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
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
Chick #1: So she’s in San Francisco and can’t decide if she likes it enough to move there, so she makes a list of pros and cons.
Chick #2: What are the cons?
Chick #1: Well, the first one is, “too many Asians”.
–Cafe Centosette, 2nd Avenue
WASP man: Yeah. I suffered in jail for 16 years with my first wife. My second wife died of cancer after 5 years. I’ve been married to this one a year and a half…Two out of three’s not bad; if this were baseball, I’d be making a mint.
–A train
Overheard by: Lia
Bag lady: Hey, you guys, can you help me out? I’m really hungry!…You need a dye job, you know! Your roots are showing.
–Park Slope
Overheard by: Drew
Teen girl: So I read that article and cried and cried until my Mom was
like, “Stop crying. You’re retarded.”
–1 train
Chick #1: Hooray, I’m free!
Chick #2: You’d better take your nametag off, then.
Chick #1: Yeah, I don’t want guys who come up to me being all, “Hello, Diana.”
–14th & 3rd
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
Chick: Did you ever watch wrestling?
Guy: I used to watch it back when it was real.
–2nd & 2nd
