Hobo: Why did Freddy kill Martin Luther King, Jr.? Because he had a dream!
Suit: It doesn’t get much better than this.
–1 train
Overheard by: okredtrain
Hobo: Why did Freddy kill Martin Luther King, Jr.? Because he had a dream!
Suit: It doesn’t get much better than this.
–1 train
Overheard by: okredtrain
Chubby chick #1: Oh my god, you know who I look like and who I sound like? I saw like this really, really old CD of Barbara Cook, and she’s so much fatter than me, but we sing exactly alike! [Sings.]Chubby chick #2: I don’t really think I look like anybody. That’s not true — I look like a Gummi Bear.
–Starbucks, 52nd & Lex
Teen daughter: I love the city. I can easily live here.
Mom: You don’t know anything about this city. Keep walking.
Teen daughter: Mom, I know enough. I drink Starbucks and loved Sex and the City.
–31st & 7th
Nine-year-old boy #1 looking at mannequin in sex shop: Batman! B
Nine-year-old boy #2: Batman — that’s so cool!
Nine-year-old boy #1: Bat-maaan! Bat-maaan!
–Orchard & Rivington
Overheard by: Amanda
Man, about others yelling in street: Yo! This is just like reality TV, man!
Passerby: You mean reality is?
Man: Uh…
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: Maggie
Queer #1: In Japan they have all these boy bands, and they all come out of this, like, big boy band academy. It’s like a school.
Queer #2: God. Wouldn’t it be great if they gave tours?
Queer #1: We could Google it.
–R train
Guy to cooks: So, do you guys just sit around all night making up medieval names for each other?
–Pizza shop, 2nd Ave & St. Mark’s Pl
Overheard by: mangledorf
Nerd on cell: I waited five years to get a girlfriend, and I finally got one and I just couldn’t take it!
–Dunkin’ Donuts, 14th St
Overheard by: Jo
Chick on cell: Whoa, did I just refer to Voldemort in a romantic context? What is happening to me?
–Harlem
Overheard by: Ladle
Dork: Wow, 200 points of magic! Well, that would truly be a day of sorcery.
–LIRR
NYU student: So, Yoda is more masculine than Sophocles?
–NYU
Overheard by: waphle
Teen girl #1: I don’t think people understand the gravity of the situation. Nobody seems excited. We’re in an actual Springfield Kwik-E-Mart!
Teen girl #2: I know. When I tell my grandkids I went to a Kwik-E-Mart [trails off]…
–7-Eleven/Kwik-E-Mart near Times Square
NYU professor: So, you don’t know who Robin Hood is or who the three little piggies are? Really? Where did you grow up?
Student: The Bronx.
–Politics class, NYU
Overheard by: jmd
Lady #1: … And I know he still wants me just by seeing the way he looks at me still.
Lady #2: But he told me he’s done wit’ you!
Lady #1: Look, when it’s late at night and he ain’t got nothin’ to do, who is he gonna call? Not the Ghostbusters!
–6 train
Overheard by: Ari
