One-liners

Girl: …And you hadda stick your damn FINGER down the toilet!

–28th bet. 3rd and Lex

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Girl: She’s a lesbian. Why are you trying to find an excuse that she’s not a lesbian? That’s very rude.

–W Train

A protestor holds a banner reading “Stop the Police State” and is wearing a t-shirt that says the same. He turns to the policeman standing next to him.

Protestor: Do you remember how civilians stopped tanks in Tiannamen Square in 1989? That would NEVER happen here–tanks don’t stop for people here.

–Union Square

Angry Girl: And she wrote it on her Live Journal!

–14th St. & 1st

Overheard by: Tibbie X

Yuppie: We shouldn’t be using our brains to simulate monkeys.

–Broadway & 72nd

Wannabe Player: It is a pleasure to have the honor of being in your company.

–Halloween Party, Greenwich Village

Guy: We’re all stuck in a loop of bullshit.

–Odessa, Ave. A

Hispter eating in Bonita in Williamsburg: “…and they have their own vocabulary, using phrases like, ‘hanging out.'”

Woman: Usually when the bill is over $70 a person I steal something.

–Bensonhurst

Black Man (to African Man): Where are you from? Why don’t you go back there, man?

–Penn Station