There's So Much That We Share That It's Time We're Aware, It's a Small Wednesday One-Liner After All

Drunk guy to foreign friend: So basically everyone in the US is either Irish, Italian, or German…but there are a lot of Puerto Ricans in my neighborhood.

–L Train

Overheard by: bildita

Rockabilly-styled hipster on cell: Just take your cheap Jewish ass back to Korea Town!

–St. Mark's Place

Tourist: There are so many Chinese in this city and they all speak fucking Spanish! It blows my mind!

–125th & Broadway

Overheard by: EthanK

Girl on cell: So I may be a Siamese twin…

–57th & 10th

Overheard by: evil em

Woman exiting a Subway restaurant: I feel like I just ate a Mexican immigrant.

–56th & 10th Ave

Overheard by: A Mexican

Posted on September 3, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Compare/Contrast, Drunks, Food, Friends, Girls, Global Geography, Guys, Hipsters, Insults, Judaism, Language Barrier, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On Cell, On the Subway, Tourists, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Weirdness, Women

Where in the Wednesday One-Liners Is Carmen Sandiego?

Guy on cell: I'm at the corner of West 4th Street and West 12th Street. Which sounds completely ridiculous, I know.

–Outside Cubbyhole

Girl on cell with boyfriend: Yeah, we got lost… We're somewhere in Yonkers.

–Bleecker & W 10th St

Loud tourist on cell: I'm in Rockefeller Plaza. Just look for a guy with a Starbucks cup.

–Rockefeller Plaza

Overheard by: linda

Blonde on cell: Yeah, I'm in the 'hood.

–SoHo

Overheard by: Ladle

Woman on cell, directing friend to find her: Do you see a really tall man holding an umbrella up high? I'm near a really tall man holding an umbrella. …he's very attractive.

–Concert on The Great Lawn

Overheard by: sternie

Suit on cell: Unfortunately I'm in the Financial District right now… Man, I wanna come up there and make love to both of you.

–Financial District

Posted on September 3, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Beauty, Central Park, Directions, Girls, Guys, NYC Geography, On Cell, Rockefeller Center, Soho, Suits, The Village, Three is Company, Tourists, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, West Village, Wishes & desires, Women

Your Real Parents Are Never Coming for You, Kid

(family stands facing the empire state building)
Tourist son: Mom, which one is the Empire State Building?
Tourist mom: I think it's the one with the circley top. (points to the Chrysler Building)
Tourist dad: No, honey, it's the one way out there, on the water.
Tourist son #2: That's the Statue of Liberty. (to no one in paritcular) I can't believe I'm part of this fucking family.

–Top of the Rock

Overheard by: Melissa

Posted on August 30, 2008
Boys, Dads, Default, Families, Family Ties, Kids, Moms, Questions, Stupidity, Tourism, Tourist Attractions, Tourists

Wednesday One-Liners Still Aren't a Tourist Attraction

(looking down at Washington Square Park's currently under-construction fountain)
Girl: Oh, is that where the World Trade Center used to be?

–Kimmel Center

Bensonhurst Italian guy on phone: I can't fuckin' wait for the Freedom Tower.

–Financial District

Suit on cell: Does anyone know where 9/11 is?

–Times Square

Overheard by: Jeffrey

Tourist: Is this the train to 9/11?

–R Train

Confused tourist (thinking he's looking at the WTC site): Will you look at that? They put a fucking graveyard in there! I mean, what the fuck?

–St. Paul's Church, Broadway & Fulton

Tourist: My favorite is my 9/11 Santa.

–Museum Shop, 53rd b/w 5th & 6th

Posted on August 27, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Death, Directions, Girls, Ground Zero, Guidos, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Museums, Names, NYC Geography, On the Subway, Questions, Stupidity, Suits, Times Square, Tourists, Upper East Side, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Words

Right at the Bottom of the Barrel

Tourist #1 (looking at a massive sales bin): Do you want to go? There's nothing good here.
Tourist #2: Yeah, let's go.
Tourist #1: Oh! Wait! Here's Dancing with the Stars!

–Virgin Megastore, Times Square

Posted on August 26, 2008
Offers and requests, Questions, Store, Times Square, Tourists, TV

Too Easy– That Was Like Sandblasting a Soup Cracker

Ten-year-old tourist girl wearing pink Crocs: Smoking is bad for you!
Smoking queer: Crocs are for retarded kids who can't tie their own shoes.

–50th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Scott

Posted on August 18, 2008
Advice, Default, Girls, Health and Hygiene, Insults, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Queer guys, Retardation, Shoes, Smokers & Smoking, Smoking, Tourists

Undercover Cops Aren't As Savvy As They Used to Be

Guy selling purses out of a suitcase: Coach, Gucci, Prada! Purses for cheap!
Tourist lady: Are these real?
Crowd of shoppers: (no response)
Tourist lady (louder): Are these real?
Crowd of shoppers: (no response)
Tourist lady: Did you steal these?

–Canal St.

Posted on August 16, 2008
Default, Guys, Offers and requests, Questions, Soho, Thievery, Tourists, Vendors & Street Performers

The AAA Guide Says “Just Ask a Morlock”

Teen girl tourist #1: I can't believe we're, like, under New York City right now!
Teen girl tourist #2: How will we know where we're going?!

–Downtown 6 Train

Overheard by: Liz

Posted on August 14, 2008
Default, Fears, Girls, NYC Geography, On the Subway, Stupidity, Teens, Tourism, Tourists

Because a Simple “Fuck Off” Just Isn't Very Classy

(very pretty girl waiting for the cross light to change)
Crazy old man: Yum, you sure are pretty.
(no response)
Crazy old man (excited now): Yummy! I like them pretty ones.
(pretty girl hisses at him and walks away)
Tourist dad to little girl: See, darling? That's how you handle those situations.

–Broadway & Houston

Posted on August 12, 2008
Beauty, Compliments, Crazies, Crazy, Creepsters, Dads, Default, Kids, Old People, Parents, Pedophilia, The Village, Tourists

Oh Look, There's the Three-Headed Dog!

Tourist husband, as train stops: 14th Street.
Tourist wife, smiling delightedly: Exactly like it says on the map!

–A Train

Overheard by: Theresa

Posted on August 10, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Couples, Default, Directions, On the Subway, Stupidity, Tourism, Tourists

Tourists