Please Stand By While We Drink Our Coffee
Author: Stephen Gerding
February 7th, 2008
Things are a bit hectic here at KFR HQ West, so here are a few choice selections from Overheard In New York for your morning enjoyment.
Psych! I Know You Used to Have a Career.
David Lee Roth: Hey, kid, you want a ticket to Van Halen?
20-something: Sure, sounds good.
David Lee Roth: Psych! Get the fuck out of here, kid.
Bouncer, to 20-something: You know that was David Lee Roth, right?
20-something, turning to David Lee Roth: Holy shit, you’re the guy from the Adam Sandler song!
–Outside Scores, 60th & 1st
Overheard by: Adam Nathan
via Overheard in New York, Jan 20, 2008
If You Can’t Torment Your Kids, Who Can You Torment?
WASP lady: Look, Dylan! We’re in the subway! It’s subterranean — that means we’re going to see those subterranean guys!
Five-year-old: Subterranean guys? Whaaat?!
WASP lady: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! [Puts scarf over eyes, like a mask.]
Five-year-old: Holy shit, my god! Fuck nooo!
–Penn Station
via Overheard in New York, Jan 19, 2008
Little boy: I saw Bambi at Adam’s house, and did you know that Bambi’s mother died?
Black nanny: I didn’t know that. How did she die?
Little boy: She was shot.
Black nanny: Damn. That’s some Compton shit right there.
–83rd & Broadway
Overheard by: flower and thumper were strapped
via Overheard in New York, Jan 20, 2008
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