Skater boy #1: I’ve got an idea, but I don’t want to tell you.
Skater boy #2: Aw come on, tell me. I won’t steal it.
Skater boy #1: I don’t think you’ll steal it. It’s just that it’s so stupid I don’t want to tell you.
–56th between 5th & 6th
Skater boy #1: I’ve got an idea, but I don’t want to tell you.
Skater boy #2: Aw come on, tell me. I won’t steal it.
Skater boy #1: I don’t think you’ll steal it. It’s just that it’s so stupid I don’t want to tell you.
–56th between 5th & 6th
Dude #1: …This girl was so fucking hot. I went up to her and asked her if she wanted to dance. She said, “I don’t dance” and I said, “I don’t either.” But she was like, “Sorry, I really don’t dance. I’m not, like, rejecting you or anything.” So I went back towards the stage and kept dancing.
Dude #2: Okay.
Dude #1: Then, after the next song, I went up to her and asked her to dance again and she said no, but she kinda smiled at me like she thought it was cute.
Dude #2: So?
Dude #1: So, after the show, I hung around to try to talk to her.
Dude #2: What happened?
Dude #1: I don’t know. I got too drunk and forgot what she looked like.
Dude #2: You’re a fucking moron.
–6 train
Girl: Ugh. I hate it when guys come up to me and start talking about current events. Like I care. I just dismiss them.
–Queens College
Girl: Well, one of my relatives on my grandmother’s side was one of Blackbeard’s First Mates…So, I have some pirate in me.
–56th & Park
Woman #1: But you know, you can’t really see Angela Lansbury.
Woman #2: I know what you mean.
–19th & 5th
Overheard by: Peter Knutson
Queer #1: That guy is hot.
Queer #2: Did you notice he was only drinking water?
Queer #1: Yeah, that’s definitely a turnoff.
Queer #2: Well, maybe he’s taking drugs.
Queer #1: I hope so, I hate clean and sober.
–Phoenix, E. 13th Street
Tween thug #1: The Bible crazy…how you gonna contradict a book
that contradict itself?
Tween thug #2: You just gotta decide for yo’self which came first,
the people or the dinosaurs.
–R Train
Mother: Okay, 6th floor. Anyone getting off here? Hello, 6th.
Daughter: Mom, shut up. This is us, it’s the 8th floor.
–Apartment Building, Gold Street & Maiden Lane
Guy #1: She may be the stupidest girl ever.
Guy #2: I think she just pretends she is stupid.
Guy #1: Dude, she spelled Missouri with a Z, and Kansas with a U.
Guy #2: She does have a huge rack, though.
Guy #1: Tremendous!
–34th & Lexington
Overheard by: Oren Shapiro
Woman on cell: Little did I know you can’t keep charging if you never pay the bill.
–Union Square West
Overheard by: Maggie and David
