Scalpel….Scissors….Wednesday One-Liners…

Big black crossdresser: Oh honey, I know that no amount of surgery is going to make me a diva!

–3 Train

Overheard by: Kailee McMahon

Mother to small daughter: Honey, don't forget to wash your hands. (girl scrubs hands for a long time) Honey, you aren't getting ready to perform surgery. Hurry up.

–Women's Bathroom, The Met

Man: He had to have his top hat surgically removed.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Kevin

Intern: Latex gloves are for killing people, surgery and dying your hair.

–1501 Broadway

Overheard by: Randi

Loud woman on phone: Yeah, he got his tubes clipped this weekend. He's been fixed! Oh, but don't tell anyone, he doesn't want anybody to know.

–Dunkin Donuts

Girl on cell: How did teaching go? How was the surgery? Did human skin taste good?

–Columbia University

Overheard by: The Poogtastic One

Posted on October 15, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Beauty, Black People, Clothing, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Coworkers, Girls, Gossip, Hair, Health and Hygiene, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Murder, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Plastic Surgery, Private Parts, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Sensory Experiences, Stall Spies, The Met, Trannies, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Women

And Stop Bringing Refugees Home With You–They Don't Get Along With the Cats

Louis Vuitton-carrying mother: Now I'm going to a halal meat market in Brooklyn next week!
Louis Vuitton-carrying daughter: I want to go to a halal market! Ever since I wrote my thesis I just love refugees!
Mother: Halal markets are for Muslims, not refugees!
Daughter: Well, close enough.

–75th & Lexington

Posted on October 14, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Default, Ethnic Food, Girls, Insults, Islam, Moms, Upper East Side

If You've Seen Three, You Want to Prevent It

(baby is crying)
Mother: You better stop crying when I count to three. One… Two…
(baby stops crying, but starts again after a while)
Mother: I said “two!”
(baby stops crying again)

–BX9 Bus

Overheard by: Jason

Posted on October 14, 2008
Babies, Default, Moms, Offers and requests, On the Bus, Parents, The Bronx, Threats, Words

When You Were Born He Wanted You to Be Left on a Hillside

Four-year-old boy to mom: Mom, do we want the Mets to win or the Yankees?
(mom ignores comment)
Boy: I think I want them both to win!
Mom: I don't think your father's going to be very happy about this.

–3 Train

Overheard by: Danielle

Posted on October 12, 2008
Boys, Default, Kids, Mets, Moms, On the Subway, Parents, Questions, Wishes & desires, Yankees

Bottom Line, the Subway Smells a Little Bit Better

Short haired woman: You didn't see in the car?
Little girl: No, no! Tell me, tell me!
Short haired woman: Ask your mother.
Mother: It was like an elephant exploded diarrhea all over the seat.
Little girl: I wanna see! I wanna see!

–A Train

Posted on October 11, 2008
Animals & Nature, Cars and Driving, Default, Girls, Kids, Moms, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Poop, Questions, Wishes & desires, Women

It's Pronounced “Canadia”

Son: It is cold, like Canada!
Mom: You've never been to Canada.
Daughter: Don't talk about Canada.

–Spanish Harlem

Overheard by: Jaina

Posted on October 10, 2008
Brothers, Compare/Contrast, Default, Global Geography, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Moms, Offers and requests, Sisters, Travel, Weather

If You're Gonna Lie, at Least Be in the Gutter with a Fifth of Jack Daniels.

Middle school girl on Nextel: Hi mom.
Mom (from Nextel): Hello?
Girl (into Nextel): Yeah, mom. Hello? I am on my way home.
Mom (from Nextel): Where are you?
Girl (into Nextel): I am just getting off the bus right now.

–Target, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Lynda

Posted on October 9, 2008
Brooklyn, Default, Girls, Kids, Lies, Moms, Public Transportation, Questions, Store, Tweens

Wednesday Had One-Liners for the Tax Exemptions

Ghetto mother to obnoxiously loud child: Stop it! Stop it! I said stop it! Oooh, girl I am gonna sell yo ass for a Lexus and a mansion if you don't stop!

–L Train

Mother to small child lagging behind: Do you want to go home with another family?

–South St Seaport

Overheard by: shopgirl

Grandmother to small grandson: You went potty, Nietzsche? That's very good. Nana is coming over later, Nietzsche.

–Carl Schurz Park

Mother, to kid peeing on street: Michael, we don't pee on other people's doors!

–Central Park West

Overheard by: Nikki

Mother, to kid looking at toys: It's not a toilet, it's to make cupcakes.

–Toys "R" US, Times Square

Overheard by: Howie

Father, to five-year-old son: I had no idea you liked AC/DC!

–Penn Station

Mother, to son in stroller watching two shady characters: Oh, a drug deal! Sam*, your first drug deal encounter.

–81st & Amsterdam

Overheard by: andrew daly

Posted on October 8, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Cars and Driving, Central Park, Compliments, Dads, Drugs, Etiquette, Ghetto Chicks, Kids, Moms, Money & Class, Music, Nicknames & name calling, Offers and requests, Old People, On the Subway, Parks, Pee, Penn Station, Philosophy, Poop, Questions, Store, Threats, Upper East Side, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Weirdness, Women

Exactly.

40-something Spanish woman to 15-year-old son: What kind of a retard are you? You're just like your father!
(son looks around nervously)
Father, standing next to her: Wait, what?

–Canal & Centre

Overheard by: Einstien

Posted on October 7, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Dads, Default, Girls, Insults, Latinos, Moms, Questions, Soho, Weirdness

I Only Do That on Holidays

Little girl: Mommy, you can bite my ear.
Ghetto mama: Huh?
Little girl: You want to bite my ear?
Ghetto mama: No!
Little girl: Come on mommy, bite my ear!
Ghetto mama: Goddamn it child, no!

–6 Train

Overheard by: Barnard girl

Posted on October 6, 2008
Body Parts, Default, Ghetto Chicks, Girls, Kids, Moms, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Weirdness

Moms