I Want to Know How Jealous to Be

A Nutcracker ballerina still in full costume enters elevator filled with women who just saw the show.

Woman #1: Look, we have a star among us.
Woman #2: You were wonderful.
Woman #3: Just beautiful!
Woman #4: What do you weigh, anyway?

–Elevator, Lincoln Center

Posted on January 4, 2007
Diet/Weight, Elevators, Show business, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women

Rude Would Have Been Kinder

New Yorker: Coney Island is fun if you like that stuff. I mean, there’s a lot of nationalities down there so their accents are all…They talk like the Sopranos. Do you know about the Sopranos?
Tourist: Um.

–R Train, 28th St

Overheard by: Nick McDowell

Posted on July 15, 2006
Directions, Foreigners, Language Barrier, Men, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, NYC Geography, On the Subway, Pop Culture, Show business, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Tourists, TV

Show business

I Want to Know How Jealous to Be

Rude Would Have Been Kinder