Chick #1: Excuse me, ma’am, but would you mind moving your bag so that my son and I could sit next to each other?
Chick #2: Honestly? I just don’t feel like going through the motions right now.
–6 train
Overheard by: Anne O.
Chick #1: Excuse me, ma’am, but would you mind moving your bag so that my son and I could sit next to each other?
Chick #2: Honestly? I just don’t feel like going through the motions right now.
–6 train
Overheard by: Anne O.
Girl: I don’t know if he’s straight or gay, I can’t tell.
Guy: You know that saying “innocent until proven guilty”? Well, everyone at Pratt is gay until proven straight.
–Hoyt-Schermerhorn station
Overheard by: Peter F.
Girl #1: Ooh, if he was black he would have kicked your ass…
Girl #2: Yeah, if he was a nigga you’d be bleeding all over me.
–1 train
Overheard by: Dustin Ragland
Hobo: Anyone got a dollar, anyone got a dollar? Anyone got a dollar, anyone got a dollar?
Lady: Here, take $5. Now get off the train. You givin’ us black people a bad name.
–D train
Man: Shouldn’t you kids be in school?
Teen girl: Shouldn’t you be in Japan?
–F train
Overheard by: Cristopher
Little girl: Mommy, I feel very shaky.
Mommy: Well, I don’t think you had enough protein today. That’s why I tried to get you to eat the eggs instead of just the bacon.
Little girl: But I’m thirsty.
–1 train
Teen girl: I wouldn’t call me bi but more curious. Nut when I was fooling around with her I thought to myself, “I’d definitely do this again.”
–1 train
Overheard by: Mike Smith
Teen boy: What are you eating?
Teen girl: It’s called…Gateau.
Teen boy: What’s Gateau?
Teen girl: Like…fancy French cake.
Teen boy: Sounds Gateau-fabulous.
–N train
Overheard by: valerie
British lady: Oh, hello there. Hello there. What is your name?
American guy: His name is Iggy-Pup.
British lady: Oh, Iggy-pop? It’d be a lot funnier if his name was Iggy-pup.
American guy: It is.
British lady: You know. Like my dog, for example: Chompsky. Get it?
American guy: Yes, that’s nice.
–1 train
Overheard by: James Gillece
HS boy #1: You probably never had Power Rangers as a kid.
HS boy #2: Uh, dude, we had TV in Canada!
HS boy #3: See man, this is what happens when you don’t live in
Scarsdale all your life. You learn stuff.
–1 train
Overheard by: Julia Kite
