Girl #1, to girl holding leftover salad from lunch: Are you going to refrigerate that salad?
Girl #2: I really should…but I probably won't.
Girl #1: Well, you really should–the swine flu is going around.
–21st & Broadway
Girl #1, to girl holding leftover salad from lunch: Are you going to refrigerate that salad?
Girl #2: I really should…but I probably won't.
Girl #1: Well, you really should–the swine flu is going around.
–21st & Broadway
Girl: Do you think Africans take antidepressants?
Guy: I really don't like you.
–L Train
Brunette: So then…
Blonde: Yeah?
Brunette: He…went…down…
Blonde: What?
Brunette: On…
Blonde: Where are you going with this?
Brunette: …me.
Blonde: I guess I should have seen that coming.
–18th St & 8th Ave
Young teen girl: White Castle? Why can't it be called “Black Castle”?
Friend: That would just be awkward.
–White Castle, Harlem
Overheard by: Katie B.
Freaked-out college chick, pointing at large bump on friend's stomach : Ah! What is that?
Flustered 20-something, in coarse Boston accent: What the hell's the matter with you? You've never had a chocolate-covered raisin in your belly button before?
–St. John's University Queens Campus
Overheard by: What about a milk dud?
Latino sandwich artist to sassy white girl: Is that all or do you need to order a sandwich for your husband too?
Sassy girl: He doesn't exist, so he doesn't get a sandwich.
–Subway Restaurant
Overheard by: missalicious
Guy #1: I swear, dude–she smelled like fish!
Guy #2: Don't you work in a fish store?
Guy #1: Fuck you!
–Lexington & 45th
Overheard by: Allkohn
Headline by: My Little Nemo’s excited
Runners-Up:
· “Be Thankful You Don’t Work With Portable Toilets” – Gunther
· “For the Last Time, It’s Called “The Playboy Mansion”” – Duncan Pflaster
· “I Bet She Had Crabs Too” – Lee
· “Ishmael on Women” – Lena
· “When You Said He Was Sleeping With the Fishes, We Didn’t Assume …” – Laura
· “You Know I Only Kiss Them and Throw Them Back” – wirrrn
Woman pointing south: What street is that way?
Man: Um, all of them.
–Central Park Mall
Student #1: Who's Helen Keller?
Student #2: She was deaf, blind and couldn't talk.
Student #1: I thought that was Anne Frank.
–City Tech College
Mystified/amused pot dealer, as two jocks jog past him after sunset: They just runnin'! No cops, no robbers, no cowboys, no Indians, nothing blowin' up. They just runnin'!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: innocent bystander
Dad to three-year-old boy learning to how to swing: Well, maybe if you were in better shape, this would be easy for you. You need to work on your abdominals.
–Rckefeller Park
Overheard by: Maria
White buff guy, during spin class: I need to do some serious laundry, so I only had the one clean towel. If ya can't get one, I can always just give you mine and do my usual air dry jumping jacks for the insane amount of fems they have in the locker room over there. But apparently I have a bad-case-of-gay-face, because they look at me like a fat kid in front of the tasty delight window.
–29th St & Lexington
Overheard by: Lace
Suit to another: I wish I could bench press the sins of the world!
–74th St & Broadway
Girl in short skirt and stilettos: Did we just power-strut too far?
–PATH
