| 1 |
"So what did the second
guy in Wham do?" -- man in late 20s, sitting
in a restaurant, overheard through a large open window.
3/2003 | overheard by
Steve and me in New York |
|
2 |
"I'm drunk, and
I'm calling you." -- man in late 20s, walking
down the street around 6 p.m., speaking on a cell phone.
3/2003 | overheard by
Steve and me in New York |
|
4 |
"...so she says,
'What about the *Falklands*?'!"
3/2003 | overheard a few years
back by David
M.'s friend on Forbes Ave. in Pittsburgh |
5 |
"So, are we having a war?" --
a guy talking into a cell phone on the night Bush started
bombing Iraq
3/2003 | overheard
on 14th Street in New York by Litzkaya |
|
6 |
"So did you make out a lot?"
4/2003 | overheard "on the
pavement" by the
Ricksta |
7 |
A man shouting to a woman in a second
story window in a housing project:
Man: "Whatchu makin lata?"
Woman: "Huh?"
Man: "Watchu makin lata?"
Woman: "Huh?"
Man [switches to perfect, unaffected English]: "What.
Are. You. Making. Later."
4/2003
| overheard by paco |
|
8 |
"And I Told him!
I am a Masseuse!" -- woman of indeterminate age,
wearing a pink pleather miniskirt
4/2003 | overheard by stephen
at 3 a.m. in a Houston diner |
9 |
"Has he ever even Fucked a white chick?"
-- one aging hipster woman to another
4/2003 | overheard by stephen
in Greenwich Village |
