overheard in one of the indian restaurants on sixth ave: "Happiness is a warm somosa." can't really argue......
Robert Salsbury
syncretist@...
Sep 25, 2001 3:34 pm
34
An unusually emphatic umbrella salesman on the F train last night.... "It's gonna rain tonight folks....maybe it'll be 10 or 11 or whatever time i don't know...
Tara Murphy
tkmurphy@...
Sep 25, 2001 5:59 pm
35
last night, 23rd & 2nd Ave: A woman bike messenger, making her last pickup of the day at the corner deli....speaking to the guy out front who sells flowers, as...
Robert Salsbury
syncretist@...
Sep 28, 2001 2:52 pm
36
while walking south on bedford ave in williamsburg, after just emerging from the L train , i heard a brief excerpt from the conversation of the two women ...
Tara Murphy
tkmurphy@...
Oct 1, 2001 3:58 pm
37
Man in a Very Nice Suit, into cellphone, on the 23rd street crosstown bus this morning. Fairly strong Italian accent: "Can you sing 'imagine'? The John Lennon...
Robert Salsbury
syncretist@...
Oct 1, 2001 6:02 pm
38
4 little boys, racing up the escalator at Toys R Us, Union Square* one of them shouts "Last one up is a bitch!" *what, I can't be in toys r us?...
Robert Salsbury
syncretist@...
Oct 4, 2001 8:14 pm
39
Pearls from woman loudly conversing on the F Train with a pal, after mentioning that she had just gotten a call from Ozzy's management en re: makeup. On Who...
i was sending a package this morning and because i was typically unprepared, the postal worker had to tape it up for me. his rubber gloves kept sticking to the...
M23 crosstown bus...group of young women dressed as though they work in art galleries are chatting: Lady1: "Hey - did you hear Dave Thomas died?" lady2:...
Three guys, meandering around Columbus Park, Chinatown vicinity, 9AM Wednesday: Guy#1: Where is he? Probably drinking the Night Train. Guy#2: No way. He's...
The quote itself was unremarkable: "Can't talk right now, I'm having lunch" It was the way she said it - cell phone unit strapped to head, bowl of noodles or...
technically this happened in sf, but it's SO funny! while walking down the street, two homeys passed me just as i was checking the time on my watch. one of...
Saturday afternoon, folks are waiting in line to get in to the MOMA. Two older women - a woman and her daughter. The younger woman, around fifty: "Look, I just...
Bunch of teenagers, hanging out after school in a deli, nursing big-gulpy type soft drinks. Boy Teen 1: so like the thing is, the only thing i ever read is...
On the bus, M20 heading outta BPC towards mid-town. Tourist and friend or possibly acquaintance sitting half-way back and loud enough for all. Tourist...
Elevator item #1 to follow shortly, it's a bit more involved. from the "where have you been?" department. I just went down to get a cup of coffee. A couple of,...
i just heard this 30 seconds ago in the office, working at "Now, with Bill Moyers" for PBS. One producer talking to another in the hall, in front of the copy ...
As your reporter walks by, two men wrapping up discussion: Man #1: She used to be a *sister*, know what I'm saying? Man #2: Yeah. (Man #2 begins walking up...
I take the L Train from Bedford every morning, so it's pretty much jackass central, but Friday was pretty special: A trio of American hipsters just back from ...
One time warner cable installer to another, walking behind that incredibly expensive building where all the rock stars live (23rd & 8-9th Ave): "He don't have...
Sunday morning, Astor Place. A woman walks by, speaking loudly with her friend. "Anyway, that's not a bat mitvah. *That's* a birthday party." -Robert...
Late Sunday afternoon, meandering through the Ramble in central park: Two guys in their forties, one of them is pushing a stroller with a kid less than a year...
Scene: Crowded morning elevator/Hot June day 1) A slight/polite Japanese woman conversing with 2) a woman who works at Thirteen Enter 3) A sweaty Thirteen...
— Hey, Karen, how you doing! — Oh my god, I haven't seen you in ages! How are you? — I'm great, but no one told me you were pregnant! — Hunh? Oh! No—...
Not exactly an overheard, 'cause it happened to me... In an elevator in residential building in Chinatown, two neighbors eye each other up: Lady going to Fifth...
So here's one from the archive - Oct. 18th: M15 bus heading downtown; two women (friends) are talking across the aisle. They're about 25. First woman says: ...
A cab doing the proverbial cutting off of pedestrians crossing the street with an active WALK sign provoked the following response: "YOU WRONG BUBBLEHEAD!!"...
Two casual-friday-wearing husky guys walking down Broadway at 36th st. I catch the tail end of a conversation: "You wouldn't wanna call in any underwriters......
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