20-something daughter: Mom, don’t you think it’s inappropriate to be drinking gin and tonics everyday before noon?
Mom: Oh, it’s ok. I only drink in the mornings.
–Central Park
20-something daughter: Mom, don’t you think it’s inappropriate to be drinking gin and tonics everyday before noon?
Mom: Oh, it’s ok. I only drink in the mornings.
–Central Park
Little girl: So if I don’t take the pill, will I have to have a thousand babies?
Mom: No, that’s not how it works.
–Columbia University
Ghetto girl #1: My boyfriend, he’s ghetto, you know.
Ghetto girl #2: Ghetto how, like ghetto ‘Can’t bring him to a work function ghetto,’ or ‘Ghetto, can’t bring home to mama ghetto’?
Ghetto girl #1: Definitely ‘Can’t bring him to a work function ghetto…’ And ‘I can’t bring him to mama ghetto.’
Ghetto girl #2: Yeah, he’s ghetto.
Ghetto girl #1: Yeah, but we are too.
Ghetto girl #2: No we’re not! Hey, where are you going, we were supposed to go into the Gap.
–34th & Broadway
Overheard by: kate
Jappy Teenage daughter: Daddeeee! I want you to get rid of sweat.
–50th & 8th
Overheard by: Lord…
Black woman on cell: I don’t like big, Black, aggressive men. I like light-skinned men, cause I’m Jamaican. I just found out I’m Jamaican like five years ago. My mom told me the guy who I thought was my father is not my real father. But you know, I don’t hold nothing against him. Dude paid child support and shit.
–Queens bound 7 Train
Hoochie with baby: As soon as he came outta me and I saw what color he was, oh no, I knew who his daddy was. But I love the shit outta my son.
–R Train
Little girl: When I don’t want to listen to my dad I just say ‘Talk to the hand!’
–Wooster St & Spring St
Little kid in stroller: Dad, is this us?
–Inside subway car on NYC subway IRT line at 34 thst stop
Overheard by: Steve Grant
Tween girl: Mom you’re not a tease if you give it up, you’re a slut. Jesse’s a slut, I’m a tease.
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: S-dawg
Young boy, singing: I love you! You love me! We’re as happy as two can be!
Mother: I’ll show you how much I fucking love you!
–D train, Fordham Rd
Overheard by: horrified
Girl: But I don’t wanna be a geisha.
Mother: We’ll talk about it when we get home.
–55th between 2nd & 3rd
Overheard by: Chris Evans
Woman: How many kids do you have?
Man: A little over a hundred. I’m very fertile.
–MoMA
Overheard by: ken
Little girl: Daddy! Why can’t I try? Why can’t I ride it?
Dad, on mini-bike: Because I’m God, and God says so.
–72nd & 5th
Overheard by: better off agnostic
Little girl: Christmas is next!
Mother: No, first is Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and then Christmas.
Little girl: And then we die!
–Tea Lounge, Park Slope
