Man with bottle of booze in paper bag: Is that a machine gun or a bomb?
Boy with guitar: No, I’m just carrying my guitar.
–Train to Penn Station
Overheard by: Marcy
Archive for the ‘Weapons’ Category
God Bless the LIRR
30-something guy: Have you ever shot an AK-47?
40-something girl: Oh my god, yes!
30-something guy: How did it feel?
40-something girl: Pulling that trigger… It’s amazing.
30-something guy: Getting punched in the face hurts. Have you ever gotten punched in the face?
40-something girl: Yes! When did you?
30-something guy: It was one of those “wrong place at the wrong time” situations… I was on the corner of this street and all of a sudden someone just came up and started punching me. It hurt really badly. Have you ever tried punching a bird?
–LIRR
Overheard by: Francesca
Wednesday One-Liners. (Allegedly)
Snooty female 30-something to friend: Pap-smears are, to me, the new fake eyelashes.
–Upper East Side
Overheard by: ianbobian
Aggressive New Yorker: So he pulls out his fucking fake-ass parking pass, and I pull out my gun. And I’m like “you still wanna park here, asshole? Go ahead!”
–60th St & Broadway
Screaming drunk girl to slightly sober guy: If you’re going to be fake to me, at least be fake to my face!
–LIRR
Overheard by: Really!?!?
Girl on cell: Okay, call me when you’re done entertaining the fake Jews.
–Cafe, Church & Walker
Loud woman: No, it was a fake. I’d have to like, sleep with him to get the real one, you know?
–Hester & Mott
Overheard by: Jensel
Typical Beurocratic Nitpicking
DMV employee: You didn’t write down “Assault with a deadly weapon” on your form.
Woman: Oh shit, I forgot that?
–College Point DMV, Queens
Overheard by: Noelle
Wednesday One-Liners Up the Wazoo
Guy on cell: Wow! That’s a lot of cookies. If I had that many cookies, I’d put a couple of them in my ass. (pause). It doesn’t matter, I’ve got the space. I can’t eat that many cookies.
–23rd & Lexington
Teen girl to teen boy: Unless you want a 9 millimeter stuck up your asshole.
–Grand Central Terminal
Girl on cell: Well, it’s still rectal.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Ladle
20-something girl to 20-something guy, quite loudly: Yeah, but putting a metal spike up his ass wasn’t exactly what I had in mind!
–28th St & 5th Ave
Overheard by: Jar Aaron
20-something woman: Baby, I think we’re going to keep the Thanksgiving dinner out of my asshole.
–Herkimer St., Brooklyn
Overheard by: M. Fresh
Wednesdays Don’t Kill People; One-Liners Kill People
Large black man on cell phone: They did the deal with the diamonds, then the other guy got greedy and shot up the place.
–Union Ave
Overheard by: Seth Callaway
Teen, looking around: Where are we? Are we purchasing illegal arms?
–Turkish Restaurant, Montague St.
Overheard by: Mike N
Blonde chick in pink coat, perkily: … There was no exit wound, and no bullet.
–L train
Overheard by: Ladle
Girl talking to co-worker: I live near Wall Street and there are like army men down there with machine guns and it’s scary! How do I know they don’t have Tourette’s and won’t just start shooting their guns all over the place?!
–41st & 3rd
Older suit, calmly, to his two female coworkers: I’d like to put a gun to his head and say “Nickie do the right thing or I will blow your fucking head off.”
[His companions nod in understanding.]
–Starbucks
Calm Jewish fraternity guy on cell: So, I’m being deported and drafted into the Israeli army… It’s okay, I’ll name my gun after you!
–NYU Waverly Building
Janie Got a Wednesday One-Liner
Voice over employee’s walkie-talkie: Okay, I really need those guns. Anyone who has one, I need it down in bridal.
–Bed Bath & Beyond
Obnoxious woman: So I said, “motherfucker, I’m not your sister – I’m your cousin. So I will shoot you.”
–Uptown 2 Train
Large black man: If you ain’t got no bullets, you gotsta melee!
–23rd St b/w 5th & 6th
Overheard by: Zach
Wannabe hip-hopper, trying to sell CD: It’s clean music, and I ain’t never shot no one!
–Union Square
20-something guy on cell: They got no right to bring up that gun charge, it’s over ten years old!
–19th St & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Emily Davidson
Dude, after chatting to policewoman: I just have a thing for women in uniform! My mind says, “no, no, settle down,” and my penis says, “but she’s got a gun!”
–Hudson & Laight
Because She Knew How to Behave Like a Lady.
Guy #1: I told him you don’t ask a woman for a cigarette, you just don’t do it.
Guy #2: Yeah… Word.
Guy #1: But he didn’t listen. Next thing you know he’s getting pistol whipped and my car is being towed away.
–1 Train
Or: “Guns Don’t Kill People– Punctuation Kills People”
Teen #1, staring at gun with comma for trigger: So, what do you think it means?
Teen #2: It means: “as soon as I finish this sentence, I’m gonna kill you.”
–Museum of Modern Art
These Wednesday One-Liners Will Self-Destruct in Five Seconds
Southern tourist: … And, like, we all came all the way to the city, and there’s a bomb threat? I mean, we even made reservations!
–78th & Broadway
Guy to chick: Take Albert Einstein, for instance. He was a small guy, and he built the atomic bomb… And he nuked Japan with it.
–116th & Broadway
Overheard by: Chelsea
Mom to child as he fashions a bomb out of clay: Tyler, this is a non-violent birthday party!
–Central Park
Overheard by: Wondering what a violent one is like
Substitute chemistry teacher: Okay, let’s get a little sex appeal in here… Who knows how to make a hydrogen bomb?
–Stuyvesant High
Morally outraged thugette: He mess with the wrooong girl! I will blow this whole train up!
–G train
Overheard by: sarah
Professor: … And in next week’s class — how to build a nuclear bomb!
–Fordham University
Overheard by: Sromeo
