Guy: So what songs do you have on your iPod?
–3rd Avenue & 10th Street
Overheard by: jessica castro
Guy: So what songs do you have on your iPod?
–3rd Avenue & 10th Street
Overheard by: jessica castro
Girl #1: You talk like you’re from an entirely other universe.
Girl #2: I am. It’s called Los Angeles!
–1st Avenue & 6th Street
Overheard by: miss dubin
A white girl on a cell drops a piece of paper. A Hispanic man picks it up.
Hispanic man: Senorita! Senorita!
White girl: What? Oh, sorry.
She returns to her call.
White girl: …No, I just thought I was being harassed.
–14th & University
Guy #1: I found my old Nintendo yesterday
Guy #2: Yo, remember Game Genie and shit?
Hobo: I had a genie once.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Creighton
Dude: So are you going to sing karaoke?
Girl: No, I don’t think so. Are you?
Dude: Nah.
Girl: Why not? Can you sing?
Dude: Oh yeah, I can sing. I just don’t read.
–Nevada Smith’s, 3rd Avenue
Waiter: There is no indefinite standing allowed in the garden.
–Luca Lounge, Avenue B
Overheard by: Anna
Old man: Yeah, so the doctor told me to put mayonnaise on my head and cucumbers on my eyes. There’s just so much you have to do. I was like, “What is this, a fruit salad?”
Woman: That’s not a fruit salad, that’s a Caesar salad.
Old man: Right, a Caesar salad. Anyway, about that truck.
–2nd & 2nd
Overheard by: Tibbie X
A man is stumbling down the street. He trips, falls hard and hits his head on the ground.
Guy: Sir, excuse me, are you okay? You just fell really hard.
Man: …Fuck you.
–14th & 6th
Overheard by: The L0rdz
Punk guy: You know somethin’? I could have been home right now, watching Gremlins.
–2nd Avenue between 6th & 7th
Overheard by: Tibbie X
Guy: So you still going to be an elf for Halloween?
Girl: No, actually I’m going to be a fairy, but fairies are part of the elf family.
–6th & B