Woman: So what book does she want?
Chick: She says Julius Caesar.
Woman: What’s that?
Chick: Is that the title or the name of the author? Call her and ask her. I can’t find it.
–Target, 225th Street
Woman: So what book does she want?
Chick: She says Julius Caesar.
Woman: What’s that?
Chick: Is that the title or the name of the author? Call her and ask her. I can’t find it.
–Target, 225th Street
Girl #1: Oh thank god we’re here, I feel kind of sick.
Girl #2: I know, I have emotion sickness.
Girl #1: What? You mean motion sickness?
Girl #2: No, e-motion sickness. All this time on the bus made me feel sick to my stomach.
Girl #1: Oh, okay.
–Greyhound bus, Port Authority
Overheard by: liz drennan
Woman #1: Excuse me, how do I walk to the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge?
Woman #2: Just do it.
–Downtown Brooklyn
Teen girl: I am pregnant again. How does this keep happening to me?
Teen boy: Ever thought of keeping your legs crossed?
Teen girl: How would that solve anything?
Teen boy : Huh?
–6 train
Businessman lady: I’ll have a light latte please, with brown sugar. You do have brown sugar, don’t you?
Countergirl: Um, no.
Businessman lady: Well, then give me your finest, finest grade sugar, all right?
Countergirl: Oh. Sure.
–Dunkin’ Donuts, 93rd & 1st
Overheard by: Gina Loiacono
Girl #1: We need to think of a nationality for me.
Girl #2: Why?
Girl #1: Because at parties people always ask me what I am and I feel so boring saying “white”.
Girl #2: Say you’re Australian.
Girl #1: And Argentinian. I’m gonna be Australian and Argentinian.
–1 train
Guy #1: Did you know Bush agreed to share nuclear technology with the Indians?
Guy #2: Why do Indians need it? Oklahaoma is already a part of the US.
Guy #1: Dude, Indians as in citizens of India, a country in Asia.
Guy #2: I was never good at history.
Guy #1: You mean geography.
Guy #2: Asshole.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: margaret
Guy: The only reason she was hanging out with those dudes is because she was hoping that one of them would kill me…But that’s neither here nor there.
–6 train
Dude: Shit man, slow down. Slow down. Whatcha runnin’ to?Yoga? Nigga’s runnin’ to yoga. White man runnin’ to yoga. Thought yoga was supposed to cure that shit.
–Union Square
Girl #1: So… does the express go faster than the local?
Girl #2: I think it builds up momentum.
–1 train
Overheard by: Pitr
