We're All a Few Paychecks Away from Being Wednesday One-Liners

Girl to friend: He's Indian! How can he be homeless?

–Union Square

Crazy Asian lady: I think everyone should experience jail and being homeless at least twice in life, so I need to go to jail again.

–Pinkberry, 32nd St

Suit, screaming: Why the fuck did I go to school? Look at these homeless people. They have a perfect life. Free samples at every corner. Apple Store is open 24/7, which means good shelter. Gahh!

–Union Square

Overheard by: hespeakstruth

Flamboyantly elegant gay guy to female friend: Would you rather lick this entire subway platform or have a homeless woman eat your pussy?

–Times Square

Overheard by: Katie

Posted on June 16, 2010
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Wednesday One-Liners Don't Always Add Up

Conductor: We have eleven cars today. If we only have five cars tomorrow, don't have short term memory loss and say, "five cars, this happens all the time."

–Metro North

Hot dog vendor to guys standing behind stand: 100 times I've fucked, and have 98 kids.

–Outside Metropolitan Museum of Art

Teen hipster girl to friend : On a scale of one to ten, how many cars are coming?

–33rd St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Erika

Angry man on cell: Don't talk to me like that! I'll leave you! I will leave you! You know how many women there are in this world? (pause) A thousand!

–45th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Native Ear

Posted on June 16, 2010
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Anger Management, Cars and Driving, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Conductors, Friends, Gender issues, Guys, Hipsters, Hot dog stands, Kids, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On Cell, One-liners, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Public Transportation, Questions, Science, Sex, Stupidity, Teens, The Met, Trains Not Subway, Vendors & Street Performers, Wednesday One-Liners

What's Black and White and Wednesday One-Linered All Over?

Guy on phone on Halloween night: So I realize it's last minute, but we need a fourth ghostbuster… and you are black.

–3rd Ave

Overheard by: Supertaint

Teenage girl to group of friends: Ya know, I used to think that John Lennon and John Legend were the same person. Every time I saw John Legend I thought, "damn, that's whack that John Lennon would walk around in black face!"

–M116 Bus, East Harlem

Overheard by: NC

20-something black guy to 20-something white girl: It's New Year's Eve, baby–have sex with a black man tonight! Have sex with a black man on New Year's Eve! (girl laughs, turns to look at him) Hey–it don't have to be me! It's New Year's Eve, have sex with a black man tonight!

–Suffolk & Delancey

Passenger, about ghetto kids who just got off train: Damn, they were like the black Jersey Shore!

–Uptown 2 Train

Overheard by: kids these days

Posted on June 16, 2010
About Celebrities, All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Bus, Celebrations/Parties, Compare/Contrast, Friends, Girls, Guys, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Laughter, Lower East Side, Music, Names, On Cell, On the Bus, On the Subway, One-liners, Passengers, Physical appearance, Pick-up Lines, Race, Sex, Street, Stupidity, Teens, TV, Vampires, Ghouls, and Ghosts, oh my!, Wednesday One-Liners, White People

Exactly.

Man: I've walked to the store enough for her. (pause) And look, I get to the top of the hill and she's nowhere in sight. What the fuck?
Woman: What the fuck? WTH?
Man: It's “F.”
Woman: What?

–Frederick Douglass Boulevard

Posted on June 14, 2010
Harlem & Morningside Heights, Insults, Men, Stupidity, Women, Words

…Without Underwear

Dumb girl, slinging leg over goat statue in MoMA courtyard: Take a picture of me riding this goat!
Dumb boyfriend: Honey, you're sitting on a Picasso.
Security guard: You don't need to be smart to go the MoMA.

–Museum of Modern Art

Posted on June 13, 2010
Animals & Nature, Couples, Idiots, MoMA, Pictures, Security Guards, Stupidity, Visual Art

We, Like, Liked Alike

Girl on cell: Yeah, he liked me–well, not, like, like liked, but liked.

–40th & 8th

Posted on June 10, 2010
Compare/Contrast, Girls, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On Cell, Relationships, Stupidity

Isn't That a Duchy?

Tween boy #1: He's such a douche!
Tween boy #2: Yeah, totally!… What is a “douche” anyway?
Tween boy #1: I think it's an old Dutch woman.

–6th Ave & 4th St

Overheard by: Lezbotron

Posted on June 6, 2010
Nicknames & name calling, Stupidity, The Village, Tweens, Words

John Often Falls for Online Phishing Scams

Short girl, trying to reach a shelf: John*, I need your height.
John*: I'm 6'2″.

–112th St & Central Park West

Posted on June 5, 2010
Girls, Guys, Height, Offers and requests, Stupidity, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Somebody Move That Kid to the Duct Tape Section

Bus driver: Everybody move to the back of the bus!
Middle school student being pushed toward the back, indignantly: Yo, I be like the young male Latino Rosa Parks!

–BX 9 Bus

Overheard by: Scheherazade

Posted on June 3, 2010
Bus, Bus Drivers, History & Geography, On the Bus, Public Transportation, Race, Students, Stupidity

Gosh, I Miss Middle School!

Drunken blonde: Are you okay?
Drunken brunette: I got locked in the bathroom!
Drunken blonde: You are so great. Can you be my assistant in life?
Drunken brunette: Let's get something to eat. Make sure I get home okay.
(blonde puts arm around brunette)
Drunken brunette: Whosa this?
Drunken blonde: Me!
Drunken brunette: I'm sleeping.

–17th & 5th

Overheard by: Must have been a good night?

Posted on June 1, 2010
Drunks, Friendship, Questions, Stupidity, Union Square and East Village

Stupidity