Guy: Hey, come and see this comedy show for free! You can get drunk.
Tourist girl: We’re not over twenty-one.
Guy: Man, this is New York! We don’t card! Fuck the government!
–Times Square
Overheard by: Andi
Guy: Hey, come and see this comedy show for free! You can get drunk.
Tourist girl: We’re not over twenty-one.
Guy: Man, this is New York! We don’t card! Fuck the government!
–Times Square
Overheard by: Andi
WASP: Do you know if they’re putting on an express train for the US Open?
Tourist: Um, no, but that’s where I’m going, too.
WASP: I know, that’s why I asked you.
Tourist: How did you know that’s where I’m going?
WASP: Because you’re white. Why else would you be going to Queens?
–7 train, Grand Central
Overheard by: Tennis Fan
Tourist lady #1, holding dress: Hmmm… I think I’m going to get the red one because it’s more Asian than the other ones. Right?
Tourist lady #2: Yeah, red is definitely more Asian.
–Souvenir shop, Mott St
Overheard by: Sannie
Tourist kid: Mom, am I fat?
Tourist mom: Yes. Now get in the airplane.
Tourist kid: Dad says I’m husky.
Tourist mom: That means fat.
–U.S.S. Intrepid
Female tourist: I don’t get it. This isn’t a square, it’s like… triangular.
Male tourist: No, no, they just call it that because… well… it’s like… a square… a square of people. I don’t know, it has something to do with algebra.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Luke
Chick #1: What the hell is that?
Chick #2: The placenta.
Chick #1: What’s a placenta?
–Bodies exhibit, Fulton St
Old tourist lady #1: Nobody looks at you here. Nobody looks into your eyes.
Old tourist lady #2: They probably would if we were better looking.
–Midtown
Tourist #1: Can you take our picture?
Young man: Sure.
Tourists put on “Chinese” hats and make their eyes slanty by pulling at the corners.
Tourists: Ching, chow, chey, high-ya!
Young man: I’m not sure you should do that.
Tourist #1: Do you think they know we’re making fun of them?
Young man: Nooo…I bet they think it’s just what crazy Europeans do when taking pictures.
Young man hands back camera and walks away quickly.
Young man to friend: That was so offensive I think it was funny.
–Chinatown
Overheard by: chapster
Public transportation aficionada: Excuse me.
Empiricist: Yes?
Public transportation aficionada: I’m looking for Penn Station. I mean Yonkers. Which train will take me to Yonkers?
Empiricist: Ah, maybe none. Yonkers isn’t on the Island.
Public transportation aficionada: Uh-huh. We’ve been looking for a train to take us to Yonkers, but none of these go there.
Empiricist: Yeah. It’s not on the Island.
Public transportation aficionada: What about the 2 train?
Empiricist: Okay, bye.
–Outside Penn Station
Overheard by: Matt Hartwick
10-Year-Old boy, whining: But, Daaad, why not?!
Southern tourist dad: Because. And I told you before: we do not go in stores with names we can’t pronounce!
–56th & 6th
Overheard by: Karith
