Promoter guy: Do you guys want to see a comedy show?
Tourist mom: Oh, sorry, we have an opera tonight.
Promoter guy: Oh! Fidelio?
Tourist mom: No, Phantom.
–45th & Broadway
Overheard by: Andy Hobin
Promoter guy: Do you guys want to see a comedy show?
Tourist mom: Oh, sorry, we have an opera tonight.
Promoter guy: Oh! Fidelio?
Tourist mom: No, Phantom.
–45th & Broadway
Overheard by: Andy Hobin
Tourist #1: Where do you keep your wallet?
Tourist #2: I don’t, I keep my money in my hair.
Tourist #3: I love how you two are talking about where you keep your money.
–Times Square
Chick #1: What do you want to do now?
Chick #2: I don’t know.
Chick #1: Well, why don’t we go to Webster Hall?
Chick #2: Where?
Chick #1: Webster Hall… I was talking to this girl on MySpace and she said that Webster Hall is this upscale lounge.
Chick #2: I could do with an upscale lounge.
Chick #1: I agree, I’m sick of these loud-ass clubs and shit.
–Times Square station
Overheard by: Shen
Tourist #1: I recognize that accent! Where are you from?
Tourist #2: Tennessee.
Tourist #1: Really? I’m from North Carolina!
Tourist #2: Where’s that?
Tourist #1: Right next to Tennessee.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Victoria Spring
Hobo: …and the cookies from the sky, you know, man? All them cookies from the sky, like fuckin’ meteors!
Tourist girl: Look, Mom, it’s a Beat poet!
–Times Square
Tourist woman #1: Oh, well I cannot believe that. I cannot believe that they would write that!
Tourist woman #2: What did it say?
Tourist woman #1: “Bush to Appoint Someone to Run Country”! It’s just so ignorant! And to get front page too!
Tourist woman #2: …Are you sure this was a real newspaper?
–42nd & Broadway
Overheard by: conor sweeney
Girl #1: I was a little drunkpants at the bar last night.
Girl #2: Oh really? What do those look like?
Girl #1: What?
Girl #2: What do drunkpants look like?
Girl #1: I don’t get it.
–Nederlander Theater, West 41st Street
Tourist lady: Excuse me, can you tell me which way Times Square is?
Guy: Um…really? Turn around lady.
–49th & 7th
Overheard by: Gregory
Guy #1: You are such a nerd.
Guy #2: You mean because I’m on my laptop during sex?
Guy #1: What?
–42nd & 8th
Bag lady: Hey, you guys, can you help me out? I’m really hungry!…You need a dye job, you know! Your roots are showing.
–Park Slope
Overheard by: Drew
