Health and Hygiene

Tween girl #1: Aren’t you gonna wash your hands?
Tween girl #2: I don’t need to. I flush with my foot
Tween girl #1: Do you also wipe with your foot?

–Union Square Regal Cinemas ladies’ room

Girl: It’s not that it’s small, it’s just…not that big.
Guy: I wish we could stop talking about this now.
Girl: …Maybe you could just stop shaving.

–CompUSA, 57th & Broadway

Overheard by: Leonor M.

Man #1: Yo! You just picked your nose! You’re not gonna wash your hands first?
Man #2: Why? It’s not like I picked your nose.

–24 Prince, Prince Street

Overheard by: Steve D

Old man: You are the most beautiful woman in the world.
Girl: Aw, thanks!
Guy: She has crabs!

–Times Square 1/2/3 station

Overheard by: Meaghan Stefaniak

Teen girl #1: She once said to me, “I was thinking about us kissing in the shower.”
Teen girl #2: I hope you were wearing clothes.

–Canal & Broadway

Guy #1: Does she even shower?
Guy #2: That’s what I asked him. But then he said, “Not only does she shower, but then she licks my ass and jacks me off. It’s fucking great!”

–22nd & 3rd

Overheard by: Erin B

Man #1: You smell great!
Man #2: Thanks. I haven’t bathed since eleven.

–70th & Amsterdam

White girl: Since I quit, I have been blowing out the biggest boogers in the mornings.
Black guy: Boogers? I been blowin’ moons. Like the moons of Jupiter.

–1 Train

Girl: Like, I tried anorexia last year, and I only lasted, like, six months.

–Stuyvesant High School, Chambers Street

Overheard by: Mary Button

Chick #1: Rosie is the queen of snot rockets.
Chick #2: Can you teach me?
Rosie: Do you have snot?

–Rodrigue’s Coffeehouse, Fordham University

Overheard by: Jess McGins

Girl #1: We only fucked for like 2 minutes.
Girl #2: Why?
Girl #1: He has ADD.
Girl #2: Is that, like, when the person has more than one personality?
Girl #1: No, I wish. Role playing would be a lot easier.

–Hunter College North-West bridge

Overheard by: Collegiate Cutie

Chick: I got drunk and forgot to take out my last tampon; when the doctor fished it out it was all gray and smelled like Alpo.

–6 train