Idiots

Guy #1: Well the Yanks definitely blew this one.
Guy #2: Yeah, no Super Bowl for them this year.

–21st & 3rd

Overheard by: George Geotes

Guy #1: It’s a morning-after pill.
Guy #2: For him or her?

–6th Street & 2nd Avenue

Girl: Look, Rocafella Plaza is right there!
Guy: Where? I don’t see shit.
Girl: I hope you can see if you step in it
Guy: Actually I smell shit right now, do you smell that shit?
Girl: Yeah I do, but I bet you can’t see it.

–49th & 5th

Overheard by: Christine Rinaldi

Tourist guy: …Huh. What religion are you, anyway?
Hasidic guy: Um…I’m Jewish.
Tourist guy: Oh. Do you like America?

–L train

Tourist woman #1: This is a really quaint neighborhood!
Tourist woman #2: Yeah, but it’s really expensive. A small one-bedroom apartment is like $1,000 a month!
Tourist woman #1: Oh, my! Why would someone pay that?

–Bleecker & 11th

Guy: So I went to the dollar store, looking for some art for my apartment. You wouldn’t believe how bad some of it was.

–Suzie’s, Bleecker Street

Southern woman: Why George, I’m just so proud of yew; I thought yew’d be grossed out by the Blue Man Group.

–Marriott Marquis, Times Square

Overheard by: Beantown Interloper

Guy #1: How was it?
Guy #2: It was cool. Paris was fun, except for a few days we spent at museums…We went one day to this place…The Love or something…I guess it was all right. There were definitely a lot of people there…Julie was freaking out about this one painting, though.
Guy #1: What painting?
Guy #2: The Mona Lisa.
Guy #1: …huh. Don’t think I know it…I’m not really an art person though.
Guy #2: Yeah, I didn’t know it either. It’s by Michelangelo I think. But I didn’t really get it…it’s really small.

–Union Square station

Overheard by: Stephanie Porto

Girl: They’re making a musical of Siegfried and Roy’s life.
Guy: Didn’t they do that on Friends already?
Girl: They did?
Guy: Yeah, remember Joey was the singing psychiatrist?

–Wall & Exchange

Girl #1: I wish we coulda seen those magicians with the tigers, but they don’t perform anymore…
Girl #2: You mean Sigmund Freud and Roy?

–Circulo Theater, E. 4th Street

Overheard by: scott cendali

Girl: Oh my God! I meant to tell you!
Guy: What?
Girl: Yesterday I was walking on 5th Avenue and this horde of middle-aged women stopped me to ask where I got my Ralph Lauren shirt.
Guy: No way!
Girl: It was great.
Guy: The one with the big horse on it?
Girl: It’s a pony, not a horse!
Guy: What’s the difference?
Girl: It’s different.
Guy: Can you explain the difference?
Girl: No.

–Rockefeller Center

Overheard by: pixelvisions