NYU girl: Nowadays if you get AIDS it’s like, ‘Whatever.’
Friend: Uh, no!
–6th St, between 2nd & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: uses a condom
NYU girl: Nowadays if you get AIDS it’s like, ‘Whatever.’
Friend: Uh, no!
–6th St, between 2nd & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: uses a condom
Dude: You really don’t look much like your picture.
Girl: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Dude: I’m still deciding.
–W 3rd & Sullivan
Overheard by: jor
Dude: I know you’re getting married, and I am totally happy for you, but if it doesn’t work out, I’m there for you.
Chick: Uh… Thanks.
Dude: I love girls that buy vibrators.
–4th & 6th
Overheard by: douglas G
Clerk: What about this one?
40-something woman looking at skin-tight, black leather mini dress: Hmmm… I like it, but do you have anything with a little less leather for church?
–Orchard St
Overheard by: what kind of church does she go to?
Dude looking at sign for Godiva store: If you look at that sign, you could read it as ‘Go diva.’
Chick: Yeah, if you look at it through gay goggles.
–The Village
Jessie: Tammy, do you think I’m fat? [Silence.] Tammy!
Tammy: What?
Jessie: Do you think I got fat?
Tammy: … Honestly, Jessie, every guy I have hooked up with says he doesn’t like skinny girls.
–Bathroom, Town Tavern, W 3rd & 6th
Overheard by: Flanked In Stalls, St Patty’s genius
Comedy club promoter: Hey, ladies! Next show starting in a few minutes — drink specials…
Girl: We’re not in the mood to laugh.
Comedy club promoter: We’re not that funny!
–W 3rd St, between 6th Ave & MacDougall
Chick #1: Yeah, she threw up in her bed.
Chick #2: And then she walked around throwing up all over the room.
Guy: Well, maybe it’s a blessing in disguise because it finally got her to wash her sheets.
–Houston & Broadway
Girl: Ellen DeGeneres is pretty funny.
Boy: And by funny you mean what?
Girl: … A lesbian.
–10th & 5th
Little girl: Look, Mommy! Those two girls are wearing angel wings.
Hipster chick #1: Actually, they’re fairy wings.
Little girl: Why are you wearing fairy wings?
Hipster chick #2: We just felt like wearing them for fun.
Crazy guy: Hey, ladies! Nice wings. You could definitely be my angels.
Hipster chick #1: Goddammit. They’re fucking fairy wings!
–St. Mark’s Pl
Overheard by: Alex Remnick