City Sound-Bites

Overheard in NYC

Drug and Drunk Edition

Black Woman: How do you get so fucked up on wine?

Black Security Officer: I drink that shit like it's Kool-Aid!

-F Train

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College Student: I don't think I could get high enough to eat that much cream cheese.

-N Train

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Yuppie giving panhandler some change: Don't do drugs.

Pandhandler: Where am I going to buy drugs for a quarter?

-105th and Broadway

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Middle Eastern Man to clerk at sex shop: You have the most beautiful eyes in Manhattan.

Register Girl: Um, thanks.

Middle Eastern Man: You look like European girl.

Register Girl: I get that a lot.

Middle Eastern Man: Let's go out for a drink tonight.

Register Girl: No.

Middle Eastern Man: Okay, thanks!

-Sex Shop, 5th Ave

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Drunken skinny pretty girl: Why is she so mean? I mean, I'm a pretty skinny girl. She should not be mean to me!

-Halloween Party, Tribeca

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Drunken Hobo to girl leaving Sephora: Let me tell ya how to look beautiful. Fill ya buckets with money. Bucketfulla money makes ya look beautiful.

-17th St

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Elegantly dressed woman: I don't remember what happened last night, but I feel like I need to plant a tree or something to make up for it.

Attractive friend: What does that even mean?

Eleganatly dressed woman: I don't know.

Attractive friend: I drank so much......I killed a tree?

-A Train

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Girl: Are you lost?

Guy: No, I just smell weed.

-10th & 5th

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Guy at ATM to friend: The $60 fast-cash button should just be labeled "8th of weed."

-Chase Bank, Astor Place

source: overheardinthecity.com