Lady #1: Jeez! Another pregnant lady!
Lady #2: I know! This must be like the 50th we’ve seen today!
Lady #1: Is “pregnant” all of a sudden the “in thing”?
–72nd & Broadway
Overheard by: Ellen
Lady #1: Jeez! Another pregnant lady!
Lady #2: I know! This must be like the 50th we’ve seen today!
Lady #1: Is “pregnant” all of a sudden the “in thing”?
–72nd & Broadway
Overheard by: Ellen
Soccer mom #1: She’s a nun. Can’t smoke, drink or get married…
Soccer mom #2: Really? I just thought she was very butch.
–Nyack NY BBQ
Overheard by: Jerry Comyn
Businesswoman: It was almost like something I invented, although the restaurant did have that dish. But other restaurants didn’t have it!
–Midtown office
Stylish woman: Oh my god! This corn flan is amazing. It’s corn…but it’s flan…I can’t even begin to describe it.
–North Square, Waverly Place
Overheard by: Christine M.
Upper West Side wife #1: He thinks I can operate this household on $25,000 a month–that bastard better get a better job.
Upper West Side wife #2: Yeah, really, he needs to get his shit together.
–83rd & Broadway
Overheard by: Mike
Lady who lunches #1: Did you see that sad picture of the little African baby on the cover of the Times today?
Lady who lunches #2: I know, it is terrible, but didn't you love the hat it was wearing?
–Crosstown Bus M79
Overheard by: TimNH
Old lady to other: Oh… S & M… Do you like to be the dominant one?
–El Greco Diner, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Robert
Girl boarding elevator, to friend: So, it’s not good when you have to ask your boyfriend if he’s ever whipped himself… [Notices other people on elevator] Oops.
–Elevator, 34th & 1st
Chick to another: We all assume that one day you’ll be married with kids… Probably with a dungeon in the basement, but nonetheless.
–House party, 113th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: McFreaky
Leather goods hawker: I’ve got leather everything! Leather thongs, leather socks… I got a leather condom with a zipper up the side!
–Orchard, near Rivington
Overheard by: losaida
Man: That Chinese lady liked it when I whipped you.
–G train
Overheard by: Jordan
TA to another: I love that we’ve been e-mailing about a student’s paper under the subject line ‘Fetish Ball.’
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Wild Dog Boy
Small child, happily: … And that’s the kind of pain that never goes away!
–1 train
Overheard by: Emily Star
Lady #1: Hey, Bonnie.
Lady #2: Hi, how are you?
Lady #1: I don’t know… One of my nurses quit today.
Lady #2: I was arrested yesterday.
–Elevator near Union Square
Woman #1: They’re always having kids.
Woman #2: I think she just gets pregnant really easily.
–Union Square
Woman #1: Is it just me, or is it starting to rain?
Woman #2: No, someone probably spat on you.
–W 35th St
