Stupidity

Teen boy #1: I’m starving. If I had three wishes, I’d ask for three David’s bagels.
Teen boy #2: Why not just use one wish and ask for three bagels?

–A train

Overheard by: Jarett Wieselman

Chick: …wait, what?
Man: Yeah, I have hepatitis.
Chick : Which one?
Man: …A and C.

–Yaffa Cafe, St. Marks

Girl: How did pigeons get in here?
Guy: They flew.
Girl: Do you think it can get on the bus?

–Port Authority

Overheard by: heather gross

Guy #1: I told you I wanted a pineapple.
Guy #2: It’s November.
Guy #1: And?
Hobo: Pineapple and coconuts are made from computers. And you can tell!

–77th & 1st

Overheard by: Big Z

Girl #1: Excuse me! Sir!…Why is the water level so low?
Girl #2: Yeah, are they like draining the Hudson River for the winter or something? Isn’t that like bad for the boats?

–79th Street Boat Basin

Black girl: I didn’t want to say this in there, but have you noticed how all Mexican men working in bars and restaurants look the same?
White girl #1: Well I bet they all think that white women look the same.
White girl #2: Well all elephants probably look the same to gorillas.

–West 3rd Street & 6th Avenue

Girl: When you were talking about Saddam Hussein, it reminded me of Osama bin Laden. Wasn’t he born here or something?
Professor lady: No…
Girl: Then he grew up here?
Professor: No…
College girl: Oh, right! He came here to go to an Ivy League, didn’t he?

–Tisch Hall, West 4th Street

Guy #1: …so I heard that the more you think you know, the less you actually know.
Guy #2: Yeah, I think I read that somewhere.

–Broadway & Bond

Overheard by: Jenyc

Tween girl #1: Gina, you know you look a lot taller when you run.
Tween girl #2: That’s because she’s up in the air more, dummy.

–Battery Park

Suit: Thanksgiving is on a Friday, right?

–34th & 7th

Overheard by: Andrew Richter

Tourist woman: …But I thought that the Arc de Triomphe was in Paris.

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Jill Maclearie