11-year-old camper: When do we get off?
Younger friend: When it's time to get off. You can't rush time!
–1 Train
11-year-old camper: When do we get off?
Younger friend: When it's time to get off. You can't rush time!
–1 Train
Chick #1: You shouldn’t have slept with him. You knew that would really hurt his girlfriend…
Chick #2: Yeah, I know, but we were both so high on coke that neither of us should be held responsible for our actions.
–Starbucks, 50th & 9th
Overheard by: sketchy
Girl on cell: Well you know, when in Rome. Who said that, was it Jesus? I think it was Jesus.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Nathalie
Mr. Ivory: Why can’t I say the “N” word?
Mr. Ebony: Certain people can’t say certain things. Like we as Americans can say “Americans are so dumb to vote in Bush again”, but let a Canadian say that same thing and I will slap his ass.
–East Village
20-something Intellectual: Facts are such a distraction from the essence of what’s really happening.
–Private Party, Brooklyn
Middle-aged Man: “you know how people all over the world, chinese, african, whatever, they look different”
Middle-aged woman: “”well no matter where you go the chickens of the world, they look the same, ever thought about that”
Middle-aged Man: “I wonder if they speak the same language?”
— McDonald’s, by the corner of Houston & Hudson
Boy#1: So what are you going to do? Go to gospel choir practice or go shopping?
Boy#2: The sales are this week. God…is…forever.
Boy#1: …you may be going to Hell, but at least you’ll look good going.
–East Village
Overheard by: michi-L
Businessman: I’m thinking that a $10 parking ticket is just a $10 parking permit for the day.
–Midtown office
Idiot: Happiness is a sandwich.
–Quizno’s, 14th Street
Bimbo: So are you ever going to move back to Europe?
Eurotrash: I was thinking about that a couple of times when I was really, really depressed in LA. American culture is such a product of the country.
–Soho
