Old People

Old woman: You know I love them Jews.
Guy: How do you know I’m a Jew?
Old woman: You took the seat like a Jew.
Guy: How does a Jew take a seat?

–1 train

Overheard by: Max Ravyn

Hobo: What the fuck? Why’s the train so crowded? Used ta be between 9 and 5 the train’d be empty. Don’t anybody fucking have a job anymore?

–N train

Hobo: I had to go all over the goddamn world. Canarsie! Staten Island! Jersey City! Timbuktu!

–65th between 2nd & 3rd

Crazy hobo: I have closed my windows. I have pulled my curtains. I have put up my air conditioner…and now you will lock down block 340 like you will lock down every other block in the city of New York, the state of New York, the state of New Jersey, and to some extent Connecticut, but not all of Connecticut.

–4th Street & 2nd Avenue

Overheard by: Squatporpoise

Drunk hobo: I have a lottery ticket. My father played the lottery every week. Must’ve had about a hundred fucking tickets. What if I find out I won and I’m on the subway? No one’s getting away. I’m taking down everyone’s number. We’re going to dinner. Your family too. No cousins.

–N train

Drunk hobo with megaphone: Don’t ride the trains! Those a-rabs are going to blow this thing up! It’s gonna be bloody! Those a-rabs and the black men from north Africa!

–A train

Old hobo: …and there’s a girl in the well. And he got a dog! You seen dat shit?

–34th & 7th

Overheard by: K-Na

Hobo: I ain’t got no money, but I got the honey, just for the women, not the men. And I ain’t no one minute man, ain’t no three minute man. I’m a one-hour man!

–4 train

Overheard by: eb

Boy: Hey Grandma, do you have a map?
Grandma: No, not on me. A map of what?
Boy: Your eyes.
Grandma: My eyes? Why do you want a map of my eyes?
Boy: ’cause I keep getting lost in them.

–M23 bus

Overheard by: jessie

Old Italian lady #1: Your cat’s gonna get hit!
Asian Lady: Wha?
Old Italian lady #1: Your cat: it’s in the street! Someone’s gonna run over it!
Asian lady: Huh?
Old Italian lady #1: Your ca–
Old Italian lady #2: She doesn’t care about the cat. Those Orientals, they eat cats.

–Carroll Gardens bodega

Cashier dude: The only credit cards we accept are American Express.
Old guy: Do you take Visa?

–Costco, LI City

A woman with a cart full of baby products is prompted by an old man for her receipt.

Old man: I see you are buying diapers. Any chance you would date an older man and change his diapers? Are you a school teacher?

The woman grabbed her receipt and quickly walked away.

–BJ’s, Gateway Center

Overheard by: Cathleen

Old lady #1: Ugh, look at that! She’s driving an ambulance and she’s on the phone!
Old lady #2: Maybe she’s calling a patient.

–M6 bus

Overheard by: feitclub

Old lady: Your dog is beautiful!
Young lady: Than–
Old lady: It’s terrible what they do to those dogs in China. I won’t even say but it’s awful…Chinese people don’t even deserve to live.

–Sunnyside post office

There is this guy scratching his balls, going deep. A little girl is around him, and two ladies are about to walk by. After observing the ball scratching and the little girl, one lady says: She is going to be scarred for life.

–Park Slope

Overheard by: Tamika J.

Man: Did anyone else notice my mother’s leopard print panties?

–1st Avenue & 10th Street

Girl on cell: Stop stealing Grandma’s condoms, you know she needs them more than you do. Do you want another mother?

–47th & 9th

Mom: Rules are so hard to keep track of and enforce. So I just don’t make any.

–Brooklyn Heights

Mom: Do you know what mental illness is? It’s not fun. You should know.

–F train

Guido on cell: My grandmother tore him a new asshole! You know what she’s like.

–Carroll Gardens

Overheard by: Vic Payback

Mom: Can we please watch the expletives? Did you hear what I said? Can we please watch the expletives?…Can you please stop giving me the finger?

–LIRR

Overheard by: CMichaels

Mom: Get out of the elevator, I want to look at the Marc Jacobs crap.

–Barney’s, Madison Avenue