Hair

Accounting lady: What did you do to your hair?
Mailroom guy: It’s called the wet look.
Accounting lady: Oh yeah? What’s that?
Mailroom guy: I sprinkle some water on my head.

–Office, 58th & Broadway

Girl #1: I’m getting my hair cut when I go home next week. I don’t trust New York hairdressers. Last time, they charged me too much and gave me a crappy cut where one side was longer than the other.
Girl #2: It was probably some sort of hipster thing, that’s why it cost so much.
Girl #1: What, like I’m paying a licensing fee to rebroadcast her creativity on my head?…I guess so.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Julia Kite

Guy #1: Well, to the west is Chelsea, down past 14th Street is the Village, uptown is Harlem, down past Houston is Soho; the Lower East Side is South past the Village.
Guy #2: What’s this area called?
Guy #1: I have no idea…

–15th & 2nd

Overheard by: Bucky Turco

Old tour man: This is Chelsea, where the homosexual male and homosexual female live. To the right you can spot an interesting haircut on that man. That’s called a Tommyhawk haircut.

–Gray Line bus, 14th & 7th

Overheard by: Hank Luxford