Idiots

Chick #1: You know Gandhi? The Indian guy with the bald head and the robes?
Chick #2: Oh, yeah — he starred in that film.

–Parson’s School of Design

Camp leader: Okay, everyone. I think we should all meet at five behind the naked cowboy.
New Yorker camper: John, the naked cowboy is a man.

–LIRR

Dude: Death by a stingray? Fitting if he died from a crocodile, but it would be ironic if he died from being killed by a serial killer dressed in a crocodile costume.
Chick: Haha… Yeah…

–W 4th Bun Shop

Overheard by: Lux

Hipster girl #1: Yeah, but each time you inhale one, you kill, like, one hundred brain cells.
Hipster girl #2: Really?
Hipster girl #1: Yeah, I used to do a whole carton at a time.

–7th St between 1st & A

Sales clerk #1: I feel like I’m vibrating.
Sales clerk #2: Maybe it’s your aura.

–Changing room, store, Soho

Overheard by: Gina

Big guy: Yo, it’s like I was stuck between a rock and butter.
Little girlfriend: I think you mean you were stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Big guy: No, who would want to be stuck next to a huge pile of butter?

–Rockefeller Center

Overheard by: Allison

Idiot, 50s: That’s the one argument against capital punishment that cannot be refuted. If you do it, someone is dead.

–Westway Diner, 9th Ave

Idiot tourist, in line at TKTS: Hmmm… I wonder what “TKTS” stands for.
Friend: Are you serious? It stands for “tickets”!
Idiot tourist: Oh! I never knew that! Well, I guess that makes sense.

–TKTS

Security Guard: …and so now I have her DNA and I can, like, reproduce her any time I want.

–57th & West End

Overheard by: Kaitlyn

Drunk: Are you going to San Francisco?…Hey, I’ve been there! Why won’t you believe me? Look at this tattoo I got there!…Shut up, bitch!

–LIRR

Overheard by: marissa

Woman: So did you know that cheese has the same chemicals as heroin in it? That’s why people who eat cheese get so addicted to it.

–1st Avenue & 4th Street

Overheard by: alison

Girl #1: Yeah, that French kid’s pretty hot.
Girl #2: His butt is like…it’s like a croissant!
Girl #1: Ohmigod, ew. But yeah, it’s true.

–1 train