Wednesday One-Liners Neck With Their Steadies

Guy on cell: Dude, the girl is hot. We kissed a little last night, but I just wanna make out with her. I just wanna make out with her all night long. [Pause.] Yeah, I said make out.

–73rd & 1st

Overheard by: Missy

Overweight hipster girl with lisp: I’m the make-out masta.

–NYU Hayden Hall

Overheard by: The Doctor

Balding frat guy to girlfriend: Dude, open your eyes a little bit when we make out so it’s not like I’m raping you.

–C Train

Overheard by: I hate when that happens, too

Drunk girl: …so they ended up making out in a port-a-potty.

–Spring & Lafayette

College girl on cell: Don’t move in with him, just make out with people!

–Starbucks, West 43rd & Broadway

Overheard by: good advice

Posted on June 11, 2008
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Beauty, Boyfriends, Crime and Punishment, Drunks, Frat Boys, Girls, Guys, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, NYU, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Subway, Sorority Girls, Starbucks, The Village, Upper East Side, Washington Square Park, Wishes & desires, Words

When You Call, You Get Transferred to the Rejection Hotline

Old lady to bus driver: This service is getting worse and worse.
Bus driver, on loudspeaker: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best service we can provide at this moment. For any complaints please call the MTA [Pause.] And let me tell you this now… They won’t do anything.

–M79 Bus

Overheard by: Mr. Fix-it !! (HH)

Posted on June 10, 2008
Bus Drivers, Default, Gripes, Offers and requests, Old People, On the Bus, Public Transportation, Women

But It Was Still the Best Math-Club Party Yet

Obnoxiously loud girl: So I was at this party and this really drunk girl was like: “Oh my god, pierce my nipples!” and this guy did and I watched the whole thing.
Her friend: Really?
Obnoxiously loud girl: Yeah! But I was expecting blood, don’t you think there’d be blood?

–Starbucks, Washington Square

Posted on June 10, 2008
Blood & bleeding, Celebrations/Parties, Default, Drinking & Drunk People, Friends, Girls, Nipples, Offers and requests, Sexuality, Starbucks, Washington Square Park, Weirdness

You’ll Ruin the Other New Yorkers’ Delicate Sensibilities

Girl walking with friend: Well how about a fist to your vagina!?
Friend: [Looking around.] Uhh you really don’t want to be saying that right now.

–Jay Street

Posted on June 8, 2008
Default, Etiquette, Friends, Girls, Hand-Jobs, Offers and requests, Questions, Vagina, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

Like I Haven’t Trained It to Strike to Kill?

Man pushing a child in a stroller to old woman walking slowly: Get out of the way!
[Shoves her out of the way, runs across the street frantically pushing the stroller.]Old woman: Next time I’ll kill your baby!

–Christopher & 7th Ave

Overheard by: Randy & Jen

Posted on June 8, 2008
Babies, Default, Men, Murder, Offers and requests, Old People, The Village, Threats, Weirdness, Women

Before He Finds Out We’re West Coast Rappers

Man giving out rap CDs: Yo! Check out my new CD, it’s only five dollars.
White man: Thanks, but we do not like rap.
Man giving out rap CDs: What are you, racist?
Man’s wife: Honey, I think we should go now.

–Times Square

Posted on June 8, 2008
Black People, Men, Money & Class, Music, Musicians, Offers and requests, Questions, Race, Times Square, White People, Women

Is That a New Gay Bar in Chelsea?

Tourist: Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to MoMA from here?
Suit: Fuck you, what do I look…
Tourist, indignantly interrupting: No, fuck you, you motherfucking piece of shit. You don’t want to answer, you say “I don’t know”. All you New Yorkers are a bunch of cock-sucking assholes.
[Suit, stunned, gives directions.]Bystander to tourist: Where did you learn to do that?
Tourist: The Midwest.

–Outside the Guggenheim

Overheard by: Ehem.

Posted on June 7, 2008
Ahhh! Real New Yorkers, Directions, Etiquette, Midwesterners, Offers and requests, Only in New York, Questions, Strangers, Suits, Tourism, U.S. Geography

What Did I Say About Talking Like That When We’re Off Staten Island?

Mom to four-year-old being picked on by brother: Tell him to leave you alone.
Four-year-old: Leave me the fuck ‘lone!
Mom: Hey! Watch your mouth.
Four-year-old: I’m gonna fuck ‘im up.

–Staten Island Ferry

Overheard by: ryn

Posted on June 7, 2008
Advice, Boys, Brothers, Default, Etiquette, Kids, Moms, Offers and requests, Staten Island Ferry, Weirdness, Words

Unless You Plan to Back It Up with Action

Man: What’d you think?
Woman: Just another story about how guys can’t keep their golden horns in their pants.
Man: We can’t help it if our golden horns start to glow whenever we get near a vagina cave.
Woman: Don’t ever let me hear you say that again.

–Leaving IMAX Theatre After Beowulf, Lincoln Sqaure

Overheard by: The Professor

Posted on June 6, 2008
Default, Etiquette, Men, Movie Theaters, Movies, Offers and requests, Penis, Questions, Sexuality, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women, Words

Wednesday One-Liners Have a Sweet Tooth

Hobo, to commuters: I’m hungry, homeless, and unemployed. I’m selling these candies for $0.25 so I can buy a meal. You’re all going to die, and you can’t take it with you, so give it to me!

–Shuttle to Times Square

Overheard by: Wondering why he couldn’t just eat the candy…?

Girl: So she was like: "Why can’t we have a candy corn background?" and I was like "Because you’re an idiot!"

–Starbucks, 34th St

Overweight yet stylish gay man: She had a hunger deep inside her that only a Snickers could quench.

–M101 Bus

Overheard by: Holla Back Girl

Mother to young son: You can get something, but I don’t want you to pick out no fucking twenty dollar candy. You ain’t been that good.

–Hershey World, Times Square

Overheard by: esgeness

Professor to student: I found out what they put in their brownies, I plan to use it against them!

–101st & Broadway

Group of high school girls to Mister Softee ice cream truck driver: Hey ice cream man! Ice cream man! Give us some ice cream! We’ll suck you off!

–Beverley & Ocean Parkway

Overheard by: A Radiant Sulk Ninja

Posted on June 4, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, BJs, Brooklyn, Compare/Contrast, Death, Fat People, Food, Girls, Grocery Stores, Hobos, Homeless, Insults, Moms, Money & Class, Offers and requests, On the Bus, Panhandling, Parents, Queer guys, Starbucks, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Teachers/Professors, Teens, Times Square, Weirdness

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