Tourists

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 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

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

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

–8th & Broadway

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

Tourist lady: Excuse me, can you tell me which way Times Square is?
Guy: Um…really? Turn around lady.

–49th & 7th

Overheard by: Gregory

Tourist chick: So far the experiences have all been good!
Cop #1: How long you been here?
Cop #2: About 5 minutes?
Cop #1: You just wait…

–Rector Street 1 station