Which Cost Them the Cold War

White girl #1: Do you dance hip hop?
White girl #2: I'm too white for that.
White girl #3: I can dance and I'm white.
White girl #2: But you're Russian? Russian people don't have any black people.

–32nd & 5th Ave

Posted on July 30, 2015
Compare/Contrast, Dancing, Default, Girls, Global Geography, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Music, Questions, Race, White People

You Could Always Sharpen the CDs and Make Shuriken

Angry suit: I hate Christmas music, man! You use it for three weeks, and then what do you do?
Sympathetic suit: Yeah, it's useless.

–Pizza Spot

Overheard by: Raven

Posted on July 24, 2015
Anger Management, Gripes, Music, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Suits

Oh Wait a Minute, I Think She's Having a Seizure

Girl: See that lady over there? She's like…orgasming to her iPod.
Guy: (laughs)
Girl: No, seriously. She's so funny to watch. Who the fuck orgasms to a song?
Guy: I'd orgasm to a good song.
Girl: Yeah? What's a good song?
Guy: That one by Nine Inch Nails. Something like “I Wanna Fuck You Like an Animal.”
(little boy observing animals stares, puzzled)

–Central Park Zoo

Posted on July 24, 2015
Animals & Nature, Central Park, Girls, Guys, iPod, Music, Orgasm

Still Not as Bad as a Poetry Slam

Very loud man on cell to Mexican musicians: Can you tone your music down? I'm trying to talk here!

–E Train

Overheard by: Robyn Z

Posted on July 24, 2015
Men, Mexicans, Music, Musicians, Offers and requests, On Cell

Ten Bucks Says She Was Talking to a Potted Plant

20-something stoner girl walking into room: So… Are you aware that I just had a really extensive conversation with your mother?
20-something stoner guy, playing GTA: Um… Really? … What did you guys talk about?
20-something stoner girl, seriously: Michael Jackson!

–Harlem

Posted on July 18, 2015
About Celebrities, Family Ties, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Music, Parents, Questions, Stoners

Since When Is “Jingle Bells” a Christian Song?

NYU girl #1 (singing): “Jingle bells/Jingle bells…”
NYU girl #2: Would you stop singing Christmas music, you're Jewish! Sing “Dreidel, dreidel”!
NYU girl #1: Ewwww.. No, I hate that stupid Jew song!

–Q Train

Posted on July 14, 2015
Christianity, Compare/Contrast, Default, Girls, Judaism, Music, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Students

Oh, for Chrissake, Alice — It’s Not a Fucking Hymn!

Middle-aged lady: Okay, we’re here. Do you want to do this? [Friend shakes head.] Well, you said you wanted to. Come over here with me. This is what we were planning. [Friend doesn’t move.] Let’s do this now. [Begins to sing] Imagine there’s no heaven…

–Strawberry Fields, Central Park