Lady conductor: What's your problem?! Are you bored? You crossed the magic line!
Man conductor: Yeah…
Lady conductor: You crossed the magic line! He crossed the magic line!
–NJ Transit
Lady conductor: What's your problem?! Are you bored? You crossed the magic line!
Man conductor: Yeah…
Lady conductor: You crossed the magic line! He crossed the magic line!
–NJ Transit
Girl: I don't understand how they can still film Survivor. Haven't they run out of desolated islands by now?
Guy: Long Island?
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: cnol
Well-heeled mother: Now, what do we call little baby kangaroos?
Four-year-old boy: Marsupials!
–Penn Station
Overheard by: hells kitchen dweller
Mom: So, what's your third-favorite place in the world?
Young daughter: I just burped.
Mom: That's nice.
–103rd & Broadway
Overheard by: Special K
Gangster kid #1: Are you a Democrat or a Republican?
Gangster kid #2: No! Yo, fuck democracy, I'm a Republican!
–Midtown
Girl watching trailers: Okay, what is it with all the rodent-themed movies lately?
Suit: Yeah, I noticed that, too!
Girl: I think it's Disney's attempt to get everyone on board with pestilence as the new world order.
–Empire 25 Theater
Old tourist: They have a monorail here now.
Older tourist: A what?
Old tourist: A monorail.
Older tourist: A monorail?
Old tourist: A monorail.
Older tourist: Jesus.
–JFK
Overheard by: zoviet
Teacher: You have to know this or else it looks like your going to summer school.
Student #1: Summer school?
Student #2: Summer school. It ain't so bad, I'll be there. There's a pool next to it.
–PS 7
Toddler, pointing to the Bronx on subway map: What?
Father: Yeah! That's the Bronx, baby girl! Yankee stadium. Better than the Mets and you best not forget! The Mets suck! The Yankees stink, but the Mets suck.
–L Train
Teenage guy #1: Well, how do you know that she… Ya know?
Teenage guy #2: Well, she moaned.
Teenage guy #1: What did it sound like?
Teenage guy #2: Uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh.
–33rd & 5th
