The Audacity Of Wednesday One-Liners

Black guy, cutting in front of line at movie theater: Excuse me, Barack Obama is President now. Thank you.

–AMC Movie Theater

Overheard by: Emmy

Man with hand stuck in bus door to bus driver: We got a black President and you actin' like this? You civil service!

–14D Bus

Sketching Jamaican hobo: Obama is some kinda skateboard.

–Shuttle to Times Square

Subway hobo: How come Obama don't have sex with his wife no more? Because every time she opens her legs, he sees bush!

–1 Train

Man to toddler in his arms: That's Obama. He's gonna save us all from doom! From doom!

–University & 12th St

Posted on August 6, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Bus Drivers, Compare/Contrast, Dads, Family Ties, Guys, Hair, Hobos, Kids, Men, Movie Theaters, On the Bus, On the Subway, One-liners, President, Private Parts, Public Transportation, Questions, Race, Sex, Street, Stupidity, The Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness

Tovarish, I Suggest You Go Do Just That

Russian guy on cell: Who wouldn’t want to fuck me? I’m tall, handsome, talkative, and intelligent. Hell I want to fuck myself.

–68th & 1st

Overheard by: laura holden

Posted on August 6, 2015
Compliments, Foreigners, Men, On Cell, One-liners, Questions, Sex, Upper East Side

A Sociopolitical Justification for Post-Modern Man’s Thirst for Pee?

American grad student: Should I be in a fetish video?
French grad student: What would be the point?
American grad student: What do you mean? It’s a fetish video.
French grad student: But what would be the point? What’s the thesis?

–Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University

Overheard by: The Evil Triangle

Posted on August 5, 2015
Advice, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Default, Education, Foreigners, Kink, Porn, Questions, Students

I Think That “Not a Park” Sign Is Supposed to Be Ironic, Mom.

Mother: Okay. The museum is either over there (points across the street) or over there (points back into the park).
Daughter: I don't think the museum is in the park, mom.
Mother: Who says that's the park?

–Central Park

Overheard by: J-Rabs

Posted on August 5, 2015
Central Park, Directions, Girls, Moms, Parents, Parks, Questions, Stupidity

Just a Different Sort Of All-Girl Event

Pretty young woman #1: So, what's everyone doing for the dyke march tomorrow?
Pretty young woman #2: I'm going to Long Island for a baby shower.

–F Train

Posted on August 5, 2015
Celebrations/Parties, Gays and Lesbians, On the Subway, Questions, Women

Why Every Girl Needs a Slutty Friend

Teen girl: [Mumbles.]Clerk: What?
Teen girl: [Speaks softly.]Clerk: You’re going to have to speak up.
Teen girl: [Leans over counter and mumbles.]Clerk: What? What the fuck are those? [Yells to coworker] Tina*! Do we have any morning after pills? [Teen girl sprints out of store.]

–Crowded CVS

Posted on August 5, 2015
Assholes, Bimbettes, Business and Commerce, Clerks, Girls, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Questions, Store, Teens

Girls Just Can't Resist Forbidden Fruit

Boy: I'm gay.
Girl: (laughs)
Boy: But what if I was really?
Girl: Then I'd cop a feel.

–All Points West Festival

Overheard by: then I'm gay too

Posted on August 4, 2015
Boys, Default, Ew, Jersey, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Parades & Festitivites, Questions

That's What You Said About the Disney Parade

Hipster girl #1: What are all those flags for?
Hipster girl #2: Isn't the Puerto Rican parade today?
Disillusioned passerby: Oh, great! More rapes in the park!

–Delancey & Orchard, Lower East Side

Overheard by: K Swin