Isn’t It Time You Talked to Your Kids About Wednesday One-Liners?

Creepster: Hey there… do you like drugs? … How about Gandhi?

–Chambers &and West Broadway

Girl on cell: So I opened the envelope on the train… Yeah it was heroin.

–W 46th Ave

Bum: Excuse me! Hey, hey! Excuse me! Check it out! I am going to smoke crack all fucking night, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it, because that’s what I’m going to do, I’m going to smoke so much crack!

–West 4th at Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Cory

Guy to hungover girl: Everyday you look more and more like you do heroin.

–Relish Bar & Grill

Preppy dude: I like doing drugs too much to be a Buddhist.

–Arlene’s Grocery

Mom to ten-year-old son: … But that’s like saying heroin is the only drug to try!

–14th St & 9th Ave

Posted on August 8, 2015
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Perhaps We Could Discuss Free Coffee…Wesley

Coffee vendor: That iced coffee will be eight dollars, and the straw will cost you fifty cents extra, ha ha.
Cashier: Man, Joe, that coffee's expensive!
Coffee vendor: Why'd you gotta say my name, man? What if my baby mama came up in here looking for child support and youse be sayin' my name?!

–Westside Market

Posted on July 31, 2015
Cashiers, Coffee, Laughter, Money & Class, Names, Questions, Store, Vendors & Street Performers, Weirdness

But a Girl Has to Make Her Own Luck

Girl #1: And my dad wasn't about to leave his business…
Girl #2: What does your dad do?
Girl #1: Personalized stuffed animals. That's why my middle name…
Girl #2: Teddy.
Girl #1: Yeah.
Girl #2: Yeah. You are so lucky your dad doesn't deal sex toys. Then you'd be, like, Samantha Dildo.

–10th St & 2nd Ave

Posted on July 21, 2015
Animals & Nature, Dildos and Vibrators, Girls, Jobs & Careers, Names, Parents, Union Square and East Village

It’s Pronounced Pee-kar

Girl: What a bizarre name. Where is he from?
Guy: Ohio.
Girl: Oh, okay. That makes sense.

–Rockefeller Center

Posted on July 21, 2015
Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Names, Only in New York

What with Sperm at $70 a Barrel…

Woman #1: So, you know Tanya…
Woman #2: Yeah, skinny little thing. What a waste of a fuck!

–58th & Madison

Overheard by: Tom T

Posted on July 16, 2015
Beauty, Diet/Weight, Insults, Lesbians, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Names, Women

Every Wednesday One-Liner Has Its Price

Woman to another: She had one baby at her breast and another baby sitting next to her, trying to sell chicklets.

–10 Rockefeller Plaza

Overheard by: Jarrod

Young man to young woman: Sell it on the black market or give it up for adoption. That's basically your only two options.

–Grand St, Chinatown

Overheard by: Mike Posillico

Crazy woman to entire bus: My husband be given my money to all those hoes. That's why I gotta sell coffee. But at least I'm not sellin' my ass… (gets distracted by radio) Oh, this is a nice song.

–Bx15 Bus

Overheard by: Karly

Father of four, attempting herd jumping children on street: Okay, the next child that doesn't listen to me will be sold!

–34th & 3rd

Overheard by: Dahouhou

Midwestern lady tourist to husband: Huh, Virgin. I wonder what they sell there.

–14th St, across Doomed Megastore

Overheard by: Not buyin what they're sellin

Posted on July 10, 2015
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Without DNA Tests, the Second-Best Way to Determine Ethnicity Is Ass Size

Teen boy #1: Nah, nigga, she can’t be Spanish. She too skinny.
Teen boy #2: She’s Spanish, yo.
Teen boy #1: I tell you, she ain’t from Spain. She’s from Europe. She has a Euro-sounding name.
Teen boy #2: Maybe she’s Mexican.
Teen boy #1: Yeah, she could be Mexican.

–Tompkins Square Park

Overheard by: Heather

Posted on July 8, 2015
Alphabet City, Boys, Compare/Contrast, Default, Foreigners, Friends, Global Geography, Names, Parks, Stupidity, Teens, Thugs

Your Editors Aren't Eating Pizza in Brooklyn 'til We Sort This Out

Friend: Where's that pizza from?
Stroller dad: Tony's*.
Friend: Oh, Tony's*.
Stroller dad: Yeah. We named our rabbit Tony*.
Friend: Because it poops all the time?
Stroller dad: Yeah.

–Bar, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

Posted on July 2, 2015
Bars & Clubs, Brooklyn, Dads, Friends, Names, Pizza, Poop, Questions, We Love Our Pets

I Recommend You Go South for the Winter

Hobo: Yo man, it’s freezing outside! Can I get a shirt?
Teenager with suitcase: No, go away.
Hobo: Come on man, you probably got like ten shirts in there.
Teenager with suitcase: Listen to me bum, you’re already wearing ten shirts, you’re not getting a shirt.
Bum: My name’s Max.
Teenager with suitcase: I’m Peter.

–Penn Station

Posted on June 29, 2015
Clothing, Default, Hobos, Names, Offers and requests, Penn Station, Sensory Experiences, Teens, Weather

Obsessively Gay (for Tad)

Female MTA employee: I ain’t seen you in forever! Did you start working nights again?
Male MTA employee: Yeah… It was alright. But then I got bored, so I started watching soap operas again. I can’t believe Tad still looks the same.
Female MTA employee: Shit, you like him?
Male MTA employee: Hell yeah, I’m OG.

–4th Ave & 9th St station

Overheard by: Tacologic

Posted on June 26, 2015
About Celebrities, Blue-collar workers, Men, Names, Nostalgia, On the Subway, Questions, Talking/Convos, The Village, Time, TV, Women

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