Smoker #1: I needed to get some fresh air — it is so hot and stuffy in there.
Smoker #2: I know what you mean. I’d quit, but then I would never get any fresh air.
Smoker #1: Right?
–Outside Splash, Chelsea
Overheard by: Will
Smoker #1: I needed to get some fresh air — it is so hot and stuffy in there.
Smoker #2: I know what you mean. I’d quit, but then I would never get any fresh air.
Smoker #1: Right?
–Outside Splash, Chelsea
Overheard by: Will
Drunk chick: Let me tell you a quote from Pluto.
Drunk dude: From Pluto?
Drunk chick: Yes.
Drunk dude: Mickey Mouse’s dog?
Drunk chick: The Greek philosopher!
Drunk dude: That’s Plato!
–Bar, 3rd Ave & 63rd St
Overheard by: All2Often
Teen hippie: I hate the system with a passion. It’s so systematic, I want to kill its children.
Friend: Dude, we are its children.
–Greenwich Village
Chick #1: And they smoked pot like crazy!
Little kid: What’s pot?
Chick #2: Who the hell is talking to you? Go fuck yourself.
Kid runs away crying.
Chick #1: Kids today are terrible. Parents need to start beating their kids again.
Chick #2: Word.
–Tompkins Square Park Playground
Student: I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and maybe you could, like, help me out and clear this up or whatever. So, what about death and stuff?
Philosophy professor: That’s a great segue…
–NYU
Guy #1: I have been thinking some deep shit recently.
Girl #1: Yeah, I mean, me too.
Girl #2: Me too.
Girl #3: Me too.
–Columbia University
Little boy: I didn’t bring my sword!
Father: Why not?
Little boy: It’s not big enough.
Father: Son, size doesn’t matter.
–Medieval Festival, Fort Tryon Park
Overheard by: Mikeyg
Hobo: Never give up! Don’t you ever give up!
Teen: But why even try? Everyone loses in the end!
–St. Marks Place
Gangsta #1: Don’t do shit to motherfuckers that you don’t want motherfuckers to do to you.
Gangsta #2: Yeah, yeah.
–55th & 3rd
Overheard by: MES
Man: So I’ve always kind of wondered…You know how ants are so small, we’re probably too big to be completely perceived and understood by them? I always wondered if there were beings that were so large they were beyond our capabilities of perception and comprehension.
Blonde: That, like, totally doesn’t make any sense.
Man: Why not?
Blonde: ‘Cause, like, when it rained on them, then we’d get washed away. Duh.
–6 train
