Guido #1, outside gay bar, putting arm around another: Are you aware that this is the faggot spot?
Guido #2: Get the fuck off me, man!
–Union Square
Overheard by: amused
Guido #1, outside gay bar, putting arm around another: Are you aware that this is the faggot spot?
Guido #2: Get the fuck off me, man!
–Union Square
Overheard by: amused
Jogger #1: I heard some really good advice the other day. Apparently, the key to life is running and reading.
Jogger #2: Who said that?
Jogger #1: I think it was either Will Smith or Barack Obama.
–E Train
Overheard by: Philips
Teenage girl #1: We are getting older and going through puberty, we have a lot of new stuff to learn.
Teenage girl #2: Yeah, like you just taught me about keefing, or what was it queefing? Yeah, queefing.
–Central Park
Boy: It's like Jesus Christ, or Jackson Pollock.
Girl: Do you, like, know the people at this party we're going to?
–Union & Metropolitan, Williamsburg
Buff 20-something black guy: Yeah, she was that one I was going out with last summer.
Tall 30-something black guy: So what happened?
Buff younger black guy: She got fat! In like two weeks! And also, she was cheating on me: she never told me she hadn't broken up with her boyfriend at the time!
–Planet Sushi, Amsterdam Ave
Overheard by: Susan Volchok
Gramps: Those bags from the store…
(children and mother laugh).
Mother: You're talking very loud.
Gramps: What–are we in church? Did I wake somebody up?
(children and mother continue laughing)
Gramps: What did I do wrong? Should I go sit outside?
–Doctor's Office, Central Park West
Overheard by: Erick B
Woman: It's so nice to be retired…
Man: “Retarded?”
Woman: That, too.
–28th & 5th
Overheard by: EHL
Burnout #1: Yo, is the Dove company that makes chocolate the same Dove company that makes like lotion?
Burnout #2: Man, what are you talking about?
Burnout #1: I'm just wondering. I was eating Dove chocolate the other day and it said it was “extra creamy.” I'm just…ya know…what kind of cream you think they use?
–E Train
Overheard by: Moisturized Chocolate Lover
Goth girl #1: Wow! Then what?
Goth girl #2: It was kinda like taking a big handful of mayo and squishing it around.
–Matt Umanov Guitars, Bleecker St
Overheard by: wait, what?
Customer: Are these shorts with NYU on the back for men or women?
Male employee in ghetto accent: Miss, would you let your boyfriend wear that on his ass?
–NYU Bookstore
Overheard by: Adrianna
