by: acep
Drunk hipster chick: Yeah, my geo-politics are fucked up and my bangs are fucked up. I cut them myself.
–Delancey & Essex platform
Overheard by: Scott L
Transgender emo teen: Go and see his MySpace picture. He is beautiful. But you can only see his hair.
–McDonald’s, 3rd St
Overheard by: jess and ari
Man: I’m tellin’ you, a perm makes you look good.
Woman: Goddammit, Pee Wee! No it don’t! You think you know every mothafuckin’ thing!
–Fulton & Putnam, Brooklyn
Overheard by: mira p
Girl: This friend of mine, her cat killed an endangered bird… in Germany. They had to bury it, like, three feet underground.
–Queens-bound E train
Overheard by: Collegiate Cutie
Dude on cell: I saw Tim Burton on an interview the other day, and I said to my cat, ‘Snicket, behold a man who has never yet combed his hair!’
–AMDA entrance
Overheard by: McKinley’s Friend
Girl: And her cat and my cat are, like, really close…
–BX26 bus
Guy: I mean, I don’t even eat cat…
–14th St & 5th Ave
Guy to friend: No, cocaine. Cats really like cocaine!
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Overheard by: Kerri
Woman: I just saw a girl go into the men’s bathroom.
Girl: That’s my boyfriend!
Woman: I’d kill to have that hair.
–Long line for bathroom, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Overheard by: sexyface
Girl #1: Hey, remember that time you got laser hair removal for your lip?
Girl #2: Stacy! Stop talking, there are people around!
Girl #1: Oh, right, as though you will ever see any of these people again.
Random guy: Actually, I’m in her Computer Science class.
–6 train
Guy #1: I try to stay away from Italian women.
Guy #2: Why?
Guy #1: Because they are hairy.
–Broadway & 50th
Overheard by: Keithrez
Girl #1: Oh my god! I haven’t seen you in ages!
Girl #2: I know, it’s been a while — you look great!
Girl #1: You do, too! Your hair has grown a lot since I last saw you.
Girl #2: I know what you mean — it’s all it does.
–E 86th St and Lex
Overheard by: Lisa
Hipster girl: Would you say my hair is dirty-blonde or not?
Hipster guy: It looks clean to me.
Hipster girl: I didn’t mean the hair on my head.
–Spring & Broadway
Overheard by: Brown Carpet and Drapes
Drunk ponytailed guy: So, like what’s our situation?
Girl: Ummm, what do you mean?
Drunk ponytailed guy: Like do you … want me to come up?
Girl: What part of your ponytail makes you think I’d go home with you tonight?
–Bleecker & MacDougal
