Shade-Grown, Slow-Roasted Wednesday One-Liners

Thug to friend: That bitch looked up at me and said, "Damn, your dick tastes like coffee."

–86th St & Lexington

Overheard by: TINA

Female suit to other: Duane Reade is like the Starbucks of drugstores!

–Duane Reade

Old lady with shopping cart, exiting voting booth: Where's my Starbucks coupon?

–PS163, Bath Beach, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Torgo61

Guy on cell: Hey, bro! I'm having coffee and a bagel. (pause) No, an animal did not have to die for me to have this coffee!

–Arthur Avenue

Overheard by: eternal student

Man with heavy Indian accent holding a cup of Starbucks coffee: No, the most expensive coffee in the world is coffee beans eaten and then pooped out by a cat. It's $120 a cup.

–Elevator, 7th Ave & 31st St

Posted on August 24, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Animals & Nature, BJs, Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Coffee, Compare/Contrast, Duane Reade, Friends, Gay Man's Best Friend, Guys, India Indians, Junk Food & Fast Food, Men, Money & Class, Nicknames & name calling, Old People, One-liners, Penis, Poop, Questions, School, Sensory Experiences, Shopping, Street, Suits, The Bronx, Thugs, Upper East Side, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

Who Let the Dowager Out?

Old lady: Oh! That’s a cute dog, what’s his name?
Woman: Billy.
Old lady: Oh really? It’s not Rover? Most people name their dogs Rover.

–Foodtown, Sunnyside

Overheard by: Nate B

Posted on August 23, 2014
Man's Best Friend, Names, Nicknames & name calling, Old People, Queens

I Won’t Even Let a Stranger Wash My Car

Old lady #1: So, they put you on a slab and the coroner washes your body, like if you were all dirty if you died in an accident.
Old lady #2: They take your clothes off?
Old lady #1: Of course!
Old lady #2: I don’t think I want a strange man looking and washing my cooch!

–Bay Ridge

Posted on August 23, 2014
Brooklyn, Default, Health and Hygiene, Nudity, Offers and requests, Old People, Vagina, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Women

Have You Been Talking to Grandma?

Small boy to grandfather schlepping packages: That's not the problem…you are!
Grandfather: I'm the problem?
Small boy, wailing: Yes!

–W 66th St

Overheard by: Suze V

Posted on August 20, 2014
Comebacks, Families, Family Ties, Kids, Old People, Should've Used a Condom, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Despite That Meat You Sold Me Yesterday

Very Jewish lady behind deli counter: So, how have you been?
Very old Jewish man: Oh, I'm still here.

–Zabar's Deli

Posted on August 20, 2014
Age/Aging, Delis, Jews, Old People, Questions

C’mon, Baby, Light My Wednesday One-Liners

Girl to friend: You have to stop setting your brother on fire.

–Broadway

Overheard by: sandm

Student to professor: Urinating on fire? What the hell, Freud?

–Wagner College, Staten Island

Tool on cell: If burning leaves in the schoolyard is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!

–E 44th St & 2nd Ave

Blond woman: And that was the night I burned my eyebrows off!

–Union Square

Some guy: I spent all of last night searching my body for it, but I promise you if I find it, I’ll burn it.

–The Village

Older woman at art gallery, looking at the price list: That burns my ass. Sorry, but that burns my ass.

–57th St

Posted on August 20, 2014
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Ass, College, Elementary & Middle School, Etiquette, Family Ties, Fire, Friends, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Hair, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Old People, Pee, Psychology, Questions, Sensory Experiences, Staten Island, Street, Students, The Village, Union Square and East Village, Violence, Weirdness, Women, Words

Wednesday One-Linernotes

Man handing out his CD: Scuze me, you like authentic Latino music? (woman flinches)
I ain't gonna bite you. Neither is the CD. Unless you're bitten with the sweet beat of salsa.

–2 Train

Older guy to younger date: So last night, right, I was a little drunker than I wanted to be and I was listening to those Beethoven and Mozart symphonies to, you know, really try to hear the difference between them…

–Uptown A Train

Woman walking out of a Chekhov play: Ugh! That was like taking a Tchaikovsky and playing it as if it were a Beeeeeethoven.

–Theatre District

Overheard by: Greer Feick

Happy older musician: I'm playing at the memorial concert for Ricky B*. Johnny T* was going to do it, but he died. I'm the go-to replacement when someone scheduled to play at a tribute concert dies.

–19th & 7th

Overheard by: tycho anomaly

Man on cell: Did you get the tickets? (pause) Eighty dollars to see a green bitch sing!?

–Chineese Restaurant, Columbus Ave

Posted on August 20, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Death, Drinking & Drunk People, For Sale, Girls, Gripes, Guys, Insults, Jobs & Careers, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Music, Musicians, Old People, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Singing, Street, Stupidity, Theater, Theater & Dance, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Women

Wednesday One-Liners Do the Vatican Rag

Suit on cell: No, I’m not coming in today…I’m on the Upper East Side. There’s all this traffic from the Pope’s "Don’t sodomize the kids" world tour.

–83rd & Lex

Guy at bar: Most Popes hate Jews.

–6th and D

Gamer kid: Yeah, I was in DC this weekend with the Pope… Yeah, I saw that muthafucka.

–218th & Park Terrace West

Overheard by: Kelley

Old lady, about young girl: Oh, she looks nice. She’s wearing Pope shoes.

–Carmine St

Overheard by: arctinus

Posted on August 18, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Cars and Driving, Compliments, Guys, Insults, Judaism, Kids, NYC Geography, Old People, On Cell, Pedophilia, Pope, Shoes, Suits, The Village, Union Square and East Village, Upper East Side, Washington Heights and Inwood, Women

Wednesday One-Liners for Hezbollah

Officer to old lady: Hey, don't leave you bag on the floor, there are terrorist everywhere.

–45th St & 3rd Ave

Overheard by: StriderNo9

Suit on cell: So you're gonna vote for a Muslim and a terrorist?

–MoMA

Hipster to friend: Yeah, terrorists totally love Bush.

–46th and 9th

Overheard by: choosing not to capitalize the B

Tourist: Are you guys terrorists?

–Rally for Gaza, 42nd & 7th

Overheard by: ooga booga

Loud black queer teen: But his best joke was like "What do you call people who hate ketchup?" (no response) "Al-Qaeda!" (bursts out laughing) Get it? It's funny because they don't have ketchup in Iraq!

–1 Train

Overheard by: Ketchup lover

Posted on August 17, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Cops, Friends, Hipsters, Iraq, Junk Food & Fast Food, Laughter, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, MoMA, Old People, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Parades & Festitivites, Paranoia, President, Queers, Questions, Street, Stupidity, Suits, Teens, Terrorism, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

That's the Last Time I'll Try Something New, “Just for Kicks.”

Oldish lady #1: So, how have you been?
Oldish lady #2: Well, I just had a horrible experience! People always told me that ultrasounds were worse than childbirth, and I never believed them. You know, I never had children. But really! They were doing an ultrasound and I've never experienced anything more painful in my entire life! And then they couldn't find my gallbladder! It was horrible!

–37 Arts, W 37th St

Overheard by: hunterfosterspitsalot

Posted on August 16, 2014
Body Parts, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Medicine, Old People, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Sensory Experiences, Women

Old People