Wednesday One-Liners' Prints and DNA Are on File

Man dressed in briefs, on Halloween, to policeman: I want you to arrest me! She didn't listen to me! I want you to arrest me right now!

–W 17th St

Overheard by: The Girl in Vintage Formal

Slightly buzzed 40-something man, in very loud hushed tone: I know your son is in jail! Isn't he?

–Mid-Manhattan Library

Man to another: They let him go because my daughter couldn't identify him. But now she got glasses.

–Ave B & 6th St

Overheard by: Miss V

Agitated man, yelling into cell: I don't love you. I hate you. I did ten years and got seven felonies for you.

–Brooklyn

Girl to another: So I wrote "we're being kidnapped' on a piece of paper and pressed it against the window.

–Famous Famiglia, 111th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Lucy

High school girl: That nigga just got *out* of jail. That reminds me, I need to go to Bushwick.

–Grand St & Bushwick Ave

Overheard by: rpk

Posted on March 17, 2010
All Wednesday One-Liners, Alphabet City, Brooklyn, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Cops, Crime and Punishment, Family Ties, Girls, Health and Hygiene, Library, Love, Men, Offers and requests, On Cell, One-liners, Prison, Restaurants & Cafes, Street, Students, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Violence, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Words

Charlie Brown Gets Very Upset With Linus

Loud guy running out of building: I'm so mad I could do stuff! I'm so pissed I'm going to do some stuff to him! Aughhhh! I'm gonna do some stuff!
Passerby: Don't make him mad, he's crazy. He'll do… stuff.

–NYU Building, Washington Square

Overheard by: Bruce Lee

Posted on March 14, 2010
Anger Management, Crazy, Guys, NYU, Strangers, Threats, Violence, Washington Square Park, Words

Wednesday One-Liner Repeats Itself

Lady to foreign friend: These 13 circles have the names of the original colonies from when Columbus landed in America.

–Conservatory Garden, 105th & 5th

Teenage girl to friend: But Trotsky was totally doing Lenin, you can't deny it.

–1 Train

Friend in elevator showing old photos from Rome: There's the Colosseum. You know. Where the lions and the Catholics had their thing.

–7th & 31st

Overheard by: Greg

Teenage boy to another: Y'know what I'd like to see? Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson in a cage fight.

–6th Ave & 54th St

Overheard by: Dale

Posted on March 10, 2010
All Wednesday One-Liners, Animals & Nature, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Christianity, Foreigners, Friends, Girls, Global Geography, History & Geography, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Names, On the Subway, One-liners, Sex, Street, Stupidity, Teens, Upper East Side, Violence, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

In the Meantime, Practice with This Candy Bracelet.

Little boy, staring at ad where woman bites necklace off another woman: Ew! That's gross!
Mom: Let me know if you still feel that way in 10 years.

–D Train

Overheard by: Catherine

Posted on March 1, 2010
Age/Aging, Fashion, Kids, Moms, On the Subway, Parents, Violence

This Would Make an Awesome Screenplay

Woman #1, seated at bar in restaurant: My daughter told me she was going to finish med school, then her internship, and then her residency… but before going into practice she was going to take time off to “follow her dream.”
Woman #2, seated at bar: What's her dream?
Woman #1: To become a professional wrestler.

–Restaurant, West Village

Posted on February 25, 2010
Dreams, Education, Jobs & Careers, Medicine, Restaurants & Cafes, School and studying, Violence, Weirdness, West Village, Wishes & desires, Women

Oh, the Hora! The Hora!

Guy: So I was like, “Well, then I'm glad I gave you a black eye after I fucked you!”
Girl: Oh my gosh, are you Jewish?

–49th St & 9th Ave

Overheard by: Natalie

Posted on February 22, 2010
Body Parts, Girls, Guys, Judaism, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, Sex, Violence

Die, Wednesday-One-Liner Scum!

Male yuppie to female yuppie: So milfs are totally in right now.

–Starbucks

Overheard by: Lolita

20-something male yuppie, surrounded with Starbucks coffee containers and yelling at laptop: It took you six fucking minutes to get to the fucking page! Rawwwr! I'm going to rip you apart, you stupid fucking computer! Rawwr!

–Starbucks

Yuppie-hipster mom, to sobbing toddler: Yeah, I know, your life is just so tough.

–Metro-North

Overheard by: It's because those hemp diapers you make her wear chafe like hell.

Yuppie woman: This is like the Third World!

–8th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Sam Chalek

Posted on February 17, 2010
All Wednesday One-Liners, Anger Management, Compare/Contrast, Global Geography, Hipsters, Insults, Kids, Laptop, MILF, Moms, One-liners, Parents, Starbucks, The Village, Threats, Trains Not Subway, Violence, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Yuppies

Better Prepare for Your Troll Years, Sally

Boyfriend: 30 years from now I'm gonna slap the shit out of you.
Girlfriend: Why? 'cause I'll be 51?
Boyfriend: Yes. You'll be ugly!

–Grand Central Terminal

Posted on February 8, 2010
Age/Aging, Beauty, Couples, Grand Central, Physical appearance, Time, Train Station, Violence

Nobody Molests Me Disrespectfully

Drunk girl to group of friends: And then he slapped my ass, and I was like, “I need to walk away.”
Drunk girl's friend: Why?
Drunk girl: I mean, it was fine for him to play with the fuzzy things on my nipples, but I draw the line at an ass grab.

–E 9th St & Ave A

Overheard by: sternie