Ghetto kid: Real gangstas get it down on the flo’, on the flo’.
Nerdy kid: What’s a flo’?
–Info Tech High
Overheard by: mary alice v.
Ghetto kid: Real gangstas get it down on the flo’, on the flo’.
Nerdy kid: What’s a flo’?
–Info Tech High
Overheard by: mary alice v.
Clown: Chastity.
Three-year-old boy: Hahahaha!
–W 86th & West End
Overheard by: Emily B.
Girl: It’s this way.
Guy: Are you sure?
Girl: I know where all the Jamba Juice is.
Guy: Are.
Girl: What?
Guy: Are. You know where all the Jamba Juice are.
Girl: Is.
Guy: Are! Each franchise is a separate entity!
Girl: Is! They’re all part of single collective!
Guy: Jamba Juice is not the Borg!
–50th & Broadway
Black woman: Move, nigga! Shit, if Kramer can say it…
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Overheard by: Jillian B.
Salesperson to customer: C’mon nigga, just buy this fucking thing, you know you want it.
–Radio Shack, 225th St
Overheard by: charles elliot
Black lady: So here I go doin’ my thang, right, and I look up and this nigga here is eatin’ a pickle… A pickle!
–NJ Transit into Penn Station
Overheard by: dirtyjersey
Thug: Yo, fuck you! You Pillsbury Doughboy punch-you-in-the-face-lookin’ nigga!
–Grand St
Overheard by: Alex Remnick
Old woman: Nigga’s tutti-frutti as a motherfucker.
–35th & 8th
14-year-old girl to friend:… And then my daddy called me a ho! Fuck that nigga!
–Spofford Ave, Hunts Point
Overheard by: number seven
Father: Come on, hurry your ass up, nigga. I mean… Hurry up… son.
–50th & Broadway
Eye candy: Why would he say that I was not educated?
Friend: Well, that’s not exactly what he said, now was it?
Eye candy: No, he said I was tapid and voided of thought.
Friend: Vapid and devoid of thought.
Eye candy: Same thing.
–Manhattan-bound F train
Overheard by: SandmanEsq
Hot mom to kid while walking past construction site: That’s called rebar. Can you say ‘rebar’?
Hardhat: Rebar!
–86th & 3rd
Overheard by: hbomb
Redhead: … And he’s been bottling this all up and I guess my freak-out just pushed him over the edge.
Blonde: Yeah, totally. Like the straw that tipped the camel over…
–Haru, 18th & Park
Coworker chick #1: You ready, spaghetti?
Coworker chick #2: [Silence.]Coworker chick #1: Well?!
Coworker chick #2: Wait, I’m thinking.
Coworker chick #1: Oh, okay.
Coworker chick #2: Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
–84th & 3rd
Overheard by: da sarkastik ninja.
Bimbette: Why does that van say in-valid transportation? Why isn’t it valid?
Friend: That’s not ‘in-valid‘; it’s invalid. They transport invalids. You know, the handicapped.
Bimbette: Well, why don’t they say so?
–Bus, Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Big Larry
