Girl: If you were sleeping and your girlfriend woke you up in the middle of the night because she wants to…you know. Would you be upset?
Guy: Is it a school night?
–East Village
Girl: If you were sleeping and your girlfriend woke you up in the middle of the night because she wants to…you know. Would you be upset?
Guy: Is it a school night?
–East Village
Mother to young son: Get down from there. Walk down the stairs like a human being!
Son: I’m not a… I’m a alien.
Mother: Fine then. Maybe we’ll just leave you here… In your natural habitat.
–Central Park
Overheard by: Jordan Leyton-Mange
Student conducting survey: Would you like to take a survey?
Girl: What's it about?
Student: Well, I can't tell you what it is about, but it only takes three minutes, and if you don't like it, you can stop at any time and still get a . . .
Girl, cutting him off: Okay, but it won't make me want to kill myself like every other survey I take?
–Columbia University, Lerner Hall
Older gentleman on phone: I was just calling to ask if you wanted to make love to my nice, long, Lebanese penis again tonight. (pause) Yes, yes, 10 works for me.
–45th & 5th Ave
Overheard by: Morgan
Mother, hissing to girl dancing exuberantly: You stop that! Stop it! Boys will try to sex you! Stop!
–6 Train Station
Girl on cell, yelling: He got soft inside me! That's, like, the worst insult ever!
–23rd & 9th
Girl on cell: Come over to the 7-Eleven anytime. I will fuck you!
–Washington Square West
Overheard by: David Fishkind
Brunching woman to friends: We lived in Buffalo! We could have had sex on the sidewalk, but it was four years before we were engaged!
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: Alexandra
Poet, selling books: All of these books are signed, and when I go on Oprah, you can sell them on eBay!
Passenger: Let’s hear a poem then!
Poet: You wanna hear a poem? “Neighbor’s dog leaving feces on the sidewalk. Squish! Damn. Luck stinks.”
Old man, mumbling: Who wants to read that kind of bullshit?
–6 Train
Student, after professor played Chopin: Oh, miss, that was beautiful, can you play that again?
Professor: Sure.
Student: Oh, damn! You are nastier than I thought!
–Lehman College
Overheard by: emm
Girl: No! I will not put your Propel bottle in my vag!
Boy: Come on, I’m sure it’ll fit!
Girl: No! I will not! Do you want vag juices all up in your Propel bottle?!
(boy walks away)
Girl (to self): I didn’t think so.
–Upper West Side
Overheard by: Sophie
Girl: Is that a snake on your head?
Man: Yeah, you want it to lick you?
Girl: Is it real?
Man: Yeah.
Girl: Then okay.
–6 train
Guy: Let's make a really bad decision tonight. Let's hang out.
Girl: Yeah!
–21st St & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Christian
Nanny to boy blocking slide: Hi, are you going down the slide?
(kid shakes head)
Nanny: Well, can we get past you?
(kid shakes head)
Three-year-old friend: Sam, share.
(Sam shakes head)
Three-year-old friend: Sam, share or I will leave you.
–69th & West End
