Man in kilt #1: It was very strange.
Man in kilt #2: Yah! He came up to me and went rawwwrrr just like Chewbacca in the third Star Wars.
Man in kilt #1: What’s Star Wars?
–43rd & 7th
Overheard by: Laughs at Kilts
Man in kilt #1: It was very strange.
Man in kilt #2: Yah! He came up to me and went rawwwrrr just like Chewbacca in the third Star Wars.
Man in kilt #1: What’s Star Wars?
–43rd & 7th
Overheard by: Laughs at Kilts
Guy #1: So how come you’re late?
Guy #2: The conductor on the train held us in the station cause some woman was sick… All I could think was: “How dare this bitch get sick on my train?”
–Brooklyn Tech High School
Overheard by: kreuzweg
Black teen girl #1: Okay, what’s your sign?
Black teen girl #2: Aries!
Black teen girl #1: [reading] “You will learn a lot this month…”
Black teen girl #2: Man, fuck that shit, all I want to learn is the true anatomy of my vagina!
–N Train
Overheard by: Natalie
Woman #1: What did that guy just say?
Woman #2: He called you a stinky ass!
Woman #1: What? So what did you say?
Woman #2: I said: “Excuse me! She has a bidet!”
–Paragon Sports, Union Square
Overheard by: Manulski
Passing tourist: What are you guys waiting for?
Tourist in line: We don’t know, but we thought it might be fun.
Passing tourist: Okay! [Gets in line].
–Greene & Grand
Overheard by: Collin
Young woman #1: I don’t want to apply too many times though, because I don’t want to look desperate.
Young woman #2: Oh, how many times have you applied?
Young woman #1: None.
–Diner, 48th & Lexington
Overheard by: Visitor to NYC
Lesbian daughter: Wow, I have such burnt-out memory cells. Not to be confused with my sickle cell.
Sister, laughing: It’s all mom’s fault! All mom’s fault.
Lesbian to mom, screaming and laughing: Why didn’t you eat my placenta?! You should’ve eaten my placenta! You needed to eat my placenta!
Mom, calm as can be: I’m not African. And besides, you have enough people eating your placenta.
–Parking Lot, NYU College
Overheard by: Lesbian’s Wifey
[Class is conjugating Japanese verbs in the “to make someone or let someone” form.]Student #1: To make someone eat.
Student #2: To make someone sit.
Student #3: To make someone forget. [Beat, then in English.] Wait, how can you make someone forget something?
Japanese teacher, totally serious: Bourne Identity.
–Japanese Class, Columbia University
Overheard by: Vicksburg
Girl walking with friend: Well how about a fist to your vagina!?
Friend: [Looking around.] Uhh you really don’t want to be saying that right now.
–Jay Street
Dispatcher’s voice on walkie talkie: Four black males seen in the subway station, dressed as women. Repeat, four black males dressed as women.
Cop, into walkie talkie: Ten-four to central… Is that breaking a law?
–77th St Subway Station
Overheard by: AJ
