Wednesday One-Liners Worry That Trucker Hats May Be Out

Hipster girl: I hate it when obviously uncool people wear flannel.

–E Train

Overheard by: dru

Hipster girl: Shark Week is a week? It lasted like a month last year.

–N 6th St, Williamsburg

Frumpy hipster: No! Hipsters melt in the rain!

–McCarren Park Pool, Greenpoint

Hipster on cell: No, I've never heard of a nocturnal squirrel… Do you even… Wait, are you trying to tell me you're gay?! No? Well, this is awkward…

–Central Park

Hipster guy to another: Have you ever played with yourself under a blacklight? There's like all kinds of shit on your dick!

–Union Hall

Overheard by: Cass

Frumpy mom, holding up item for hipster tween daughter: Catherine, is this ironic?

–Beacon's Closet, Williamsburg

Posted on February 13, 2019
All Wednesday One-Liners, Animals & Nature, Brooklyn, Central Park, Clothing, Families, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Hipsters, Masturbation, Moms, On Cell, On the Subway, Park Slope, Parks, Penis, Questions, Sensory Experiences, Stupidity, Time, TV, Tweens, Weather, Weirdness, Williamsburg

Wednesday One-Liners With Teardrop Tattoos

Tall thug to another: Yo,… I love jail food!

–Times Square

Overheard by: Never had it

Dad to overly excited daughter: Yes, you can tell your mom you went in the bouncy castle in front of the prison.

–Atlantic & Smith

Screaming four-year-old to mom: Are you going to put me in jail?

–Q Train

Young mother to baby, pinching his cheeks: Daddy's in prison! Prisonprisonprisonprisonprison!

–Jackson Heights, Queens

Overheard by: Giving up all hope Newsbunny

Posted on February 11, 2019
All Wednesday One-Liners, Brooklyn, Crime and Punishment, Dads, Family Ties, Food, Kids, Moms, On the Subway, One-liners, Parents, Prison, Queens, Questions, Street, Thugs, Times Square, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

And Don’t Think You’re Sleeping Inside Tonight

Mom: Nigga, you can have it when you got your own money!
12-year-old son: What you talkin’ about?! That ain’t your money. You bought that shit with food stamps.
Mom: Then you can have it when you get your own food stamps, Nigga!

–117th & Manhattan Ave

Posted on February 9, 2019
Kids, Moms, Money & Class

For the Next Three Seconds, Anyway.

Mother to noisy, restless son: You know what? As soon as we get home I’m calling your doctor. You’re going back on medication.
Kid, screaming: Nooo! [Spotting boarding passenger] Oh, he has a wrestling shirt! I want a wresting shirt!

–M101 bus

Overheard by: Glad it’s not my kid

Posted on February 8, 2019
Boys, Kids, Medicine, Moms, On the Bus, Threats, Wishes & desires

Or a Few Days Locked in a Room with The Cure

Mom with three kids: She’s always skipping around and has so much energy.
Mom #2: Maybe she needs drugs.

–27th & Broadway

Posted on February 6, 2019
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Default, Drugs, Moms

Wednesday One-Liners Like Their Women Like They Like Their Coffee: Hot, and with a Spoon in Them.

Hipster on cell: Dude, yeah, coffee gives me the shits too; but I'd rather have the shits than no coffee.

–Dunkin' Donuts

Overheard by: Madalyn

Poet, selling self-published book on train: We're like Starbucks coffee and biscotti; you're tall and hot and I'm hard and nutty.

–Uptown 6 Train

Overheard by: Marc

Little girl to mother: It's like every single person in the whole wide world came to Starbucks and we were the veeeerrrrryyy last ones.

–Starbucks

Colonel Sanders-looking man, in strong Southern accent: I want somethin cold… Whadya git?

–Starbucks

Posted on January 11, 2019
All Wednesday One-Liners, Artists, Coffee, Compare/Contrast, Food, Hipsters, Kids, Moms, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Poop, Restaurants & Cafes, Southerners, Starbucks, Vendors & Street Performers, Wednesday One-Liners, Wishes & desires

Tower of Babble

Kid: I speak seven different languages.
Mom: The only language you speak is Stupid.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Susspect

Headline by: Matt Higgins

Runners-Up:

· “And your Mandarin is conversational at best” – Greg Costello

· “Barbara Bush reaches her tipping point.” – Sabrina

· “But I got the Vile Cunt accent from you , mom.” – Chuck Roast

· “Kill his confidence so you don’t have to pay for Harvard” – Kristin

· “Obviously, it’s his “Mother Tongue”” – Big Larry

· “The wit of your reply has left me aghast and inarticulate, mother” – Grinning Idiot

Click here to see the new Headline Contest

Posted on December 18, 2018
Comebacks, Headline Contest Winners, Insults, Kids, Languages, Moms

Marriage Requires a Different Kind of Acting

Little girl, holding Phantom Of The Opera playbill: Mommy, were those two people married?
Mother: What two people?
Little girl: Those two people who kissed.
Mother: No. Those were actors. They were just acting in a play.
Little girl: But then outside, I saw them hug.
Mother: I think they were just saying, “Good job.” That’s how they say, “Good job.”
Little girl: Well, I saw them kiss so they better have been married!

–LIRR train

Overheard by: sara swank

Posted on December 11, 2018
K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Kids, Marriage, Moms, Theater & Dance, Trains Not Subway

She’s an Analyst For Fox News

Mom: We gotta figure out where the hell we’re going.
Child: Maybe you should ask a police officer or a security guard.
Mom: I’m not asking them anything. They don’t know shit. Learn that in life: never ask anyone anything ’cause they don’t know nothing.

–33rd & 7th

Posted on December 3, 2018
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Cops, Directions, Kids, Moms, Philosophy

Moms