Some of my favorite entries from www.overheardinnewyork.com
Woman: Is this your first child?
Man: Yes, why do you ask?
Woman: You sure act like it is.
Man: What does that have to do with you being rude and inconsiderate?
--Loews Lincoln Square, 68th Street
Hippie: What color is your aura?
FIT girl: I think my aura has black and white stripes.
Hippie: Vertical or horizontal?
FIT girl: Horizontal...no, vertical.
Hippie: Is that because vertical stripes make your aura look fat?
FIT girl: Yeah.
--26th & 8th
Girl: If you ever make me sleep in an ATM vestibule again, I am so dumping you.
--Grand Central
Hobo: Can you spare some change? Or a pineapple?
--4th Avenue & 8th Street
Hobo: We been waiting for this train since May 5, 1987.
--86th Street B/C station
Hobo: Miss, miss, can you spare some change? Sir, sir? Ma'am?...You!You'll speak when you're spoken to!
--49th & 8th
Conductor: Canal Street next after this brief musical interlude.
--R train
Tourist woman: Excuse me, can you tell me where the big apple is?
--43rd & Broadway
Woman: What I love most about New York is that wherever you go, inevery neighborhood, there's garbage on the curb. To me, that's democracy.
--University & 11th
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
...joining the ranks of the former English Majors in search of their story in New York City...
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