Rumor Has It

Bitch: Oh hi! We were just speaking very poorly about you!

–Art Gallery, SoHo

Overheard by: Tibbie X

Old lady: I tell you, if you’ve seen one naked cowboy, you’ve seen them all!
Friend: Oh!

–87th & Park

Guy: Yo, did you hear what Bush wants to do? He wants to get rid of financial aid for college.
Girl: Really?
Guy: Yeah…soon we all gon’ have to be drug dealers. Seeing crackheads will be normal.

–Washington Heights

Overheard by: clari

Preppy teen boy #1: No, dude. She was in love with horses, remember? She liked screwing them — that’s how she died.
Preppy teen boy #2: No, no. That is not true. It was some accident having to do with horses.
Preppy teen boy #1: Yeah, exactly. She was screwing the horse, and then it fell on her. That’s how she died.
Preppy teen boy #2: Dude, that’s so wrong.

–45th St

Overheard by: wow

Man: Her first husband told her he was gay after 7 years. Her second was a loveless marriage. And then she had coffee with me!

–La Lanterna

Blonde: Sean, Em just told us something very interesting about herself!
Queer: What? Oh my god! Did you finally have butt sex? I knew it! You let him stick it in your butt.

–Outside the W, Union Square

Overheard by: she had a nice butt…

Teen girl #1: Wow, you really have bad luck with tentacles, don’t you?
Teen girl #2, sadly: Yeah…

–Anime Room, Forbidden Planet

Overheard by: Vicksburg

Girl #1: Did you know that there’s a cheeseburger that costs a thousand dollars?
Girl #2: What is it made out of? Panda meat?

–Hinch’s, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Jewish girl: You have to come up to this new synagogue with me. It’s supposed to be really good.
Jewish guy: Is it traditionalist?
Jewish girl: Yeah. And the singles scene is supposed to be awesome.

–1 train

Overheard by: EthanK

Marathon runner: … And then, next thing I know, my father’s cowboy boots are stuck in my butt.
Friend: Really? Wow…

–Lower East Side

Overheard by: lee