HS girl #1: What’s that Friday right before Easter? I think it’s Passover, right?
HS girl #2: Yo, you know Easter was created by the Easter Orthodox Church?
–M train, Williamsburg Bridge
Overheard by: Tito
HS girl #1: What’s that Friday right before Easter? I think it’s Passover, right?
HS girl #2: Yo, you know Easter was created by the Easter Orthodox Church?
–M train, Williamsburg Bridge
Overheard by: Tito
Black teen girl to friends refusing to get on train: Why you gotta be so stupid? Get on the damn train!
Black teen guy: They gonna just stand there like that? Let the train go!
Black teen girl: Bitch said she thought that guy’s gonna blow up the train [points to gloomy white kid in RadioHead shirt].
Black teen guy: What?! Why you gotta say that when we goin’ over the bridge?!
–Brooklyn-bound J train
Overheard by: cp
Conductor, as lady’s bag keeps catching on door: One woman is single-handedly holding up the entire New York City transit system.
–F train
Headline by: Tad Allagash
Runners-Up:
· “Atlas Shopped” – Rosie
· “More Specifically: One Poor, Tattered Pomeranian Is Single-handedly Holding Up the Entire New York City Transit System.” – criffer
· “Not True- There’s a Hobo Asleep On The Tracks 3 Stops Ahead” – Dangello
· “Passengers: (Continued Indifference)” – Chuckles
· “Then the Lord God Said to the Woman, “What Is This You Have Done?”” – amanda p.
Girl #1: When Jeff ate me out, all I was wearing were my socks.
Girl #2: That’s sad…
–J train
Overheard by: Mona
Crazy guy: Happy New Year! Nice to see me!
Suit: Nice to see me, too.
–A train
Overheard by: Katie
Teen #1: Fuck, man. Fuck.. Fuck!
Old black lady: Respect yourself — you better respect yourself.
Teen #2: [Mumbles.]Old black lady: What did you say?! Oh, I thought so. This is why they created more prisons — just for you.
–Q train
Midwestern lady: Do you have to be Jewish to like cheesecake?
Midwestern man: Uhhh…
Midwestern lady: ‘Cause I think Protestant girls can like cheesecake, too.
–2/3 train
Overheard by: Katie Grady
Teen girl #1: I think Johnny Depp is so super hot! With all his dirty, disgusting hair in Pirates… Mmmm, so hot.
Teen girl #2: I don’t get it. I seem to be the only person who doesn’t find him cute.
Teen girl #1, very serious: I’ve never met anybody quite like you.
–R train
Overheard by: Jen
Lady #1: How’s Aunt Beth* doing?
Lady #2: Good. She needs a makeover.
Lady #1: A makeover?
Lady #2: Yeah, she lost all that weight.
Lady #1: Ohhh — an extreme makeover.
Lady #2: Yeah.
–V train
Suit #1: We don’t know where we’re going… Keep going straight?
Suit #2: We’ll figure something out…
Suit #1, two stops later: You want to get off, or go one more?
Suit #2: Let’s keep going — roll the dice.
–F train
Overheard by: Xavier
