Students

NYU chick: What are these stupid, weird underpants you put on me?
West Indian nurse lady: They’re called diapers. You lost control of yourself when you passed out.

–Beth Israel Emergency Room, 1st Avenue

Guy #1: Polo is like, the hardest sport to play on the planet.
Guy #2: Uh huh.
Girl: Aside from space travel.

–Columbia University

HS boy #1: Okay, who’s Pavlov?
HS boy #2: I don’t know, it doesn’t ring a bell.

–N train

Overheard by: Tania D, who “almost died laughing”

HS girl: So how was your love life over the summer?
HS boy: I hooked up with the Prime Minister of Georgia’s daughter.

–67th & Amsterdam

Girl: Well, tell Joe my fist has a suggestion for his face.

–Fordham University, Rose Hill

Overheard by: Jess McGins

White girl: That’s terrible! The only thing I want my kids to be that I’m not is half-black.

–Columbia University

Drunk Asian girl: We should totally go salsa dancing.
Drunk white girl: Yeah, that would be so fun.
Drunk Asian girl: We’d be the only white people there, though.

–J train

Overheard by: Jim VB

NYU girl: So do they like hate everyone?
NYU boy: No, not everyone; just white people.

–Union Square

Chick #1: Yeah, I’m really getting sick of our teacher. I mean, and maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I don’t care that she was raped by her
father as a child.
Chick #2: I know, that’s really none of our business. I don’t need to know that.

–168th Street station

Overheard by: bouch

College girl: Excuse me, sir. Which way is the river?
Man: There’s two.

He walks away.

–Columbus Circle

College girl #1: I was just about to slap that bitch of a bus driver, but then I remembered it’s a federal offense.
College girl #2: Federal? I think it’s only a state offense.
College girl #1: Dammit!

–123rd & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Julia G