Someone Needs to Put That on a T-shirt

Queer: Want to apologize to everyone who you cut in front of?
Chick: Fuck you!
Queer: Ew! Well anyway, we hope you had a good time in there.
Chick: Fuck all of you!
Queer: You probably took a shit in there, didn’t you? I bet you did! Fat girls are always shitting!

–Slipper Room, Orchard Street

Guido on cell: Yeah, there was bitches dancin’ on the bar and shit…No, no, my fingers is cold…
Bag lady: Fuck your fingers! I ain’t got shoes on, ya dumb twink!

–48th & 8th

Overheard by: Fish the Magish

Dude: What about him?
Chick: “Oh, hell no. I ain’t no fattybanger!

–Union Square station

Overheard by: Sarah Booz

Posted on May 16, 2020
Fat People, Guidos, Queers, Union Square and East Village

Wednesday One-liners Join the Jet Set

Southern woman on cell: I could not feel worse than I do right now…You will…Oh my god, they are gonna have to land that airplane so you can vomit.

–66th between CPW and Columbus

Overheard by: Charlie

Dirtbag: Man, I have to get over to Europe. I gotta sell a fucking kidney.

–St. Mark’s Place

Man on cell: Yeah baby, yeah, I’m still in London. Yeah, I’ll be back on Wednesday, baby.

–West 4th & Jane

Conductor: You’re now entering the country of Brooklyn. Please have your passports ready…

–F train

Overheard by: Paul Eng

Posted on May 15, 2020
All Wednesday One-Liners, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Health and Hygiene, Men, Money & Class, Not New York, On Cell, On the Subway, Street, Stupidity, Subway conductors, Travel, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women

She Understands Accessories

Man in paper hat, leather jacket covered in soda can tabs, and poofy skirt over jeans: She comes in and she comes home and breaks my heart, and the worst part is that I don’t understand her language. I’m better off with… [Steps back to peer at magazine a girl is reading] I’m better off with that one. What’s her name? Turn the page back one. Yeah, her. Tyra? Tyra. I’m better off with Tyra.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Brownsvillegirl

Posted on May 14, 2020
Crazy, Default, Language Barrier, Names, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness

The Unbearable Lightness Of Wednesday One-Liners

Rastafarian man to white basketball female player with dreads: Hey! Why you white people always trying to look like me!

–Union Square

Black guy selling Empire State Building tickets: You're from Scotland? I love the Scots… They're puuuuuuurrreee white!

–Outside Empire State Building

Black woman to another, about frat guys nearby: Man, white people are so loud.

–109th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Becks

Black hobo to white teen: Get out of this neighborhood with your white crotch! You don't belong here!

–Upper West Side

Black woman to cops walking away: But I'm a Caucasian!

–Bed-Stuy

Posted on May 13, 2020
All Wednesday One-Liners, Athletes, Black People, Brooklyn, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Empire State Building, Frat Boys, Hair, Hobos, One-liners, Physical appearance, Private Parts, Questions, Race, Street, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Vendors & Street Performers, Wednesday One-Liners, White People, Women

England's Sketchy Stepchild

Girl: So where's he from? He's from California, right?
Guy: No, he's from England.
Girl: Oh, Montreal!

–Union Square

Overheard by: Christopher Columbus

Posted on April 29, 2020
Foreigners, Girls, Global Geography, Guys, Stupidity, Union Square and East Village

Wednesday One-liners Have Cool Spiny Backs and Tiny Tiny Brains

Woman: That movie’s so stupid! They got King Kong and the dinosaurs fighting even though they are from different centuries.

–Mama’s Pizza, 106th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Kyle T

Teen girl: You know, I don’t think I even believe in dinosaurs.

–Starbucks, Astor Place

Overheard by: Paul

Posted on April 7, 2020
Manhattan, Movies, One-liners, Pop Culture, Stupidity, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

But I Also Like Cleaning and Sucking Cock!

Hot southern girl #1: So, before I came up here my mom is like, "Be very careful around those northern boys, they think all southern girls just love to cook and fuck."
Hot southern girl #2: Oh my gosh, are you serious? They think that? That’s so messed up!
Hot southern girl #1: I know!
Hot southern girl #2: But I really do love to cook… And fuck.
Hot southern girl #1: I know… Me too.

–Union Square Cafe

Overheard by: Moving South

Posted on April 6, 2020
Advice, Bimbettes, Food, Restaurants & Cafes, Sex, Southerners, Union Square and East Village

And Clay Aiken-Gay, Not Oscar Wilde-Gay

Foreigner: What was with those guys in Brokeback Mountain? Are all cowboys dumb?
Girl: They weren’t dumb, they were gay.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Sara McGrath

Posted on April 3, 2020
Foreigners, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Idiots, Movies, Questions, Stupidity, Union Square and East Village

Wednesday One-Liners Feel a Lot Better Now

Guy to friends: A girl farted on my head once, and I dated her for three years.

–14th St & 3rd Ave

Overheard by: MC

Woman to friend: And then he farted in my mouth.

–Ding Dong Lounge

Overheard by: Rosalind

Hobo, farting loudly, turning at girl walking behind him: That's for you, you fucking bitch!

–Yellow Line Subway Station

Overheard by: Craigalanche

Latina on cell, firmly: I'm not bi-curious, I'm just fart-curious

–49th & 5th

Overheard by: olga

Crazy hobo: Once, I was eating Cracker Jacks, you know, the one with the prize in it? When I finished the box, I farted in it, then sealed it up again. When I opened it a week later, I got the surprise of my life!

–1 Train

Overheard by: nella

Posted on April 2, 2020
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That's a Rosary, Sadie.

Hipster girl #1: Yeah, but it was okay because my anal beads, as usual, did the job.
Hipster girl #2: Really? Because they just haven't been working for me lately.

–Union Square

Posted on March 31, 2020
Ass, Dildos and Vibrators, Hipsters, Union Square and East Village

Union Square and East Village