Hobo #1: Ya know what?
Hobo #2: Does it look like I know what?
–Washington Place & Broadway
Overheard by: ksm
Hobo #1: Ya know what?
Hobo #2: Does it look like I know what?
–Washington Place & Broadway
Overheard by: ksm
Hot Asian boyfriend: Yeah… Once, I was really wasted and I had to piss so badly. I just pissed in the cab that I was in.
Pretty Asian girlfriend: You mean you pissed in your pants in a cab?
Hot Asian boyfriend: No, stupid! Right before I got out, I whipped it out and just pissed as quietly as I could.
(Pretty Asian girlfriend stops walking and just stares at him)
Hot Asian boyfriend: What?
Pretty Asian girlfriend, looking away: Poor cab driver! Oh, that poor soul… Who am I dating? (shakes head)
Hot Asian boyfriend: What? A man's got a right to mark his territory sometimes. Dogs do it too!
Pretty Asian girlfriend: Did you own that taxi cab?
Hot Asian boyfriend: No.
Pretty Asian girlfriend: Then why the hell did you pee on something that wasn't yours?
–Astor Place
Overheard by: poor cab driver
Hipster boy: Are you a vegetarian?
Hipster girl: No.
Hipster boy: You look like you could be, and I mean that as a compliment. It means you look hip.
–Grand Sichuan, St. Mark's Place
Overheard by: aryn
Guy #1: Have you ever had a happy ending?
Guy #2: No, I've never gotten one. (passer-by stares at him)
Guy #1: I get them all the time, they're great!
–W 23rd & 3rd
Guy hitting on girl, noticing a rainbow tag on her shoe: Rainbows, huh? Yeah. I live in Florida, so…
Girl's: So…?
(awkward silence)
Guy: What do you do?
–3 Train
Girl #1: No way, where is that?
Girl #2: St. Mark's.
Girl #1: No way! I live right there. Where on St. Mark's?
Girl #2: St. Mark's and 2nd Avenue.
Girl #1: No way! That's where I live! Should I get my hair cut there?
Girl #2: No.
–Park Ave South
Overheard by: Adam Nathan
Preppy rich girl #1: So, my dad just got back from Florida yesterday.
Preppy rich girl #2: Oh, really? Did he have fun?
Preppy rich girl #1: I guess. He was mad at me for some reason, so he didn't really tell me much. He said he really liked the Everglades, though.
Preppy rich girl #2: The Everglades? I have always wanted to go to that mall!
–Marc Jacobs Store
Overheard by: Alexa
Woman to teen girl: Where did you get those fabulous blue eyes?
Brown-eyed dad: From her mother.
Woman: But blue eyes are recessive.
Brown-eyed dad: You have no idea what a bitch her mother is.
–City Hall Park
Overheard by: Big Larry
Hobo #1: Girl, you a model?
Hobo #2: Nah. She too short to be a model.
–51st St & Madison Ave
Overheard by: flattered
Son to mother sitting at diner: Mom, why am I so small? Am I going to grow?
Mother: Yes, honey, of course you will. You're perfect just the way you are.
(son starts blowing bubbles in his soda and asks mother to start blowing bubbles in his soda too. She starts, then looks around at some people staring at them)
Mother: You know, I just realized how gross this is.
–Diner, 53rd & 1st