Yuppie: Like, why do we even have Pennsylvania?
–5th Avenue/53rd St. station
Overheard by: Jamie
Yuppie: Like, why do we even have Pennsylvania?
–5th Avenue/53rd St. station
Overheard by: Jamie
Girl #1: Where are you from, again?
Girl #2: Kentucky.
Girl #1: Oh, no…that didn’t get by the tornado, did it?
–Shades of Green, E. 15th Street
Overheard by: Emily
Woman: Oh, this is great. We got on a nonstop train to Trenton. Just what I fuckin’ need in my life right now. It’s OK, we’ll just go see our nation’s capital.
Random man: Our nation’s capital?
Woman: You know I meant state. I don’t need comments from the fuckin’ peanut gallery. I went to high school. I graduated with fuckin’ honors.
–NJ Transit train, Penn Station
Overheard by: Another fuckin’ honor student
Girl #1: I hate my life! I need to go out there! Like drive to Hawaii!
Girl #2: You can't drive to Hawaii, you don't even have a license!
–Bedford & N 8th
Overheard by: Bklynguts
Random guy: So, where you from?
Hot chick: Oh, up north. Florida.
Random guy: Wait. I thought Florida was in the Midwest.
–Subway B
Teenage girl #1: And she was trying to convince me that Florida is north of New York!
Teenage girl #2: Oh my god, some people are so stupid! North of us is like… Delaware!
–Hudson & Gansevoort
Overheard by: Laura
Ghetto cashier #1: Jersey…is that a city or a state?
Ghetto cashier #2 (after thinking for a while): A city.
Ghetto cashier #1: Okay, right, like Jersey City. That's what I thought.
–Duane Reade
Man on cell: I’ll be in Fort Lauderdale in 2 hours, wait for me.
–34th & 8th
Ghetto clerk #1: Someone called before from New Mexico.
Ghetto clerk #2: So?
Ghetto clerk #1: Well, I didn’t know there was a New Mexico.
Ghetto clerk #2: Yeah, there’s Mexico and New Mexico.
Ghetto clerk #1: Oh, I get it. So it’s like Bronk and da Bronx?
Ghetto clerk #2: Not really.
–Manhattan Supreme Court
White guy: Where do you live?
White girl: The Upper East Side. Where do you live?
White guy: I just moved to the city, I live in Harlem.
White girl: Oh, that must be scary.
White guy: Nah, it's not scary. I'm from Northwestern Florida so I mean I'm used to black people…plus, I play basketball.
White girl (nods in complete agreement): Oh, you're fine then.
–Bowery Bar
