Girl: Please!
Guy: No!
Girl: Come on!
Guy: No!
Girl: Pleeease, just once!
Guy: I’m not going to let you mace me!
Girl: Come on… I’ll let you punch me in the ovaries.
Guy: … Just one, or both?
–Sullivan & Prince
Girl: Please!
Guy: No!
Girl: Come on!
Guy: No!
Girl: Pleeease, just once!
Guy: I’m not going to let you mace me!
Girl: Come on… I’ll let you punch me in the ovaries.
Guy: … Just one, or both?
–Sullivan & Prince
Ghetto black chick: I’m Hillary Clinton! Where my niggas at?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: arose
30-ish black woman: She can tell me what book to buy… She can recommend a good bra… But Oprah telling me who to vote for? I don’t think so!
–42nd & 8th
Overheard by: JoBell
Guido: I would blow Al Sharpton to be in my bed right now. I would caress Hillary Clinton’s asshole to be in my bed right now.
–F train
Overheard by: dat wint’ry mix
Hot chick: I mean, I love Bill Clinton, and I would have slept with him even last week, but he’s gone crazy!
–11th & 4th, Park Slope
Overheard by: bemused obama guy
Hobo: Hello! I am running for president! Vote for me and I’ll legalize marijuana! You can marry whoever you wanna!
–Deli, 12th & 6th
Overheard by: Nora, Bianca, and Ethan
Middle-aged white lady: Go Obama! Go Obama! I don’t know what he stands for, but I sure like to look at him!
–31st & Ditmars, Astoria
Overheard by: Scarfish
Black woman to male friend: I just find it ironic that a woman and a black man are running… And I’m going with the white guy.
–Café Mogador, East Village
Hobo: [Mumbles.]20-something #1: What did he just say?
20-something #2: I think he was offering us grilled cheese.
–17th & 3rd
Hobo, to trees: 56, 60, 61, 20!
Girl: I think he just gave me my lottery numbers!
–Ave A
Overheard by: Katie
Drunk guy: Do you dare me to lick this pole?
Girl: I don’t have my camera on me, so not right now. Maybe some other time.
–Queens-bound F train
Stranger guy: Sooo, you guys on a first date?
Girl, whose date just headed for the restroom: No.
Stranger guy: Good. It did not feel like one.
–83rd & 3rd
Chick #1: God, we look so wasted, baked…
Chick #2: Your face is sooo red.
Chick #3: It kind of matches your eyes, though — like you’re blushing a lot.
–Restroom, Barnes & Noble
Overheard by: tanechka
Professor: So, what did you all think of the Bodies Exhibit? Is there any part of the human anatomy you think you’d change if you had the chance?
Hipster guy: I’d get rid of nipples on guys. They’re kind of pointless.
Professor: That’s true. Although some men have very sensitive bosoms and enjoy being touched there. Have any of you ever been with a man who had a sensitive bosom? [One student awkwardly raises her hand.]
–Pratt Institute
Overheard by: traPt
White girl dressed like a thug: Yo, reality’s on the line!
White girl dressed like a skeleton: And it says that you’re a racist!
–East Campus, Columbia University
Overheard by: Nia
Black chick, hysterical: Hahaha, and what did the guy say — hahaha — when he fell from the building? Hahaha, what he say?
Black dude: Um… I don’t know…
Black chick: Hahaha, he said, ‘Ouch!’ Hahaha, I’m so hyper!
Black dude: Yo, there’s a new energy drink — it’s called crack.
–Hunter College, 8th floor balcony
Overheard by: Liza
