Tween boy, interrupting conversation with German girl: Wait! Do you live near the autobahn?
German girl: What?
Tween boy: The autobahn. It's like the parkway!
–22nd St & Park Ave
Overheard by: Confabulation Nation
Archive for the ‘Tweens’ Category
Just When You Seemed Like a Nice Kid
Tween: Hello, sir.
Hot dog vendor: Hello.
Tween: How much are hot dogs?
Vendor: Two dollars.
Tween: How much is Gatorade?
Vendor: Two dollars.
Tween: Are you high?
–Washington Square Park
Isn't That a Duchy?
Tween boy #1: He's such a douche!
Tween boy #2: Yeah, totally!… What is a “douche” anyway?
Tween boy #1: I think it's an old Dutch woman.
–6th Ave & 4th St
Overheard by: Lezbotron
Can a Striptease Be Far Behind?
12-year-old boy #1: So, how tight do you wear your underwear?
12-year-old boy #2: Not that tight. I mean, I wear like boxers.
–34th & 5th
Presenting the Fall Wednesday One-Liner Collection
Fashion photographer: That's a skirt? I thought it was a hat.
–Fashion Closet, Conde Nast Building
Indecisive woman to friend: I like this sweater in principle.
–Banana Republic, 86th & Broadway
Tween girl to mom: I'm not going to put my precious glove in the frickin' oven!
–Queens
Guy: I'm just saying, he doesn't dress like a bro.
–Astor Place
Irate girl wearing too much lipstick: That band really doesn't do him justice… I mean, I don't think he should have to wear a unitard. And she really shouldn't wear one, you know?
–6 Train
Overheard by: Wants to see him in unitard
Raise Your Hand If You Know What Happens Next
12-year-old boy #1, holding tomato: What should we do with this?
12-year-old-boy #2: It's our tomato. We can do anything we want with it… Except have sex with it.
–Greenpoint
Overheard by: Avi
…'s Womb.
Tween girl #1: That Britney Spears perfume smells like slut.
Tween girl #2: I know! It smells like my mom!
–Canal St
Overheard by: ouch
Which Member Of Wilson Phillips Is Which? Show Your Work.
Chubby brown haired tween: Give me another hug!
Pretty blonde tween friend, shouting to a different friend: Melanie!
Chubby brown haired tween: I need another hug!
Pretty blonde tween friend, shouting to a different friend: Melanie!
–John Jay Park, Upper East Side
Overheard by: justwalkinthedog
What Is Art? Are We Art? Are Wednesday One-Liners Art?
Older gay guy on cell: In the 60s, you didn't need to have passion or talent to be an artist; you just needed to have a van, because no one else was going to haul your shitty art around.
–7th Ave & 14th St
Overheard by: Miss C
Girl reading sign at Frank Lloyd Wright museum: Oh… He was an architect!
–Guggenheim Museum
Overheard by: Antartic
Mom to little girl: If you look at too much art in one day, you'll turn into a statue.
–MoMA
Guy on phone: Yeah, she said she didn't think I would want to go, but why the fuck not? I'll go to a fucking museum if I fucking want to. I'll look at some paintings and shit.
–Downtown Brooklyn
Overheard by: Mark McLaughlin
12-year-old boy, looking at Picasso paintings: This is totally my thing, man, it's like free porn.
–MoMA
It Raised the Nation's Spirits After Iran-Contra
12-year-old girl: Did you hear what I said about really famous people?
Uninterested mother: No.
12-year-old girl: Well, this will be my first time seeing a really famous person, not just a famous person. Because Full House was important to everyone!
–Mills Theater, before Performance of Bye Bye Birdie