Girl on cell: Listen, listen. What I’m saying is, why can’t we just try to find a way to keep all of the Jews and the non-Jews from like, marrying? Or even interacting?
–Washington Square Park
Girl on cell: Listen, listen. What I’m saying is, why can’t we just try to find a way to keep all of the Jews and the non-Jews from like, marrying? Or even interacting?
–Washington Square Park
Girl #1: Ew…what’s this spot on my pants?
Girl #2: Sperm?
Girl #1: God, I wish!
–Washington Square South
Guy #1: All the hipsters in your neighborhood make me want to puke.
Guy #2: I wouldn’t say that too loud, but yeah, I share your sentiment.
Guy #1: What are they going to do? Cough angrily at me?
–St. Marks Place
Overheard by: Lemon
Crazy man: Why do blondes only hang out with other blondes? Why do blondes only hang out with other blonds? Why do blonds only hang out with other blonds?
Chick: Shut up.
Crazy man: Hey Blondie, I wasn’t asking you.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Thompson Patton
Guy #1: So we’re entering the West Village.
Guy #2: Oh yeah?
Guy #1: Yeah…it’s sort of…the gay part of town.
Guy #2: Yeah? So…is there, like…a gay bar in the area we could go to?
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: kjd
Dogwalking woman: No! Come here! I said no! Stay!
Guy: Dude, take off your earphones.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Thompson Patton
Dude: Look at those people there on the bench?
Chick: Which ones?
Dude: Those six people, all sitting there, all talking and animated and engaged with each other, each a representative of a different family of hair color. We totally just walked through their sitcom and we didn’t even know it.
–Washington Square Park
Bouncing Souls guy: Hey, I’d really like to meet Debbie Harry! Debbie, if you can hear this–
Chick: As do we all want to meet Debbie!
–Save CBGBs, Washington Square Park
Overheard by: liz goldstein
Girl: Yesterday I weeded my terrace.
Boy: What?
Girl: I weeded my terrace.
Boy: Oh, I thought you said, “I needed my terrorist.”
–Washington Square Park
Chick: …so she was sleeping with the animals.
Guy: She was sleeping with the animals?
Chick: ’cause she wasn’t really part of the circus.
–Washington Square SW
