“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
Brian Sack
I started Banterist in 2003 after this conversation with my cat. It led to all sorts of good things.
brian… what are you doing in a toys-r-us?
he was probably trying to find some sensible conversation.
I was hoping to see The Passion of The Christ, in Legos.
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….
try http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
great one-liners and convos, all overheard in that CRAYZY city!
Snippet of a sentence I overheard from passing strangers last month — “…a couple of extra nostrils, I’m afraid.”
That poor little boy!!! I hope you told him the 8 ball lies!
Ride the bus you will hear even better ones.