Teen boy #1: Would you do Jane?
Teen boy #2: Well, she’s pretty hot… Got nice tits and all, but don’t you consider diabetes a turn-off?
Teen boy #1: Yeah, dude, totally.
–Metro-North, 125th St stop
Overheard by: Ek CrIsp
Teen boy #1: Would you do Jane?
Teen boy #2: Well, she’s pretty hot… Got nice tits and all, but don’t you consider diabetes a turn-off?
Teen boy #1: Yeah, dude, totally.
–Metro-North, 125th St stop
Overheard by: Ek CrIsp
High schooler #1: I want to give up something for Lent, but I’m not sure what.
High schooler #2: Why don’t you give up TV?
High schooler #1: What?! Are you crazy? I would just die! Especially in the winter months — my face would just melt off.
–BX10 bus, Bronx
Overheard by: Princessbeena
Teen #1: It’s one word!
Teen #2: No it ain’t, it’s two!
Teen #1: No, it’s one word!
Teen #2: Two!
Teen #1: One!
Teen #2: ‘MySpace’ is two words!
Teen #1: No it ain’t — it’s ‘MySpace’ — it’s a compount word. They made it up!
–Jamaica-bound E train
Overheard by: JHA
Teen boy #1: You hit like a girl.
Teen boy #2: Yeah, well, you taste like a girl.
–110th St & Cathedral Pkwy
Prep: I only drink liquors that have been referenced in rap songs.
–Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Kelly
Tourist watching Ashlee Simpson video on large screen: I thought she just kinda went away…
–44th & Broadway
Midwest tourist lady to Gary, Mayor of Strawberry Fields: Wow, was John Lennon inspired to write the song from this memorial?
–Central Park West at 72nd Street, at Strawberry Fields
Overheard by: Stuart
Teen looking at poster of Reba McEntire in Annie Get Your Gun: I didn’t know she sang!
–Marriot Marquis
Overheard by: theater babe
Gift wrap lady introducing new volunteers: Hey, John, this is Yoko…
–Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center
Woman: Who’s Britney Spears?
–CVS, 87th & Lex
Overheard by: MojoSaves
Teen girl: This is the shittiest day.
Wheelbo: Would you rather trade places with me?
Teen girl: I would, nigga — I haven’t sat down all day.
–Grand Central
Overheard by: katicus
Teen girl #1: So wait, what does ‘DUMBO’ stand for?
Teen girl #2: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
Teen girl #1: Oooh, so then that area by the Brooklyn Bridge is ‘BUMBO,’ right?
–Grimaldi’s, DUMBO
Overheard by: michael Ciancio
Teen boy: I really think that in Dracula the vampire dude is trying to bring the sexy back to England.
–F train
Overheard by: Mike N
Conductor: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this is your conductor. It seems that many of you enjoy cramming into this train as if there is not another one directly behind us. But I understand, for I am a very sexy conductor, and everyone wants to be on my train. If you do, please stand clear of the doors. Thank you.
–6 train, 59th St
Overheard by: Katey
Girl: That was a sexy garbage can…
–Stuyvesant High School
Little boy in stroller: I’m bringing sexy back!
–Park Slope
Overheard by: sarah B
Teen girl #1: I think Jack’s about to break up with me again…
Teen girl #2: What? Why?
Teen girl #1: Yesterday I went to his MySpace, and he moved me to the bottom of his Top Eight!
–Prospect Park
Overheard by: wallsears
Teen girl: I wish I could marry Prince William or Prince Harry — they are so rich and will get me whatever I want.
Teen boy: You know, everyone says that Prince Harry and William are such good catches because they’re so rich. My dad is a partner at Goldman Sachs, and no one wants to marry me! Is there something more to marriage than money?
–Wall St & Broad St
Overheard by: Grossed out on Wall Street
