Stupidity

Teen guy: Everyone’s out to get me; that guy just gave me the dirtiest look.
Teen girl: You retard, that guy was blind.

–81st & 5th

Overheard by: Chelsea Bridge

Voter-pusher guy: Remember to vote this Monday!
Voter-pusher girl: It's on Tuesday!
Voter-pusher guy: Thursday! Vote on Thursday!

–23rd St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Adam

Local: What are you in line for?
Tourist lady: The Producers.
Local: This is the ‘Play Only’ line.

Tourist looks at him blankly.

Local: You can only get tickets for plays at this window.
Tourist lady: What’s a play?
Local: Uh… Like, not a musical.
Tourist lady: What, you mean, like a movie?

–Ticket booth, 46th St

Overheard by: Matthew K Johnson

Disaffected white woman #1: Stella*'s kid died last week.
Disaffected white woman #2: Oh. Well, it sucks when someone's kid dies before they expect it to… oh, Topshop's having a sale!

–Broome & Broadway

Overheard by: office peon will soon be a Vermonter

Realtor #1: New York is a great place to move to. They say if you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere.
Realtor #2: Anthony, that’s not what they say. It goes, “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”

–2nd & Houston

Teen boy #1: Heather got raped.
Teen boy #2: What?
Teen boy #1: She got drunk and he took advantage of her. She told me. She got curvy lips, though.

–Brooklyn Public Library

Overheard by: caitlin

Little girl to her mother: You know what is ironic? That sign says, "Learn English."

–Downtown 6 train, 42nd St

Girl: Don’t walk me behind me, I’m about to fart.

–Times Square station

Girl: God, it smells like an armpit farted in here.

–Rififi, E. 11th Street

Overheard by: Miso

Guy on cell: Baby, baby, please, listen, I just, I’m almost there, c’mon, I’m comin’ up on your building now, baby, don’t be like that! Look out the window and you’ll see me! Shit, you can smell me, baby.

–12th & D

Fratboy: My shorts smell like a little boy’s balls.

–Coney Island beach

Overheard by: Alissa

Woman: Just so you know, it smells like someone urinated in there.

–Banana Republic, 16th & 5th

Overheard by: beth wren

Chick: Oh my God! I forgot I was in New York!

–Astor Place