The best Overheard in New York quotes from last week, by your votes:
Only Thirty-Nine More Quarters to Go!
Hobo: Can you spare a quarter?
Young female Brit on phone: Just a sec, Mitch* (turns to hobo) what is it?
Hobo: A quarter, can you spare a quarter?
Brit: A qua-what?
Hobo: Twenty five fucking cents!
Brit: Here, have your quarter. No...in fact, take a dollar, go get pissed, or do crack. Or weed. Whatever you...
Hobo (interrupting): Actually, I was thinking sushi tonight.
--29th & 6th
Here's Your Trophy
Thug: Yo, what time you got?
20-something: It's 7:45.
Thug: Mmm, well girl... What time's your curfew?
20-something: That's the worst fucking pick up line I've ever heard.
--A Train
Unless I Could Interest You in Some Rebound Sex?
20-something girl (following older man and sniffing him): Mmmmmmm.
Older man (letting her pass): Excuse me?
Girl: Sorry about that. You smell like my boyfriend. And he dumped me two days ago. (eyes well up)
Older man: Well, you're making me nervous. Keep on walking, honey.
--4 Train
Overheard by: alex
Do Your Diamond Shoes Pinch Your Feet?
Young suit #1 (holding pack of gum): Do you have change for a hundred?
Female cashier: No.
Young suit #1: Dude, do you have a dollar? All I have is four hundreds.
Young suit #2: Sorry, I only have five hundreds.
Young suit #1: Ah, I hate it when that happens.
(the two suits leave)
Suit #3 (walking in): Do you have change for a hundred?
Female cashier: Don't make me kick yo' ass, brotha.
--Deli, General Motors Office Building
Overheard by: don't look at me, I make $10 an hour
That's How I Get My Kix
(six-year-old boy tries to cross street against traffic)
Father, grabbing boy's hand: Whoa, little man! That's dangerous!
Six-year-old boy: Daddy, I eat danger for breakfast.
--Ocean & Newkirk, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Well I eat razors and nails.
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