Little boy: Mommy, you should try Black Swan.
Mom: Why don’t you be quiet for a little bit?
–PJ Liquor Warehouse, 207th & Broadway
Overheard by: Andy Hobin
Little boy: Mommy, you should try Black Swan.
Mom: Why don’t you be quiet for a little bit?
–PJ Liquor Warehouse, 207th & Broadway
Overheard by: Andy Hobin
Tween girl: I lost my cell phone twice and then got a new one. And I lost my GameBoy. And got a new one.
Tween boy: Do you know how much that cost?
Tween girl: Yeah, well, I’m crazy rich.
Tween boy: How many jackets you got?
Tween girl: Fifteen.
–M104 bus
Overheard by: Fatty McFingers
Girl #1: What did your mom give you for your birthday?
Girl #2: Oh, just money.
Girl #1: When are you gonna go shopping?
Girl #2: I’m gonna save it. I spent too much money this weekend celebrating.
Girl #1: What better to spend it on if not clothes and booze?
Girl #2: I don’t know. Donate it to starving children in Ecuador or something.
Girl #1: Blah, blah, blah.
–11th Street & 3rd Avenue
Woman #1: You know, black is the new pink…Did you hear me?
Woman #2: Yeah, I just chose not to respond.
–Filene’s Basement, 79th & Broadway
Overheard by: lady cub
WASP man: Yeah. I suffered in jail for 16 years with my first wife. My second wife died of cancer after 5 years. I’ve been married to this one a year and a half…Two out of three’s not bad; if this were baseball, I’d be making a mint.
–A train
Overheard by: Lia
Girl: Do you sell tights with feet?
Store chick: Sorry, we only sell stuff that’s trendy.
–Urban Outfitters, 14th & 6th
Overheard by: Amusled
Girl #1: Foods do not make attractive accessories…We are not a society of Homer Simpsons
Girl #2: Homer didn’t have food accessories.
Girl #1: But don’t you think he’d have liked them?
–L train
Overheard by: Kitty
Girl: Did you see those capris? They looked like the girl had her vagina on sideways!
–Windsor Terrace
Guy: I don’t need a bag, thanks.
Store lady: You’re going to carry that in your hand?
Guy: Yeah.
Store lady: That’s fine with me. I love customers who don’t want bags.
Guy: Why waste them, right?
Store lady: Yeah. People need to recycle. They keep cutting down more and more trees for these bags.
Guy: …Yeah.
Store lady: Plastic bags are made out of trees, right?
Guy: …Well, no…
Store lady: Oh, I think it’s paper bags that are made out of trees.
–Duane Reade, 22nd & Park
Man: Those are some fine-lookin’ sweaters!
Old lady: Do you like them? I made them, you know.
Man: You made those?
Old lady: I did.
Man: Do you think you could make one for him?
Old lady: I would be delighted!
Man: But, you know…I mean…like, for a boy chihuahua.
–11th & B
Overheard by: Stephanie Matthew-Diaz
Girl #1: What? What are you talking about? I’m talking about the Johnny Cash song, A Boy Named Sue!
Girl #2: And I’m talking about my dog being a cross-dresser.
–27th & 7th
