UWS woman #1: The vineyard was amazing.
UWS woman #2: Word.
–92nd & Broadway
Overheard by: n69n
UWS woman #1: The vineyard was amazing.
UWS woman #2: Word.
–92nd & Broadway
Overheard by: n69n
Girl: Ew! I don’t want to hear the words ‘mother’ and ‘nipple’ in the same sentence!
Friend: What? It’s a legitimate question.
–Queens-bound R train
Overheard by: spacegirl
Woman: I got yoo-hooed just now by Greg.
Man: Yoo-hooed?
Woman: Yeah, he totally waved his hand and said, ‘Yoo-hoo!’
Man: Dude, you just can’t say that if you’re under the age of 65 and not referring to a chocolate beverage.
–Central Park
Distraught girl: Is there an ‘I’ in ‘relationship’?
Guy: [Silence.]Distraught girl: Well, is there?!
Guy: Um… There’s two, actually…
Distraught girl: God… You’re so selfish! You just don’t understand me.!
–Brother Jimmy’s, 92nd & 3rd
Overheard by: issheaskinghimthis?
Professor: Does anyone know where the term “Passover” comes from?
Student: It's because the Jews put blood on their doors so Jesus would pass over their house and not kill the first-born son.
–Classroom, Fordham University
Overheard by: dundun
Girl, stung by bee: Ahhh! That motherfucker pinched me!
Boy: I’m gonna kill that nigga bee!
–125th & Broadway
Little girl: Mommy, what are you doing?
Mother: Rubbing my eyes — they itch. What are you doing?
Little girl: I’m buttoning my finger.
–University Pl & 11th St
Overheard by: Pat Nich
Yuppie: I was just teaching the scientific method to my students.
Nerd: Oh, so you teach them induction and deduction?
Yuppie: [long pause] The students aren’t that smart so I don’t teach them big words like those.
— Party, Manhattan
Mom pushing stroller: … And how do you spell ‘Loch Ness’?
Four-year-old boy: L, um… L-O, um… um… L-O-C-H-N-E-S-S
–17th St & Irving Pl
Girl: I'm not going home straight.
Boy: I think you mean “I'm not going straight home.”
Girl: No. I mean “I'm not going home straight.”
–Bard High School, Queens
Overheard by: Sunny
