Teen girl: Hey, I’m a Scientologist.
Tom Cruise: Oh, really? What echelon are you in?
Teen girl: [awkwardly quiet] Uh… number three?
Tom Cruise: Exactly.
—Mission: Impossible III gala premiere, TriBeCa Film Festival, BMCC
Overheard by: mademoiselle schaeffer
Girl #1: Why don’t you want to go to Chicago with him?
Girl #2: ‘Cause he got man boobs.
–23rd St pier
Teen girl: Let’s talk about prom and Toni Morrison.
–Lincoln Center
Guy #1: I know, I need to get my license.
Guy #2: Son, I’m telling you when you get that shit you’ll be walking along like you are King Jafee-Jafee of Zamundo.
–Wall Street
Overheard by: Matthew Innes
Tourist girl #1: Oh my God, I feel like I’m in Sex and the City!
Tourist girl #2: Shut up, the natives can hear you.
–Central Park station
Overheard by: Spazza McChicken
Girl: Are you a conservative or a liberal?
Guy: I know all teenagers are supposed to be liberal, but I’m pretty conservative.
Girl: Oh my god, I know exactly what you mean. I was conservative until last week when I saw V for Vendetta. How hot is Natalie Portman?
–Bronx High School of Science
Teen girl #1: Here comes Peter Cottontail. . .
Teen girl #2: Hopping up the bunny trail!
Teen girl #1: What the hell? It’s down the bunny trail, you idiot!
Teen girl #2: How am I supposed to know? I was MJ’ed when I was younger.
Teen girl #1: MJ’ed?
Teen girl #2: Yeah, you know, Michael Jacksoned…
Teen girl #1: They molested you?!
Teen girl #2: Yes, they molested me and that’s why I don’t know the words to Peter Cottontail… whorebag.
–M96 bus
Overheard by: TrEeShA
Girl #1: I hung out with Jeff last night, this guy I just met.
Girl #2: Yeah, did you have sex with him?
Girl #1: NOOO! I just met him, I only gave him a blow job. I know we’ll run into each other again and I didn’t want things to be awkward.
–6th & A
Overheard by: Kristen May Anastasia
Queer: This place is way gayer than last time.
–XL, West 16th street
Overheard by: straight girl
Dude: I’ve fired 3 people in the last 2 weeks. One girl was fat. But she didn’t know it. She would come into work with her belly falling out of her shirt. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
–NYSC, 38th & Broadway
Overheard by: Aimee
