Grunge rocker teen on cell: Oh, yeah, the book A Wrinkle in Time… It’s, like, one of those books they make you read in sixth grade… Yeah, sixth grade. Six… Like, two divided by three — six.
–Q88 bus
Overheard by: Michelle
Grunge rocker teen on cell: Oh, yeah, the book A Wrinkle in Time… It’s, like, one of those books they make you read in sixth grade… Yeah, sixth grade. Six… Like, two divided by three — six.
–Q88 bus
Overheard by: Michelle
Coworker chick #1: You ready, spaghetti?
Coworker chick #2: [Silence.]Coworker chick #1: Well?!
Coworker chick #2: Wait, I’m thinking.
Coworker chick #1: Oh, okay.
Coworker chick #2: Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
–84th & 3rd
Overheard by: da sarkastik ninja.
Anorexic wannabe #1: Ugh, no, ugh… It smells like salt in here! And fat!
Anorexic wannabe #2: Let’s get out of here.
–Chelsea Market, Bowery Kitchen
Overheard by: Rev
Guy: These shoes are so comfortable I can walk in them!
Girl: That could quite possibly be the dumbest shit you have ever said.
–Neptune Ave & Ocean Pkwy
Overheard by: i am that guy
Suit on cell: And I was like, ‘Dude, you should come with us.’ I told her to, like, come and like, have fun with us. I didn’t want her to feel like she’s, like, disintellegent or something…
–LIRR
Overheard by: Call him stupid
Woman on cell: He told me it wasn’t good for the diges– uh… digesticle.
–49th & 11th
Overheard by: alxie
Man: I would like to send this regular post, and I need a confrontation number.
–Post Office, Bed-Stuy Brevoort
Girl: It means super-maker-outer.
–54th & 9th
Hobo: They call it genocide, people. Put that in your laputaters.
–Brookyln-bound R train
Overheard by: what?
PR exec about his new start-up: It’s not exactly rocket scientry. That’s why I can do it.
–Office building, Midtown
Ghetto chick: That dude got no education. I mean, look how he talk!
–1 train
Overheard by: Anna
Bimbette #1: There’s this castle on the West coast… I think it belongs to the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes.
Bimbette #2: Yeah, he seems like a West coast kind of guy.
–Train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan
Crackhead: What’s your favorite state? Mine is Seattle.
–95th & 2nd
Guy on cell: … Got fisted from another state.
–7th Ave, between 56th & 57th St
Tourist chick: I’m in Pennsylvania?! What the hell?!
–1 train, Penn Station
Bald dude on cell: Yeah, I’m in Vermont with Bill and Mary*! It’s beautiful! I know, it’s amazing — I’m getting service right on the lake.
–Burger King, Graham & Skillman
Port Authority officer: It’s not easy being a dual-state crime fighter like me.
–Exchange Place PATH station
Overheard by: Marisol
Dude: I went to only one strip club in New York. It was the one in Jersey.
–27th & 10th
NYU bimbette #1: What were the original seven wonders of the world?
NYU bimbette #2: I don’t know — some shit that I’ve never heard of. Hold on, I’ll look it up… The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Where the fuck is that?
NYU bimbette #1: I don’t know… Long Island?
–NYU BOBST Library
Dude #1: Dude, I can’t believe it’s going to be like fucking minus eight tomorrow!
Dude #2: Shit. Isn’t freezing, like, 32?
Dude #1: Damn. That means it’s actually going to be like minus 40, right?
Dude #2: Yeah.
–Columbia University
Chick #1: Like, seriously. What is a BMW?
Chick #2: I think it’s a car.
Chick #1: Um, I don’t think so.
–7 train
