Mom #1: Did your husband take any time off when you had your baby?
Mom #2: Well, it was right after Sept. 11th, so his office was closed for 3 or 4 weeks.
Mom #1: Oh, that’s wonderful!
–F train
Mom #1: Did your husband take any time off when you had your baby?
Mom #2: Well, it was right after Sept. 11th, so his office was closed for 3 or 4 weeks.
Mom #1: Oh, that’s wonderful!
–F train
Chick #1: Is that your cell phone ringing?
Chick #2: Julie, those are birds.
–Central Park tennis courts
Overheard by: Susan Vrona Bijina
Little girl: Do I have to shave all over my body when I grow up? Where will I have to shave most? Where don’t I have to shave? Tell me, you’re old, you should know.
–New York Hall of Science, Flushing
Overheard by: Ting
NYU Chick: 2G? Does that mean it’s on the ground floor?
–11th between Broadway and University
Woman: Would it help to keep a couple dead deer lying around to scare the other ones away?
–Union Square Greenmarket
Guy: My life is beginning to feel distinctly like the Special Olympics.
–10th & Broadway
Overheard by: Nick Bremer
Dude: All I’m wearing is the clothes on my back.
–D train
Fratboy: Yo, I’m pretty sure only the retarded baby survived!
–Cozy Cafe, 1st Street
Fat guy #1: Yeah, she’s from Italy, she went to Venus to visit her grandmother.
Fat guy #2: Venus? How do you get to Venus?
Fat guy #1: Gondola.
–Grand Central food court
Overheard by: Muffy St. Jacques
Cheryl: I can’t believe he called me a bitch in a meeting with all of those people! I didn’t know what to do!
Bitch: Cheryl, being called a bitch isn’t an insult; it’s applause. It means he didn’t have anything really bad to say.
–23rd Street F station
Guy on cell: You’ve got the best job: being a mom.
–42nd between 6th & Madison
Woman: …maybe because I got my period in the 4th grade and looked like everybody’s mother by the 6th grade. I was huge.
–27th street office
Mom: Now, this is not the Louvre, so don’t be jaded or anything.
–Brooklyn Museum
Overheard by: Cat Pop
Drunk: If a woman hadda right to choose where I come from, I wouldn’t be here today!
–Odessa Cafe, Avenue A
Overheard by: Ted Lattis
Chick: I saw my mother on stage in underwear and a bra with motorized tassels…
–13th & 5th
Overheard by: Caroline Norris
Drunk woman on cell: It’s been Tuesday all day! And tomorrow’s gonna be Tuesday too!
–St. George, Staten Island
Overheard by: johnny
Teen girl: So, if I didn’t pass a drug test, does that mean I, like, failed?
–Pratt
Southern girl: …so I asked her what the “M” on her bag stood for. She was all, “It stands for Margaret, ’cause it’s my name.” And I was all, “Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I keep forgettin’, ’cause we been calling you Maggie.”
–7 train
Overheard by: ProcrastYNate
Asian woman: Excuse me, what time is the 7:17 train?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Adman
British parks guy: Yeh, fishin’ shit outta pools like this is me specialty.
Dude: Yeah, that’s great, but our frisbee is stuck in a tree.
British parks guy: Throwin’ yer frisbee at the birds, eh? You better make sure they don’t come after ye in yer dreams and peck yer fuckin’ eyes out.
–Central Park
Overheard by: NG
White guy: You know, on the Tokyo subways they have people who push passengers onto trains. Uh, have you ever been to Tokyo?
Asian guy: No.
White guy: Oh. Are you Japanese?
Asian guy: No.
White guy: Oh. Where you from?
Asian guy: Queens.
–N train
Overheard by: Rich
