“Let’s Get Ready to Wednesday One-Liiiiiiiner!”

Bimbette: So yesterday he called me to tell me that he’s going to beat my ass, and then he calls me today to ask if he can use my CD player.

–Staten Island Mall

Overheard by: Robert

Seven-year-old girl: She better watch herself before I pimp slap her.

–Amsterdam Projects

Girl, to rest of her punk skater group: But I be like: "Bitch, I don’t skate… I just beat bitches with it."

–Astor Place & Broadway

Overheard by: Jynx

Lady on cell: Is someone else going to smack you?

–1 Train

Overheard by: Krisztina

Man on cell: What… You flubbed what? Listen dude, I’m in midtown, but it’s too far a cab ride to come beat a grown man’s ass.

–W Hotel, 49th & Lex

Overheard by: Miami Hitman

Bus driver to angry man: You want a piece of this? There are 26 places on the body that can kill you instantly. I can hit 4 in one shot. You wanna dance?!

–M16 Bus

Overheard by: nora!

Posted on June 4, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Anger Management, Bimbettes, Bitch-slap, Body Parts, Bus Drivers, Girls, Hotels, Insults, Kids, Malls, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, NYC Geography, On Cell, On the Bus, On the Subway, Punks, Questions, Skaters, Staten Island, The Village, Threats, Violence, Weirdness, Women

Civil Liberties Are What’s Wrong With This Country

ACLU girl soliciting signatures for petition: Hey, you’ve heard of us, haven’t you?
Old man: Yes, we have. And we don’t like you! We don’t like you!

–Outside the Met

Overheard by: Samantha

Posted on June 3, 2008
Activists, Default, Men, Old People, Politics, Questions, The Met, Weirdness

The Dark Side of the Moon’s a Giant Litter Box

Kids: Ewwwwwww!!
Man with them: What about aliens?
Kids: Ewwww! Everyone knows they poop all over themselves. Poop alllllll over themselves! Ewwwwww!

–Frederick Douglass & 124th

Posted on June 2, 2008
Default, Fears, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Kids, Men, Poop, Questions, Threats

What Happens When You Only Know One Adjective

Woman: This is a nice building.
Man: Andy Warhol was shot on the sixth floor.
Woman: Nice!

–33 Union Square West

Posted on June 2, 2008
About Celebrities, Compliments, Default, Men, Murder, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Women, Words

Would Also Help Solve the Problem of What to Put in My Video-Will

Old man: By this time of day, my left buttcheek always starts hurting! Not the right one, just the left one. In the morning I feel fine, but by the afternoon… It hurts!
Old lady: I don’t know what to tell you, Earl. Maybe you need to shake it more.

–Bay Terrace

Overheard by: Sov

Posted on May 31, 2008
Advice, Ass, Default, Gripes, Health and Hygiene, Men, Old People, Queens, Sensory Experiences, Weirdness, Women

More Legal Troubles for Zsa Zsa Gabor

Woman: So… After she took the banana, the monkey just up and slapped her! Can you believe that?
Man: What did she do?
Woman: What do you think she did? She slapped that bitch right back!

–JFK Airport

Posted on May 30, 2008
Animals & Nature, Bitch-slap, Default, Fruit, JFK Airport, Men, Weirdness, Women

Where Menstruating Openly on Subway Platforms Is the Final Taboo

Man: [Really disgusting burp.]Friend: That’s gross.
Man: That’s not gross. You eat, you shit, you burp, you fart. Welcome to New York, ladies.

–Shop, Chinatown

Posted on May 29, 2008
Chinatown, Compare/Contrast, Default, Etiquette, Farting & Burping, Friends, Men, Store

Not That There’s Anything Wrong with Wednesday One-Liners

Dude on cell: I’m okay with it. As long as nobody slaps me or calls me gay or spits on me. Those are my three things. As long as nobody does those three things.

–21st St & 8th Ave

Asian girl: You gave me the gay!

–C Train

Overheard by: Jordan

Female cop to male cop: You a queer? For real, you queer? You a queer? You a queer? Oh, I didn’t know that. Okay. [Nods.]

–C Train

Barnard girl to friends: I don’t think he’s gay, I just think he has problems having sex with women.

–Columbia University Steps

Overheard by: John Jay

Man to friend: See, I told you this was a gay neighborhood, look at all the women!

–Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights

Overheard by: glekapolis

Loudly homophobic guy: Gay! Gay! My ass hurts from watching that preview!

–AMC Theater, Times Square

Overheard by: Lo

Posted on May 28, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Asians, Ass, Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Coworkers, Fears, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Guys, Insults, Men, NYC Geography, On Cell, On the Subway, Questions, Sensory Experiences, Sexuality, Sorority Girls, Theater, Times Square, Women

Are You Pre-op or Post-op, Wednesday One-Liners?

Pragmatic bouncer: Well, there weren’t enough women there, so we threw in a tranny…

–Broadway Caribou Coffee

Overheard by: jenny Lui

Man, to friend: So, he says to me "Oh, I have a sex-change operation scheduled for that day, so I can’t make it."

–46th, b/w 8th & 9th

Overheard by: christine

30-something woman with nose ring, on cell: She’s like a transvestite… And an ugly bird. She’s like a transvestite and an emu. [pause] It’s a really ugly bird.

–7th Ave

Overheard by: James from Jersey

Guy: So then I was like, suck my twat!

–21st & 6th

20-something girl: I had him as both a man and a woman.

–17th St & 5th Ave

Overheard by: Tater

Dude: It’s been ages since I had testicles!

–Grand Sichuan, St. Mark’s Place

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on May 28, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Balls, Birds, Bouncers, Compare/Contrast, Friends, Gender issues, Girls, Guys, Insults, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Not New York, On Cell, Physical appearance, Restaurants & Cafes, Surgery, Trannies, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Women, Words

Wednesday One-Liners Play Hungry, Hungry Hypocrites

Woman with thick Jersey accent, very seriously: I really need to get an accent. Accents are very important to people here.

–1 Train

Overheard by: McFreaky

Drunk man screaming into cell: Stop fucking yelling!

–30th & 8th

Guy on phone: It just really bugs me that she’s always talking to other people about our relationship…

–Bedford & 4th, Williamsburg

Overheard by: andebobandy

Aussie bartender with heavy accent: He was complaining that the burger wasn’t flat because it’s hand-rolled and not frozen. [pause] Fucking foreigners.

–O’Keefe’s, Court Street, Brooklyn

Overheard by: NJH

Guy in wheelchair (peeing in a Snapple bottle) to friend: People are nasty.

–W 38th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Bebe

Posted on May 28, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Drunks, Foreigners, Gripes, Guys, Insults, Junk Food & Fast Food, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Subway, Relationships, Restaurants & Cafes, Williamsburg, Wishes & desires, Women