The Beggar Union Has No Pension Demands

Hobo: Oh, you gonna work this car?
Activist guy: Yeah, I got kinda like a political thing goin’ on here. I hope you don’t mind if I work here.
Hobo: A’right, fine, whateva.

–6 train

Overheard by: shahid waseem

Hobo: Hey, I’m not selling candy for the basketball team. I’m not selling candy for the football team. I’m not selling candy for the afterschool program. In fact, I’m not selling anything. I just want your money so I can buy pot and beer and crack. And Viagara. I hear you need Viagara when you’re on the crack…Hi, miss. You have the prettiest eyes I’ve seen in 20 minutes…You, no! Get out. I am working this car. Get out. No candy!

–5 train

Posted on January 2, 2006
Beauty, Business and Commerce, Drinking & Drunk People, Drugs, Hobos, On the Subway, People, Places, Weed

He Had a Crunk Attack

Girl #1: My brother’s started taking marijuana and I’m worried cause he’s only 17.
Girl #2: I’m so anti-drugs because my dad’s brother died of a drug overdose.
Girl #1: Was it a marijuana overdose?

–Columbia University

Posted on December 22, 2005
Age/Aging, Columbia, Columbia University, Death, Drugs, Girls, Stoners, Teens, Weed

Pass the Dutchie Hobo Left-hand Side

Hobo: Hey man, you got some change? I’m saving up for a bag of weed?
Guy: No! I prefer to pay for it myself!
Hobo: Yeah?…Well, I don’t!

–Bleecker & Sullivan

Posted on December 20, 2005
Drugs, Guys, Hobos, Manhattan, People, Places, The Village, Topics, Weed

Yet Again, He’s No Bill Clinton

Roberto Clemente, Jr.: Well, maybe you won’t say that when you have to spend 3 days straight with George W….We spent three days straight sitting down talking, just drank some beers, ate some hot dogs–
Professor guy: –smoked a joint…
Roberto Clemente, Jr.: Yeah! And he inhaled.

–Waverly Building, Waverly Place

Overheard by: Genevieve Dreizen