Wednesday Sung Liners

Metalhead, playing guitar and singing: Buy some fuckin' poptarts /buy some fuckin' weed/ buy some fuckin' cigarettes/buy everything you need!

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: j

Singing hobo pushing cart: I am wiiiise. I am wise!

–Union Square Station

Overly flamboyant gay guy, singing: I kissed a girl and I liked iiiit. (swishes hips while walking)

–11th St & 7th Ave

Overheard by: Mal Sullivan

Singing gay guy to another, clapping hands in rhythm: You look like a cunt, you act like a cunt, you smell like a cunt, you feel like a cunt…

–2 Train

Overheard by: drew

Hobo, getting into train and taking out electric guitar and amp: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please! This song is for the white lady with the orange pocketbook. She reminds me of Martha Stewart…when she got out of jail. (starts singing) 3 train white lady is my girl, my girl, my girl!

–Downtown 3 Train

Overheard by: Jingles

Little girl in stroller, singing happily: Doe, a deer, a hee-hale deer. Ray, a drop of golden pee-pee…

–E Train

Posted on January 27, 2015
About Celebrities, All Wednesday One-Liners, Compare/Contrast, Gays and Lesbians, Gender issues, Hobos, Insults, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Kids, Music, Musicians, On the Subway, One-liners, Parks, Pee, Physical appearance, Prison, Queer guys, Race, Shopping, Singing, Smoking, Street, Subway stations, platforms, etc., The Village, Union Square and East Village, Washington Square Park, Wednesday One-Liners, Weed, Weirdness, Words

Gosh, You Really Get Me!

Teenage Asian guy #1: I'm Chinese, I'm allowed to be obnoxious.
Teenage Asian guy #2: Dude, you're American. That's why you're obnoxious.

–4 Train

Overheard by: Hillary

Posted on January 26, 2015
Asians, Philosophy, Psychology, Race, Teens, Trains Not Subway

Before the Ceremony Last Week, She Was Latina

Guido: Ya know, you’re very cute.
Asian chick: Um, thanks?
Guido: Wanna sit with me on the train?
Asian chick: No, I’m good.
Guido: Can I getcha numba?
Asian chick: Uh, no, sorry. I just converted. I, um, only go out with Asians now.

–Penn Station

Posted on January 25, 2015
Asians, Girls, Guidos, Lies, Offers and requests, Penn Station, Pick-up Lines, Race, Stupidity, Talking/Convos

The Bitch is From the Dad’s Side, Oddly

Chick: You think I won’t step up and kick some nigga’s ass just because I’m a bitch? I’m bisexual. Yeah, I’m bisexual: I’m half bitch, half nigga.

–Q train

Overheard by: Reb Stu

Posted on January 24, 2015
Assholes, Dating, Farting & Burping, Girls, On the Subway, Race, Weirdness, Words

Ebony & Wednesday One-liners

Black woman: I kept telling him, “You don’t see a black woman from the ghetto every day.” He has to understand.

–51st Street station

Parking attendant: All the white people I know are crooks.

–Parking lot, 46th between 8th and 9th

Overheard by: eristic

Jewish Professor: …for example, we have the white people that vote, and we have the nig…bla…African-Americans that vote…

–NYU classroom

Posted on January 23, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Crime and Punishment, Gender issues, Politics, Race, Wednesday One-Liners, Wednesday One-Liners Vary

No, She’s Just Blind

Latina girl with empty seat next to her: This whole ride nobody’s sat down in this seat. This bus is gonna be packed before a white person sits in this seat.

Three stops later, a white girl sits down in the seat.

Latina girl, approvingly: Gangsta.

–M15 bus

Overheard by: Emily Duncanson

Posted on January 21, 2015
Girls, Idiots, Latinos, On the Bus, Public Transportation, Race, Stupidity

Or When You Finally Found Your Birth Mom

Intern #1: Yeah, so they finally let me go watch bankruptcy court yesterday.
Intern #2: What was it like?
Intern #1: Everyone was black except me. It kind of felt like when I ride the subway at night.

–Grand Central

Overheard by: James

Posted on January 16, 2015
9 to 5-ers, Always Bringing it Back to You!, Compare/Contrast, Crime and Punishment, Grand Central, Public Transportation, Race, Students

Wednesday One-liners, Cell Phones

Big black woman: …and they had a white one and a black one, and the white one was 45.99 and the black one was 52.99, so I bought the black one. Cause it was black…

–Best Buy, 23rd St.

Overheard by: Trouble

Guy on cell: Oh yeah? Well, check this out: I don’t care that I’m not invited to your wedding, because you’re fired!

–West 94th St & Amsterdam

Posted on January 15, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Jobs & Careers, Marriage, Money & Class, On Cell, Race, Shopping, Store, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Thank You, Come Again!

Black customer: Give me a yellow cash card, my brother.
Middle Eastern owner: What’d you call me?
Black customer: I said ‘my brother.’
Middle Eastern owner: No, no, no. We are different.
Black customer: No, we’re not — we all come from the same place. We have the same blood.
Middle Eastern owner: No, your blood is black — your blood is shit.
Black customer: No, my blood is blue just like yours. Besides, if I don’t come here to your store to spend money, how are you going to afford the bombs to blow up buildings?

–488 Madison Ave

Posted on January 14, 2015
Black People, Race, Store

Race