The Rats Commute Home to Jersey

Southern woman pointing at rat on tracks: Look, it’s going to get run over! I’ve never seen a rat on the tracks before! [Pointing at holes in the track wall] Look, they made homes for the rats!
Local guy: Those are for ventilation.

–14th St station

Overheard by: Jennifer

Posted on November 3, 2007
Stupidity, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Tourists

Formerly My Little Sister

Guy: You’re getting fat.
Girl: You’re just saying that ’cause you’re getting fat.
Guy: No way. You’ve definitely put on weight.
Girl: You can’t say shit like that to a woman.
Guy: You’re not a woman, you’re my sister.

–Houston & Lafayette platform

Posted on October 30, 2007
Families, Family Ties, Insults, Subway stations, platforms, etc.

Here, Take the Address of This Leather Bar

Queer tourist: What are your favorite places to go?
Local girl: I love the Met.
Queer tourist: What is that?
Local girl: The greatest art museum. It is so amazing.
Queer tourist: So, there’s art there?
Local girl: Um, yeah. It’s an art museum.
Queer tourist: So, it’s all art?

–R train platform, Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

Posted on October 18, 2007
Questions, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Tourists

To Pop Out and Frighten Small Children?

Girl #1: Why do people get glass eyes? Can you see out of them?
Girl #2: No, I don’t think so.
Girl #1: Then what’s the point?

–34th St station

Posted on October 16, 2007
Girls, Questions, Subway stations, platforms, etc.

Just When You Were Starting to Hate the MTA…

Foreign tourist: Do you know if this train goes to Madison Square Garden?
MTA worker: Madison Square Garden? Whaaat? No… Madison Square Garden is in New York City. You’re in the wrong city, guys. [Foreign tourists look at each other, panicking.] Must have taken the wrong train gettin’ here, huh?
Foreign tourists hesitate, then run to catch up to MTA worker: How do we get back to New York?!

–Whitehall station

Overheard by: dan.j.w.