Wednesday One-Liners Vary

Mother, to little boy: No, you cannot smell my armpit!

–Keyspan Park, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Jesse

Doctor on cell: Look, having knees doesn’t make you special.

–Oustide New York Presbyterian Hospital

Ghetto chick: When she’s asleep, I’m gonna squat on her brain.

–16th between 7th & 8th

Overheard by: alyssa

Father of little girl who has just hit her head: Did your brain fall out?

–Chili’s, Staten Island

Overheard by: Ada and Andi

Chick: His teeth are really straight. But that’s because he was home-schooled.

–Baskin Robbins, 23rd & 8th

Guy: Every time a girl sees my teeth, she’s like, “Naaah.” I’m gonna get this whole shit redone, where they take them all out and replace the whole thing. It costs like $20,000…Only thing is you have to go two months without any teeth.

–29th St & 33rd Ave, Astoria

Middle-aged man, to college girl in skirt: Excuse me, miss, you have very nice legs. Have you ever thought about doing voice-overs?

–31st & 6th

Overheard by: plo

Teenage boy: Who wants to play guess which body part am I fidgeting?

–North Gannon & Bradley, Staten Island

Overheard by: Shamrocknroll

Mom, to two small children: I think it is better to be born with no legs than to be born with two and have them taken away.

–11th St & 8th Ave

Laundromat owner: She think she know everything! If he love her so much, why’d he go get that other girl pregnant two months after she lost her leg?! He should be giving her a baby!

–Laundromat, Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: Suparna

Old guy on cell: I don’t know, thinking about going to the movies. Maybe I’ll see The Devil in Miss Prada.

–Mcburney YMCA, W 14th St

Girl: Yeah I sold my soul to the devil. I was like, “Hey, devil, can I sell you my soul?” And he was like, “Okay.”

–Stuyvesant High School

Overheard by: Natasha

Queer: And, futhermore, we all know that the Devil does not wear Prada. He wears flame-retardant knock-offs from Target.

–Chelsea

Thug girl: Yeah, tell that bitch I’m crazy. I’m mad crazy, not that crazy on the train shit. I’m crazy goin’ ta’ jail shit.

–JHS 218, Brooklyn

Overheard by: jeff lebowski

Woman: But he’s so funny when he’s not having seizures.

–Delancey & Essex

Overheard by: Evan

Girl: He took me to a Japanese restaurant. I got the chicken karaoke.

–78th & Broadway

Overheard by: E HAGEN

20-Something girl: So, is Alabama in Kentucky?

–27th & 1st

Overheard by: interlard

Early-20’s woman: The Himalayas aren’t a real place. They’re like Narnia.

–1st & 1st

Ghetto girl: In British Whose Line Is It Anyway?, do they speak English?

–75th St

Woman on cell: Hey, Jane*, in case I get thrown in jail tonight you have the money for bail, right?

–44th & 8th

Guy on cell: They said I’d be looking at a $10,000 fine and six months in jail, but they didn’t take my name. I figure if people aren’t out wandering the streets looking for me, I’m okay.

–M15 bus

Overheard by: Emily Duncanson

Blond yuppie on cell: That’s so cute! But did he really just get out of jail?

–Central Park

Girl on cell: So I woke up with a slice of pizza on my stomach again last night.

–Union Square

Overheard by: Frank B

Man: You know my theory: ground beef makes anything taste better.

–6 train

Overheard by: Sol

Old woman: Give me a donut. But not a very sweet one. I’m diabetic.

–Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn

Overheard by: astronugget

Fat woman on cell: “Butter Lovers” or “X-treme Butter” with an X?

–Duane Reade, 34th & 8th

Overheard by: Rita

Teenage boy: I had frosted Cheerios for breakfast. That’s some heavy shit.

–86th & 2nd

Overheard by: Madison Parks

Woman, yelling into her cell in a thick Puerto Rican/New York accent: I had to call you. Guess what I’m thinking about right now? Guess! You know the little peanut man on the jar of peanuts? Him! The little peanut man.

–crosstown bus, 72nd & Lex

Queer: Here’s what I want you to do. First, I want you to spread chocolate on my chest. Then, I want you to spread some nougat, then some caramel and roasted peanuts. Then I want you to fuck me and call me Snickers.

–Fire Island

Girl on cell: Yeah, but I’ve gotta get out of these pants first. The crotch is wet and I don’t wanna get mad yeast.

— 85th & York

Overheard by: Ivan

Professor: You need to find your special place.

–Shepard Hall, City College

Girl on cell: You definitely could. You have a wider-set vagina than I do.

–65th Ave & Parsons Blvd, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Pete

Old lady on cell: Did you remove the tick from the genital area?

–5th Ave, Park Slope

Overheard by: Utah

Black guy: I can not believe mah baby girl just graduated from high school! Come on, honey, I’ll let you pick where we gonna go fo’ dinner: Denny’s or White Castle?

–Yonkers High School

Overheard by: Snow White

Ghetto girl graduate: Ya’ll wanna go to Red Lobstah or what?

–Times Square

Overheard by: Kaitlyn

Woman, yelling to man: Look, you give me crack and I smoke it and we fuck. That’s what we do.

–130th, between Lenox and 5th

Overheard by: Juany

Queer on cell: At least have the decency to suck dick for coke!

–10th & Ave A

Small child: I feel so dirty.

–sand box, Prospect Park

Overheard by: braincurve

Guy: You’ll never even see a vagina in your life. I can at least pay for it.

–53rd & 8th

Overheard by: Jess McGins