Girl: I accidentally bent my MetroCard and now it won’t swipe.
MTA guy: How do you accidentally bend it?
Girl: Um, I didn’t mean to…
MTA guy: Did you want me to replace this card with a new one that’s not bent?
Girl: Yeah, that would be great.
MTA guy: Because we don’t do that.
–Wall Street 2/3 station
Girl: I’m not going to the gym today.
Queer: Oh my god, this is like the gazillionth time you’ve cancelled. Honey, no offense, and I didn’t want to have to tell you this, but you give me no choice. You’re starting to get fat. You need to start going to the gym, like, every day or no man’s gonna wan’t you.
Girl: You gays are so fucking judgmental. Oh, and since I’m such a fat cow, you can go find someone else to help you stretch and have to deal with your sweaty balls in their face.
–Starbucks, Park Row
Guy #1: I don’t get why they call it the 7 Years War if it didn’t really take 7 full years.
Guy #2: Well then, why don’t you write your own motherfucking textbook about history and call it whatever the fuck you want? And nobody will read it, because you don’t know shit about what we’re doing second semester!
–Fulton & Broadway
Spanish guy: I dunno, man. Maybe that Chinese kid farted egg roll?
–Chambers & West
Overheard by: adam dorn
Old lady: No, Henry, trust me. You were never a fuck machine, and I certainly did know how to fake it.
–113th & Broadway
Overheard by: Marc Mitchell
Man: When I told her I worked for the State of New York she seemed to
lose interest.
–F train
Southern man: Well hon, maybe you should buy both; keep the large one and find someone to give the small one to.
Southern woman: Hmm, who do I know that needs a Statue of Liberty?
–Broadway & Canal
Guy #1: I wake up at a quarter to 5 every day.
Guy #2: Why?
Guy #1: I get up to pee.
Guy #2: Every day?
Guy #1: It’s that, or I go in bed.
–Liberty & Broadway
Guy: How old are you?
Hipster girl: You know, I never answer that question. Because to me, it’s about how mature you are, you know? I mean, a fourteen year old could be more mature than a twenty-five year old, right? I’m sorry, I just never answer that question.
Guy: But, uh, you’re older than eighteen, right?
Hipster girl: Oh, yeah.
–Knitting Factory, Leonard Street
Overheard by: Sarah Doogs
Black guy: You would like him ’cause he looks like a gorilla, and they are from the Amazon like you.
White girl: Dummy, gorillas are from Africa; you of all people
should know that.
–Liberty between Greenwich & Washington
