It’s Like You Don’t Even Know Me

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

Posted on April 21, 2006
History & Geography, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Stupidity, Times Square, Tourists

Ferlinghetti Dug Thin Mints

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

Posted on April 20, 2006
Arts & Letters, Books & Writing, Food, Hobos, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Times Square, Tourists

The Manatees Are On Strike

Tourist chick: Do these trains go under water?
Guy: We’re under water right now.
Tourist chick: Are there sharks?

–2 train

Overheard by: Elaine Chernov

Posted on April 20, 2006
On the Subway, Stupidity, Tourists

This Bitch Is Gonna Occupy Rhineland

Crazy guy: Ain’t you people heard of the Treaty of Versailles? I gots mothafuckin’ rights, mothafuckas!
NYU tour guide: Washington Square Park is the vibrant center of campus…
Crazy guy: Rights! You can’t just be dropping mustard gas on me, like that mothafucka from Tennessee be doin’. The Treaty of Versailles says I got rights!
Tour mom: Oh my god! They have mustard gas here now? I told you this city wasn’t safe.
Crazy guy: This bitch understands that I got rights!

–Washington Square Park

Overheard by: Laura Mathis

Posted on April 20, 2006
College, Hobos, Manhattan, NYU, Parents, The Village, Tourists

It’s a Pit, But With a Killer Vibe

Tour chick: Have you been to Ground Zero yet?
Teen girl: You mean the club?

–8th & Broadway

Posted on April 14, 2006
Ground Zero, Stupidity, Teens, The Village, Tourist Attractions, Tourists

Real News for Real Leaders

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