Psychic lady: Can I read your palms?
Man: Fuck no! Can I read yours?!
–Mulberry St
Overheard by: Joe
Archive for the ‘Little Italy’ Category
It’s What I’m Used To
Sailor: It was your idea.
Lady friend: You think I should dress like a man?
–Little Italy
First I Gotta Get a Haircut and a Chest Wax
Guido #1: Can you believe that girl called me a ‘guido’?!
Guido #2: Seriously — what a whore!
Guido #1: I cannot believe the bitch called us guidos!
Guido #2: Yeah… So, when are we hitting Webster Hall?
–Spring & Lafayette
Overheard by: I shook my head
How Carson Daly Got into the Music Business
Teen boy #1: Change your ringtone! Change it! [Slams table.]
Teen boy #2: Don’t you like that song? I love it.
Teen boy #1, to others: His phone rings all day — I’m sick of it. I have to have a new song. He gets that many calls, he should have one song for each girl so I’m entertained!
–Little Italy
So We Know What I Find Sexy
Middle-aged rocker chick: I think ex-cons are sexy.
Older rocker dude: Yeah, I got arrested once in Germany for child pornography.
–Pasta shop, Mott St
Wednesday Blood-Liners
British lady: It must have eaten some rat poison, because it vomited up its innards and then had just enough strength left to crawl to the door before dying in a dainty pool of blood.
–1 train
Teacher to girl who just cut herself with Exacto knife: Would you stop leaking?! Your blood is going to stain the linoleum!
–Bronx Science engineering class
Overheard by: LSB
Suit on cell: Why isn’t it done? Why isn’t it fucking done? Was it your intention to make my ass bleed today? Was it?
–41st & Broadway
Girl: My grandma always washes my bloody underwear.
–1 train
Guy to girlfriend: Your hair tastes like fake blood.
–Mulberry St
Overheard by: Ashley
Teen chick on cell: I’m going to cut my arm tonight to show you how much I love you! Yes! I’m going to cut it off! Yes! I’m going to wipe all the blood on a napkin and give it to you. How much blood there is is how much I love you… Yes! I! Am! Well, I can’t think of another way to show you how much I love you. I have to prove it somehow! Oh, I have another call, I gotta go.
–Staten Island Ferry Terminal
Overheard by: still recovering
Hobo, taking long drink from water fountain: Ahhh, water is good! It tastes like blood!
–Port Authority
Overheard by: Oh My God
They Were Aiming for Chineseville
Woman: Jeez.
Man: What?
Woman: Suddenly we’re in Italiantown. How did that happen?
–Mulberry & Grand, Little Italy
Overheard by: Cannoli Boy
That’s Deep, Dude
Cabbie: So, uh, you hear about the double team? The, uh, Democrats?
Passenger: Oh, so Democrats got the Senate, too?
Cabbie: Yes! It’s like a twelve-inch penis!
–Northbound 1st Ave from Delancey
Overheard by: dumbstruck passengers
He’s a Lock for a Career There
Father: Look at that sign. What do you think mela means?
Son: I don’t know.
Father: Look at the picture.
Son: Oh, apple! So it’s, like, an Applebee’s?
–Little Italy
I’m Pretty Sure Africa Has Extradition Now
Guy #1: I’d rape her. I mean, if I were in Africa I’d rape her.
Guy #2: She has a cameraman that knows kung fu, you foul Negro!
Guy #1: After I shoot him in the head, all that kung fu knowledge bleeds out.
–Katra, Bowery & Rivington
Overheard by: Michael Winfield