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Eavesdropping, Pt 3.
"Vote? Sheee, I can't even vote on what I'm gonna have for dinner."
-Gentleman's response to a 42nd Street voter registration team
"Am I going to be rich when I get older?... My sources say no. Aww."
-Boy playing with a Magic 8-Ball at Toys 'R' Us
#1: "J-Lo is so rich, she could buy ten Bentleys and never go broke."
#2: "She buggin'."
-Two St. Luke's Hospital Nurses
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Comments
brian... what are you doing in a toys-r-us?
Posted by: Anonymous | March 23, 2004 8:41 AM
he was probably trying to find some sensible conversation.
Posted by: hjb | March 24, 2004 11:33 AM
I was hoping to see The Passion of The Christ, in Legos.
Posted by: Brian | March 24, 2004 2:02 PM
You have a lot of funny posts, but I think this one is the best. That poor kid should have asked if he'd be POOR in the future. Then he might not have gone home disillusioned and depressed and he might still think his life has meaning. Oh, the power of the 8-ball....
Posted by: Paul | March 28, 2004 10:01 AM
try www.overheardinnewyork.com
great one-liners and convos, all overheard in that CRAYZY city!
Posted by: yeni | June 14, 2005 7:25 AM
Snippet of a sentence I overheard from passing strangers last month -- "...a couple of extra nostrils, I'm afraid."
Posted by: Wyn | October 12, 2005 10:49 PM
That poor little boy!!! I hope you told him the 8 ball lies!
Posted by: jenni | October 24, 2005 2:23 PM
Ride the bus you will hear even better ones.
Posted by: Jane | December 13, 2005 11:25 AM