Spy
I have a slight obsession with the website Overheard in New York. The concept is simple and yet the site yields amazing results. It has inspired me to keep my ears open around the city. Over the past month or so I’ve collected samples of overheard conversations around me. I present…
Co-Ed: Natalie is insane. She keeps drinking ice water.
-Mount Pleasant
Dude 1: Man, have you ever noticed that football sounds like gay porn?
Dude 2: No way!
Dude 1: IT SO DOES! Just close your eyes and listen to that man on man action. Once you start hearing gay porn, it is hard to watch football
-Chipotle in Chinatown
(Homeless women gets on bus)
Bus Driver: HEY LADY YOU DIDN’T PAY
Woman: AHHHHHHHHH (screams and stomps)
Bus Driver: FINE if you stop screaming you can stay on the damn bus.
Woman: Thanks! (Skips off)
-34 Bus
Bus Driver: Sir you did not pay.
Hobo (in suit): Fuck you!
Bus Driver: I am not moving this bus until you pay
Hobo: I don’t have a job I can’t afford the bus and it is too fuckin’ cold outside to walk
Bus Driver: Than why you in a suit?
Hobo: I was going to a job interview until a crack pipe got in the way
-32 Bus
Angry Man: Fuck you motherfucker you don’t fucking care if a man goes to jail.
-14th and P
Sorority Girl: Let me get this straight you woke up on the beach, drunk, with no pants and no idea how you got there...THAT IS AMAZING!
-Dupont Circle Metro
Girl: Wow you two have so much in common!
Engaged Woman: I know…
Engaged Man: And to think it all started when we bonded over our paste eating pasts!
-M Street Georgetown
Co-Ed: Natalie is insane. She keeps drinking ice water.
-Mount Pleasant
Dude 1: Man, have you ever noticed that football sounds like gay porn?
Dude 2: No way!
Dude 1: IT SO DOES! Just close your eyes and listen to that man on man action. Once you start hearing gay porn, it is hard to watch football
-Chipotle in Chinatown
(Homeless women gets on bus)
Bus Driver: HEY LADY YOU DIDN’T PAY
Woman: AHHHHHHHHH (screams and stomps)
Bus Driver: FINE if you stop screaming you can stay on the damn bus.
Woman: Thanks! (Skips off)
-34 Bus
Bus Driver: Sir you did not pay.
Hobo (in suit): Fuck you!
Bus Driver: I am not moving this bus until you pay
Hobo: I don’t have a job I can’t afford the bus and it is too fuckin’ cold outside to walk
Bus Driver: Than why you in a suit?
Hobo: I was going to a job interview until a crack pipe got in the way
-32 Bus
Angry Man: Fuck you motherfucker you don’t fucking care if a man goes to jail.
-14th and P
Sorority Girl: Let me get this straight you woke up on the beach, drunk, with no pants and no idea how you got there...THAT IS AMAZING!
-Dupont Circle Metro
Girl: Wow you two have so much in common!
Engaged Woman: I know…
Engaged Man: And to think it all started when we bonded over our paste eating pasts!
-M Street Georgetown