Dude, Where Are My Wednesday One-Liners?

Suit on cell: You know, in the 80s everyone and their brother were making limos in their basement.

–17th & Broadway

Overheard by: Vespa

(obnoxious pimped-out car revs up at stop sign, then tears down the road)
Old guy: That guy's goin' back to the future! 88 miles per hour!

–9th & Stuyvesant

Tough-looking woman to younger one: Let me teach you how to break into a car…

–27th b/w 6th & 5th

Overheard by: Kyle

Russian guy on cell (in Russian): I am not seeing her as a woman, I am seeing her as a potential driver of a vehicle.

–Lower East Side

50-something woman: I haven't seen a good pimpmobile since the seventies. I mean, what happened to all the purple, maroon, and gold? What is all of this crap with yellow hummers and black Escalades these days, it's like all the pimps went to finishing school sometime in 1981.

–Central Park

Overheard by: Graham Davis

Posted on October 11, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Cars and Driving, Central Park, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Crime and Punishment, Family Ties, Foreigners, Guys, Lower East Side, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Old People, On Cell, Suits, Threats, Union Square and East Village, West Village, Women

Let Me Call My Twin Brother

Woman: Sir, how much for your peacock?
Man with handful of peacock feathers: Ten bucks.
Woman: Well, then I’ll take two!

–15th St, between 1st & 2nd

Posted on October 10, 2014
Animals & Nature, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Strangers

Dammit, I Got Pictures, I Got Candy, I'm a Loveable Man

Random guy in car to four people trying to hail a cab: Hey, where are you going? I'll give you a lift.
Woman: Uh, no thanks.
Random guy: Really, anywhere you want to go, no problem.
Woman: We're fine. Thanks.
Random guy: Go fuck yourself! (zooms off)

–40th & Lexington

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on October 7, 2014
Guys, Harassment, Insults, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Offers and requests, Women

Let's Whittle!

Chubby Hispanic guy: I got soap on a rope, dude.
Manly black guy: And I got scissors, baby.

–W 34th St

Posted on October 4, 2014
Default, Fat People, Gays and Lesbians, Guys, Latinos, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Pick-up Lines

Please Cab Your Dog

Young woman: Thank you so much for picking me up with my dog! No one would stop for me.
Cabbie: People who love animals love humans. If you can’t clean up the shit of a dog, how are you going to clean up the shit of humanity?
Young woman: Wow, that’s deep. I totally agree.

–18th & 3rd

Posted on October 1, 2014
Cabbies, Excretions, Man's Best Friend, Murray Hill and Gramercy

Fortunately For Me, Medium is the New Large

Woman: How many slices are in a medium?
Pizza guy: 8.
Woman: How many slices are in a large?
Pizza guy: 8.
Woman: Can I speak to someone else?

–Pizzeria, 14th & 1st

Posted on October 1, 2014
Murray Hill and Gramercy, Pizza, Restaurants & Cafes, Stupidity

Another Year Older and None the Wednesday One-Liner

Guy on cell: Happy birthday! (pause) Okay, call me when you're drunk!

–45th St

Girl on cell: Then when I volunteered to give her to him on his birthday.

–Court St, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Vincent L.

Crazy guy: I'm turning 65 tomorrow… Stayin' away from hoes…

–St. Mark's & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Bruce Lee

Guy to friend: I am boycotting your birthday if I can see your butt cheeks in your outfit.

–23rd & 3rd

Posted on September 29, 2014
Age/Aging, All Wednesday One-Liners, Ass, Birthdays, Brooklyn, Clothing, Crazies, Drinking & Drunk People, Friends, Gifts, Girls, Guys, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Murray Hill and Gramercy, On Cell, One-liners, Physical appearance, Street, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

“There's No Wednesday One-Linering in Baseball!”

Dad to whiny three-year-old daughter: And now you're going to try and manipulate me by crying.

–186th St & Ft. Washington Ave

Girl to friends: That's just the way the world is. You don't see me cryin' whenever someone calls me a fat bitch or a short bitch or an ugly bitch…

–23rd & 8th

15-year-old boy: Yo, I'd cry if that happened to me, but I'm just sensitive like that.

–A Train

Overheard by: pop pop

Girl: And then you know I take out my yo-yo and start dancing. And then you know I'm multi-tasking! I'm yo-yoing, dancing and crying all at the same time!

–LaGuardia High School

Woman on cell: Alex, stop crying. Stop crying. What about the breadsticks, were there at least breadsticks?

–34th & 6th

Posted on September 23, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Beauty, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Crying, Dads, Dancing, Family Ties, Fast Times at New York High, Food, Friends, Girls, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Insults, Kids, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Nicknames & name calling, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Physical appearance, Questions, Should've Used a Condom, Street, Stupidity, Teens, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

The Other Times He Was Meditating

Dreadlocked guy: I’m a customer and you’re saying I can’t use the restroom?

Ambiguously ethnic deli owner: You can’t use it this often. You come here every day and stay there for 20-25 minutes. I don’t know what you’re doing in there.

Dreadlocked guy: Well if you want to get so technical, the first time I was taking a dump.

–34th & 1st

Posted on September 19, 2014
Manhattan, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Poop

The White Devil's Wednesday One-Liners

Older black man to nobody in particular: Ain't nothin' done changed in two-hundred years! White folks is still goin' round makin' a mess and then makin' a black man come in and clean up after them…

–Post Office, Gun Hill & Jerome, The Bronx

Asian girl: Do white people eat sandwiches for dinner?

–Grand Central

Overheard by: Spec

Black teen girl: If a sister is feeding a white bitch, you know she is fucked up.

–T.G.I. Friday's

Overheard by: Chris K

Black chick: But can a Frenchman be a honky?

–Park Slope, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Hunter

Linguistically savvy hobo: The term "cracker" originated from a man named Robert Whitely. It was used to refer to people as "white trash".

–37th & 3rd