Wangsta #1: When you get back from the Island?
Wangsta #2: I tole you, I wasn’t at Riker’s! That’s Rasheed!
Wangsta #1: Fool, I’m talking about Long Island, not Rikers!
Wangsta #2: Oh, Thursday.
–R train
Overheard by: Jonster
Wangsta #1: When you get back from the Island?
Wangsta #2: I tole you, I wasn’t at Riker’s! That’s Rasheed!
Wangsta #1: Fool, I’m talking about Long Island, not Rikers!
Wangsta #2: Oh, Thursday.
–R train
Overheard by: Jonster
Chick on cell: It attacked me this morning. I attacked it this afternoon.
–113th St
Overheard by: Wild Dog Boy
Six-year-old boy on train platform to grown man eyeing him: Stop looking at me or I'm going to beat you up!
–NJ Transit
Overheard by: Turning away now.
Hipster on cell: Wait…so he hit you with the broom first, right?
–60th & Lex
Overheard by: Easy Does It
Shopper on her cell: If one of these little kids steps on my toes one more time I'm gonna pinch the motherfuckers.
–Ikea in Red Hook
Woman in bathroom: No, there's no toilet paper. You wanna throw down?
–Port Authority
Hobo: Look at this, does this look fake?
Guy: What did you do, print it?
Hobo: Yeah! You think it looks fake?
Guy: Yes.
Hobo: Well it ain’t!
–R train
Overheard by: SkunkEye
Guy #1: So I basically came up with a question that doesn't have an answer. Would you do Jessica Simpson, I mean really Jessica Simpson, but the catch is she is the size of Shaquille O'Neal? Like 300 pounds and 7 feet tall but still really truly Jessica Simpson.
Guy #2: You're right, I don't have an answer.
Guy #1: Yeah, neither did Kevin when I asked him last night. What a mind blow…
–6 Train
Overheard by: Mark
Chick: Oh, God! You remember Anna from high school?
Guy: Yeah…
Chick: You know, the fuckin’ ugly one?
Guy: Yeah, she’s really nice.
Chick: I don’t fucking care — she is so fucking ugly! And I heard she’s married now.
Guy: Yeah? Really?
Chick: Who the fuck would fuck her?
Guy: … I did.
–F train
Girl #1: Girl look, I got the same picture on my wall calendar as I do on this day planner. Muthafuckin’ Grainstacks in Sunlight!
Girl #2: Morning Effect?
Girl #1: Yeah, I like dat impressionist shit.
Girl #2: Me too. Dat shit is pretty.
–1 train
Overheard by: diva646
Spunky but pretty black girl: Jesus, I told you. I am married to Jesus.
Crazy Asian man, suddenly noticing a pretty white girl: What about her?
Spunky but pretty black girl: You leave her alone. She's married too.
–4 Train
Husband pushing carriage to wife: You're lucky I'm on my way to church right now, or I'd kill you.
–Upper West Side
Chick on cell: But the real question is, is he Catholic? And an insomniac?
–113th & Broadway
Overheard by: Poogins
Sequined Australian drag queen: Well, I know an Antichrist religion when I see it.
–2nd St & 2nd Ave
Overheard by: Alisha
Girl on phone: He told me he was raped by a Catholic priest when he was little, but like I don't believe him.
–Butler Library, Columbia University
Train conductor: 110th Street, Cathedral Parkway. There are churches here, you know.
–1 Train
Man to woman, after getting off cell phone: Ah, that was Nancy–booty call. She says I gotta get over there before she's got to go to church.
–Q Train
Overheard by: spygirl
Conductor: World Trade Center-bound E train. Next stop — Seventh Avenue.
Teen #1: We have to get off.
Teen #2: Huh… They built the World Trade Center again! Whoa.
–E train
Drunk girl #1: She doesn’t care about AIDS?
Drunk girl #2: No, no, she said ‘Asians.’ She said she doesn’t care about Asians.
Sober friend: I said I didn’t care about age.
Drunk girl #2: Why are you hatin’ on Asians with AIDS?
–L train