Slutty lesbian: Did you tell Ebony that we wanted to have a threesome with her?
Skinny queer: Who is Abony?
Slutty lesbian: Did you tell Ebony we were going to have a threesome?
Skinny queer: Abony?! … Oh, Ebony.
–Bodega, 13th & 6th
Slutty lesbian: Did you tell Ebony that we wanted to have a threesome with her?
Skinny queer: Who is Abony?
Slutty lesbian: Did you tell Ebony we were going to have a threesome?
Skinny queer: Abony?! … Oh, Ebony.
–Bodega, 13th & 6th
Dude: It’s Kurt Cobain’s birthday soon.
Grungy hipster girl: Reeeally?
Skinny frat boy: Too bad he shot himself in the head.
Dude: Haha, yeah. Shotgun!
–New School dorm
Overheard by: Cameron
Thin woman: I’m on a hundred and eighty milligrams of meth right now!
Portly man: Oh, man, if only I knew what I was on.
–E 11th St
Tiny Asian girl: She was massive! And you know how, like, sometimes the trains don’t open both doors and they just open one? She could barely get in. And then when she finally squeezed through, she took up, like, three fucking seats.
Skinny brunette: That’s crazy. You never see fat people.
–24th & 8th
Overheard by: Frank P.
Skinny girl #1: Have you ever seen fat people eat?
Skinny girl #2: Come to think of it, I haven’t.
Skinny girl #1: I know! Isn’t that what they call ironic?
–NYU
Skinny girl #1, reading magazine: Why are they showing Jessica Biel’s diet? She’s not even skinny.
Skinny girl #2: Seriously! They should show Nicole Richie’s diet: don’t eat.
–73rd & Columbus
Skinny girl: We should volunteer at an eating disorder clinic.
Friend: Yeah, that would be fun. And we’d be, like, helping people.
Skinny girl: But wait — if we volunteer there, what if we get influenced and change our beliefs about food and think that not being skinny is sexy?
Friend: No, that wouldn’t happen… It would be motivation, because you would think, ‘Wow, she’s skinner than me.’
–NYU Silver Center
Skinny chick: Was there scaffolding on his building?
Fat chick: Yeah, don’t you remember? I climbed it in my Catwoman costume on Halloween.
–Greenwich & 6th
Overheard by: tj
Flabby hipster #1: She had that anorexic fuzz on her neck.
Flabby hipster #2: Ew!
Flabby hipster #3: No, that’s bulimic fuzz.
Flabby hipster #1: It’s for both.
Flabby hipster #2: That is gross. You would think that having that fuzz would be some incentive to eat.
–F train
Twig #1: I was feeling like a fatty, so I just ate a hard-boiled egg with some flaxseed this morning.
Twig #2: No, I’m a fatty! Was it ground flaxseed?
Twig #1: Of course!
Twig #2: Good girl!
–Starbucks, 114th & Broadway