Dude, to other dude with a small backpack: Is that the new backpack nano? What do you have in there, an apple and a bottle of water? You carrying acorns around in there? One package of skittles? An abridged copy of…The Old Man and the Sea?
Backpack dude: Do I really have to explain my backpack to you?
–L Train
Overheard by: ultra-condensed movies
Black guy (spotting a friend): Hey man, what's up? You know you one ugly motherfucka? (laughs)
Black guy #2: Dude, youse the ugly nigga. You've been one ugly motherfucka for ten years.
Black guy #1: You've been an ugly motherfucka since you was born.
(time passes, they talk in their separate groups of friends. Black guy #1 gets off train)
Black guy #2's friend: Yo, your ugly nigga just left.
Black guy #2: He is one ugly mothafucka isn't he? (laughs).
–1 Train
Girl #1: I didn't think that Newark was actually a place. I thought it was just an airport and a factory. But apparently it has, like, government-funded housing or something.
Girl #2: So, like, poor people?
Girl #1: Yeah!
–Greenwich Village
Guy #1: How many times did I come?
Guy #2: Well, you came really fast freshman year.
Girl: Uhh…are we just going to ignore that phrasing?
–East Village
Student: How do you vote, exactly? I've never done it before.
Professor: Well, you slide a little lever to the right. And then you slide to the left. It's kind of like the cha cha slide. Turn it out. Take it back now ya'll.
–Eugene Lang College
Mom: Look at you! Why are your shoes so dirty? I told you that white sneakers were a bad idea…
Son: Whatever, saddlebags…
Mom: Excuse me?
Son: Let's be honest, mother. Those pants are not doing any justice to your hips.
–Central Park Zoo
Overheard by: Listening with amazement
Guy #1: With her foot!?
Guy #2: Could you have said that any louder?
–Tom's Diner
Overheard by: fedmex
Black female police officer #1: You're not voting for Obama? He's black!
Black female police officer #2: Exactly, cuz when does a black man ever do anything for a black woman?
–M34 Bus
Girl #1: I used to drink Sprite all the time. Can't drink soda anymore.
Girl #2: So what do you drink now?
Girl #1: Sprite Zero.
–3rd & Lexington
Guy #1: What is that?
Guy #2: Ice cream for pussies!
–St. Mark's
Overheard by: MissPinkKate
