Guy: Do you think Jim’s cute?
Girl: He looks like a baby.
Guy: Like an isosceles baby.
Girl: His head is made of polygons.
–Metropolitan & Lorimer
Overheard by: Olga
Guy: Do you think Jim’s cute?
Girl: He looks like a baby.
Guy: Like an isosceles baby.
Girl: His head is made of polygons.
–Metropolitan & Lorimer
Overheard by: Olga
Guy #1: You’re killing me vicariously.
Guy #2: Did you just say ‘bi-curiously’?
Guy #1: Wow.
–14th & Broadway
Nasal woman on cell: Heyyy, what you doooin’?
Stoner guy passerby, imitating her voice: Smokin’ weeeed.
–74th & CPW
Ex-Long-Islander #1: … But then he’d have to marry a– What’s the female equivalent of ‘guido’?
Ex-Long-Islander #2: I don’t know… ‘Bitch’?
–LIRR
Overheard by: sarah
Lady suit #1: Yeah, I’ve always been a sun worshiper.
Lady suit #2: And how does your son feel about that?
–34th & 9th
Overheard by: solar spiritualist
Car owner: Yeah, I just bought it. It has a supernova in it.
Friend: It must go really fast.
–Starbucks
Teen #1: Come on, let me rub it out!
Teen #2: No!
Teen #1: I’m telling you, it works. Let me rub on it!
Teen #2: Get away from me! Dad, tell John* to stay on his side of the train seat!
Teen #1: I’m just trying to rub the tension out of his muscle.
Dad: Okay, boys, stay in your own seats and keep your hands to yourselves. This week’s episode of post-fraternity homoerotic nostalgia is over.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Gay4God
Little grandson: Yo! He gonna go get some dicks!
Ghetto grandma: Where you learn to talk like? [To other passengers] I’m sorry. He needs his medication.
Little grandson: Dicks! Bitch! Coca-Cola!
–N train
Overheard by: CarrieBoo
Six-year-old boy #1: … And I was like, ‘Fucking lawyers!’
Six-year-old boy #2: Yeah!
–96th & CPW
Overheard by: after your alimony, are they?
Hipster girl: … And then there was this other weirdo I dated who kept talking about how we’re all just molecules. You know, little balls of energy?
Guy: Yeah… That’s exactly where we came from — balls of energy.
–116th & Broadway
