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Eight-year-old girl: Well, we could go to a movie for a date!
Mother: I don't know about that...
Eight-year-old girl (seriously): It's not like we're going to share popcorn!

--Upper West Side

Overheard by: redefining childhood sweethearts

Guy: Do you know what time it is?
Girl: No, I forgot my watch. But it doesn't matter, I don't really know how to tell time anyway.

--Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus

Guy on date: Everything in my kitchen is from Crate and Barrel.
Girl on date: Oh.
Guy: My cups, my saucers, my plates, I have an espresso machine...
Girl: Wow.
Guy: Yeah, but I haven't mopped the floor in over a month.

--Broadway & Houston

19-year-old kid, examining stack of legal-sized paper with type on it in a stairwell corner area: It's art.
19-year-old friend: It's art?
19-year-old kid: I guess.

--Whitney Museum, Biennial Exhibit

Overheard by: Amanda

Guy to woman with baby strapped to her chest: Your baby looks like a little Yoda.
Woman: That's what my husband said.
Husband: No, I said she looks like Obi-Wan.

--Path b/w Christopher & 9th

Overheard by: Brwnman

Girl #1: I feel weird today.
Girl #2: Me too.
Girl #1: I feel like I'm single again.
Girl #2 (squealing excitedly): Me too!

--N Train

Overheard by: sara n.

JAP #1: Oh my god, did you hear about what Aaron wrote on Brittany's Facebook wall?
JAP #2: Oh my god, yeah, that's like, disgusting. Like, she looks like a fucking koala.
JAP #1: Totally. Like, who wants to date a tree climbing marsupial?
JAP #2: Fuck no! I'd rather kill my brother!

--Saks Fifth Avenue

Mom to six-year old son on cell: Come on, Christopher, let's go.
Six-year old son: What! I'm on the phone!

--Columbia University

Overheard by: Never Having Children

50-something man (picking up small box): Look at this! You could put your dope in this!
Wife: You wouldn't be able to fit very much dope in there...I could use it to hold my bitterness.

--Store, Crosby St

Hipster girl: Rough butt sex.
Hipster guy: But that's what it would've smelled like anyway.

--St. Mark's Place

Girl #1: I really need to get fit, I need to buy a tredmill, you know, so I can just sit there and use it.
Girl #2: Yeah, me too.

--JFK Airport

Overheard by: Lisa

NYU girl: There's not enough time. You can't get lunch.
NYU boy (running towards a hot dog cart): I can. I'm hungry!
NYU girl (shouting after him): You're fat!

--Washington Square Park

Server: Would you ladies like iced water or bottled water?
20-something girl: Do we have to pay for bottled water?
Server: Um, yes.
20-something girl: Oh, then no. I'll just have a beer.

--Pisticci Restaurant, La Salle & Broadway

Overheard by: Edd

Homeless woman on train walking around with a tip cup after playing the guitar: Please spare some change. Somebody. Anybody!
30-something Guido, pulling out a $20: Do you have change?

--7 Train

Overheard by: Maria

Hippie chick #1: Dude, I fucking love Demuth.
Hippie chick #2: I know, right!
Hippie chick #1: If I ever met that man, I'd totally rape him.
Hippie chick #2: Oh my god! I would too!

--The Met

Neighbor #1: Do you have any socks?
Neighbor #2: Knee socks? Or any socks?
Neighbor #1: Do you have any socks?
Neighbor #2: No.
Neighbor #1: Do you have knee socks?
Neighbor #2: No.

--Wagner College Dorms, Staten Island

Customer holding $300 worth of lighting equipment: You know, if you want to give me a discount that would be totally fine with me.
Only non-hasidic employee in sight: Sorry sir, its not my store...I don't even have the right haircut.

--BH Photo