Greenpeace guy: Do you have a second for Greenpeace?
Woman: Meow.
–3rd St & 6th Ave
Overheard by: JJ
Greenpeace guy: Do you have a second for Greenpeace?
Woman: Meow.
–3rd St & 6th Ave
Overheard by: JJ
Ghetto man #1: I didn’t mean to, man, you know it. I apologize.
Ghetto man #2: I will kill you!
Ghetto man #1: C’mon, man, you know it. I didn’t mean to!
Ghetto man #2: I will kill you!
Ghetto man #1: Man, c’mon, we can figure it out!
Ghetto man #2: I will kill you! I will kill you! I will kill you! I will kill you!
–West Village, 3 a.m.
Overheard by: Isha
Girl #1: Ugh, I hate the teabag.
Girl #2: Oh, I love it! You’ve got to embrace the teabag!
–W 10th & Greenwich
Girl #1: I really wasn’t into him; he was too young.
Girl #2: What are you talking about? You’re a rapist.
–6th Avenue & West 3rd Street
Chick #1: So how did your trial go?
Chick #2: It went well, it went my way.
Chick #1: That’s great.
Chick #2: Yeah. The guy was actually nice; well, he was listed as a violent felon, but…
Chick #1: A nice violent felon?
Chick #2: Ha, ha…yeah. He tried to play the “my 88 year old dad and my wife and kids are here, I’m in rehab trying to clean up my life” card. But I put him on the stand for the whole day and caught him in all these lies.
–Broadway & 13th
Man: Yeah, I was a rocket scientist, but I gave it all up three months ago and became a photographer.
Waiter: I became a ninja.
–Ninja New York, Hudson Street
Overheard by: Chris Thompson
Store chick: I got a high school ring, and it was the biggest regret of my life.
–NYU Professional Bookstore, LaGuardia Place
Overheard by: andrew
Girl #1: I was on the subway once and missed my stop and ended up in Brooklyn. Not hipster Brooklyn, I’m talking about fried chicken and people sitting on curbs Brooklyn.
Girl #2: Wow, were you scared?
Girl #1: Yeah, so I just asked a toothless 80 year old man where the closest subway station was.
–8th Street between University & 5th
Overheard by: Jasmin Livingston
Yuppie guy on cell collides with hipster guy pretty hard.
Hipster guy: Hey, asshole!
Yuppie guy: Watch it.
Hipster guy: I hope you have to watch your fuckin’ children die!
Hipster girl: Honey, you really have to stop saying that to
people.
–7th Avenue & 13th Street
Chick #1: Did California even exist yet?
Chick #2: No, it belonged to the Spaniards.
Chick #3: Yeah, that was before we taught them about manifest destiny.
Chick #1: Yo, manifest destiny is genocide.
Chick #3: Hi, did we not just discuss me and genocide earlier?
–Christopher & Gay
