The Bronx

Actor guy #1: Are you from the South?
Actor guy #2: The South of this country?

–Lehman College

Overheard by: BriGuy Ferrari

Girl: Well, tell Joe my fist has a suggestion for his face.

–Fordham University, Rose Hill

Overheard by: Jess McGins

Two people are making out.

Guy #2: That’s just wrong.
Girl #2: You just don’t understand, it’s love.
Guy #2: Yeah, it’s been love since Friday night at the bar.

–Fordham University, Rose Hill

Overheard by: Jess McGins

Crackhead lady #1: I need to stop, because now I’m looking down the barrel of a monkey.
Crackhead lady #2: I know what you mean. If I wasn’t using all this energy chasing a high, I could use the energy productively, like jumping on a trampoline.

–Morris Park

Guy #1: I told him exactly how to get here. A monkey could follow those directions.
Guy #2: Dude, there’s no way in hell he’ll find us…he’s not a monkey.

–Stan’s Sports Bar, River Avenue

Overheard by: Johnny Babes

Puerto Rico chick: He likes that–what do you call it? That the black people make…that “tooka tooka tooka”…?
Nuyorican chick: Rap music.

–South Bronx

Overheard by: emilie

Woman: So, what are you doing this summer?
Girl: I’m interning for Senator Clinton.
Woman: Oh, I just love him!

–Riverdale, The Bronx

Overheard by: Lauren C

Father: Oh, you mean hummus. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

–14th & 6th

Overheard by: Daniel Radosh

Man on stoop on cell: Son, it sounds like you got yourself an STD.

–Windsor Terrace

Overheard by: LaurenG

Dad: Now don’t go getting lost again. It cost me a lot of money to get you back last time.

–Bronx Zoo

Father: It was because of nuclear proliferation. All the dinosaurs shot nukes at each other.

–Museum of Natural History

Overheard by: JB

Man: The last time a bird pooped on me I met your mother.

–Central Park Zoo

Fat White drunk woman: Maybe you got it from someone in our building, or all those transvestites you fucked.
Sobbing Hispanic man: But baby, I didn’t fuck that many, it’s not my fault!

–Fordham Road, The Bronx

Columbia guy #1: It’s a small world.
Columbia guy #2: Yeah, especially when they killed six million of us.

–Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Lady: …yeah, but when they’re all being led into gas chambers again, they’ll be crying in their beer.

–Miller Park, The Bronx

Overheard by: Roisin Ni She

Book guy: I don’t see that big swastika.
Girl: No, I don’t either. And that big swastika was going to be my dad’s birthday present.

–Barnes & Noble, Astor Place

Overheard by: Jon Zebraskey