Lowlife: I hate shopping.
Yuppie: You have to love it, because we really need to avoid this look.
–W. 8th & Broadway
Overheard by: Tibbie X
Lowlife: I hate shopping.
Yuppie: You have to love it, because we really need to avoid this look.
–W. 8th & Broadway
Overheard by: Tibbie X
Where: Diner in Williamsburg
Yuppie on Cell Phone: You should come down! He’s giving a concert tonight at Luxx.
Yuppie #1: I only went to Brazil for a month, but on my third day there I met her.
Yuppie #2: Women in South America are so hot. Especially Brazil and Spain.
–Belgian Beer Bar, Greenwich Village
An activist interrupts a group of yuppie chicks having a discussion.
Activist: Do you have a minute for gay rights?
Chick #1: Sorry.
Activist: Have a good day.
He leaves them to their conversation.
Chick #1: Then he’s been getting after me about how I’m selfish, and about how selfish I am.
–Union Square
Yuppie: I just really hate the Garden State mentality.
–West Village
Yuppie: Democracy only works when you work to make the laws you want happen. Have you ever worked to get a law passed?
Hipster: Yes, I have, as a matter of fact!
Yuppie: Okay. What issue was it, and what did you do?
Hipster: Give me some time to think about it, I’m sure that I once did something but I don’t remember it this second.
— Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Asian yuppie: Now I don’t have to be possessive anymore. Instead, I rely on Jesus.
–Grand Cafe, Williamsburg
Business casual 30-something #1: What is this, a halfway house?
Business casual 30-something #2: No, man, that's Chipotle.
–St. Mark's
Whiny tween: Daddy, I just got hit in the eye.
Yuppie dad: Oh! You did? Who hit you in the eye?
Tween and mom: Mommy did.
–Prospect Heights
Overheard by: Andrea
Yuppie girl #1: This thing with Robert is just killing me…
Yuppie girl #2: How bad could it possibly be?
Yuppie girl #3: Ugh… It's like when-Heidi-Klum-married-Seal bad!
–Union Square
