Skinny People

Wednesday Keeps Popping Out One-Liners

Drunk woman to another: Well, I will see your divorce and raise you an illegitimate pregnancy!

–Court St & Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Girl to super skinny girl: You look pregnant, I think I have a clothes hanger in my locker. You wanna come up and check with me?

–1st Ave & 3rd St

Dad holding baby to wife with another kid in stroller: Somebody's about to get pregnant up in here… It'll be like Maury Povich.

–Downtown 1 Train

Overheard by: NOT the father

Dude on bus to child: See, women, they get to grow people. And in exchange, we get to pee standing up.

–Q64 Bus

Overheard by: a people-grower

Girl to friend: You always seem to get pregnant at the worst times.

–Queens Center Mall

Overheard by: Jenn

Girl to friend: I'm feeling fertile. Who's going to tend to that feeling for me?

–2 Train

Latino guy to friends: That's what my name means in Portuguese, "pregnancy test positive."

–84th Drive, Queens

Nothing Makes a Girl Feel More Masculine Than a Gay Male Friend

Skinny gay guy: I think I tweeted about that.
Fat girl: Can we please stop using “tweeted” unless you have, in fact, turned into a bird?
Skinny gay guy: Whatevs! I'm going inside. I have to piddle.

–Graham & Frost, Brooklyn

A Fitting End for Mr. Gere

Portly man: So what are you trying to tell me?
Skinny blond teen: He choked to death on a live hampster!

–Times Square

Overheard by: Not how I wanna go

The Two Kinds Of New Yorkers: Encapsulated.

Thin 20-something: Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Heavier friend: Unless you melt some mozzarella on it!

–BBQ, The Bronx

The First Glitch in Your Matrix Is Always the Hardest, Honey

Obese middle-aged lady: So I went to mail a letter…and the mailbox I've used for 25 years was gone! What do you think that even means? Did someone steal it? Why would they just remove a mailbox?
Skinny middle-aged white man, incredulously: I've never heard of anything like that in my entire life.
Obese middle-aged lady: I know, I was literally standing there for 15 minutes wondering what to do. I missed my train, I really don't know why they would remove a mailbox.
Skinny middle-aged white man: That is crazy. I've never heard of that.
(couple then repeats variations of the same conversation for the next three stops)

–Downtown 1 Train

All It Requires Is a Reliable Coke Connection and Mastery Over Your Gag Reflex

Girl #1: Listen, I will tell you how I get skinny. I don't work out and I just don't eat real food. I eat like pudding and yogurt and candy. That's it! And I get skinny.
Girl #2: Yeah, totally works!

–Union Square

Did You at Least Dream-Throw-It-Up?

Skinny blonde #1: Last night I dreamed I was eating a pork chop.
Skinny blonde #2: Ew, gross!

–Palladium Dining Hall, NYU

We Know Our Own Kind.

Skinny hipster to friend: All I'm saying is, if he can fuck a skinny chick why fuck a fat chick?
Random passerby: Shit, that guy ain't gotten pussy in months.

–East Village

As I Explained in My Last Biology Paper

Asian guy coming from gym: I swear, you're like anorexic.
Skinny girl coming from gym: Oh my god, I would much rather be bulimic than anorexic, you get to eat so much!

–Washington Mews, NYU

Remember How He'd Periodically Check to See If I Was Breathing? That Little Imp!

Girl to skinny ditzy drunk girl: Remember my friend Mark?
Drunk skinny ditz: Mark who?
Girl: You know, Mark. He called you emaciated?
Drunk skinny ditz: Oh yeah! I fucking love Mark!

–Union Pool

Overheard by: Wally

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