Overheard in New York

It’s Why I Wear It

Little girl: Oooh, furry! Mommy, can I pet the pretty, furry lady?
Old lady wearing a pink fur: Don’t worry, I get this all the time.

–47th Street & 5th Avenue

In a Jar with Leftover Onions from the Renaissance

Tourist: Are there like, [pause], any paintings in this museum, or is it, like, all old sculptures and shit?
Met employee: We have half an old liver somewhere.

–The Metropolitan Art Museum’s Velez Bianco Patio

Just the Ear Buds

Girl#1: I think I’m going to break up with him. He really has, like, no money.
Girl #2: Really?
Girl #1: Yeah. He, like, doesn’t even have an iPod.

–W. 116th Street & Broadway

via Overheard in New York

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