You'll Understand When You Have Wednesday One-Liners

Frazzled mother to young child: Hurry. Hurry. Look, the monster is going to get you if you don't walk faster!

–Queens Mall

Mother to small child: If you eat your two pieces of chicken, I'll give you a raisin.

–College Point Shopping Center

Overheard by: Yesenia

Mom speaking to son: Sweetie, do I look like a eggbeater?

–Waterside Plaza

Woman on bus to child with large hearing aid: Sit down properly! Are you listening to me?

–M23 Bus

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Mother to whiny toddler: I can't listen to you anymore! I fear for both of us.

–15th St & University Place

Overheard by: Sarah M.

Posted on November 25, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Bus, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Compare/Contrast, Family Ties, Fears, Food, Fruit, Handicaps, Kids, Malls, Moms, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Offers and requests, On the Bus, One-liners, Parents, Physical appearance, Queens, Threats, Vampires, Ghouls, and Ghosts, oh my!, Wednesday One-Liners

Hush, Little Wednesday, Don't You One-Liner

Mother to screaming child: Please stop crying and put your coat on. I am not hurting you or torturing you, so please stop crying.

–4th Ave, Brooklyn

Overheard by: olivejuice

Father to kid who just started crying: Hey, stop! I thought I told you to wait until we got home!

–Park Slope, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Lucian

Guy to girl, on Valentine's Day: You look fat when you cry.

–Cobble Hill

Overheard by: MJB

Hispanic man on phone to girlfriend: Ma, why you cryin?! You should be breaking up with me because I hit you!

–Staten Island Ferry

Guy to girlfriend: I'm sorry I pulled your hair while you were crying.

–Bowery & 2nd

Posted on November 24, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Apologies, Breaking Up, Brooklyn, Crying, Dads, Diet/Weight, Girlfriends, Girls, Guys, Hair, Home, Sweet Home, Kids, Latinos, Moms, On Cell, One-liners, Parents, Park Slope, Physical appearance, Questions, Should've Used a Condom, Staten Island Ferry, Union Square and East Village, Violence, Wednesday One-Liners

Sweetie, Could You Call Your Boyfriend and Ask?

Mom: Do you think they use dildos?
Dad, indicating 20-something daughter: I don’t know. Why don’t we ask our resident expert?

–116th & Broadway

Overheard by: alxie

Posted on November 22, 2015
Dildos and Vibrators, Parents, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Wednesdays Make You Want to Have One-Liners of Your Own

Little white boy to frustrated black nanny who is trying to hail a cab: My daddy always gets a taxi!

–Houston & Broadway

Overheard by: Dan

Little boy: This place is like a dead zoo.

–American Museum of Natural History

Four-year-old boy: Yo, this sofa is mad comfy!

–Used Furniture Store, Staten Island

Four-year-old boy: That’s enough, I’m calling Interpol!

–A Train

Overheard by: Swarles

Little girl to mom after terrible Skyride attraction: Mommy, can we never do this again?
(random guy behind her starts laughing) Stop it! Stop laughing at me!

–Empire State Building

Overheard by: Claire

Eight-year-old boy: This museum is inappropriate.

–The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek & Roman Sculpture Wing

Overheard by: Taylor

Posted on November 21, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Animals & Nature, Boys, Cars and Driving, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Death, Empire State Building, Glad the Condom Broke, Kids, Laughter, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Museum of Natural History, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Parents, Soho, Staten Island, Store, The Met, Upper East Side, White People

When You Decide to Have Kids, You're in for a Rocky Road.

Mother, about her hyperactive child: Looooong day. Long day, and too much ice cream.
Hyperactive child: No.

–King Tut Exhibit, Times Square

Overheard by: Sarah

Posted on November 17, 2015
Food, Kids, Moms, More museums, Parents, Should've Used a Condom, Times Square

But If You Write It All Down, You’re a Novelist

Mom: Are you talking to yourself?
Five-year-old: Yes.
Mom: As long as you don’t answer yourself.
Five-year-old: Why?
Mom: Because then you’re crazy.

–N Train

Overheard by: Hannah

Posted on November 9, 2015
Crazy, Default, Fears, Kids, Moms, On the Subway, Parents, Questions

But He Really Had to at That Point, Y'know?

12-year-old boy to two 12-year-old girls, ending long story: So my dad peed in the apple pie!
12-year-old girls: Eeeeewwwww!

–W 77th & Columbus

Overheard by: Stephen

Posted on November 7, 2015
Food, Parents, Pee, Tweens, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

She Had to Have Been Around Three-Months-Old When I Stole Her from That Playground

Woman: I need to pick up my child from daycare, where would she be?
Security guard: What age group?
Woman: I think she’s one.

–Rockefeller Plaza

Posted on October 26, 2015
Babies, Kids, Parents, Rockefeller Center, Women

If Only the Conductor Could Hear That Witty Retort…

Conductor: Ladies and gentlemen, there is a smoke condition at Chambers Street. We will be delayed pulling into 42nd Street.
Teen boy: What the fuck is a smoke condition? My mom has a smoke condition. Subways don’t.

–1 train

Posted on October 16, 2015
Conductors, Guys, On the Subway, Parents, Public Transportation, Teens

Wednesday One-Liners Are Always PC

Young teen girl: I've done cybersex so often I forgot how to type with two hands.

–A Train

Suit on cell: I have nothing to blog about. I have nothing to video blog about. Man, yesterday I had to force myself to tweet!

–Uptown 4 Train

Overheard by: cowgirly

Girl selling peaches to another: Yeah, my dad was so unsympathetic when I told him my computer crashed that I went straight to the Apple store and charged a new hard drive to his credit card. I was really proud of myself.

–Fort Greene Farmers Market

Overheard by: Morning Glory

Teenage girl to friend: I don't see why we're even here. We could see all this stuff on the internet for free.

–Metropolitan Museum

Overheard by: Derek

Posted on October 10, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Computer, Free stuff!, Friends, Girls, Internet, Masturbation, Money & Class, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Parents, Sex, Shopping, Suits, Teens, The Met, Visual Art, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

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