Overheard in New York http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ The Voice of the City Copyright 2012 Fri, 18 May 2012 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss overheardinnewyork/AbWLhttp://feedburner.google.com The Difference Between Boys and Girls, Bottled Girl, carrying a few bottles of water: I'm just getting kind of sick of tap water.
Boyfriend: Uhh, sick of tap water?
Girl: Shut-up!

--Westerly Natural Market

Overheard by: Sophia P.

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Guy in suit #2: What?
Guy in suit #1: You say 'fuck it' and go live in The Hamptons...

--Central Park, by Baseball Fields

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025252.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025252.html Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 In the Mysterious East...Village Asian woman: (taps UPS man's shoulder)
UPS man: Yes?
Asian woman: You are a hero to the world.
UPS man: (looks confused)
Asian woman, taking out camera: Can I take picture?
UPS man: Ummmm... sure.
Asian woman: Okay! (aims camera, throws a peace sign and grins)

--Tompkins Square Park

Overheard by: Michael Bastianelli

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025251.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025251.html Thu, 17 May 2012 22:00:00 -0500 Nah, Stolen Guy eating pizza: Its hottt!
Girl: Temperature hot or spicy hot?

--29th & 7th Ave

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025250.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025250.html Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:00 -0500 Now Where Do Crackheads Figure Into This Schema? Girl: I think I'm going to be a lumberjack tomorrow.
Friend: But then how will we tell you apart from the hipsters? I mean really, what's the difference between a lumberjack and a hipster?
Girl: One of them has a job.

--Citi Field

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025249.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025249.html Thu, 17 May 2012 18:00:00 -0500 Or, You Know, Wherever Guy, watching the Discovery shuttle making final flight: What's that? Two planes together?
Friend: The top one is the Challenger that went to the moon.

--Queens

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025248.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025248.html Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 -0500 Sorry-- I'll Switch to Decaf Employee #1: Allllllll niiiiiiiight loooooong. I'm gonna give it to ya, give it to ya, give it to ya, give it to ya...
Employee #2: Yo, shut up. This ain't no Puerto Rican idol.

--Starbucks

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025247.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025247.html Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:00 -0500 Hef's Parents Had a Similar Issue with Him. Mother: Get your butt over here!
Little girl on leash: I am looking for the bunnies! (looks over a pile of large garbage bags)
Mother: You are fucking gettin' on my nerves!
Little girl on leash: (starts to rip open garbage on street)
Mother: (tugs leash and slaps daughter's hand and then begins pulling her daughter down the street)
Little girl on leash: Mom! I want to pet the bunnies!
Mother: I fucking told you already many times they bite and you will get diseases and rabies! You are so stuu-pidd.

--115th St & 1st Ave

Overheard by: Michael Bastianelli

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025246.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025246.html Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:00 -0500 Rats Are Not Born in the Subway, Dear Reader Nervous girl holding wobbling cardboard box: It's chewing through the box!
Boy holding birdcage: That's so cute!

--94th & Broadway

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025245.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025245.html Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 -0500 Oh, Leave That Poor Old Security Guard Alone. Five-year-old boy, looking at turtle: Oh, look! A frog!
Older sister: That's not a frog, that's a lizard.

--Prospect Park Zoo

Overheard by: Brian Borsics

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025244.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025244.html Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 -0500 Even with the Fine Array Of Quality Beauty Products for Affordable Prices? Employee #1: Does this look shlumpy? (indicates plastic water bottle, shoved in front pocket of her work shirt)
Employee #2: We work at Rite Aid. We all look shlumpy.

--Rite Aid, Brooklyn

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025243.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025243.html Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Tonight on Iron Chef Girl #1 to host: Can you change the tv to MSG?
Girl #2: MSG? Is that a channel?
Girl #3: Isn't that in Chinese food?

--51st & 2nd

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025242.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025242.html Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 -0500 Hence the Zagreb Sauce Man: So did you like your lobster?
Woman: Yeah. It was like eating a really big shrimp.
Man: Mmm-hmm.
Woman: I mean, they're basically the same animal, a lobster and a shrimp.
Man: Well, yeah. A shrimp, a lobster, a crab-- they're the same family. Croatians.

--Chelsea Market

Overheard by: R.B.

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025241.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025241.html Thu, 17 May 2012 02:00:00 -0500 Meet the Nicest Girl on the Upper West Side Guy: Wat's your name?
Girl: Melissa
Guy: Do you want to get a drink sometime.
Girl: I have a boyfriend... But I appreciate your courage.

--Bar, Upper West Side

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]]> http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025240.html http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/025240.html Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Wednesday One-Liner Pong Inebriated frat guy to another: No, you drunk asshole, it's the Mongolian bakery!

--Columbus & W 70th

Overheard by: JKK

Frat boy: I'm Brad Pitt's brother! Who do you think you're cutting corners with?

--Union Square

Bro, loudly: Beer pong is about drinking and winning.

--13th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Basket

Pre-teen to another: I was breastfed by a fat boy!

--Union Square

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