Guy: What’s this wet shit falling from the sky?
–Greenpoint
Overheard by: Heather Letzkus
Guy: What’s this wet shit falling from the sky?
–Greenpoint
Overheard by: Heather Letzkus
Businesschick on cell: Awww yeah…guess who doesn’t have work today?….Awww yeah, people trying to blow up my building and shit…I think I just saw a tank driving down my street…Wait, I gotta roll, some weird number is popping up on my cellie.
–51st & 3rd
Dumb teen: Hey, look at this! It says “Train for jobs in biotch.”
Smarter teen: Fool! That word is biotech. Why you gotta be ignorant all your life?
–1 train
Overheard by: Manhattman
Before a movie, a man gets up and jumps off a balcony. His friend remains seated.
Fellow movie patron: Did he just die?
Friend: Nah, nah it’s cool. He’s a French wall-jumper.
–Union Square Regal Cinemas
Woman: What’s passover again? Isn’t that supposed to be like your version of Easter?
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: Aaron
Mom #1: Did your husband take any time off when you had your baby?
Mom #2: Well, it was right after Sept. 11th, so his office was closed for 3 or 4 weeks.
Mom #1: Oh, that’s wonderful!
–F train
Chick #1: Is that your cell phone ringing?
Chick #2: Julie, those are birds.
–Central Park tennis courts
Overheard by: Susan Vrona Bijina
Little girl: Do I have to shave all over my body when I grow up? Where will I have to shave most? Where don’t I have to shave? Tell me, you’re old, you should know.
–New York Hall of Science, Flushing
Overheard by: Ting
NYU Chick: 2G? Does that mean it’s on the ground floor?
–11th between Broadway and University
Woman: Would it help to keep a couple dead deer lying around to scare the other ones away?
–Union Square Greenmarket
Guy: My life is beginning to feel distinctly like the Special Olympics.
–10th & Broadway
Overheard by: Nick Bremer
Dude: All I’m wearing is the clothes on my back.
–D train
Fratboy: Yo, I’m pretty sure only the retarded baby survived!
–Cozy Cafe, 1st Street
Fat guy #1: Yeah, she’s from Italy, she went to Venus to visit her grandmother.
Fat guy #2: Venus? How do you get to Venus?
Fat guy #1: Gondola.
–Grand Central food court
Overheard by: Muffy St. Jacques
