Stupidity

Woman #1: Omigod! I didn’t know that our lungs were so small!
Woman #2: Um, those are the kidneys.
Woman #1: We have two of those?

–South Street Seaport Exhibition Centre, Fulton Street

Teen boy #1: Is it the platypus that is a mammal but lays eggs?
Teen boy #2: No, I don’t think so; mammals always lay eggs.

–4 train

Overheard by: Kimberly Johnson

Blonde chick: I don’t understand. It’s stupid. You mutiply it by 4.
Brunette chick: No, there are 52 weeks in a year.
Blonde chick: No, you multiply the months by 4. 12 times 4, and you get 48.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Bystander

Chick: …And she just lets him in!
Guy: And you’re asleep?
Chick: I’m asleep, and he comes over, and she opens the door for him.
Guy: And she leaves?
Chick: Yeah! So we’re alone, right, and he comes and, like, crawls into bed with me!
Guy: Whoa.
Chick: And I sleep naked, right?
Guy: Right.
Chick: So I’m like, what the fuck?
Guy: You should fire her as a roommate.
Chick: Naw, it sort of turned out all right.

–Brittany Hall Residence elevator, East 10th Street

Girl #1: What does the Pope wear when he like sleeps? Does he always wear the huge robe and tiny little hat?
Girl #2: Ha, ha! Wow, You just totally blew my mind.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Michelle Smith

JAP: I like, didn’t even know I had a middle name until my bat-mitzvah.

–53rd & 8th

Overheard by: Phil

Guy #1: Are you Xander with an x or Zander with a z?
Guy #2: An x.
Guy #1: Nobody likes a Xander with a z.

–Hunter College

Black hipster girl being given directions: Huh? Crosswalk? What is a “crosswalk”?
Shop girl: Honey, I'm from Ohio and I know what a crosswalk is!

–Vintage Store, West Broadway

Overheard by: Murray

Tourist #1, pointing toward Upper West Side: Is that where the World Trade Center was?
Tourist #2: Yeah, I think so.

–Central Park

JAP #1: Isn’t The Pursuit of Happyness an action movie? Because he needs money–
JAP #2: –Not all black people need to shoot people for money.

–Lehman College cafeteria

Overheard by: can’t breathe