gianthare | http://www.overheardinnewyork.com

Очень забавный сайт. Там короткие отрывки из подслушанных разговоров, чаще всего одна строчке, редко две-три. В Нью-Йорке, естественно.

Dad: See there? When people tell you to go jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, that's where you have to go.

Woman: Do you have a non-fiction section?
Book Guy: Well, everything that's not fiction is non-fiction. [Over] there's cooking, and there's history.
Woman: No, that's not what I asked. Do you have a section for non-fiction?
Book Guy: Well, there are no non-fiction novels. Everything here that's not a novel is non-fiction.
Woman: But you don't have a non-fiction section?
Book Guy: No. Everything that isn't fiction is non-fiction.

—Barnes & Noble, Staten Island

Woman #1: It's really small, you know, but the sex is wonderful.
Woman #2: You mean he's rich?
Woman #1: Yeah. Exactly.

—Union Square

The subway doors open. A hobo enters, holding a bottle of windex in one hand and a tube of toothpaste in the other. He says: Which is the better time to read Dostyevsky? Winter?

He sprays the windex.

Hobo: Or Spring?

He squeezes toothpaste out of the tube.

Japanese girl: Spring!
Hobo: You are correct.

—F train

И еще очень много.

Все, лучше мне не найти
Guy: That's a really old graveyard. They have tombstones going back to the 1600s.
Girl: I dont understand. How is that possible?
Guy: It's an old church. People were buried there a long time ago.
Girl: Yeah, but wasn't our country made around the 1770s?
Guy: Yes, but there were colonists here from France, England and Spain before that.
Girl: So they brought their dead relatives over here to bury them?

—Trinity Church