Street

Teenage boy: You and your twelve moms!
Teenage girl: I only have five!
Teenage boy: I was counting your dads too.
Teenage girl: I only have two of them. That's only seven parents.

–Lower Manhattan

Suit on cell: It's not that I don't like people, I just think that they're expendable.

–Union Square Cafe

20-something to visiting family: We are about to go up a bunch of stairs. If you complain, you will be pushed back down them.

–Mulberry & Canal

Laughing suit to others: So, yeah, I just stepped over the body.

–42nd St & 5th Ave

Mother to small crying child: Honey, I did listen to you, but I can't make myself care.

–V Train

Overheard by: Hunter

Guy #1: What’s with the queerfest?
Guy #2: It’s tomorrow night.

–Ave A & 3rd St.

Guy: The bed shook. It shook with me. The bed shook.

–26th & 3rd

Contributed by: Megan Buckley

Man digging through trash can: Hey, this shirt isn’t bad. I could use it for my bird.

–Spring St.

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Yuppie: “Is Freddie Prinze Jr. Harry Connick Jr.’s son?”

— Streetcorner in Midtown

Four teenagers in a convertible at a stop-sign speaking about me as I cross the street right in front of them, in Vancouver: “Hey, he looks Jewish!”

Club Promoter: Do you guys like comedy shows?
Chicks: No!
Club Promoter: That wasn’t funny.

–34th & 7th

Suit: We’re really quite busy, actually. The lack of work hasn’t really affected the amount of work.

–9th Ave.

Overheard by: Brad Wilson

Man: A woman was killed today by a falling cross.
Woman: Oh my God!

–Madison & 42nd