Worker #1: What do you want?
Worker #2: Iced tea.
Worker #1, checking at Wendy’s: They don’t have iced tea. What do you want?
Worker #2: Mashed potatoes.
–Court St, Brooklyn
Worker #1: What do you want?
Worker #2: Iced tea.
Worker #1, checking at Wendy’s: They don’t have iced tea. What do you want?
Worker #2: Mashed potatoes.
–Court St, Brooklyn
Girl #1: That is such a cute shirt.
Girl #2: Thanks, but it’s actually a dress.
Girl #1: Is it?
Girl #2: Well, I hope so, because I’m not wearing any pants.
–NYU
Teen girl #1: So wait, what does ‘DUMBO’ stand for?
Teen girl #2: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
Teen girl #1: Oooh, so then that area by the Brooklyn Bridge is ‘BUMBO,’ right?
–Grimaldi’s, DUMBO
Overheard by: michael Ciancio
Chick #1: Are you feeling better? You looked really sick last night.
Chick #2: Yeah, I felt like I got hit by a Tonka truck.
Chick #1: A Tonka truck?
Chick #2: Well, you know, I always exaggerate.
Chick #1, laughing: A Tonka truck is a toy. I think you mean a mack truck.
Chick #2: … No wonder people look at me weird when I say that.
–Ten’s World Class Cabaret
NYU bimbette #1: Why is it called ‘Deutschland’ if the people there aren’t Dutch?
NYU bimbette #2: Because the German name for Germany is ‘Deutschland.’
NYU bimbette #1: Oh… So, then… why don’t they just call it ‘Germany’?
–Washington Square Park
NYU guy #1: Do you think if the crane falls on us I can get an extension on my midterm?
NYU guy #2: Definitely, man.
–3rd Ave & 14th St
Airhead #1: Where is the tree?
Airhead #2: It’s not here!
–Next to the unlit Christmas tree, Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: Lalaith
Ghetto chick #1: Hey, Shonondra?
Ghetto chick #2: Yeah?
Ghetto chick #1: Is fiction the troof?
–Subway platform, 14th St & 6th Ave
Overheard by: jim
Construction worker #1: Braille really trips me out.
Construction worker #2: I know. Me, too.
Construction worker #1: Do you think they have different fonts?
–21st St & Park Ave
Guy #1: Dude, I would never do heroin, that’s so whack.
Guy #2: What do you mean? It’s got, like, nine vitamins in it!
–E train, 34th St
Overheard by: Jatmos
