Now I Know Why Friends Was So Unpredictable

Girl #1: I hate gushing blood. Gross.
Girl #2: Yeah, and retarded people
Girl #3: Yeah, retarded people scare me
Girl #2: ‘Cause you’ll never know what they’re gonna do, ’cause they’re retarded.

–KFC, King’s Highway, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Veronika

Posted on July 7, 2006
Bimbettes, Brooklyn, Disabilities, Restaurants & Cafes, Stupidity, Violence

I Think I’ve Got It Figured Out

Old lady #1: So you’re gonna pour gasoline on him, and I’m gonna light the match.
Old lady #2: Mm hmm.

–114th & 5th

Overheard by: robin b

Posted on June 23, 2006
Fire, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Old People, Violence

It’s Just Like the Old Days

Man #1: Man, all these stabbings and killings, man.
Man #2: Yeah.
Man #1: But you know, that’s every summer.

–Myrtle & Marcy, Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: Brendan Rogak

Posted on June 20, 2006
Brooklyn, Men, People, Places, Stab, Topics, Violence

Wednesday One-liners, Tough Love

Mom: You see? You almost hit that nice lady. Then she would have sued you and took all your PlayStation games

–N 12th & Bedford, Williamsburg

Overheard by: sonibug13

Mom: No, Cyrus! Don’t touch that! You have ringworm!

–Post office, Upper West Side

Posted on June 14, 2006
Brooklyn, Crime and Punishment, Health and Hygiene, Manhattan, One-liners, Parents, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Violence, Williamsburg

The Rockport Files

Suit: Do you see that guy? He’s wearing a suit and sneakers!
Coffee vendor: Um…
Suit: I can’t believe that! I really think guys like that should be lined up and shot on Broadway.

–Broad & Wall St

Overheard by: alxie

Posted on June 9, 2006
Fashion, Manhattan, Suits, Vendors & Street Performers, Violence, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

Your Sex Life Is Your Own Business

Little girl #1: Mom, can we have this?
Mother: Not now… Five minutes of silence.
Little girl #2: I want one of those bags!
Mother: Ok…Five minutes of silence or I start swingin’!

–Kings Discount Clothing Store, 18th Ave & 64th St, Bensonhurst

Posted on June 6, 2006
Brooklyn, Parents, Shopping, Violence

He Gets Cranky Without His Yoohoo

Vendor: I hate customers like you, with your big bills for a 95-cent drink.
Ghetto thug: I could always shoot your old ass, and have the soda for free if that makes making change any easier.

–207th & Broadway

Posted on June 3, 2006
Bodegas, Crime and Punishment, Manhattan, Money & Class, Shopping, Thugs, Vendors & Street Performers, Violence, Washington Heights and Inwood

Early Intervention

Girl #1: I wish I was anorexic.
Girl #2: I’m going to punch you so that your head ricochets against that door.

–F train

Overheard by: Gena Radcliffe

Posted on June 1, 2006
Health and Hygiene, On the Subway, Violence

Good Christian Wednesday One-liners

Ghetto teen: If Jesus was with you, he’d smack you over the head and call you a dick!

–A train

Overheard by: Josh Jasper

Girl to friends: Do either of you have a really nice picture of Jesus? I need to make an ashtray.

–7th & A

Overheard by: Ty!

Posted on May 31, 2006
Manhattan, On the Subway, One-liners, Religion, Union Square and East Village, Violence

That Bipedal Bitch!

Girl #1: I just want to break her spine so that she can’t walk anymore.
Girl #2: Break her spine…?
Girl #1: Because she can walk around. And that’s what’s pissing me off.

–4 train

Overheard by: Michael O’Connor

Posted on May 29, 2006
Health and Hygiene, On the Subway, Violence

Violence