Stoned chick: I’ve got to do all the drugs I can today. I’m going into rehab next week.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Matt M
Old man: Yeah, my daughter moved out a few months ago. She loves her university and smokes a lot of pot.
–Bleecker St
English professor: Is that what you say when you’re in your room popping ecstasy with the door closed?
–City College
Southern woman on cell: Have fun with the kids. Oh? He died? Joe’s son died? Why’d he die so young? Vicodin overdose? Oh, I will be careful. Well, that’s what happens when you take too much Vicodin. You die.
— CVS, 54th & Lex
Overheard by: Your Mom
Teenage girl: Yeah, she sucks now that she’s a crack addict
–Columbia University
Overheard by: An offended crack addict
Literary critic: It was Sherlock Holmes who got me on coke.
–Cherry Tree bar, 4th Ave, Park Slope
