Insults

Bag lady: Come here! Come here, you fuckin’ bitch! Are you too good to
give your fucking wife a hug? Come here, fucking bitch!

–23rd & Madison

Man #1: Eli has got some issues, some hair issues.
Man #2: Yeah, they used to call him an overretarded baby bird; now they just call him the bird’s nest.

–43rd & 8th

Overheard by: Stephie Russell

Girl #1: Wow, your outfits are so cool.
Girl #2: Thanks!
Girl #1: Do you have any more glow bracelets?
Girl #2: Yeah, a lot
Girl #1: Can I have one?
Girl #2: No.
Girl #1: Oh…So before when I said your outfits were cool: I was totally lying.

–Joshua Tree ladies’ room, 3rd Avenue

Overheard by: e jack

News guy: Get your special AM Metro News! Special edition; last one for the year. Get two: one to read and one to frame.

–32nd & 7th

Overheard by: Mary Beth Hanlon

Teen boy: I really wanted to drink some champagne, but I didn’t have any flutes, so I had to drink it out of a wine glass.
Teen girl: That’s really embarrassing.

–Barney’s, Madison Avenue

Wheelbo: Happy new year! Happy new year!…Fuck your mother!

–9th Street & 2nd Avenue

Overheard by: Eric

Guy: I guess “not funny” is the new “funny”.

–Comedy Cellar, Macdougal Street

Woman: They need to play more Rufus Wainwright. I only hear him on WFUV.
Man: Don’t you mean W-G-A-Y?
Woman: Oh, that was tactful.

–Spade’s Noodles, Rice & More, 3rd Avenue

Girl: What about that one ugly girl?
Guy: Man, she is so ugly. I would not touch that shit.
Girl: But you already fucked her!
Guy: Yeah, but it was only once. And I used a rubber.

Guy: You’re an ugly cheating cocksucking whore; you’re a fucking ugly slut. But you know why I stay with you? We have compatible personalities.

Guy: I hate that bitch. I want to fuck her in the ass.
Girl: But baby, you like to fuck me in the ass.
Guy: Yeah baby, but you like it when I fuck you in the ass.
Girl: Yeah, it doesn’t hurt so bad when you remember to breathe.

Girl: So when we get married are you gonna stop fucking my sister?
Guy: But I’ve been fucking her for a while now…It’s like a habit.

–Olive Garden, Times Square

Overheard by: helen r.

Guy #1: Why you wanna fuck wit dat shit?
Guy #2: You are stupid, nigga! ‘Cause it’s safe to sell without a handgun.

–A train

Guy: He’s the biggest fucking asshole I ever met.
Chick: Yeah.
Guy: No, I’m serious. He’s the biggest fucking asshole in existence. The biggest–
Chick: –fucking asshole–
Guy: –I ever seen. Biggest. Biggest fucking–
Chick: –asshole. I got it.
Guy: And I gave that fucker $500 to make payments on his debt, and he doesn’t listen to word I say. And I gave his daughter something–
Chick: Herpes?
Guy: Shut the fuck up. Besides that. I gave his daughter…Hey, you gonna drink that? You throwin’ that away? You don’t throw away beer!
Chick: It’s all backwash.
Guy: Give it to me.
Chick: You’re disgusting.
Guy: Don’t fucking talk to me like that.
Chick: Or you’ll give me herpes?
Guy: Not yet. But just wait.
Chick: Don’t you dare even try to touch me. Let’s go get some smoothies.
Guy: I could use a fucking smoothie.
Chick: You’re paying.
Guy: Shut the fuck up, you fucking bitch.

–Original California Taqueria, Cobble Hill

Woman #1: He stepped on my foot!…He stepped on my foot!…Excuse me, you stepped on my foot.
Guy: Yeah, I know I did. You dropped that bottle on my foot.
Woman #2: It was an accident…
Woman #1: Don’t you see that my bag had a hole in it? It was an accident.
Guy: No, it wasn’t.
Woman #1: Oh yes, I did it deliberately.
Guy: That’s right you did.
Woman #1: Oh I’m so sorry I woke you from your precious sleep
Guy: Yeah, that’s right.

–B train

A suit on his cell accidentally bumps into a drunk girl on the LIRR platform.

Drunk girl: Why don’t you say “excuse me!” What the fuck? Just say “excuse me!”.

He ignores her and continues to talk on his cell. The drunk girl dumps a cup of water on his crotch. He doesn’t flinch.

Drunk girl: Yeah, bitch! Next time say “excuse me”, and maybe your crotch won’t be wet!

He finishes his conversation and gets on the train.

–Penn Station

Mixed guy: Getchoo elbow out my chest, man!
White man: Eh, I’m just holding onto the rail; it’s a packed train.
Mixed guy: Yeah, but why you got to be all up in my chest like that? Got you elbow in my chest!
White man: Well, does it even hurt?
Mixed guy: Yes. Why else would I even mention it? Respect my chest. Faggoty ass motherfucker. I gonna get the police all up in this shit, you motherfucking…respect my chest.
Irish guy: Shut up, yeh prick!

–1 train

Overheard by: Marguerite Carter

Guy: Hey look, it’s fucking Rudolph. You gonna gimme a ride, Rudolph? You faggot.
Little girl: Yeah, all reindeers are faggots. All reindeers are faggots, you faggot reindeer.

–46th & Broadway

Man: Watch where you’re going.
Woman: Why don’t you get out of the way?
Man: Fuck you, lady.
Woman: You come from the land of yonder where animals exist!

–23rd Street F station

Overheard by: jill Bee