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
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
Old lady: Excuse me, where is the exit?
Cop: Just follow the signs.
Old lady: I’m following the signs and I don’t know where I’m going.
–Times Square station
Overheard by: So K
Suit on cell: Why would I lie to you? When have I ever lied to you? Listen, you and I both know there are “no nice little neighborhoods” in Queens!
–11th Street & 4th Avenue
Overheard by: jayKayEss
Girl: Did you see those capris? They looked like the girl had her vagina on sideways!
–Windsor Terrace
Tween girl: The thing most people don’t get about techno is, it’s so emotional.
–76th & 2nd
Overheard by: Rachel