Thin Alcoholics, Though

Waspy girl #1: My mom and I are in a huge fight right now.
Waspy girl #2: Really? That sucks.
Waspy girl #1: Yeah, especially because to punish me she's taking me shopping.
Waspy girl #2: What?
Waspy girl #1: We go to all these stores and she makes me try on all these clothes while she makes comments about how fat I'm getting. And then she doesn't buy me anything because according to her I'm a whale.
Waspy girl #2: Wow.
Waspy girl #1: Yeah, I know. And people wonder why Wasps tend to be such alcoholics.

–Metro-North Train

Posted on November 23, 2009
Animals & Nature, Clothing, Compare/Contrast, Crime and Punishment, Diet/Weight, Drinking & Drunk People, Girls, Parents, Physical appearance, Race, Shopping, Trains Not Subway, Weirdness, White People

Or Have an IQ Above 50

Girl: Wow, you are really tall!
Guy: Yeah, I know…
Girl: No, seriously, you're like as tall as that Ying Yang guy!
Guy: What? Who? Oh, you mean Yao Ming?
Girl, laughing: Oh yeah, whatever, I don't watch baseball.

–NYU

Posted on November 19, 2009
Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Girls, Guys, Names, NYU, Physical appearance, Sports

Who Says You Can't Win an Argument?

Girl #1: Stop pushing!
Girl #2: You stop pushing!
Girl #1: Stop pushing or I'm gonna punch your fat teeth into your fat face!

–F Train

Overheard by: goodstuff

Posted on November 19, 2009
Diet/Weight, Girls, Insults, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Punch, Threats

What Runs Through Parents' Minds When They Picture Their Kids in the Big Apple

Drunk hobo: You guys are attractive. You got the hair thing going on and you have the sideburns working for you. (flexes biceps)
Teenage boys: Ummm… Thanks.
Drunk hobo: Guys… listen. Guys… birds of a feather fly together. Birds of a feather fly together. You don't see seagulls flying with pigeons or pigeons flying with seagulls. Birds of a feather fly together! You guys have any money?
(they give him some change, he walks away)
Sketchy man overlooking: Wow… that guy was crazy. Do you kids want some weed or some blow?

–Sitting Area, 48th & 8th

Overheard by: Brendan

Posted on November 19, 2009
Beauty, Birds, BJs, Compliments, Drunks, Hair, Hobos, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Offers and requests, Panhandling, Physical appearance, Strangers, Teens, Weed

Wednesday One-Liners Paint with All the Colors Of the Wind

Young guy: If I see another blue penis it would be too soon!

–42nd St

Overheard by: alecko

Girl on cell: She just bought a merkin… It was pink, you know, to match her hair. (pause) Would you want to rub toxic dye down there?

–Williamsburg

Girl to another: Just because he is wearing a different colored shirt, he's still the same guy.

–Central Park

Flamboyant guy, shouting to girl in very short orange dress: I have that same orange dress in purple!

–South Street Seaport

Overheard by: Green Star

Mother to four-year-old wearing pink shirt and shoes: Not *everything* has to be pink, honey.

–Rite Aid, Carroll Gardens

Overheard by: Sunny

Posted on November 18, 2009
All Wednesday One-Liners, Brooklyn, Central Park, Clothing, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Girls, Guys, Hair, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, On Cell, One-liners, Parents, Parks, Penis, Physical appearance, Shoes, Store, Street, Violence, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Wednesday One-Liners, Williamsburg, Wishes & desires

But I'm Guessing It's Like When Tyra Calls the Prospective Models “Ugly-Beautiful”

Girl sitting with friends listening to music: Ohmigod, the guy who sings this song is sooooooo ugly!
Friend: Really?
Girl: My family said I look like him.

–Central Park

Posted on November 14, 2009
Beauty, Central Park, Compare/Contrast, Family Ties, Friends, Girls, Parks, Physical appearance

It's Bad Enough I Already Think About Aunt Phyllis

Clearly drunk college student: Dude, I need advice. If you meet this really hot girl that happens to have the same name as your mother, do you still do her?
Bouncer: Hell yeah. Why not? She's hot, right?
Clearly drunk college student: Ugh, I don't know. I don't want to think of my mom the whole time. I can't do it.

–Walker & Church

Posted on November 12, 2009
Advice, Bouncers, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Family Ties, Names, Parents, Physical appearance, Questions, Sex, Students, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Wishes & desires

So She'll Have to Rely Upon the Affections Of Rich Men

Middle aged woman #1: Yeah, so my older daughter is really good with directions. She'll be fine getting around New York.
Middle aged woman #2: Oh, that's good.
Middle aged woman #1: Yeah, but my youngest… she's just… blonde.

–El Quijote Restaurant

Overheard by: Rachel

Posted on November 12, 2009
Compare/Contrast, Family Ties, Hair, Parents, Physical appearance, Restaurants & Cafes, Stupidity, Women

Wednesday One-Liners, for Purely Medicinal Purposes

Guy wearing a promotional cardboard to another: I think I'm going to treat myself to health insurance next month.

–Broadway & 43rd St

Overheard by: Maria

Woman on phone: My urologist wanted to stick a microscope up my urethra! (pause) No! (pause) Because it's going to hurt!

–Vandam St & 6th Ave

20-something woman on cell: Yeah, the doctor told me not to exfoliate my labia.

–R Train

Overheard by: Note to self….

Bartender: I gotta get sexy for my doctor tomorrow. I'm gonna be like, "doctor, I need you to examine me. I need you to remove my garments." Nah… I'm just playin'. My doctor's cute, though. For real. I'm just gonna show some cleavage or somethin'.

–Jamaica, Queens

Woman on phone: She wants to be a doctor. She likes it when the guts fall out. (pause) No, she wouldn't do that. She's too lazy to be a serial killer.

–Fox Newsroom, 6th & 48th

Overheard by: Newsbunny