The best Overheard in New York quotes from last week, by your votes:
Scarlett Johansson's Wearing Wednesday One-Liners This Season
(Asian tourist walks onto subway with large panda-head shaped hat)
Random guy: Take off that silly ass hat!
--Uptown 1 Train
Guy: When I wear my other coat, I look like a yak.
--Mott St
Overheard by: robin
Thug to friend: I totally know fashion designers. I know who Hill-finger is.
--Thompson Street, SoHo
Drunk guy to orthodox Jew: Nice lid.
--Near Herald Square
Guy walking out of subway: Then she came in and told me to put the mask on.
--6 Train
Overheard by: Sarah
History teacher to class: Now, if you want a decent straw hat, do not make one.
--Millennium High School
Overheard by: Adriana
Why Doctors Treat Patients Like They're Idiots
Woman: Your doctors told us not to let you have any alcohol, because of your medication.
Elderly woman: Okay. I'll just have beer then.
--F Train
Overheard by: Mae
Cell Service Is Lousy in Heaven, but Great in Hell
Bimbette: Yeah, I never really heard from him since his funeral.
Friend: Did you say his funeral?
Bimbette: Yeah, it was sooo sad.
Friend: His funeral?
Bimbette: Sheesh, bitch, get a hearing aid!
--Penn Station
Overheard by: Joel Moore
Oh "Bush" Puns, We'll Miss You Most Of All.
Guy: So I was talking to this hot girl the other day, but then she told me she liked Bush.
Girl: Oh...she's a lesbian?
Guy: No! Bush!
Girl: Oh, the band.
Guy: No, Bush! She's a Republican!
Girl: Wait. What?!
--Times Square
Overheard by: J.E.
Baby, You Can Drive My Wednesday One-Liner
Teenage girl to friends: How many babies can you squish into an oversized Ferrari?
--W 77th & Central Park West
Overheard by: Teddy Nicholas
Bartender: Can you imagine living somewhere where you actually have to drive home after work?
--Vintage Restaurant, Hell's Kitchen
Overheard by: GretaGarbo86
Dude eating lunch with friends: Man, I hate to say it, but I love driving drunk.
--Restaurant, Bleecker & Lafayette
Gay black man to another: First of all, that fender bender you had a block away from your house was not a car accident. My three-car-pile-up was a car accident!
--A Train
Six-year-old to mom: What? An actual person who drinks and drives and she's famous? She's been in movies and she drinks and drives?! What is happening to this world?
--13th St & 5th Ave
Random wannabe thug: Yo, we seen a NYPD car get hit by a harpoon!
--Montgoris Dining Hall, St. John's University
Overheard by: Craig
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