Father to eight-year-old son in front of paddle boat vendor: No! We have jet skis. Are you kidding me?!
Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Y G B S M
Father to eight-year-old son in front of paddle boat vendor: No! We have jet skis. Are you kidding me?!
Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: Y G B S M
Dad to table full of preteens: If everyone’s good, they can get one tattoo and one piercing.
Pei Wei, 7th Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: Ken
Father to baby: Mommy and I are gonna have lots of fun tonight. Yes we are! And we’re gonna make sure we don’t have another baby like we did last time. [Baby starts to laugh and coo.]
Wegmans
Manalapan, New Jersey
Overheard by: Why do I work here?
Six-year-old boy: Look, Dad! I got a sticker.
Dad: That’s a butterfly sticker, which is a girl sticker. You can’t have that.
Six-year-old boy: Okay, Dad. What do you want me to do with it?
Dad: Give it to me.
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Katelyn the sticker collector
Son: I just don’t understand it.
Father: That’s because you have no imagination.
Foothills Mall
Fort Collins, Colorado
Overheard by: Tempus
Father, seeing red squirrel: Shhh…
Son: Aaarrrggghhh!
Father, to passersby: Sorry. We’re beating him twice a day, but it doesn’t seem to help.
Formby Woods
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Little girl, singing: Hey! I’m a crazy bitch, but I fuck so good you’re on top of it when you dream of doing me all night…
Father: What the fuck?! Are you trying to get taken by the social worker?!
Food Court, Connecticut Post Mall
Milford, Connecticut
Father looking at sign: Look! You could work here when you start school.
Son: Why would I want to work here? They can’t even spell ‘prerequisite’ right.
Father: That’s because it’s per-quisite.
Ohio
Overheard by: glad to be sharing a school with this kid
Small boy: Dad! Dad! Can I have that?
Father: I've told you before, craving leads to attachment.
Toy Shop
Eastern Suburbs, Sydney
Australia
[Family looking at a Golden Compass poster.]Mom: Oooh! The new Narnia movie!
Dad: Did you know the polar bear is Jesus?
Great Escape Theater
Illinois
Overheard by: The Surly Usher
