Here’s to Another Overheard Year!

News guy: Get your special AM Metro News! Special edition; last one for the year. Get two: one to read and one to frame.

–32nd & 7th

Overheard by: Mary Beth Hanlon

Teen boy: I really wanted to drink some champagne, but I didn’t have any flutes, so I had to drink it out of a wine glass.
Teen girl: That’s really embarrassing.

–Barney’s, Madison Avenue

Wheelbo: Happy new year! Happy new year!…Fuck your mother!

–9th Street & 2nd Avenue

Overheard by: Eric

Guy: I guess “not funny” is the new “funny”.

–Comedy Cellar, Macdougal Street

Posted on January 1, 2006
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Drinking & Drunk People, Etiquette, Hobos, Insults, Retards & Handicaps, Teens, The Village, Vendors & Street Performers, Wheelbos

He Had a Crunk Attack

Girl #1: My brother’s started taking marijuana and I’m worried cause he’s only 17.
Girl #2: I’m so anti-drugs because my dad’s brother died of a drug overdose.
Girl #1: Was it a marijuana overdose?

–Columbia University

Posted on December 22, 2005
Age/Aging, Columbia, Columbia University, Death, Drugs, Girls, Stoners, Teens, Weed

Desperately Trying to Prove He Doesn’t Suck

Teen boy #1: Get some straws!
Teen boy #2: Nah man, I’m allergic.

–Union Square Regal Cinemas

Overheard by: Talia & Syd

Posted on December 22, 2005
Drinks, Health and Hygiene, Movie Theaters, Teens

He Proceeded to Mash Dog Crap into His Chest

Man: You dropped something.
Teen girl: What?
Man: You dropped something.
Teen girl: No, I didn’t.
Man: Yeah, you did…You dropped my heart.
Teen girl: Well, pick it up and put it back in.

–90th between Columbus & Amsterdam

Posted on December 18, 2005
Body Parts, Girls, Manhattan, Men, People, Pick-up Lines, Places, Sex & Relationships, Teens, Topics, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

All Set with the Webbed Feet

Teen girl #1: Hey, we could go as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Teen girl #2: Yeah, that’s a good one
Teen girl #1: You’d only need a mask…They’re frogs, right?

–Urban Outfitters, 72nd & Broadway

Posted on December 18, 2005
Animals & Nature, Bimbettes, Pop Culture, Store, Stupidity, Teens, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Perfume No. 5 to 10

Teen girl: You know that dream I keep having where I kill you on Madison Avenue? I think it’s coming true.
Mom: Oh look, the Chanel store!
Teen girl: Uh oh.

–Madison between 63rd & 64th

Posted on December 18, 2005
Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Murder, Parents, Street, Teens

“I’m a wisher, not an accountant!”

Teen boy #1: I’m starving. If I had three wishes, I’d ask for three David’s bagels.
Teen boy #2: Why not just use one wish and ask for three bagels?

–A train

Overheard by: Jarett Wieselman

Posted on December 4, 2005
Food, On the Subway, Stupidity, Teens, Wishes & desires

“…They made me unload my pistol, too.”

Teen boy: I did the stupidest thing yesterday.
Teen girl: What?
Teen boy: I went up to the cops with my bag open, and I was like,
“Wanna search me? Wanna search me?” and they were like, “Okay.”
Teen girl: Ha, ha. You busted.
Teen boy: Yeah. They took half my condoms but they left everything
else.

–40th Street station

Posted on November 26, 2005
Boys, Cops, Girls, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Subway stations, platforms, etc., Teens

Mary and Jesus Don’t Have Advice for You

Teen boy #1: So I gotta go home, change, and then meet her and go to church.
Teen boy #2: Who the hell goes to church on a Friday night? How often do you go to church?
Teen boy #1: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays…sometimes Sundays.
Teen boy #2: Damn dude, when are you gonna have time to lose your virginity, dude?
Teen boy #1: That’s what I’m working on, man!

–F train

Overheard by: Geisa

Posted on November 25, 2005
On the Subway, Religion, Teens, Time, Virginity

Bridge v. Tunnel

Woman: Do your gay thing and get us up ahead of this line full of teenage girls!
Queer: All right! “Girl…I need to get me a t-shirt! Move this Long Island trash outta my way!”
Teen girl: Please! Whateva Jersey!
Woman: Oh my god! She knew you were from Jersey!

–Madison Square Garden

Overheard by: J.Mo

Posted on November 25, 2005
Madison Square Garden, Only in New York, Queer guys, Teens, Women

Teens