Hobos

Homeless guy: I got candy, I got gum. I do this 'cause everybody got to eat. I'm trying to do the right thing. I sell candy, I sell gum. I don't sell drugs.
Blonde girl: Do you have drugs?

–Times Square

Hobo: Sir, can I trouble you for a cigarette?
Suit #1: Yeah no problem, man.
Hobo: Have a light, too?
Suit #1: Sure.
Hobo: Thanks, man… get the FUCK outta my face!
Suit #2: Only in NYC, man…

–Bryant Park

Overheard by: Rob

Hobo: Look at this, does this look fake?
Guy: What did you do, print it?
Hobo: Yeah! You think it looks fake?
Guy: Yes.
Hobo: Well it ain’t!

–R train

Overheard by: SkunkEye

Where: Bedford Ave., Yuppietown

Hobo: …and the rest of you will be buried in cement!

Hobo: Can you spare some change?
White girl: What? Why don’t you ask anyone else around here? What is this, “Ask the White Girl Day”?

–Bushwick

Hobo: Hey, ya got any change?
Dude: Um…nope, sorry.
Hobo: OK, I’m sorry about West Side Story; let’s still be friends.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Slick Mcfavourite

Hobo to girl in lifeguard shirt: You really a lifeguard? I’m drowning!

–7th & Ave A

Old woman: You should really go to the men’s homeless shelter.
Hobo: I’m a woman.

–25th & 3rd

Overheard by: Marcus

Ranting woman: We should be boycotting products from all those big corporations like Microsoft, and General Motors, and Nike, and–
Hobo: Shut the fuck up before the corporation gets to you and tortures you to death.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Ting

Hobo: Fuck God! I am God, and God is dead.

–Bedford Ave, Williamsburg