Black lady on cell: I mean, I’m out here stealing, too! I got a habit to support, too!
33 bus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Black lady on cell: I mean, I’m out here stealing, too! I got a habit to support, too!
33 bus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fat black chick: Yo, real women got curves, nigga.
Black queer: Yeah, bitch, curves. You only got one big curve! (traces circle in air)
Bus
Tallahassee, Florida
Overheard by: Dropper of Eaves
Black girl, after seeing renaissance a cappella group rehearsing: White people be doing the most ridiculous things! No offense…
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Overheard by: None taken
Black woman #1: I hate when people wait to the last minute to try and get off at a stop.
Black woman #2: Mmm-hmm.
Black woman #1: I don't let them past if they try to do that shit.
Black woman #2: What you do?
Black woman #1: I'll push their mothafuckin' ass back on the train!
Subway
New York City
Big black guy on cell: Yeah, I wear the apron. But it comes off at night. Then we’ll see who hustles!
301 bus to Shoreline
Seattle, Washington
Black woman #1: Did you suck your thumb growin’ up?
Black woman #2: No, I don’t think so.
Black woman #1: I did. Thumb suckers give the best blowjobs, you know.
Black man: Really?
Black woman #1 : Yeah. Once I was at a party with a friend, and we hooked up with a guy. Well… we went off together and had a test, if… you know what I mean… and he said I was the best — way better than my friend.
Black man: I’d like to try that test.
Mkt Frankford El subway stop
http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/2007/03/see-freud-was-right.html
Overheard by: b&n guy
Young black man: That’s the best gift you can give a brother — a fine Latina with B cups.
Orange Line bus
San Fernando Valley, California
Overheard by: suzy vapid
Old black lady to friend: He had shit all fuckin’ dumped out all over the goddamned place, so I says, ‘What the fuck is you doin’, Raphael?’ And that mothafuckah says– [she looks around]. Shit, I forgot they’s white people up in here! Sorry, folks. So, Raphael had made such a terrible mess, so I asked him what he was doing, and he said…
Circle Centre Mall Concourse
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Black lady #1: So I said, ‘What are you gonna do, hit me?’
Black lady #2: Mmm-hm.
Black lady #1: Then he really started to trip…
Black lady #2: Mmm.
Black lady #1: That’s when I looked him right in the eye and I said, ‘One of us is gonna die tonight.’
Joliet Mall
Joliet, Illinois
Gay white male, exiting train: I can only go ten stops without smoking a cigarette, otherwise I get angry!
Old black female, entering train: Damn, mo' sugar in here than a tank of Kool-Aid.
Orange Line
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Cryptic C62
