People

Suit #1: It just feels…weird.
Suit #2: Spongy.
Suit #1: Yeah.

–19th & 5th

Overheard by: I don’t even want to know

Man: Wow, you’re here already? That was quick.
Woman: Yeah, if I was Adam Sandler I would have said, “That was click!”

–West 44th St

Overheard by: Tomer Langberg

Six young guys are trying to check into the Hotel Chelsea late on Saturday night of Pride Weekend.

Desk clerk: Two beds for four men, not six! Not six men for two beds. [Pause] That’s a different hotel!

–Hotel Chelsea, W. 23rd St

Bartender: I have absolutely no desire to go to work and make ginger cosmos for a bunch of proud gays.

–Montague & Henry

Foreign guy: He’s not gay. He’s almost gay. He spends most of his time with a lot of gay actors. But he’s not really gay.

–Stairs of the Met

Overheard by: wankerbob

Guy on cell: And you got the vampires from where?

–21st & 9th

Rich young woman: She’s a big-time lawyer. You wouldn’t know her name or anything, but she’s got an office in Rochester, and one in the Twin Towers.

–Metro-North train, Grand Central

College girl: Oh. Did you use to ride horses as a kid?
Jappy guy: No. I’m just rich

–12th & 5th

Overheard by: Mehler

Girl on cell: Oh my god, I’ve been having the shittiest day today. No, it has nothing to do with our conversation this morning. Listen, believe it or not, I can have a shitty day that has nothing to do with you…Ugh, I have no idea why I called you. [hangs up] My fucking dad. I can’t even get a sympathy “it’s all rainbows and bunnies” phone-hug from him!

–Union Square W & 15th

Overheard by: someone who knows how she feels

Kid behind a guy in a Fubu jersey: Dad, who’s Fubu?
Dad: That’s the guy’s name, son

–Penn Station

Man #1: Man, all these stabbings and killings, man.
Man #2: Yeah.
Man #1: But you know, that’s every summer.

–Myrtle & Marcy, Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: Brendan Rogak

Russian driver: I don’t know, she stop right in front of me.
Cop: She just slammed on the brakes? Why did she do that?
Russian driver: I don’t know, light was yellow. You know, green is go, red is stop, yellow is go faster.
Cop: Sure, absolutely.

–21st Ave & 77th St, Bensonhurst

Overheard by: Joel