Wednesday One-Liners– As Far As You Know

Man on cell, coming out of The Dark Knight: I'm sorry that I couldn't pick up your call, I was in a very important meeting with a client.

–Lowes Movie Theater, 68th & Broadway

Guy on cell walking out of subway entrance: I'm getting on the subway now.

–Park Place & Church Street

Overheard by: Rich Mintz

Female suit on cell: Well, I can't talk long, I'm about to get on a plane. Yeah, JFK.

–Battery Park

Overheard by: pop pop

Overweight woman to daughter in pink tutu: You made me come here! Don't lie! Don't lie! Don't lie!

–Ikea, Redhook

Overheard by: Emily B.

Annoying anchor: I'm writing a newscast. I don't have time to check facts.

–CBS News Headquarters, 57th St

Overheard by: The Shadow News Bunny

Posted on December 31, 2019
All Wednesday One-Liners, Battery Park, Buildings, Fat People, Jobs & Careers, Lies, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Movie Theaters, Not New York, On Cell, Public Transportation, Store, Suits, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Women

Where Jeopardy! Winners Come From

Mom pushing stroller: … And how do you spell ‘Loch Ness’?
Four-year-old boy: L, um… L-O, um… um… L-O-C-H-N-E-S-S

–17th St & Irving Pl

Posted on December 26, 2019
Kids, Moms, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Questions, Words

Wednesday One-Liners Talk Shit

Woman to friend: I have a theory: they just throw the horseshit over the wall.

–Central Park South

Overheard by: marijke

Jewish guy: You need to come down here at some point and feel how amazing this chair is. It gives great lumbar support. You will be jealous and then you will poop from jealousy… But you better not poop on my chair.

–Bleecker & Mercer

Woman on cell: Honey, but they were pooping all over the deck and hitting each other with shovels!

–West Village

NYU student to mother: You can't really get a good dinner in this town for under ten dollars…well, you can…but you'll just poop it out later.

–4th St & 2nd Ave

(mother notices toddler's soiled diaper, says something to him, and bends down to pick him up)
Toddler (in small, adorable voice): Waaaaiit, can I walk, so my poop doesn't get squashed?

–Bedford & 5th

20-something guy to friend: You need feces? I can provide!

–Broadway & 12th

Overheard by: elijah

Posted on December 17, 2019
All Wednesday One-Liners, Animals & Nature, Babies, Central Park, Fighting and ass kicking, Food, Friends, Guys, Health and Hygiene, Jews, Kids, Moms, Money & Class, Offers and requests, On Cell, Paranoia, Poop, Questions, Students, The Village, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, West Village, Women

Is This a Great Town, or What?

Young boy: I don’t care what anyone says, I am wearing a red dress on Monday.
Mom: Oh? Well, how are you going to get it?
Young boy: I don’t know, but that’s where you come in.
Mom: I don’t have a red dress.
Young boy: Oh, I thought you did.
Mom: I have a t-shirt with a belt around it. You can wear that.

–Near Columbia University

Overheard by: sam

Posted on December 16, 2019
Clothing, Columbia, Kids, Moms

Worst. Infomercial. Ever.

Girl: I have to pee sooooo bad!
Mother: You just went to the bathroom ten minutes ago.
Girl: But I have to pee again! Can you put something in my vagina to hold it up?

–M104 Bus

Posted on November 5, 2019
Bus, Girls, Moms, Offers and requests, On the Bus, Parents, Pee, Vagina, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

I Might Have to Take Some Action If I Knew

Mother, after mayor Bloomberg goes by: Was that Rudy?
Daughter: Giuliani? You really don't know what Rudy Giuliani looks like?
Mother: No.
Daughter: This is almost as bad as the time you said you don't know what Darfur is.
Mother: I still don't.

–Columbus Day Parade

Posted on November 2, 2019
Girls, Global Geography, Moms, Parades & Festitivites, Parents, Politics, Questions, Stupidity

It’s Pronounced ‘Dumas’

Boy: Oh man, my foot really hurts.
Mom: Well maybe if you weren’t such a dumbass it would get better.

–Columbus & 5th

Posted on October 25, 2019
Body Parts, Insults, Moms, The Bronx

Oh, No, Honey. Those Are Just Gangstas

Mother: Be careful, sweetie, because there are criminals everywhere in New York!
Little girl: Look! There’s a taxi full of criminals!

–Outside Madison Square Garden

Overheard by: Annie Dechant

Posted on October 19, 2019
Crime and Punishment, Kids, Madison Square Garden, Moms

What Is Art? Are We Art? Are Wednesday One-Liners Art?

Older gay guy on cell: In the 60s, you didn't need to have passion or talent to be an artist; you just needed to have a van, because no one else was going to haul your shitty art around.

–7th Ave & 14th St

Overheard by: Miss C

Girl reading sign at Frank Lloyd Wright museum: Oh… He was an architect!

–Guggenheim Museum

Overheard by: Antartic

Mom to little girl: If you look at too much art in one day, you'll turn into a statue.

–MoMA

Guy on phone: Yeah, she said she didn't think I would want to go, but why the fuck not? I'll go to a fucking museum if I fucking want to. I'll look at some paintings and shit.

–Downtown Brooklyn

Overheard by: Mark McLaughlin

12-year-old boy, looking at Picasso paintings: This is totally my thing, man, it's like free porn.

–MoMA