Girl #1: When I’m older and I’m pregnant, I hope I’m standing when my water breaks cause I don’t want the baby to come down and, like, drown.
Girl #2: My Mom went down in a gutter with me.
–B44 bus
Girl #1: When I’m older and I’m pregnant, I hope I’m standing when my water breaks cause I don’t want the baby to come down and, like, drown.
Girl #2: My Mom went down in a gutter with me.
–B44 bus
12-year-old hood rat #1, taunting three 20-ish bike riders at red light: Yeah, you ride that bike.
12-year-old hood rat #2, laughing: Yeah, fuck you! Ride that bike!
Biker girl: Yep, we’re riding our bikes [light turns and they ride off].
12-year-old hood rat #3: There they go.
–Dean St & 3rd Ave
Two tween girls cross the street, dodging cars.
Tween #1: Oh my god, I can’t believe you did that! You know I don’t watch where I’m going!
Tween #2: You don’t?
Tween #1: Uh, no — every day I almost get hit by a car, and my friends always make fun of me, and my friends say, ‘Oh my god, you almost got hit by that car,’ and I say, ‘Yeah, duh, you guys know I don’t look both ways!’
–61st & Amsterdam
Two tween girls walk into Starbucks. For some reason one emits a high pitched squeal.
Tween #2: Shut up! This is a place where humans go!
–Starbucks, Astor Place
Overheard by: Scott Nybakken
Preteen Boy #1: Get her, fuck her, leave her.
Preteen Boy #2: Is that what you do?
Preteen Boy #1: Hell yeah. Teabagging.
Preteen Boy #2: Teabagging?
Preteen Boy #1: Yeah. Get in and get out. That’s teabagging.
Preteen Boy #2: Ha, ha! Teabagging!
Preteen Boy #1: Hey, how do you spell Utah?
Preteen Boy #2: U… U…
Preteen Boy #1: Tell me how to spell Utah, motherfucker!
–Smith/9th St. Station
Overheard by: Mary Phillips-Sandy
Bored tween: Hey! We should wake up early tomorrow and kill some squirrels with my slingshot!
Bored tween sister: You're not gonna kill those innocent squirrels unless they try to kill you first!
–Highland Park, New York
12-year-old girl holding plaid button-down shirt: Wow, I can't wait to be a hipster!
Dyke in similar plaid shirt: When did “dyke” become “hipster”?
–Marshall's
Overheard by: Starisla
Mother to tween daughter, smiling: So I heard you saw a porn film with Tina* and her mother?
Daughter: Yeah, we went into Bruno and decided to leave after five minuets.
Mother: What did you end up doing?
Daughter: We saw Ice Age instead.
–ShopRite
Overheard by: Carrie
Tween boy with scooter to friend with skateboard: If I died, would you take my scooter?
Friend: What?
Boy: If I died, right now, would you take my scooter, man?
–Columbus Circle
Tween to mom: But mooooooommmmmmm, I don't want to go to that school.
Mom to tween: Chris Rock's kids go there.
–Upper West Side
Overheard by: Cathy Borck
