Indecisive girl at DiPaola's turkey stand: I'd like some… hot… Italian…
Guy selling turkey, eagerly: Yes?
Indecisive girl: Sausage.
–Fort Greene Farmers Market
Overheard by: Morning Glory
Indecisive girl at DiPaola's turkey stand: I'd like some… hot… Italian…
Guy selling turkey, eagerly: Yes?
Indecisive girl: Sausage.
–Fort Greene Farmers Market
Overheard by: Morning Glory
UPS employee: Ma'am, you're going to have to calm down.
Angry customer: Lady, you're lucky I ain't got a hot cup of piss on me right now, 'coz you would be wearing it.
–Post Office, Lower East Side
Overheard by: Amused yet disturbed
Giggling drunk girl #1: Look! Someone spilled Kool-Aid all over that seat! Or at least I hope it's Kool-Aid.
Giggling drunk girl #2: It very well could be Hawaiian Punch.
Giggling drunk girl #1: I don't even want to know what happened if it was Hawaiian Punch!
–F Train
Guy: So she invited me in and I had a beer.
Girl: You had a beer?! What?!
Guy: Yeah, I had a beer.
Girl: Oh my god! That is so weird!
Guy: Well, I mean, I didn’t have my own. So I had a beer and then we rehearsed.
Girl: Oh my god. I can’t believe you had a beer and then rehearsed! That is so weird!
–Waverly Place & Broadway
Overheard by: Sam
Old woman: Did you happen to notice if the dancers were wearing nail polish?
Teen girl: No. I'm sorry, I didn't.
Old woman: I imagine an art form such as this stifles the dancers' individual expression. I know some days I feel watermelon pink… and no one can stop me!
–Front Row, NYC Ballet, Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Gina Sophia
Chick: You think I won’t step up and kick some nigga’s ass just because I’m a bitch? I’m bisexual. Yeah, I’m bisexual: I’m half bitch, half nigga.
–Q train
Overheard by: Reb Stu
Irate professional woman on cell: I raced down to Penn Station to buy a ticket to New Jersey, and now you tell me you're going to Hooters?
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Erin and Willa
Blonde hipster: I knew I needed to get out of there when I heard her saying, "we should go to that bar next because it's near the PATH!"
–Rivington & Essex
Train conductor: The next stop is Park Place. Transfer is available to the a, c, e and PATH to Newwwwwwwwwww Jersey. I also have wonderful news that I am dying to tell you today. All 2 and 3 trains are making local stops this weekend. There are no express trains because of service changes.
–2 Train
Girl, interrupting singing couple: Guys, we need to class it up, we are not in Jersey anymore!
–5th Ave & 86th
Overheard by: GerMan in NY
Four-year-old boy: I don't wanna go to New Jersey!
–New Jersey Transit Terminal, Penn Station
Hipster: But you were in New Jersey when you got pregnant, it's okay.
–1st & St. Mark's
Blonde girl, looking up at bridge: The Brooklyn Bridge can blow me.
Brown haired girl: Ugh! Word!
–South Street
Overheard by: how does that work?
Man: Where are you from?
Boy: (silence)
Man: If someone asks you that, you say you are from Earth.
Boy: Earth.
Man: And then if someone asks you where on Earth, you say, “a continent.”
–1 Train
Overheard by: fayfayryryr2h
Hipster teen: Are you pissing on that building?
Rich teen with faux fur coat: Welcome to the recession, buddy!
–42nd St
Overheard by: I want a m6
