They Started at the Mystery Section

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

Posted on March 27, 2006
About Celebrities, Arts & Letters, Books & Writing, Brooklyn, Death, Music, Pop Culture, Stupidity, Teens

Asian Red Underrepresented in AA

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

Posted on March 25, 2006
Asians, Drinking & Drunk People, Manhattan, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Retail Therapy, Stupidity, Teens, Union Square and East Village

And Big Brother is Here Watching

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

Posted on March 24, 2006
Arts & Letters, Books & Writing, On the Subway, Stupidity, Teens

His #2 Choice is Even Worse

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

Posted on March 24, 2006
Kink, Money & Class, On the Subway, Poop, Sex, Sex & Relationships, Stupidity, Teens

Is There a Choice?

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