# Overheard on Eighth Avenue **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761 "2012-03-14T18:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/21 "2012-03-15T15:47:07Z")
One of my coworkers always spent his vacations with his family, a 12h drive away. He’d only stop to get gas. As everybody in the factory had told him it would, this ended the first time his pregnant wife was in the car with him. I think the key sentence was “you stop right NOW or by God I’m peeing all over the fucking seat!” There’s some times threats of violence (either to humans or to leather upholstery) are perfectly understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/22 "2012-03-15T18:03:57Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Clipboard hippie: “Would you like to help save the earth?” > Eve: “_Fuck the earth." > Clipboard hippie: "What about the children?_” > Eve: “\*Fuck \*the children.” Awesome. I live in the Appalachian foothills (more like mole-hills) of southern Ohio, so I get to overhear a different brand of random stuff. In a department store: “He’s my cousin, and when I married his uncle I became his aunt.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/23 "2012-03-15T18:27:10Z")
The comments overheard in the OP are a dime-a-dozen on 8th Ave. between Penn Station and 40th St. I walk that stretch every day. There is a group of aging derelicts and drug addicts who are always up to something. There was just an actual serious stabbing there a few weeks ago at the McDonalds. What’s funny is that “gangs” and “crews” are common among people in their teens and 20’s, but this crew’s members appear to be between 50 - 65. It’s like they never stopped doing what they were doing since their youth. I think that their life would make a very interesting documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/24 "2012-03-15T18:50:34Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > The comments overheard in the OP are a dime-a-dozen on 8th Ave. between Penn Station and 40th St. This was a few blocks below Penn Station, but, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/25 "2012-03-15T20:47:17Z")
[Shit New Yorkers say.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvJylbSg7o) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/26 "2012-03-16T00:30:25Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > Heh. Yeah, I love New York. I’ve mentioned it here before but my favorite ever has to be when I heard a couple of people on the bus the day after Valentine’s Day and one of them said, “I love you bitch but if you ever shit on me during sex again it’s over.” Oh yes, that pesky santorum. Damn, I miss New York! ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761/27 "2012-03-16T15:26:45Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Without a point the stabbing wouldn’t be very effective. If it’s dull it’ll hurt more. This was a big thing in 12th century English law enforcement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-on-eighth-avenue/615761.md?page=1)