Queer #1: I could fly from here to San Francisco.
Queer #2: Straight?
–19th & Broadway
Queer #1: I could fly from here to San Francisco.
Queer #2: Straight?
–19th & Broadway
Tourist chick: Know what would be awesome? If we could manage to not sound like assholes for like 10 minutes.
Tourist guy: We’re from Ohio.
–PATH train
Dude #1: You know how I know you’re gay?
Dude #2, wearily: Because I love Connecticut.
Dude #1: What a fucking horrible place!
–Clinton & Myrtle, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Overheard by: JP
Blonde #1: I feel like I didn’t apply to enough colleges. [Looks at poster of the University of Chicago] Oooh, Chicago. I should go there.
Dude: You won’t get in.
Blonde #1, ignoring him: Where is Chicago, anyway? It’s a country, right? Ohhh, wait! I’m so stupid. It’s a state!
Blonde #2: Duh.
–College office, High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology, Brooklyn
Overheard by: …If I didn’t get in, she shouldn’t even be applying
Hipster in Williamsburg: I’ve traveled all around the providentials of New England.
Woman: Hey, we should go to Alaska sometime.
Man: Alaska? We can’t even find our way downstairs!
–Eskimo Diorama, American Museum of Natural History
Yuppie: I just really hate the Garden State mentality.
–West Village
Woman: Where is Georgia anyway?
Her brother: It’s a state.
Woman: I know, but where is it?
Her brother: Down south somewhere.
–Newark Airport
Overheard by: Coffee
Old school Brooklyn guy: They closed off 150 blocks in DC for this inauguration and where do you think all the people that live on those blocks are gonna park, if not here in the five boroughs?
–Greenpoint
Overheard by: Didi Hylobates
Lady Patron: It’s freezing outside.
Man behind counter: Let’s move to Florida!
Lady Patron: No, thank you.
–Coffee Shop, Hudson & King Street
