Stupidity

College chick throwing down Waiting for Godot: I just don’t get this play at all.
College dude: You want me to teach you to play Minesweeper?

–JFK

Dude on cell: I was up until 5AM having a really pointless discussion about apathy.

–21st & 2nd

Chick #1: We can watch Lackawanna Blues tonight.
Chick #2: I can’t watch another black movie. I watched one last night.
Chick #1: What’d you watch last night?
Chick #2: Hitch.

–Office, Wall & William

Guard: Your key card doesn't work.
Teenager: It's because I'm black.

–Columbia University

Tourist #1: Ha! Look at her, she’s trying to look just like Bernadette Peters.
Tourist #2: That is Bernadette Peters and she heard you. Can we go now?

–51st & 5th

Overheard by: A tourist who’s not clueless.

Guy: Wait, how’s that work, exactly?
Girl: Well, you have sex according to the woman’s menstrual cycle, you know, and you just don’t have sex when she’s ovulating.
Guy: Don’t you have to take a health class or something to do that?

–Union Square

Overheard by: Katie

Teen boy #1: Dude that sounds like someone trying to drown a dolphin.
Teen boy #2: Ha, ha, ha! Yo, they live in the water! They can’t drown!
Teen boy #1: I know, that’s why it’s so fucked up!

–58th & Lexington

Overheard by: Max Melsenti

Tween girl #1: What? Seriously? You are so dumb. D-O-M!
Tween girl #2: It’s D-O-M-B! Are you kidding?!

–57th & 5th

Guy #1: They put lead in ice cream so it makes you retarded.
Guy #2: Yeah?
Guy #1: Yeah, they put all sorts of chemicals in food; genocide, pesticide…

–A train

Man to woman: You wouldn't procreate with Boomer Esiason, even though he's the king of Cincinnati?

–Deli, Canal & Hudson

Overheard by: Uncle Bling

Man on cell: Elvis made ten million dollars last year and he's dead. There's no reason I can't make a thousand.

–Park Slope

Hipster: I like Steve Buscemi a lot more than I like you.

–Life Cafe, Bushwick

Overheard by: D

Woman in Southern accent to man: Look, the McGraw-Hill building. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill must own that building!

–W 49th St & 6th Ave

Overheard by: Michael

Middle aged white man to friend: I finally figured it out. "Mystikal" sounds like a constipated Samuel L. Jackson.

–LIRR