Wednesday One‐Liners Prefer Subway Sandwiches

Lost‐looking chick on cell: Why do they always fuck with the trains on weekends? Don’t they know there are stoned people trying to get home?

–Subway Platform, Grand Central

Overheard by: Poogtastic

Loudspeaker dispatcher lady: Hey you! Uptown number 5! You better stop sticking your head out the window and answer me on the radio!

–Uptown 4,5,6 Train, Union Square

Overheard by: da sarkastik ninja.

Elegant gentleman, as train starts to depart station: Oh, I didn’t realize the train was going to move.

–Crowded Uptown 1 Train

MTA announcement: The uptown 1 train is running.

–Penn Station

Overheard by: Krisztina

Dispatcher: The arriving train will be the next train. The arriving train will be the next train.

–G Train, Court Square

Overheard by: Katrink

Old man: I’m coming, train. I’m coming. I’m coming, train, you son of a bitch bastard!

–6 Train

Posted on November 25, 2018
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Wednesday One‐liners, the Play

British guy: Two tickets to Grand Central, please.

–Bowling Green station

Overheard by: Kirsten Teasdale

Woman on cell: I’m not going to punch her in the mouth, Danny.

–Grand Central station

Suit: You’re ruining my life, you pot‐smoking whore!

–34^th & Broadway

Posted on November 22, 2018
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No — The Bong.

Girl #1: So I like, panicked, and I ate it.
Girl #2: You ate the weed?

–Park Slope

Overheard by: E

Posted on September 10, 2018
Fears, Girls, Park Slope, Weed, Weirdness

She Sells Him the Weed and Beer

Man: I think going to the gym really helps me get rid of stress.
Woman: And smoking pot. And the drinking.
Man: Yeah, well… Oh, and you — you’re at the top of the list.

–7^th Avene, Park Slope

Posted on September 8, 2018
Drinking & Drunk People, Health and Hygiene, Men, Park Slope, Weed, White People

The Day Mombolu Changed Professions

Talkative hobo, seeing woman holding papers about Africa: What’s up in Africa? You don’t look African.
Dignified woman: I used to work in Angola.
Talkative hobo: That’s the best kind of job to have, where they pay to send you all over the world. Damn, I bet it costs $2000 to fly to Angola if you were paying for it out of your own pocket.
Dignified woman: Actually, it costs more than that. It’s about $4000 to fly to Angola and back from here.
Talkative hobo: Holy shit! $4000 to fly to Angola and back? Do you know how much weed I could buy for $4000? I could sit my ass in the park all day and smoke myself to death! Damn!

–1 Train

Posted on July 12, 2018
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Wednesday One‐Liners Have the City’s Shittiest Job

Comedy club promoter: Comedy club, comedy club. Laugh until you get violent diarrhea!

–Times Square

Overheard by: Patrick

Comedy promoter to girl walking by: Hey, you like comedy? (girl ignores him) Yeah, you the strong, silent type… I like that in a woman.

–48^th & Broadway

Overheard by: MsPrint

Comedy show ticket salesman on sidewalk: Comedy show! Free vibrators! New batteries!

–Times Square

Guy promoting comedy club to couple holding hands: Hey, what are you two doing tonight? …besides each other?

–Times Square

Comedy promoter: Want to see a comedy show? We’ve got free marijuana downstairs.

–W 43^rd St & 9^th Ave

Overheard by: Daniel

Posted on November 20, 2017
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His Next Move Was to Ask a Friendly Police Officer Where He Could Procure Some

Foreigner, showing bong: And here is what I bought today.
Ghetto kid: Yeah, whatcha gonna put in there? Tobacco?
Foreigner: Yes, I put the tobacco in here. The tobacco.
Ghetto kid: No, man. You gotta put some weed in there. You ever heard of weed?
Foreigner: Weed? No…weed? I don’t understand.
Ghetto kid: Get some weed. You put a little weed in there, smoke it up, and you’re set.
Foreigner: Yes, thank you. Weed.

–Brooklyn bound B train

Overheard by: Anti‐Traffic Girl

Posted on September 7, 2017
Foreigners, On the Subway, Thugs, Weed

I Give Her 2 Months

Teenage girl #1: Oh come on. Just try weed. It’s not that big of a deal.
Teenage girl #2: That’s one line I’ll never cross. That and sucking dick.

–4 train

Posted on November 26, 2015
BJs, On the Subway, Philosophy, Teens, Weed

Also Why They Bathe Together.

Asian stoner #1: He was whitish. Wait, no, he was white. He and his brother both smoke pot and his parents do too. They even smoke together some times.
Asian stoner #2: So they, like, smoke together and stuff?
Asian stoner #1: Yeah, it’s a good way to save money.

–B6, Brooklyn

Overheard by: laughing to himself

Posted on November 16, 2015
Asians, Brooklyn, Family Ties, Money & Class, Race, Stoners, Weed

Wednesday One‐Liner’s Last Dance with Mary Jane

Professor: We will talk about the JDC – the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. And no, they were not dispensing marijuana.

–Queens College

Overheard by: ShaniP

Trashy JAP on cell: So I told her I was selling, and that bitch was like, “Katrina, for how much?” And I was like “Oh my god, mom, it doesn’t matter how much the weed is going for, all that matters is the quality!”

–7^th Ave, Park Slope

Overheard by: penelope

Random stranger to teens: You want to buy some weed? Just come back to my mom’s house!

–Union Square

Overheard by: Rhian

College student on cell: Mom, you’ve got to stop smoking so much weed. I mean, fuck!

–Time Square

Random dude on street: I got it all! Liquor, alcohol, marijuana, Chips Ahoy! I got it!

–44^th & Broadway

Overheard by: Lagster

Street vendor: Prada bags, Louis Vuitton bags, Gucci bags, marijuana bags… (everyone looks over at him) Hey, I gotta make money somehow.

–Times Square

Overheard by: mary jane

Posted on August 13, 2015
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