Multiculturalism, Overheard Style

Girl #1: Yeah, so lately I’ve been really getting into African click songs.
Girl #2: Please don’t demonstrate.

–Grand Central Station, Dining Concourse

Young guy #1: So are you doing anything for Cinco de Mayo?
Young guy #2: Uh, I guess I’ll just go out like regular.
Young guy #1: Yeah, that’s cool.
Young guy #2: Actually, one of my friends knows a ton of Puerto Rican people, so that’ll be good.
Young guy #1: Um…yeah…

–6 train

Overheard by: Saltman

Italian #1: So my buddy Max was telling he how how he hooked up with this Puerto Rican chick the other night and it was…
Italian #2: And it was the best sex he ever had, right?
Italian #1: Man, you alway fuck up my stories by cutting in.
Italian #2: Fine, finish the story.
Italian #2: Fuck you, you already wrecked it!

–Union Square

Girl: I don’t look like an Eskimo, I have a tan.
Guy: I thought Eskimos were darker skinned.
Girl: [silence] Guy: I thought Eskimos were darker. I think their skin is darker.
Girl: [silence] Guy: I think they have darker skin.
Girl: [silence] Guy: Anyway I think it’d be funny to see you in an igloo.

–2/3 train

Guy: [something in Spanish]… how do you say “altar boy”? You know, the ones whose little dicks the priest sucks?

–7th & Ave A

Overheard by: Jenny B

Guy to buddies: This chick was so ugly I wouldn’t want to cum on her face.

–Off the Wagon

Girl #1: Can I see your digital camera for a sec?
Girl #2: Not now.
Girl #1: Why not?
Girl #2: This is 125th Street. A little risky to be taking out expensive electronics.
Girl #1: Understood. I’ll ask again at 86th.

–4 train

Overheard by: sarah bitchards

Nun: Can you spare some change for St. Patrick’s Orphanage?
Asian girl #1: Sorry
Asian girl #2: Sorry
Nun: Damned chinks are all the same.

–American Burger, 32nd & 6th

Overheard by: Alex Gray

Little girl, pointing: Jewish people!!
Mom: Shhh.

–F train

Blonde on cell: Sometimes I wish I was a Mexican. Like, a Mexican boy. Life would be so much easier. [pause] You know, because they always have a lot of roommates. Like, 15 Mexican boys live together.

–Metro-North from Grand Central to New Haven