Store

Sales girl: Oh, we only have wrapping paper for cashmere items.
Tourist lady buying wallets: You mean I’m going to have to wrap these myself? Like a normal person?

–Marc by Marc Jacobs

Young pretty boy #1: My friend wants to be a porn star, but they told him you have to be a certain weight and cum three ounces every single time.
Young pretty boy #2: Doesn’t he want to go to college?

–H&M

Overheard by: Andrea Reese

Eight-year-old girl #1 while shopping for costume: Oooh! We can be a flasher! Let’s be a flasher!
Eight-year-old girl #2: Yeah! A flasher!
Mom: No, you cannot be a flasher. You can’t go to school dressed as a flasher.
Teen son: But I can!

–Costume store, 11th & 4th

Overheard by: Big E

Little girl looking at big, naked woman statue: She looks like me, but big!
Grandmother: Yes, yes she does.
Little girl looks at big, naked male statue: What’s that? It’s big.
Grandmother: Boy bits. They’re not usually that big.

–Columbus Circle Mall

Overheard by: Rama

Customer: I’d like to return this shirt. It fits me just right, but the tag says ‘Large,’ and I don’t wear a size Large.
Returns person: Okay, no problem.

–H&M, 34th & 7th

Overheard by: Andrea Reese

Cashier: Oh, is corduroy coming back into fashion?
Girl buying a pair of cord pants: Um, I don’t know.
Cashier: I don’t think it’s ever going to come back.

–TJMaxx, 6th Ave

Overheard by: champ

Lady: Yeah! And then you know what?
Guy: What?
Lady: He opened it and it was a trunk full of Ramen!
Older woman: Oh!

–Mercedes-Benz Manhattan

Overheard by: gaby

Hot chick: Ohhh, shit! They sell Choco Tacos!
Asian dude: I want to eat a Choco Taco pussy.
Hot chick: Hahaha! Me, too!

–Blockbuster, Houston & Suffolk

Overheard by: Incredible Hulk

Customer: I need cigarettes.
Cashier, pleasantly: How would you like to kill yourself?
Customer, expressionless: Newports.
Cashier: Here you go.

–CVS, 25th & 6th

Young hipster #1: So, there’s this really smart kid in the tenth grade, and he wrote an extra chapter to Slaughterhouse Five, and Kurt Vonnegut is going to publish it!
Young hipster #2: Nice, man.

–Academy Records

Overheard by: x-tina