Words

B&T Girl #1: He is so “not Westchester.”
B&T Girl #2: I know!
B&T Girl #3: I don’t get it. I’ve been here a year and I don’t get that. And what is or who is “the bridge and tunnel crowd”? Is it a good thing that those guys called us “bridge and tunnel crowd” when we walked in?
B&T Girl #1: Eww.
B&T Girl #2: Gross.
B&T Girl #1: Ew, oh there is so no way anyone called me bridge and tunnel.
B&T Girl #3: So that’s bad?
B&T Girl #2: What could be worse?

–Metro-North

Guy: Oh, excuse me!…Want to make out?

–Centre & Chambers

Overheard by: Chris

Older man: …so they served these smaller things, like appetizers, in between the three main courses. You know how many they gave us? Four! There were four intercourses…

–West 53 Street office

Girl on cell: He shoots dope and smokes crack! I can’t think of a worse person for you to sleep with!…well, yeah, I guess…

–81st & Madison

Girl: I’d blow him every day if he’d let me drive his beamer more.

–Sheep’s Meadow

Tween girl: Shit, if I were 21, and he was like, “Yo, do you want some
beer?”, I’d be like, “Shit, only if you got a hotel room.” ’cause then
we could, like, go in it.

–Starbucks, 34th & 7th

Overheard by: marissa

Daily News guy: …and I said, “Just take me now, bitch!”

–Bar 288, Elizabeth Street

DMV guy: Who’s here for oral? Did anyone in this line sign up for oral?

–DMV, Atlantic Avenue Center

Overheard by: RMC

Little girl: That’s how you spell it? Why is there a “p”?
Mom: The doctors didn’t know how to spell it, so they just put a “p” at the beginning to make it look medical.

–Greenpoint corner store

Hobo: Hey, any of you fellas got a match?
Drunk guy: Yeah I got a match, my ass and your face!
Hobo: I hear ya.

–3rd Avenue and 9th Street

Guy: So, Indian food?
Girl: Do you think in India, they just call it food?

–2nd Avenue & 6th Street

Guy: Hey, lady, you need to slow the fuck down…your dog needs to take a fuckin’ dump…just look at his swollen-ass asshole!

–Times Square

Indian woman on cell: You are a terrible, terrible man. You are a horrible shit of piece.

–60th between Lexington & 3rd

Overheard by: Navyboy

Guy: If she was a dinosaur, she’d be an assaraptus.

–Astoria

Overheard by: shane matthews

Lady on cell: OK, so you know Alisha? She’s Poop’s best friend…yeah, Poop.

–77th & Lexington

Overheard by: marissa

Wife: I’m just saying say, “excuse me.” I ain’t asking you to hold it in or nothing; it’s a natural part of life. I mean, if you need to let it out, let it out. I’m just saying say, “excuse me.” Have some damn manners. We fart, we all fart, but just say, “excuse me.”

–Central Park

Overheard by: Alex Liebman

Guy: I will say this: butts are weird, and fickle. You can put that in your dissertation.

–111th between Broadway & Amsterdam

Overheard by: djlindee

Black girl #1: Do you know what RSVP stands for?
Black girl #2: Respond as soon as possible?
Black girl #1: No, stupid it’s r.s.v.p.. It stands for repond s’il vous plait, it’s French.
Black girl #2: Spell it!
Black girl #1: R-e-s-p-o-n-d c-i v-u p-l-a-y. Don’t you know anything.

–4 train

Woman: Hi.
Cashier lady: Huh?
Lady: Hi.
Cashier lady: Oh.

The cashier finishes checking the lady out.

Lady: Thanks.
Cashier lady: Huh?
Lady: Never mind.

–Fine Fare, Clinton Street

Overheard by: Heather

Tourist guy: We’re staying down on Two Avenue. Now do they say Two Avenue or Second Avenue here?

–Columbus Circle

Overheard by: Chess

Tourist woman: We’re in Manhattan, right?

–Times Square

Tourist girl: Can’t we like, just call a cab? You know, like, “Hi, we need a cab, pick us up here?”

–42nd between Broadway & 6th

Overheard by: Heather Hunter

Tourist guy: Do they just breed dogs smaller here, or what?

–Broadway & Astor

Overheard by: jillypickle

A Kosher Deli has a neon sign in the shape of a sky-line.

Guy: What’s with all the phalluses?
Girl: That’s Jeruselum. They’re church towers or something.
Guy: Oh…is “phalluses” the right way to make that plural?

–Broadway & 32nd