Tourist chick: Do these trains go under water?
Guy: We’re under water right now.
Tourist chick: Are there sharks?
–2 train
Overheard by: Elaine Chernov
Tourist chick: Do these trains go under water?
Guy: We’re under water right now.
Tourist chick: Are there sharks?
–2 train
Overheard by: Elaine Chernov
Lady: Naw. This quarter say Pennsylvania on the back.
McChick: Yes, ma’am. It’s a commemorative quarter.
Lady: Yeah. But it say Pennsylvania. See?
McChick: Yes. Those are the new quarters.
Lady: All right. But if I find out I can’t spend this, I’m bringin’ it back in here.
–McDonalds, 23rd & Madison
Overheard by: Will McLaughlin
Little boy: Mom, is South America a continent?
Mom: Well, it’s…there’s North America and South America.
Little boy: Yeah, is South America a continent?
Mom: Uh, no. No, it’s not a continent, it’s…Um…
–St. Marks Place
Teen girl: My Facebook password is “pee”.
Teen guy: “P”?
Teen girl: No, “pee”. P-e-e. Like, to take a pee. I just couldn’t think of anything. It used to be “poo”. Whatever, it’ll probably get hacked by some stalker anyway.
Teen guy: Who would hack your profile?
Teen girl: My brother did it before. He guessed the password in like three minutes.
–Hayden Hall Residence elevator, Washington Square West
Tour chick: Have you been to Ground Zero yet?
Teen girl: You mean the club?
–8th & Broadway
Latino: There’s a six hour minimum wait for a SUV.
Latina: What?
Latino: To get a SUV, it’s a six hour minimum wait.
Latina: What you mean, “a six hour minimum”?
Latino: If we want an SUV there is a six hour minimum wait!
Latina: So we can only rent it for six hours?
–JFK
Overheard by: Paul Ferris
Guy: Yeah, it’s like all three of our neurons are coming together right now.
–Hunter College
Overheard by: Phe
Tourist woman #1: Oh, well I cannot believe that. I cannot believe that they would write that!
Tourist woman #2: What did it say?
Tourist woman #1: “Bush to Appoint Someone to Run Country”! It’s just so ignorant! And to get front page too!
Tourist woman #2: …Are you sure this was a real newspaper?
–42nd & Broadway
Overheard by: conor sweeney
Guy #1: Who is that playing?
Guy #2: Norah Jones.
Guy #1: Isn’t she the one who started something?
Guy #2: Started what?
Guy #1: Like didn’t she stand up on a bus?
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Girl #1: Man, it sucks our TA is going to Libya.
Girl #2: Actually, she’s going to Liberia.
Girl #1: Oh, what’s the difference?
Girl #2: Well, Libya’s in the North part, near the Middle East and Liberia’s on the Western part where it starts to curve.
Girl #1: You mean near Chile?
–Cantor Film Center, East 8th Street
Overheard by: I can’t believe I go to school with these people
