Jennifer Wednesday-One-Liner Hewitt

Eight-year-old girl to eight-year-old friend: You see, I love him, but I can't make that kind of commitment right now.

–Carroll Gardens

Lone suit, shaking fists in air: Why do fools fall in love?!

–Wall Street

Overheard by: poisonivy

Woman to neighbor, shouting out of the window: She's an idiot! She knows the man's a fucking bullshit artist, and she's in love with him!

–Hoffman St & 187th

Inebriated, tattooed man on cell: You fuckin' love me?! You fuckin' know what? That's fuckin' unreal, you know why?! Because you fuckin' don't!

–Port Authority Bus Terminal

Overheard by: Cara

Sallow, skinny, melancholy tattooed dude: Looking for love in all the wrong places… That's why I was after her ass.

–Uptown 1 Train

Overheard by: Susan Volchok

Posted on October 7, 2009
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Wednesday One-Liner, Dearest

Girl on cell: And you're leaving with a butthole the size of a pancake your mom cooked! (pause) You don't want that.

–33rd & 6th

Overheard by: Gaunt

Ghetto fabulous teen boy: So I said, "What? Did you say you wanna fuck my motha'? Well I'm gonna fuck yo brotha!"

–34th & 6th

Overheard by: Fiona

Woman outside store to a child speaking to her mother: What do you mean you don't like her? That's your mother, man!

–125th & Park Ave

Woman on phone: Hello? Yeah, how are you? (pause) So I didn't really deal with my mother's death because I wasn't sober then.

–Starbucks

Overheard by: Laura

Man: Speaking of mother's graves, I want my urn back.

–13th & Ave A

Overheard by: erkala

Posted on October 7, 2009
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Why Do You Think We Named You “Kleenex,” Sweetie?

Toddler, as mom wipes her hand on him: Ew! What was that?
Mother: Love.
Toddler: Gross!

–54th & 10th

Overheard by: aida

Posted on October 6, 2009
Kids, Love, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Parents, Questions, Weirdness

Probably Because “Indian Giver” Is a Tad Offensive

Partygoer #1: See, 'cause god gave us Jesus… but then he took him back!
Partygoer #2: God's a big Indian giver.
Partygoer #1: That's the real message of the season. But let's see parents teaching that to their kids!

–107th St & Broadway

Posted on October 6, 2009
Compare/Contrast, Education, Friends, God, Jesus, Kids, Parents, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

I'm Getting You a Cell Phone

Little boy: When we leave, how do we know how to get home?
Waspy mommy: Oh! C'mon sweetie, you know our street don't you?
Little boy: Uptown!

–Saks

Overheard by: smith

Posted on October 5, 2009
Directions, Home, Sweet Home, Kids, Moms, Parents, Questions, Store, White People

Lion: Tsk, Kids Today!

Mother to daughter, at lion exhibit: And what sound does a lion make?
Young daughter: Woof?

–The Bronx Zoo

Posted on October 5, 2009
Animals & Nature, Kids, Man's Best Friend, Moms, Parents, Parks, Questions, Stupidity, The Bronx

We Made That, Sweetie

Mother: And that's why they're beautiful, cuz god made them. Everything god makes is beautiful.
Daughter, pointing to homeless man: Not that.

–104th St & 3rd Ave

Overheard by: Jonesy

Posted on October 5, 2009
Beauty, God, Homeless, Kids, Parents, Should've Used a Condom, Upper East Side

She's Such a Troll

Crazy teacher to little kids getting off train: People! We cannot convene in this manner! Do not stand around like a herd of goats!
Sane teacher: Did she just say “goats”?

–F Train

Overheard by: Afraid for the State of Education

Posted on October 3, 2009
Animals & Nature, Crazies, Kids, On the Subway, Passengers, Public Transportation, Questions, Teachers/Professors, Weirdness, Words

That Expression Went Out in the 1950's, Sweetie.

Vendor: Let's go soda! Pepsi! Diet Pepsi!
Little girl to mom: Did he say “hot dog”?

–Shea Stadium

Overheard by: Eminems

Posted on October 3, 2009
Drinks, Junk Food & Fast Food, Kids, Moms, Parents, Questions, Shea Stadium, Vendors & Street Performers, Words

Wednesday Isn't One-Liner. He Has a Girlfriend in Canada.

11 year-old girl to dad: Sucking on something automatically makes you gay.

–High Line

Overheard by: Kirby

NYPD detective, working Gay Pride parade: They've been coming out for the last two hours. And they will probably be coming out for another three hours!

–5th Ave & 55th St

Overheard by: Just Visiting…

Not very effeminate gay guy, near extremely effeminate group of pride festers: Suddenly, I don't feel so gay!

–PrideFest, Abingdon Square

Overheard by: proud dad

Man to friend: The problem with getting too buff is that people start to think that you're gay.

–Starbucks

Male fashionista to stranger on bus: And she thought I was gay because I dress well and stuff. (to another passenger) Oh, is that moisturizer? Can I use some?

–Hampton Jitney

Overheard by: Can't imagine why she thought so

Woman handcuffed to man, having romantic picnic with rose petals spilled over a blanket: I didn't think I would be handcuffed to you in a park telling you all of my secrets when I met you in a gay bar!

–Central Park Sheep Meadow

Posted on September 30, 2009
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