Teen girl #1: What’s a “fortnight”?
Teen girl #2: It’s British for “ten days”; like, “I’ll be gone for a fortnight.”
Teen girl #1: Oh yeah, that makes total sense.
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: GGary
Teen girl #1: What’s a “fortnight”?
Teen girl #2: It’s British for “ten days”; like, “I’ll be gone for a fortnight.”
Teen girl #1: Oh yeah, that makes total sense.
–LaGuardia
Overheard by: GGary
Tween boy: Would you like to buy some candy?
Woman #1: No.
Woman #2: No thanks.
Tween boy: Okay, how about a threesome?
–8th & Broadway
Overheard by: rhett
Teen girl #1: We’re not going to KFC! Their food is, like, poison.
Teen girl #2: Yeah, they kill their chickens alive.
–96th & Lexington
Overheard by: AG
Girl: Excuse me, do you have any biographies of TuPac?
Library guy: Probably, though they’d be with the other biographies on the second floor.
Dude: But isn’t this the fiction section?
Library guy: It is. You might be able to find some books about him in non-fiction.
Girl: “Non-fiction”?
Library guy: Non-fiction means true.
Dude: …And fiction means false.
Library guy: Sort of.
Girl: So if it’s in non-fiction then that means he must still be alive.
Library guy: I don’t think you understand.
–Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza
Overheard by: Matthew Sahd Mohammed
Teen girl #1: Do they card here?
Teen girl #2: Yeah, but they don’t card the Asians.
Teen girl #1: Isn’t that racist?
Teen girl #2: No, that’s like…affirmative action or something like that.
–M2M, East 11th Street
Overheard by: evan t
Teen boy: I haven’t read one page of that Animal Farm.
Teen girl: Apparently, because we’re reading 1984.
–6 train
Overheard by: jazz
Teen boy #1: Man, I don’t know what I would do…Three billion dollars is a lot of green, yo. What would you guys do?
Teen boy #2: Yo, I’d get me one of them golden showers, son.
Teen boy #1: Dude, that’s when someone pees on you.
–E train
Teen girl #1: Yo, it smells like sex in this train!
Teen girl #2: What the hell does sex smell like?
Teen girl #1: Oops, that’s right! You’re a virgin. Well, it smells, well, uh,it smells like sex! Okay, who in this train just got some booty? Was it you? You? Oh hell naw, you’re too ugly.
Teen girl #2: You really think someone would have sex on a crowded train?
–F train
Woman on cell: Hold on, I have to juggle, I’m pushing a stroller, walking the dog and holding a big bag of poop.
–189th & Broadway
Hobo: Spare some change for the leprechaun? I just need four dollars to get back over the rainbow.
–1 train
