Questions

Girl #1: Can you hear music up your nose?
Girl #2: That is the most amazing thing you have ever said.

–Bard High School

Overheard by: Sunny

Blonde: Yeah… I still have no idea how he found out where I lived.
Uninterested brunette, filing her nails: Ummm, ever been to the yellow pages?
Blonde: No, I don't think so… Is that a new club?

–F Train

Overheard by: don't feed the model

Cop to another: Are you drunk yet?

–Corner of 145th St

Frustrated-sounding NYU student to friend: Well, why don't you get a girl and you can just pretend she's drunk?

–Washington Square

Future rabbi: So my philosophy professor, Lenny Kravitz, told us we'll be drinking scotch in class tomorrow…

–4th & Broadway

Drunk black guy arguing on phone: Man, you need to stop drinkin'. Not only is yo speech gettin' slurred, but yo brains is gettin' slurred too!

–NJ Transit

Overheard by: Ashley

Dude to friend: I swear to god, every time he gets a little buzzed he thinks he's Austin Powers.

–40th & 7th

Overheard by: thivnav

Fashion photographer: That's a skirt? I thought it was a hat.

–Fashion Closet, Conde Nast Building

Indecisive woman to friend: I like this sweater in principle.

–Banana Republic, 86th & Broadway

Tween girl to mom: I'm not going to put my precious glove in the frickin' oven!

–Queens

Guy: I'm just saying, he doesn't dress like a bro.

–Astor Place

Irate girl wearing too much lipstick: That band really doesn't do him justice… I mean, I don't think he should have to wear a unitard. And she really shouldn't wear one, you know?

–6 Train

Overheard by: Wants to see him in unitard

Girl #1: Where are your testicles today?
Girl #2: (stares at her)
Girl #1: Oh, fuck. I meant “spectacles”.

–Bard High School, Queens

Overheard by: Sunny

Man: What's “gentrification”?
Woman: It's the process by which gritty neighborhoods turn nice.

–Bryant Park

Visiting bimbo, about giant rock formation in Central Park: So, are these real or were they flown in?
Local bimbo: Oh, I'll have to research that, but I think it's a little from column A, a little from column B.

–Central Park

Overheard by: Ed

7-year-old little sister: Why do you like taking all those pictures of yourself?
14-year-old big sister: It's called “MySpace”, duh!

–7 Train

Overheard by: Annifer

Drunk hobo: Is this the A train?
Girl: Yeah.
Drunk hobo: Is it goin anywhere?
Girl: No.

–A Train

Waitress: Would you like another martini?
NYU girl, pensively: Umm… I don't know. I have to leave in 15 minutes. Do you think I can get it in?
Waitress: How fast do you drink?
NYU girl: Yeah, pretty fast. Okay, another of the same.

–Lure Fishbar