Wednesday One-Liners Can’t Drive the Bus Below 50 MPH

Tourist: This is New York. Nothing happens fast here.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Get out of my way – I’m in a hurry

Empowered shopper: I have a cart. I can go as slow as I want.

–Chelsea Whole Foods

Overheard by: and she did

Girl to friend, after introducing her boyfriend: It’s not that he’s slow. He just hesitates before answering because he’s thinking of movie quotes and stuff.

–515 Bar, 34th Street & 3rd Ave

Mom of fast-walking baby: YO YO! Slow your roll.

–Grand St, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Alicia Van Couvering

Woman, while swiping metrocard: Gotta do it fast, just like a handjob.

–79th St Subway Station

Loud beeatch: Dammit, why you movin’ so slow? Don’t you know what city you’re in? Shit!

–42nd St & Madison

Overheard by: Jen

Conductor on PA: Attention, passengers. We have red signals ahead of us. Still working out the kinks. The good news is, once we get past Bergen, we’ll be back up to our normal speed. [pauses] which still isn’t too fast.

–F train

Overheard by: He ain’t kiddin’

Posted on April 9, 2008
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But Technically, Everything’s Free for Me.

Mom: So, when you send me a text message, is that free?
Twentysomething daughter: No.
Mom: Then stop texting me all the time!
Daughter: Oh, well it’s free for me. It’s just not free for you.

–D Train

Overheard by: NCS

Posted on April 8, 2008
Cell Phone, Compare/Contrast, Default, Girls, Moms, Money & Class, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Questions

Can’t We Just Do Meth Like a Normal Couple?

Pissed girlfriend: You never want to do anything fun.
Exasperated boyfriend: That’s because everything you call ‘fun’ involves heroin or fire.

–Union Square

Posted on April 8, 2008
Boyfriends, Default, Fire, Girlfriends, Heroin, Offers and requests, Union Square and East Village, Wishes & desires, Words

A Brother Who Finally Gets It

Black girl, to her brother while boarding plane: C’mon y’all, our seats are in the back of the plane, go to the back.
Brother: Yea, back a’ tha bus, back of the fucking bus.

–Boarding Plane, La Guardia Airport

Overheard by: BDOG

Posted on April 8, 2008
Airports, At the Airport, Black People, Brothers, Default, Offers and requests, Public Transportation, Sisters, Words

It’s Like They Act Hardcore, But Aren’t

Father, trying to drag young son into store: Come on! What’s the matter?
Son: The people in there are scary!

–Outisde Hot Topic

Overheard by: Penny Lane

Posted on April 7, 2008
Boys, Dads, Default, Fears, Kids, Offers and requests, Physical appearance, Questions, Store

Not Even If I Gave It a Little Doorag?

Little boy: Daddy, daddy! I wanna make a bear!
Buff dad: Nigga, I done told you a thousand times, thugs don’t make bears! [Tiny black boy bursts into tears.]

–Outside of Build a Bear Workshop, at 6th St & 5th Ave

Overheard by: Becca

Posted on April 6, 2008
Black People, Boys, Compare/Contrast, Dads, Default, Kids, Offers and requests, Parents, Pop Culture, Store, Street, Thugs, Union Square and East Village, Wishes & desires

Because Then I Could Pull a Woody Allen

Little girl to her father: Stop telling me that! I’m not adopted!
Father: But sometimes I wish you were.

–Multiplex Cinemas, Flushing

Overheard by: Ms. Hazard

Posted on April 6, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Dads, Default, Girls, Kids, Movie Theaters, Offers and requests, Parents, Queens, Should've Used a Condom, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

And I’m Like, You Just Happened to Have a Video Camera?

Teenage girl: My mom is always walkin’ in on me having sex. I’m all like, mom what the fuck, I’m all having sex. Get the fuck out.
Teenage boy: Oh daaamn, I hate that. I always turn the music up real loud so my mom can’t hear me fuck. I fucked my girl to that Akon song. I was in her so deep and that shit was just pumpin’!
Girl: Ohh daaamn.
Boy: You need to tell your mom to get all out yo shit.
Girl: Yeah, she’s always walkin’ in right in the middle and I’m all like, mom get out. Then she tells me she didn’t know, and I’m like, mom I don’t got to tell you every time I’m having sex.

–Target, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Nate

Posted on April 5, 2008
Boys, Brooklyn, Default, Family Ties, Girls, Gripes, Music, Offers and requests, Parents, Relationships, Sex, Store, Teens

…to Go

Girl: Well, you would have to be loaded to get someone to wash your balls every hour.
Guy: No, I wouldn’t. I could do that shit now! Just pay someone who works at McDonald’s five bucks an hour more, they would so do it.
Girl: Yah, but do you really want someone who worked at McDonald’s washing your balls?
Guy: I’m getting a chubby.

–Greene St & Spring St

Overheard by: Laughed Out Loud

Posted on April 5, 2008
Balls, Default, Erections, Girls, Guys, Health and Hygiene, Jobs & Careers, Money & Class, Offers and requests, Street, The Village

I AM THE ONE OUT THERE ON THE STREET!

Four-year-old girl screaming: IT IS MY MONEY AND I WANT IT BACK!
Shockingly calm but exhausted Dad: No Sarah, it is OUR money.
Sarah [chanting over and over while stomping her feet.]: IT IS MY MONEY! I WANT IT BACK!

–Bank, Madison Ave & E 65th

Overheard by: Christina

Posted on April 4, 2008
Anger Management, Bank, Dads, Default, Girls, Kids, Money & Class, Offers and requests, Should've Used a Condom, Upper East Side, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

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