Chick: I feel like I can relate more to retarded people than normal people.
–Broadway & Waverly
Girl on cell: What are you talking about?! She’s intellectually retarded. Hang on a sec, okay? Crap! They don’t have The Da Vinci Code.
–Outside The Strand
Black girl: … And we wasn’t laughin’ at him ’cause he got Down Syndrome… [Chuckles] We was laughin’ ’cause he was mackin’ on us so hard!
–Fordham University cafeteria, Rose Hill
Overheard by: So did the helmet get in the way?
Frat boy: Geez, bro, just when I thought you couldn’t get retardeder…
–Park Row
Overheard by: Passerby
Angry girl on cell: I was trying to tell her that she’s fucking retarded… in a very nice way!
–Fontana’s
Archive for the ‘Retardation’ Category
Shakespeare Makes Everybody Feel Like That
Girl: Jordan*, are you in the special English class, too?
Jordan: Yeah.
Girl: Why are we in that class? Is it something like an advanced class?
Jordan: No, it’s more like a retard class…
–Times Square
Your Ad Said You Were Docile and Stupid! I Demand a Refund!
Old man: I may be one of the richest men in the world, but everyone thinks I’m an idiot.
Arm candy: Oh, no! You’re not an idiot. You’re an idiot savant!
–Maloney & Porcelli, 50th St
Overheard by: Jon G.
Wednesday One-Liners Want to Pet the Rabbits, George
Teacher, stopping abruptly in middle of lecture: Just for the record, I’m from Atlanta. Hence the accent. You were probably thinking I’m retarded or something… Nope… Just from the South.
–Wagner College, Staten Island
Overheard by: Tomato
NYU student on cell: Okay, um I don’t want to offend you or anything, but you are so totally retarded!
–Stuyvesant St & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Lezbotron
Big white dude on cell: … And that’s why we’re obviously killing people — because people are retarded.
–6th St, between 2nd & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: fast walker
Black guy: There are 52 states in the U.S., and not one of them has a retarded black person.
–61st & Amsterdam
Woman to gay friend: You’re not retarded — you’re just creative.
–19th & 8th