Wednesday One-liners for Jung
Hobo: I was talking to my therapist and she said, "Would you rather hurt yourself or someone else?" And I started to say "myself" but then I thought she didn't want to hear that. So I told her that I would hurt someone else. That seemed more sane.
--1 train
Overheard by: James Gillece
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Man: ...Yeah, well, that was the one thing about him: even if he was all by himself, or miserably depressed, he always managed to stay happy.
--1 train
Professor guy: At the end of every semester I want to retire. But I've gotten better...I used to want to kill myself.
--Fordham University, Rose Hill
Overheard by: Jess McGins
Old man: He's
crazy, but he ain't dangerous.
Crazy. Sometimes he prances in the middle of the street wearing a g-string! A ladies' g-string! Doing the gay thing!
--Houston & Hudson
Old woman: I'm not studying, I'm not working, I'm not married; it's in
sane!
--Office building, Madison & 47th
Crazy woman: Oh lordy, the smell! You should clean your body, you have to! What a stank! I can't stand it!
Driver!
I'm getting off!
--M9 bus
Overheard by: Rich Mintz
Crazy guy: I am God in the flesh, and I came down to Earth to have sex. Oh, look, this is my stop! It's Venus! Venus!
--F train
Crazy lady: You're gonna die, fat fuck! You're gonna fuckin' die! And your fat friend too!
--8th & Broadway
Crazy guy: Liza Minnelli is incapable of love! Liza Minnelli is incapable of love!
--33rd & 7th
Guy: I swear I just saw Bill Clinton run over an old black woman who looked like my grandmother with a car.
--Union Square
Overheard by: Chase Teeds
Crazy man: Will you marry me...
chicken?
--4th & Bowery
Overheard by: Leela Corman