Hipster chick: ... And I'm like, 'I love you.' And he's like, 'Get away from me.' I think he's just afraid of commitment.--7th Ave
Overheard by: Regina DeorumWoman to friends: Who needs a boyfriend when you've got a dog who farts?
--Max Brenner, Broadway, between 13th & 14th
Suit on cell: You shouldn't feel bad for the boy who cried uterine trouble.
--A train
Overheard by: SueHobo sitting on ground cleaning a trumpet, to hot lady passerby: Hey, don't fucking look at me -- I'm too old for you!
--51st & 2nd
Overheard by: Outlaw
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Friday, March 16, 2007
people are so weird
A few tidbits from Overheard in New York: