Dude #1: She’s just got this, y’know, Asian air about her.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: She’s got this, like, totally anime look.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: Yeah, but I wish she were really Asian.
–88th & 1st
Overheard by: Beeeej
Dude #1: She’s just got this, y’know, Asian air about her.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: She’s got this, like, totally anime look.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: Yeah, but I wish she were really Asian.
–88th & 1st
Overheard by: Beeeej
Hipster girl #1: What are all those flags for?
Hipster girl #2: Isn't the Puerto Rican parade today?
Disillusioned passerby: Oh, great! More rapes in the park!
–Delancey & Orchard, Lower East Side
Overheard by: K Swin
Asian chick #1: Yeah, my dad is mad tan, so at the beach everyone thinks he’s Mexican.
Asian chick #2: Oh, that sucks.
–Queens
New Waiter: So I learned a secret tonight. The words “Cheers” and “Brilliant” apparently mean “I’m going to leave you a bad tip”.
Old Waiter: You’re just now learning that? That’s Day One shit.
–Capital Grille, Midtown
Overheard by: Greg Rutter
Asshole, pointing at a Chinese woman with Down Syndrome: Look a Mongoloid Mongolian.
–Pearl River Mart, Broadway
Overheard by: Philip
Girl on cell: Well, she wasn’t a better person before she went to rehab, just a more fun one…Yeah, I agree, it would be awesome if she relapsed. God, we are terrible people.
–28th & Madison
A man waves goodbye to two guys trying to help him with the subway map and departs the train.
Guy #1: Was he drunk?
Guy #2: No, he’s just Cuban.
–Queens-bound N train
Overheard by: Javi
White student: I can’t believe you guys gave my ID to another person!
Security guard: Yeah, I’m really sorry. I wish there was a better system for doing this.
White student: Yeah, they should have all the Asian kids in a separate directory, because they all have the same last names.
–23rd & Lex
Overheard by: Darren Montalbano
White chick: Excuse me sir, are these your bags?
Hispanic man: Yeah.
White chick: Do you mind if I sit here?
He moves his bags to another seat.
Hispanic man: Fucking white bitches! Making me move my bags! Fucking white bitches…sure bitch, sit down. There you go.
A few minutes later.
White dude: Excuse me, sir, are those your bags?
Hispanic man: Yeah.
White dude: Do you mind moving them, please?
Hispanic man: Sure, Cracker Jack cracker, I’ll move my bags so your white ass can sit.
–M14 bus
Girl: I hate southern people.
Friend: How can you hate all southern people?
Girl: I just do. Some people hate black people, some people hate Jewish people, I hate Southern people.
Friend: Why?
Girl: They’re so prejudiced.
–N train
Overheard by: Mystified Brooklynite
Middle-aged woman exiting subway: Man, these are a lotta steps.
Young white woman: Yeah, living in New York is like living on a Stairmaster.
Middle-aged black woman: Amen, sister.
–Broadway & Fulton
