Loud customer: Do you have She-Ra: Princess of Power?
Cashier: No, we don’t carry it.
Loud customer: It’s sold out?
Cashier: No. We don’t carry it.
Loud customer: It’s sold out?
Cashier: …Yes.
–Virgin Megastore, Times Square
Loud customer: Do you have She-Ra: Princess of Power?
Cashier: No, we don’t carry it.
Loud customer: It’s sold out?
Cashier: No. We don’t carry it.
Loud customer: It’s sold out?
Cashier: …Yes.
–Virgin Megastore, Times Square
Girl #1: So, was he at least hot?
Girl #2: No! He was Chinese!
–Times Square
Overheard by: Andrea
Teen girl: Do you ever feel like you’re not enough? Like the more you try, the worse-off you are?
Teen guy: Totally. It’s like, every game of solitaire I play, the lower score I get.
–Hard Rock Cafe store, Times Square
Club promoter: Comedy tonight at the Improv!
Middle-aged woman: The real comedy is on the streets.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Kevin Motel
Hipster girl #1: I better watch out — after the weight I lost, my mom is thinking I’m anorexic or something. I should start eating more.
Hipster girl #2: Yeah, or lay off the coke.
Hipster girl #1: Or that.
–Times Square
Prep #1: I can’t believe he cheated on her! That sucks!
Prep #2: I know. It sucks so bad, it’s practically ridiculous. I can’t think of anything worse than that.
Hobo: I can! The Holocaust!
–42nd and Broadway
Little girl #1: I know what GAP stands for!
Little girls #2, #3 and #4: What?
Little girl #1: ‘Gay and proud,’ duh.
–In front of the GAP , Times Square
Overheard by: Micaela
Gangsta, trying to sell his rap album: Yo ma, you like hip hop?
Girl: I dabble.
–Times Square
Man: When I look up at all these buildings and I think about the people who live in them, I only have one question: Where do they all barbeque?
–Times Square
Overheard by: Susan Elliott
Guy: James Blunt is my homie. He gets me laid, on occasion.
–Men’ s room, MTV Time Square office.
Overheard by: najork
Woman: Oooh, now we’re in the other Times Square — the one with all the lights and stuff.
–Times Square shuttle
Overheard by: notrob
Local: Now, the Manhattan Bridge is just a block or two that way.
–Times Square
Overheard by: A tourist that ISN’T stupid
Conductor: Because of construction, the N train will be running on the N line.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Mars the Infomage
Woman: Coming here is like going to a dirt Disneyland.
–Time Square
European tourist: This Time Square… Does it… Does it… Exist?
–42nd St & 7th Ave
Guy #1: So we went to a baptism yesterday.
Guy #2: Wait, you’re Catholic. Not Baptism. I’m Baptism.
Guy #1: You’re Baptist.
–Times Square
