Dude #1: Man it’s all about being tantric.
Dude #2: Yeah? Are you tantric?
Dude #1: Well, sorta.
–F train
Overheard by: Athena
Dude #1: Man it’s all about being tantric.
Dude #2: Yeah? Are you tantric?
Dude #1: Well, sorta.
–F train
Overheard by: Athena
Shoshana Bean: We keep messing up. God hates us!
Scott Alan: God hates us both. That’s awesome!
–The Duplex, Christopher Street
Overheard by: Thompson Patton
Boy, 6: It was magic.
Mom: No, it wasn’t magic; it was a miracle. There is a difference.
–Broadway & Dey
Man: I never realized how homoerotic the Bible is.
Woman: It’s not supposed to be.
–Union Square Regal Cinemas
Woman on cell: I’m at Fiddler on the Roof…A play.
–45th & 7th
Overheard by: Hope Abrams
Orthodox man on cell: $700,000…this is nothing to do with money…I just want to get even with that guy…the one you wanted to smack…Goldberg…he’s a liar and a thief and he wanted me to deal with a Gentile.
–Madison & 33rd
JAP: Sorry, I just get very Jewish about my weed.
–Madison & 97th
Overheard by: drew grant
Old Jewess: That Suzanne Somers has some nerve. She is writing another diet book. I have a friend who has read all her diet books and every year she gets fatter and fatter.
–Music Box theatre, West 45th Street
Fratboy: She was like an ugly Paris Hilton, but not rich.
–C train
Overheard by: nicolette
Guy: I’m gonna beat you like an Olsen twin.
–68th & Columbus
Overheard by: Andrew Zar
Teen boy: Yo, I heard that Tupac was named after a Jewish holiday.
–Red Hook
Guy: Yeah, you know, that’s the great thing about the Kennedys: they get $1 off of every bottle of Scotch that they buy. You know, because their dad was a bootlegger and all.
–52 & Lexington
Asian guy #1: Everyone I know just goes to church to hook up.
Asian guy #2: I know! It’s like, “Hey, you like God, I like God, wanna get dirty?”
–Webster Hall, E. 11th Street
Crazy lady: I hate my fucking mother and I want to kill her. I want to watch her bleed. She is a fat lazy bitch. She was nothing but a container!
Guy: God will not forgive you if you kill your mother. Can you also keep it down please?
–PATH train
Overheard by: JMK
Girlfriend: So let me get this straight, you think that God used the tiger to punish Roy?
Boyfriend: I think it’s possible.
Girlfriend: I can’t believe I’m dating you. What’s wrong with you, you have gay friends.
Boyfriend: Whoa, do you think I’m some sort of right-wing nut? I have no problem with gays. God punished him for dabbling in the black arts.
Girlfriend: Oh…huh?
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: Peter Lucas
Guy: Hey, can I get some cigarettes?
The newsstand man just rocks back and forth mumbling something.
Guy: Excuse me, can I get some cigarettes?!
Newsstand man: …Yes, sir. Cigarettes. Sorry, I was praying.
Guy: Oh. I thought you were masturbating.
–Times Square newsstand
