Thankfully There’s Only 2 From Each State

Man #1: They’re just a bunch of high-class lowlifes.
Man #2: Yeah, and I’m one of them!

–D’Agastino’s, 26th St.

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Posted on July 27, 2014
Friends, Grocery Stores, Insults, Murray Hill and Gramercy

No, We Only Have Pot

Man: Do you sell cannabis?
Florist: Cannabis?
Man: Yeah, it’s a plant.

–28th Street

Posted on July 27, 2014
Animals & Nature, Customers, Drugs, Men, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Questions, Stupidity, Vendors & Street Performers

Hopefully He’ll Read This and Feel Guilty

Woman: My dad controls all the money in the house, to the point where if my mom wants to go shopping she has to talk to him. She’d said, ‘You really need to go to the grocery. Your daughter only had a protein shake to eat today.’ He said, ‘Well, she needs to lose weight anyway.’ It’s crazy. That’s the kind of shit we had to deal with growing up.

–29th & Park

Posted on July 11, 2014
Comebacks, Family Ties, Food, Money & Class, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Shopping, Stupidity, Women

NY’s Homeless Speak on the Issues

A hobo stumbles into the store, yelling things and making everyone uncomfortable. Suddenly, he stumbles upon the rack with copies of the New York Times, an image of Iraq on the front page. He stares in silence for a moment, and says: You think it’s bad being homeless? Imagine being in Fallujah!

–Starbucks, 59 St. & 9th Ave.

Overheard by: Andrea

Two hobos are drinking malt liquor from paper bags. Hobo #1 shakes his head in dismay: …I tell you, I tell you–that’s why they’ll [sic] never be peace in the Middle East.

–29th St. & 2nd Ave.

Overheard by: Tricia Karsay

Posted on July 11, 2014
Hobos, Homeless, Iraq, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Starbucks, War

“Then we had New Year’s in March.”

Guy: I’ve been to Germany twice because I have a friend who’s from there. I went to Oktoberfest, but it was in June.
Hans: They had Oktoberfest in June? It must have been just for you…American tourists.

–25th St. & 3rd Ave.

Posted on July 11, 2014
Drinking & Drunk People, Foreigners, Guys, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Parades & Festitivites, People, Places, Threats, Topics, Tourism, Travel

See, We’re Not So Unlike the Midwest in NY!

Woman: That’s where I got that crappy muffin. I can’t believe they serve muffins with no sugar. The only source of sucrose was in the blueberry. And there was only one blueberry!

–21st & 5th

Overheard by: TG

Posted on January 6, 2014
Fruit, Gripes, Junk Food & Fast Food, Murray Hill and Gramercy

In Person, Miley and Billy Ray Are Pretty Much What You'd Expect.

Guy, on Nextel: Hey, honey.
Girl, on other end of Nextel: Dad, I'm pissed! I think he's cheating on me.
Guy: Why do you say that?
Girl: Cause my vagina is itchy and red.
Guy: Well, maybe you should go get checked.
Girl: But dad, what should I do?
Guy: Honey, let me call you back, I'm about to pay the cashier… call you in a little.

–33rd & Madison

Overheard by: OZoNE