Loud girl #1: I want an iPod.
Loud girl #2: I think iPods are completely overrated; iPods, Uggs, and nose rings…
Man: Girls, you’re forgetting space tourism, you fucking idiots.
–G train
Loud girl #1: I want an iPod.
Loud girl #2: I think iPods are completely overrated; iPods, Uggs, and nose rings…
Man: Girls, you’re forgetting space tourism, you fucking idiots.
–G train
Very young misbehaving child: But mommy! I really want it!
Annoyed mother: If you don't behave, I'm going to delete all the music off your iPod!
--H&M 35th & 7th
Overheard by: Marissa Pelly
Girl (pointing at Nano ad on side of phone booth): Look, it’s those iPods I want to eat.
Guy: Eat them? They do kind of look like Skittles.
Girl: Yes, mmmmm! I want to eat them!
Guy: What would the gray one taste like?
Girl: Meatloaf.
–56th & 9th
Overheard by: Guy who wouldn’t eat them
Man to woman, as she stamps on jacket: Hey, yo! My iPod’s in there!
Woman, continuing to stamp on jacket: I don’t give a fuck!
–8th & Broadway
Hipster girl: You really need to hear his podcast about how technology is raping our souls.
–Bleecker & Broadway
Overheard by: Jekke
Hipster on cell: So I just got my new iPod… Yeah, it’s awesome! All I need now is a job, and I’m totally set!
–Stillwater, E 4th & 2nd
Overheard by: Pedro Van
Dude: I think my iPod’s gay.
–23rd St F stop
Overheard by: Eliot
Chemistry teacher: I am not liking annoying sound. Today on subway there was man with pants, like, here [motions to mid‐thigh] and loud, how you call?… iPod! I am thinking, ‘He is going to lose his pants!’ And he stand on crowded train and sing with iPod. He give us concert, and am I thinking, ‘Why he not dead yet?’
–Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Little boy, about man blaring music from cell: Geez, just get an iPod, dude!
–Crowded A train
Overheard by: Neal Mortimer
Suit: (bangs on information glass repeatedly)
Clerk, playing with his iPod: How may I help you?
Suit: Can I exchange my expired MetroCard?
Clerk: See the sign says “information only”? Go across the street.
Suit: So what are you here for? To play with your iPod?
Clerk: I deserve my job.
–R Train
Overheard by: Danchik
Woman #1: My principal says you can get French lessons as an iPod.
Woman #2: An “iPod”?
Woman #1: Yeah…they’re about 15 minutes long, they come on your computer, and they’re free.
Woman #2: Hmm.
Woman #1: Wait, I mean a podcast.
Woman #2: “Podcast”? Sounds like it comes from aliens.
–Patisserie Claude, West 4th Street
Overheard by: Rich Mintz
Penny‐pincher: Excuse me. Where do they sell the knockoff iPods?
–Times Square
20‐something woman on cell: So I’m like, “Be a man and go in the ladies’ room!”
–19th & 7th
Overheard by: tycho anomaly
40‐something suit on cell: Why do I have to be the girl?
–University Place & 14th St
Overheard by: rich
Meathead: To the point where the hottest women in Thailand are men. But I mean, no homo or anything.
–Uptown 5 Train
Overheard by: Can’t vouch for this
Woman on cell: So yeah, men and women are different. Anyway…
–High Line Park
Overheard by: hudson williams‐eynon
Guy, looking at friend’s iPhone: Ugh, I really didn’t need to see shemale penis today.
–99 Below Restaurant
Overheard by: Calvin SC
