You Can't Judge a Wednesday by Its One-Liner

College student: This is the best Barnes & Noble I've ever seen!

–Borders, Time Warner Center

Student: So, the author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-low… Fuck it, we're calling him L-train.

–Eugene Lang College

Overheard by: Harker

Large woman with friends: Oh, girl, I got to tell you about this book I'm reading. It's off the hook! They're sending in this undercover agent, and I think it's his sister, but he's all getting ready to have sex with her!

–White Castle, 36th & 8th

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Woman on phone: I was in Union Square, so I stopped in Barnes & Noble. (pause) Nigga, I can read!

–Union Square

Little British boy: Oh my goodness, dad, look! They have books on dating. How to Date? is probably like, "Don't take her to McDonald's!"

–Barnes & Noble

Overheard by: Laura

Tattooed artsy guy, putting hand on artsy Asian girl's shoulder: I read your book and really liked it… lotta pissing, huh?

–Mott & Prince

Posted on June 26, 2021
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Books & Writing, Brits, Chinatown, College, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Dads, Dating, Fat People, Friends, Guys, Incest, Insults, Junk Food & Fast Food, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Names, On Cell, One-liners, Pee, Public Transportation, Restaurants & Cafes, Shopping, Store, Students, Stupidity, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Women

Surely She Doesn’t Mean Ronald reggiN?

Woman: …you know, he was much darker than the other kids who were really white, so he was called a nigger. He was dyslexic.
Man: Wha?
Woman: But he was a strong boy. One time when he was bitten by a dog, I came in to his room and he was lying there with blood on him. He didn’t scream or say a word…a very strong boy.
Man: What are you talking about?

–Times Square

Posted on June 24, 2021
Assholes, Insults, Race, Times Square, Violence, Weirdness, Words

Wednesday One-Liners You Can Dance to

Dude: He’s the black, blind Motown equivalent of Kenny G.

–113th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Wild Dog Boy

Girl, while leaving screening of "I am legend": Okay… I cannot believe the woman did not know Bob Marley! I mean, that had to be the most unrealistic thing in that entire film.

–Fresh Meadows, Queens

Overheard by: hmmm…

Curly-haired chick: Has New Order become an okay kinky sex background band? Am I *old*?

–113th & Broadway

Overheard by: Poogins

Guy, standing next to guy listening to Journey on his iPod: Get away from me! Just get the fuck away from me!

–2 Train

Dumb girl dressed like Scary Spice en route to the concert: Yeah, a lot of people think that the Spice Girls like, reinstated feminism.

–NJ Transit

Yale grad: Eminem has a wonderful sense of meter.

–Court St., Brooklyn

Overheard by: Justin Casement

Queer: We only stayed for 15 minutes, I’m not that into karaoke. And when a coven of lesbians start casting their spells to "My Sharona", I was outta there."

–Chambers & Greenwich

Overheard by: Grand Witch Muffy

Posted on June 23, 2021
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God: Didn't I Issue a Commandment Against That?

Guy #1: Did you hear that Beyonce is playing Eartha Kitt in a biopic?
Guy #2: What the fuck? Are you serious? I need to get in contact with god!
Guy #1: Yeah, I think we are in our last days, like old people say.

–5th Ave b/w 18th & 19th St

Posted on June 18, 2021
About Celebrities, God, Gossip, Guys, Insults, Questions, Union Square and East Village

Courage Is Being Scared and Doing What You Have to Do, Sweetie

Guy: So, can I just walk you halfway there and then leave so I don't have to see your mom?
Girl: No.
Guy: Fuck.

–Grand Central Terminal

Posted on June 3, 2021
Girls, Grand Central, Guys, Insults, Parents, Questions, Train Station

Wednesday One-Liners Are One Baaaad Mother– Shut Yo' Mouth!

Cute JAP talking about all the stuff she gets: I don't need a man, I have my mom.

–Rare View Bar

Overheard by: white guy

Blonde girl to male friend: Listen, John. Fifteen minutes, your mom. Fifteen minutes, your mom.

–R Train

Annoying 40-something new mom: A good mom always has a diaper in her pocket!

–Barnes & Noble, 18th & 5th

Overheard by: I Am McLovey

Coworker: I got a bootleg mother.

–Midtown

Window-shopping tourist to wife: Look, honey! It's the dress your mother wore when they buried her!

–Union Square

Overheard by: CJ

Guy: I go over to the house for Mother's Day and she yells at me for not calling her for Mother's Day like my brother did. So I go outside and call her from my cell and say "happy Mother's Day!" and she yells at me for being an idiot.

–37th & 7th

Posted on May 31, 2021
All Wednesday One-Liners, Babies, Bars & Clubs, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Clothing, Coworkers, Death, Girls, Guys, Insults, JAPs, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Murray Hill and Gramercy, On the Subway, Parents, Store, Tourists, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Words

Unfortunately, I Said It into the Intercom

20-something chick: So yeah, I didn’t even care when this girl at my school died.
Friend: Whoa…
20-something chick: Well, she broke my friend’s leg!
Friend: Oh…
20-something chick: When the principal was having the moment of silence, I was like, ‘Geez, she didn’t take this long to die!’
Friend: Dude…

–Webster Hall

Overheard by: Vicksburg

Posted on May 22, 2021
Biotechs, Friends, Insults, Union Square and East Village

When He Talked About Her “Flat,” She Assumed He Was Making Disparaging Comments About Her Chest

Frustrated woman laying out: Actually, no, he didn't say he would call me, he said he would “ring” me.
Indignant friend: What an asshole! Like seriously, you're not British!

–Sheep Meadow

Overheard by: Henry Higgins

Posted on May 20, 2021
Central Park, Dating, Friends, Insults, Languages, Parks, Weirdness, Women

Believe Me, He Would Know

Guy #1: Hey…Sam?
Guy #2: No…Sam’s my brother.
Guy #1: Oh…sorry. Dude, you look just like him.
Guy #2: Well, we’re brothers.
Guy #1: Me and my brother don’t look anything alike.
Guy #2: Huh. Guess your mother was a whore.

–37th & 3rd

Posted on May 17, 2021
Comebacks, Compare/Contrast, Default, Family Ties, Guys, Insults, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Physical appearance, Prostitution, Violence, Weirdness

Insults

Courage Is Being Scared and Doing What You Have to Do, Sweetie