Wednesday One-Minors

Seven-year-old boy to father: Did you know that when you get into middle school, all the girls care about is whether you're rich and have a cute ass? In elementary school, they only care about if you can run fast. If you run the fastest, you get all the girls.

–Flushing, Queens

Overheard by: Tara

Small boy to teacher in increasingly panicky voice: Is this Narnia? We're not Narnians yet, right?!

–NYU Kimmel Center

Overheard by: Narnia @ NYU?

Five-year-old to three-year-old brother: Listen, we're going to have food all winter. It's hibernation. You know what hibernation is, don't you? Hibernation is when animals eat a lot of food and sleep all winter. We're gonna hibernate!

–M104 Bus

Overheard by: Samantha

Little kid: Grandma, smell this! It's Obsession for Men!

–Bergdorf Goodman

Sobbing five-year-old girl to mom in CD section: I wanna download, I don't wanna waste my money.

–Borders, Columbus Circle

Overheard by: Can records labels sue toddlers?

Posted on September 19, 2015
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Wednesday One-Liners from H-E Double Hockey Sticks

Guy looking at books, to no one in particular: I don’t want to hear or see anything about the devil, demons, voodoo or big hairy black guys.

–Barnes & Noble

Overheard by: 153

Guy hawking pamphlets: How to sucker punch the devil right in the ass!

–W 12th & Brodway

Overheard by: Why didn’t I get that pamphlet?!

Coworker about colleague: Every time he comes by here the number 666 comes up.

–1250 Broadway

Punk kid, walking past a group of nuns: Hail Satan!

–Waverly & Greene

Professor: I don’t want to be saved, I want to go to hell. I’ll meet interesting people there!

–Cooper Union, Astor Place

Overheard by: Hopefully not me!

Crazy older lady screaming on cell: You what? You are buying soda? You are going to go to fucking hell! Don’t you remember the promise you made to god? You’re probably standing in line with some goddamn candy too. You are going to hell!

–W Train

Overheard by: DR G LUV

Posted on September 18, 2015
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Boys, Compare/Contrast, Coworkers, Crazies, Drinks, Fears, Flyer people, Food, Guys, Old People, On the Subway, Punks, Questions, Satan, Store, Teachers/Professors, The Village, Threats, Union Square and East Village, Wishes & desires, Women

Sorry about Those Prada Loafers

Doctor, in neighboring exam room: Now, after I give you these pills, you’re probably going to start peeing.
Old woman: I’m peeing now!

–Lennox Hill Hospital

Posted on September 16, 2015
Doctors, Hospitals, Medicine, Old People, Pee

Not as Much as All Those Abortions

Old lady #1: Your grandson has not been with a girl in a while. He might be gay.
Old lady #2: Hey, he’s not gay, don’t be crazy. Your grandson needs to stop sleeping with every girl; he might get them pregnant.
Old lady #1: Hey, how much is this kielbasa?

Translated from the Russian.

–Grocery store, Bensonhurst

Overheard by: Steve

Posted on September 13, 2015
Abortion, Brooklyn, Foreigners, Old People, Shopping

I Don't Like Where This Is Going

Older bag lady: How do you think mayor Bloomberg got so rich?
Woman with baby in stroller: I don't know. How?
Older bag lady: You think by being a slut?
Woman with baby stroller: Maybe.
Older bag lady: How do you think Oprah Winfrey got so rich?
Woman with baby in stroller: I don't know.
Older bag lady: You think by being a slut?

–Union Square

Overheard by: floridasunshine

Posted on September 2, 2015
About Celebrities, Bag ladies, Moms, Money & Class, Old People, Politics, Prostitution, Questions, Union Square and East Village

Muslims and Jews: Why Do We Fight?

Old lady #1: Hmmm, it’s sort of weird you don’t see a lot of Muslims decorating for Christmas, right?
Old lady #2: Yeah, I think it’s because a lot of them don’t live in the country.

–6 train

Overheard by: shortstack

Posted on August 31, 2015
Old People, On the Subway, Religion

NewsFlash: Cheerfulness Detected in Bronx. Quickly Nullified.

Old black lady: Bus driver, you a dumb motherfucker! You just turned down the wrong street!
Man: Don’t worry, Mr. Bus Driver, I still have faith in you.
Old black lady, to man: Get your faggot-ass off the bus!

–8 bus, Bronx

Posted on August 28, 2015
Black People, Default, Insults, Men, Old People, On the Bus, Only in New York, Public Transportation, Women

… Or One of My Exes?

Lady yelling at old guy: Where you goin’ today, Harold?!
Old man, smiling: You my wife?

–Q station, Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn

Overheard by: cloisterpunk

Posted on August 26, 2015
Old People, Questions, Subway stations, platforms, etc.

Dr. Seuss Got This Crap a Lot.

Elderly woman: Come on now, we're disemboating…
Sassy son: “Disemboating”? How about “disembarking”? What are they teaching you at the home, English for Americans?

–Ferry to Governors Island

Overheard by: Loves to Disemboat and her colleague, Chronic Disemboater

Posted on August 25, 2015
Education, Ferry, Kids, Languages, Old People, Weirdness, Words

Old People