They Didn't Appreciate the Blackface, Though

White guy: Where do you live?
White girl: The Upper East Side. Where do you live?
White guy: I just moved to the city, I live in Harlem.
White girl: Oh, that must be scary.
White guy: Nah, it's not scary. I'm from Northwestern Florida so I mean I'm used to black people…plus, I play basketball.
White girl (nods in complete agreement): Oh, you're fine then.

–Bowery Bar

Posted on January 9, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Bars & Clubs, Compare/Contrast, Default, Fears, Girls, Guys, NYC Geography, Questions, Race, The Village, Threats, U.S. Geography, Weirdness

Wednesday One-Liners Can Still Lead a Normal Life

Pissed off gay guy on phone: What should you have said? Oh, I don’t know, maybe "Hi, I’m Michael, I have syphilis!"

–13th & Broadway

Guy: That’d be a great gig, but I don’t know if you want to be the face of venereal disease.

–Cafe Esperanto

Woman coming off train: Get away from me! You got AIDS on yo’ dick!

–R Train

Overheard by: going to the clinic

Chick: As long as it’s not AIDS it’s okay. I’m vaccinated against everything except AIDS.

–Columbia University

20-something male talking to friend: You know the way I see it: AIDS will kill you, herpes is just an inconvenience…

–34th between 2nd and 3rd

Overheard by: LadyEDdy

Columbia student, on her public health exam: I just didn’t know where to put the gonorrhea! It had to go somewhere, I just couldn’t figure out where!

–School of Public Heatlh, Columbia University

Loud guy: So he gave her a venereal disease. That’s not a reason to marry her!

–Blue Hill Restaurant

Posted on January 7, 2015
Advice, AIDS, All Wednesday One-Liners, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Compare/Contrast, Education, Friends, Girls, Guys, Marriage, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Names, On Cell, Penis, Queer guys, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, STDs, Students, The Village, Union Square and East Village, Women

She Wore the Kerchief for Him

Girl: I wish I hadn’t eaten those pancakes for breakfast. I feel sick. Thanks a lot.
Guy: “Thanks a lot”? All you wanted to do this morning was eat pancakes!
Girl: What? I just wanted oatmeal. You are the one who woke up and said, “Yay! Let’s make pancakes!” You are the one who wanted them!
Guy: That’s because last night you said you wanted pancakes!
Girl: Oh. I was drunk.

–Houston & B

Overheard by: alison

Posted on January 7, 2015
Drinking & Drunk People, Food, Manhattan, The Village

Unlike His Dad, Who Married a Lumberjack

Security guy: I wanna have like 15 kids all by the same woman.
Cashier: That’s crazy.
Security guy: My grandmother had 16 kids. That’s a real woman. I want to marry a real woman.

–Duane Reade, Bleeker & LaGuardia

Posted on January 6, 2015
Manhattan, Marriage, Sex & Relationships, The Village

Our New Motto

Perceptive woman: Anytime you overhear people, if you only hear a second of what they say, it’s always completely stupid.

–Greenwich Village

Overheard by: Todd Seavey

Posted on January 5, 2015
One-liners, Talking/Convos, The Village, Women

Overheard Signs

Chick #1: Do you have a book called White Supremacy by Fredrickson?
Store guy: No.
Chick #1: Can you see if any other Barnes & Noble has it?
Store guy: No, none in Manhattan. I take it it’s for a class or something?
Chick #1: No, it’s for my own, uh, personal knowledge. Thanks anyway.
Store guy: Sure.
Chick #2: I need a book of art or photographs by crazy people.

–Barnes & Noble, Astor Place

Next Wednesday, 2/22, the Overheard staff–both of us–will be reading and signing the new Overheard in New York book at the above location. It starts at 7.