NYC: The Best Restaurants Beget the Best Eating Disorders

Well-dressed girl #1: You know what?
Well-dressed girl #2: What?
Well-dressed girl #1: Throwing up at work really isn’t as bad as it seems.

–Prince Street between Lafayette & Mulberry

Waif #1: Ugh. I feel so fat…I feel so gross. I’m not going to fit into any of my summer clothes…I’ve been trying to be so good, going to the gym everyday and everything.
Waif #2: You’re not fat.
Waif #1: Yes I am. You can only say that because you’re thin…I ate a salad today for lunch. But then I just ate all of these sweet thingamajiggies.

–W train

Overheard by: Nora S.

Columbia chick on cell: …I mean, like, yesterday I totally pigged out on salad.

–116th & Broadway

Overheard by: djlindee

Posted on August 12, 2020
Diet/Weight, Food, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Little Italy, On the Subway, Skinny People, Vomit

Tom: It’s Not As Easy As You’d Think

Skinny girl: Well, what are you waiting for?
Chubby girl: I’m waiting for her to fuck Jerry!

–55th & 3rd

Overheard by: diana

Posted on June 28, 2020
Bimbettes, Fat People, Hook Ups, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Sex, Skinny People, Talking/Convos

Don't Overthink It, You'll Ruin Him

Guy with Mohawk drinking a beer: That guy over there is half Asian and half black.
Friend in skinny jeans: That's so postmodern!

–The Cock, 2nd & 2nd

Overheard by: Trevor From Seattle

Posted on May 27, 2020
Bars & Clubs, Default, Friends, Guys, Philosophy, Race, Skinny People, Union Square and East Village

What Happens When You Use the TV As a Babysitter: A Simulation

Skinny girl: I'm sorry you have to go through this.
Sobbing girl: I just…I just hope he's going to… be okay.
Skinny girl: Do you think that maybe you want to go and compose yourself in the office?
Sobbing girl: I was just… there. And I would… but the candy… sucks.
Skinny girl: I'll… I'll give you my last Mentos.
Sobbing girl: The Freshmaker?

–The Met

Posted on May 1, 2020
Crying, Food, Girls, Questions, Skinny People, Stupidity, The Met, Wishes & desires

Isn’t That Sweet?

[Skinny girl takes box of equal out of her pocket and puts half the packages in her coffee.]Friend: What are you doing? You’re going to get cancer!
Equal girl: Yeah, but I won’t get fat.

–Starbucks

Posted on December 22, 2019
Advice, Cancer, Compare/Contrast, Default, Diet/Weight, Friends, Girls, Physical appearance, Skinny People, Smokers & Smoking, Smoking, Starbucks

Big Girls: Yeah, Hope You Enjoy Lunching on Your Own Spit

Skinny girl #1: Do you know bridal salons only carry dresses in small sizes, so bigger girls have to, I don’t know, close their eyes and imagine what the dress would look like if it could zip?
Skinny girl #2: Seriously?
Skinny girl #1: Some day somebody’s going to come out with a design line for fat girls, and they’re going to make a killing.
Skinny girl #2: Bridal Barn.

–Century 21, Financial District

Posted on May 19, 2019
Clothing, Default, Diet/Weight, Girls, Marriage, Skinny People, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

It’s Her Ex

Anorexic JAP on cell: …No money, so I stopped dating him.
Hobo: Whore.
Anorexic JAP, to hobo: Excuse me?
Hobo: Nice thighs — have another doughnut.

–East Village

Posted on November 4, 2018
Anorexic, Body Parts, Dating, Food, Hobos, Homeless, JAPs, Jews, Junk Food & Fast Food, Manhattan, Money & Class, Nicknames & name calling, On Cell, People, Places, Sex & Relationships, Skinny People, Topics, Union Square and East Village

Wednesday Doesn't Eat Enough to Keep a One-Liner Alive

Skinny professor: John* [a chubby professor] and I started Weight Watchers together at the same time!

–Hostos Faculty Dining Room

Overheard by: glad she's leaving

Skinny girl to clerk: Hi, do you have a soy-based, non-dairy substitute for heavy cream?

–Whole Foods, Union Square

Overheard by: office peon loves Thanksgiving food

Girl ordering Coffee Coolatta with skim milk: I hope this tastes as good as it did when I was anorexic. Everything tasted good back then…

–Dunkin Donuts, Bay Ridge

Overheard by: allison

Jewish grandmotherly type: Women with anorexia seem to have such strange eating habits.

–Upper West Side

Anorexic-looking girl: I want a tic tac. I'm hungry.

–95th & 2nd

Posted on April 30, 2016
All Wednesday One-Liners, Anorexic, Brooklyn, Clerks, College, Compare/Contrast, Customers, Diet/Weight, Food, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Health and Hygiene, Jewish Moms, Nostalgia, One-liners, Skinny People, Street, Teachers/Professors, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Whole Foods, Wishes & desires

So They Broke into a Chorus of “Food, Glorious Food” and Split a Tic Tac

Skinny girl: I’m hungry.
Friend: Same here. I want dinner. I want a salad.
Skinny girl: You want, like, a whole meal.

–N train, Times Square

Posted on December 26, 2015
Food, On the Subway, Skinny People

You, for Example, Are No Fucking Fun at All

Skinny girl: Overweight people have the best sense of humor. Skinny people–
Fat girl: –They’re not funny.
Skinny girl: I don’t know what it is about being fat.

–Alumni Hall elevator, NYU

Overheard by: zelda

Posted on December 19, 2015
Diet/Weight, Fat People, NYU, Skinny People

Skinny People