Words

Skinny girl #1: Have you ever seen fat people eat?
Skinny girl #2: Come to think of it, I haven’t.
Skinny girl #1: I know! Isn’t that what they call ironic?

–NYU

High school thug #1: Man, you doin’ any feasible shit?
High school thug #2: Feasible? What’s that?
High school thug #1: Feasible is that… That’s some shit, man.
High school thug #2: Naw, man, I ain’t been goin’ to school.

–C train, 86th St

Overheard by: Emily B.

Professor: Well, we’re all fucking crazy lunatic motherfuckers anyway, so why the fuck does it matter?

–NYU

Overheard by: observer

Angry black woman on cell: Yo, man, it’s like that old saying, ‘Don’t fuck with your employees, you motherfucker.’

–23rd & Broadway

Overheard by: Damn Straight

Mom to infant waving bottle around: What the fuck? Are you fucking out of your mind?!

–Manhattan-bound Q train

Drunk next to wife: Hey! Where did those girls that I fucked go? Hey! I fucked you girls! What the fuck?

–LIRR

Conductor: Union Square, motherfuckers!

–Astoria-bound N train

Overheard by: Caroline & Skid

Angry Russian thug on cell: You want fuck? I give you fuck! I stab my cock into your heart!

–Houston & 2nd

Charity worker: Help the homeless! [Androgynous person walks by] Even a pretty girl… boy… whatever-that-was can help!

–Times Square

Chick, wistfully: That was Vadim. He was from St. Petersburg. When we broke up he stole all my dresses.

–A train

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Large black security guard, inspecting guy’s Sephora bag: You da man!

–Hayden Planetarium

Pierced 20-ish chick: So, the last time I pegged a guy he wouldn’t stop jabbering on and on about how much he loved trannies. It just made me shove in the strap-on harder.

–Delancey & Orchard

Overheard by: Californian

Guy: I sirred a ma’am today. But, in my defense, she was a very sir-able ma’am.

–33rd & Broadway

Guy: You know — it’s Dow Jones and NASDAQ.
Girl: Who are they? Those guys that died?

–14th & Park Ave South

Blonde: Do you have a first name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: Yes.
Blonde: Do you have a last name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: Yes.
Blonde: Do you have a middle name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: No.
Blonde: Well, I wanna annoy you. What’s your conformation name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: I’m Jewish.
Blonde: So?

–21st & 1st

Thugette on cell: Yeah, I’m planning on getting arrested this weekend. That’s my new thing now. Instead of going to the club and shit, I’m just going to get arrested.

–34th & 8th

Overheard by: Clitoris Rex

Metrosexual: Oh my god! Did you hear that Paris Hilton just escaped from prison?

–Broadway & Prince

Mom eating fried chicken: I always thought Penn Station stop was named after a penitentiary…

–A train

Overheard by: Denning

Mocking cop to dude he just arrested: You’ve got jail!

–West Village

Woman: Why do they have to call it the ‘feminine care aisle’?
Friend: I know! Why can’t they just write ‘Tampons’?

–CVS, Park Ave South

Suit during presentation: We are a global company with a tremendous reach-around.

–810 7th Ave

Overheard by: Jatmos

Barista gesturing to fridge: Hey! Milk me!

–Coffee shop

Professor: It’s hard to sit there for two hours without a climax.

–NYU

Overheard by: woods comma elle

Teacher, on oral quizzes: … And if you can satisfy me orally, you will receive a good grade.

–The Dalton School

Overheard by: Marissa

Miniskirt #1: I feel so swollen.
Miniskirt #2: Oh my god! Swollen!
Miniskirt #3: Swollen!

–42nd & 5th

Overheard by: Jessica