Suit on cell: Yo man, it’s Wednesday, are you ready to go get drunk and nail some bitches?… Hold on… What the fuck? I’m just in a manic rage and I want to destroy everything. What’s so wrong with that, Dad?
–13th between 3rd & 4th
Suit on cell: Yo man, it’s Wednesday, are you ready to go get drunk and nail some bitches?… Hold on… What the fuck? I’m just in a manic rage and I want to destroy everything. What’s so wrong with that, Dad?
–13th between 3rd & 4th
Queer: This place is way gayer than last time.
–XL, West 16th street
Overheard by: straight girl
Dude: I’ve fired 3 people in the last 2 weeks. One girl was fat. But she didn’t know it. She would come into work with her belly falling out of her shirt. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
–NYSC, 38th & Broadway
Overheard by: Aimee
Little boy: Mom, is South America a continent?
Mom: Well, it’s…there’s North America and South America.
Little boy: Yeah, is South America a continent?
Mom: Uh, no. No, it’s not a continent, it’s…Um…
–St. Marks Place
Girl #1: So, he sells cell phones, but he makes like four hundred thousand a year! And he has this gorgeous wife and this gorgeous kid, and he smokes pot all the time and it never affects him…He is just amazing…It doesn’t make sense.
Girl #2: Is he Satan?
–Coral Towers Residence elevator, 3rd Avenue
Girl #1: Oh shit, a Jesus Bus!
Girl #2: They must be kidding…Oh my god, look at them, they really
aren’t kidding.
Girl #3: Christ in hell, I thought people just drove those things around to be funny.
–14th & 2nd
Suit: When you’re 25 and you measure your hourly rate in three digits it takes a hell of a lot of grief to not make it worthwhile.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Gabriel Stempinski
Guy #1: Who is that playing?
Guy #2: Norah Jones.
Guy #1: Isn’t she the one who started something?
Guy #2: Started what?
Guy #1: Like didn’t she stand up on a bus?
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Girl #1: Man, it sucks our TA is going to Libya.
Girl #2: Actually, she’s going to Liberia.
Girl #1: Oh, what’s the difference?
Girl #2: Well, Libya’s in the North part, near the Middle East and Liberia’s on the Western part where it starts to curve.
Girl #1: You mean near Chile?
–Cantor Film Center, East 8th Street
Overheard by: I can’t believe I go to school with these people
Girl #1: What did your mom give you for your birthday?
Girl #2: Oh, just money.
Girl #1: When are you gonna go shopping?
Girl #2: I’m gonna save it. I spent too much money this weekend celebrating.
Girl #1: What better to spend it on if not clothes and booze?
Girl #2: I don’t know. Donate it to starving children in Ecuador or something.
Girl #1: Blah, blah, blah.
–11th Street & 3rd Avenue
