New York

Freshman boy trying to flirt with girl: I'm from Boston and he's from Boston and he's Chinese and he likes Bruce Lee, naked, naked, naked. (pokes Chinese friend)

University Library
Binghamton, New York

Overheard by: Brianna

Queer dad at the back of the line: Ohmigod! There's Rebeca, from cheerleading.
Woman friend: Oh yeah! I hate her, she's so perky.
Queer dad: And irresponsible, she always leaves her kids on the car when she goes anywhere.
Woman: Oh, really?
Queer dad: I mean, who leaves a top of the line Escalade with a smoking hot nine-year-old idling in the parking lot? Especially in this neighborhood!
Woman dad: That is so wrong!
Queer dad: I know!
Woman: No, that you said “smoking” hot nine-year-old.
Queer dad: Oh…

Dunkin Donuts
Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Billy Splatts!

40-something suit to another: I should go see Santa, but I'm a couple decades too late. (pause) And if you go without a kid, they think you're weird or something.

LIRR Train Station
New York

Overheard by: BK

Girl #1: I wish we had the same size feet.
Girl #2: Well, it's your fault.
Girl #1: How is it my fault? It's not like one day I woke up and was like, “yo Jesus, make my feet three sizes bigger than my sister's.”

Roosevelt Field
Long Island, New York

Overheard by: greg

Professor: Sorry, I think I just gave a few of you post-traumatic Chaucer disorder.

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

Overheard by: Russ

Student, to professor: I was doing this piece where I–
Professor, interrupting: –Cookies?

Ithaca, New York

Overheard by: Laura

Roller girl: Whoa! That's a vagina you could accidentally fist.

Yonkers, New York

Wife: Oh, my cousin Danielle just had her baby!
Husband: You have a cousin Danielle?

Mount Vernon, New York

Guy #1: So, ‘viticulture’ — that’s Latin, right?
Guy #2: Well, Latin is a dead language, so it doesn’t count.
Guy #3: You’re a dead language.
Guy #4: Your mother’s a whore.

Culinary Institute of America
Hyde Park, New York

Overheard by: just a student

Female Mets fan: I’d let the whole infield fuck me in the ass with no lube if it meant they would win the World Series.
Friend: Classy, Michelle, real classy.

Braves-Mets Game
Queens, New York

Overheard by: aaron