Manhattan

Girl: Wow! Did you see the rack on her?
Guy: Where?
Girl: Over there…
Guy: Man! You’re not kidding!
Girl: See what I do for you? Who’s the best girlfriend ever?

–Rockefeller Center

Hobo: Got a cigarette you can spare?…Give me a cigarette!
Girl #1: Hey, fuck you.
Hobo: Yeah, fuck you too!
Girl #2: At least we have a home!
Hobo: Yeah, I got a home too. In your mother’s cunt, bitch!

–Broadway & Bleecker

Overheard by: Solanum

Guy on cell: Yeah, is it Mother’s Day or something?…Oh, I think it’s either Mother’s Day or my mom’s birthday, and I wasn’t sure which…Are you sure it’s not Mother’s Day? Because there’s a lot of people walking around Penn Station carrying flowers.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: LiAps

Guy: I’m gonna go over to D’Ag and get some groceries.
Girl: I think it’s closed.
Guy: Ugh! I forgot the whole world is in church today.
Girl: Shut up, you Jew.

–Greenwich Hotel elevator, Greenwich Street

Overheard by: Jen C.

Chick on cell: You ate pizza on the first fucking night of Passover? Jesus Christ, you’re a bad Jew!

–Marcy Avenue station

Overheard by: katie, a princess

Mom: I am so thirsty, I really would like a Coke. Only two more days ’til I can get one. Do you think this is how Jesus felt when he was in the desert for 40 days?

–Union Square Regal Cinemas

Overheard by: Audrey

Girl on cell: I must’ve gained, like, 10 pounds after the two Passover seders I went to…and I still have Easter dinner to worry about!…What? No, I’m not having a religious identity crisis!

–14th & University

Overheard by: Amelia D

Girl: So what’s with the 40 days of Lent thing?
Guy: Jesus walked the Earth for 40 days after resurrection.
Girl: Oh! So he was like a zombie! That’s so cool!

–118th & Broadway

Overheard by: a catholic

Chick on cell: Dude, let’s go to church before we get fucked up. It’s fuckin’ Easter, you know!

–Fulton & Nassau

Mom: But it’s Easter!
Chick: I’m not religious.
Mom: Yes, you are.
Chick: Plus, I’ve already been to two seders this week: one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. We made latkes, they were really good!
Mom: Yeah, and you also made those potato pancake things.

–Paprika, St. Marks Place

Overheard by: lish

Manager lady on phone: Hi, there…. Oh, I’m just sitting at my desk eating matzoh and turkey, and I’m just bitter. Just very, very bitter. What a stupid holiday! Anyway, how are you?

–Office, 37th & Broadway

Overheard by: Jillynyc

Girl on cell: C-Town doesn’t sell matzoh, I guarantee it. Just fucking rice and beans everywhere…What? You’re not eating bread for the whole week?…Didn’t you just tell me you made a ham?…Oh my god, your mother would fucking have a heart attack.

–Metro-North train

Guy #1: Man, what kind of dog is that?
Guy #2: I don’t know, but it shits a lot.

–125th & Broadway

Overheard by: LoJo

Girl #1: Oh no, he didn’t! He just texted me in caps!
Girl #2: Oh whatever, remember when you you used to caps everyone?
Girl #1: That was before I knew how to change out of caps lock.

–86th & 2nd

Girl #1: So, he sells cell phones, but he makes like four hundred thousand a year! And he has this gorgeous wife and this gorgeous kid, and he smokes pot all the time and it never affects him…He is just amazing…It doesn’t make sense.
Girl #2: Is he Satan?

–Coral Towers Residence elevator, 3rd Avenue

Guy #1: Hey, watch it! Jerk!
Guy #2: Get a bigger dog, asshole!
Guy #1: Be a smaller person!

–Bleecker & Perry

Overheard by: Zell

Old man #1: Do you know why a bunny is connected to Easter?
Old man #2: No.
Old man #1: It’s because Easter is about fertility and rabbits are animals that are always copulating.
Old man #2: Huh, I never heard about that.
Old man #1: Think about it. On Easter, you have the bunnies and the bunnies have eggs and the eggs have children in them.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Amanda Matteis

Little boy #1: Do you live on the Upper West Side?
Little boy #2: Well, technically yes and technically no.
Little boy #1: Okay, see you tomorrow.

–85th & Amsterdam

Crazy woman: What? Yes, send me the numbers, I’ll help you with the numbers.
Med chick: Oh, excuse me. I’m sorry.
Crazy woman: You dont have to be sorry, but if you want to make it up to me, make me some General Tso chicken and a pu pu platter…Why didn’t you call me? By the way, who the fuck is Milstein?

–Milstein Hospital, Fort Washington Avenue