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4.25.2010

Eavesdropping

I've overheard some interesting comments since the beginning of the year. First there was that doozie over by the Water Lilies at MoMA: "It's pronounced monay, like the joolerey." Then there were these, guaranteed verbatim:
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Mother to her approximately 12-year-old collector son on 20th Street in Chelsea:
"I'll match your funds, but I want a say in your selections until you're 16."

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Father to preteen daughter walking by Victoria's Secret on lower Fifth Ave:
"You're not going into that store until you're 50!"



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Mother to teenage daughter on the F Train headed into Brooklyn:
"You can talk until you're blue in the face, you're not getting a gun until you're 18."
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.What have you overheard lately?
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8 comments:

  1. Sowa Mai's dog8:56 AM

    http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

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  2. Bea Modisett10:59 AM

    These are great! I was walking through NYC Chinatown the other day after some wonderful dim-sum and heard a girl, about 18, say to her friend "There are a lot of Chinese people here"

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  3. k.somerville12:23 PM

    I saw a commercial that said: "Buy this truck today and we'll install a brand new gun rack in it for you. Come in the next 10 days and you get this hunting rifle too." I recently moved back to Kentucky from Chicago and this frightened me deeply. I guess it's supposed to be an incentive.

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  4. Mead McLean1:02 PM

    In Starbucks coffee:

    "You know, Starbucks is one of the few overpriced places that is actually worth the money."

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  5. Jim Simms12:13 AM

    I overheard a little boy ask his mother, "Why?" It brought back such fond memories.

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  6. Hylla Evans12:35 AM

    Asked at the farm tour about the fancy chickens, "Do they lay eggs, too?"

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  7. Annie B8:10 AM

    In a grocery store, girl approximately 4 years old says:

    "Mommy, how come everybody looks mad?"

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  8. mariandioguardi.com9:38 PM

    Here are two of my favorites. I witnessed both of these.

    A boy asks his mother to read a sign by a dinosaur exhibit and she says "Oh honey, it's just words." and then she walks away.

    At a gem show, a young boy reaches out to touch a meteorite sample and his mother, in a panic yell at him from across the room "Don't touch that! It's from Outer Space!".

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