Middle-aged woman: So, is she, like, skinny pregnant?
Friend: Yes, she looks like a model.
Middle-aged woman: Good, there is just no excuse to gain weight during pregnancy.
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: except for having a baby inside of you?
Middle-aged woman: So, is she, like, skinny pregnant?
Friend: Yes, she looks like a model.
Middle-aged woman: Good, there is just no excuse to gain weight during pregnancy.
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: except for having a baby inside of you?
Young thug to friends: Stop, stop, stop! Stop, seriously, stop. C’mon, I’m not kidding! Seriously. I have shoe phobia!
–Metro-North Rail
Guy with shoe in hand, catching up to woman who lost it: Here you go, Cinderella!
–Manhattan Mall
Overheard by: thorn
Manager of ladies’ shoe store: It’s easy to close. You put the hooker boots – all this hoochie stuff, with the hooker boots, you put the flats with the flats, you put the day shoes with the day shoes. Now, Narnia over there is another story…
–Macy’s
Overheard by: Sarah R
Chick to guy: If you buy me Jimmy Choos, I’ll have your baby.
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: Lets hope she’ll have the baby anyway…
Four-year-old girl stepping out of taxi: Mommy, can we go online to buy shoes today?
–Upper West Side
Overheard by: …wow.
Santa: Merry Christmas, young lady.
60-something woman: I’m old…
Santa: Well, I’m older… Look at my beard!
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: IS and JC
Mom: Let’s take the stairs, honey.
Thick daughter: Are you saying I’m fat?
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: Jason
Midwestern man, about woman spinning in center of ice rink: Awww, someone’s reflecting on times passed.
New Yorker: Look at that chick in the middle — thinks she’s a fuckin’ Olympian! [Yells at her] Nice work, retard!
–Rockefeller Center
Bubbly blonde: Isn’t it amazing how you don’t know how to do something and then you do?
–Rockefeller Center Cafeteria
Overheard by: emma
Older tourist woman to NBC tour guide: So, we are going to see the rock at the top?
Guide: It’s called “the top of the rock.“
Woman: Well, that doesn’t make any sense?
–30 Rockefeller Plaza
Overheard by: Michael
Girl one: I hate going to a bar with pregnant girls, it’s so boring.
Girl two: Yeah.
Gorl one: It’s even worse when you go with pregnant girls that drink.
–Rockefeller Center
Tourist: Is this the way to the subway?
Guard: No. You need to go west of 49th.
Tourist: Can I go down there anyway?
Guard: No. There’s a special event.
Tourist: Please? We’re from California.
Guard: No. Welcome to New York.
–Rockefeller Center
Little tourist kid: Daddy, I want to go ice skating!
Tourist dad: I swear to god, you can go ice skating back in El Paso!
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: liag
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist