Female coworker: I just don’t think I’m looking in the right places to meet guys.
Jappy coworker: Just get a group of girls together, and go to services at B’nai Jeshurun, I hear it’s a meat market on Shabbat.
–Upper West Side
Overheard by: Melissa
Ice cream truck guy to boy on scooter: How are you doing, little man?
Little boy to ice cream guy: How are you doing, faggot?
–Astoria, Queens
- Posted on May 17, 2023
- Astoria, Insults, Kids, Questions, Should’ve Used a Condom, Vendors & Street Performers
Teen: Oh my god! You’re sooo cool.
12‐year‐old ghetto kid, throwing snappers at him: Fuck you, cracka!
–President St, Park Slope
Overheard by: Lucian
- Posted on May 16, 2023
- Insults, Kids, Park Slope, Teens
Black woman, looking at costumes: For Halloween I’m gonna be a slave.
Black man: For real?
Black woman: Will you be my master?
–3rd Ave & 25th St
Overheard by: Ivonna
- Posted on May 16, 2023
- Black People, Celebrations/Parties, Clothing, Men, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Offers and requests, Questions, S&M, Women
Dude #1: You’re so slutty!
Dude #2: We’re both so slutty…
Dude #1: Heh, I know…if these balls could talk…
Dude #2: It’s gotten to the point where, if I’m about to do it with a guy, I drop your name, just to be sure.
–55th & 9th
- Posted on May 15, 2023
- Balls, Gays and Lesbians, Guys, Hook Ups, Insults, Midtown & Hell’s Kitchen, Names
Girl: Yeah, so, did you hear that the bald eagle isn’t extinct anymore?
–Central Park
- Posted on May 15, 2023
- Animals & Nature, Brooklyn, Central Park, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Health and Hygiene, Hospitals, Manhattan, On Cell, On the Subway, One‐liners, Pop Culture, Queens, Staten Island Ferry, STDs, Stupidity, The Village, TV, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, We Love Our Pets, Yuppies
Drunk guy: Where are you from, man?
Random guy: Arizona.
Drunk guy: Arizona… Arizona, Nevada?
Random guy: No… Arizona, Arizona.
Drunk guy: Oh, but… Nevada is a section of Arizona right?
Random guy: No. Nevada is Nevada.
Drunk guy: I’ve been to Wisconsin.
–E Train
Overheard by: Noble Robinette
- Posted on May 14, 2023
- Compare/Contrast, Default, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Guys, Names, On the Subway, Questions, Southerners, Strangers, Stupidity, U.S. Geography
Boy, 7: Who’s that guy again?
Mom: Which one?
Boy, 7: Subway.
Mother: Bernard Goetz.
–B48 bus
- Posted on May 14, 2023
- Kids, Moms, On the Bus, Only in New York, Parents, People, Places, Pop Culture
Chick #1: Hey, who was Yasser Arafat?
Chick #2: Uh, wasn’t he the president of Mexico?
Chick #1: Kill me.
–Washington Square Park
- Posted on May 13, 2023
- Manhattan, Politics, Stupidity, The Village
Girl #1: But… Isn’t he from Japan?
Girl #2: Duh, Japanese people speak Chinese!
Girl #1: Oh my god! (laughs) You are so funny! People from Japan speak Spanish. Everybody knows that!
–A Train
Overheard by: Hiding In The Corner (Highly Disturbed.)
- Posted on May 13, 2023
- Foreigners, Girls, Languages, Laughter, On the Subway, Stupidity
