Family ties

Rich mother: Well, you'll just have to hold it! You can't go to the bathroom around here! They are positively disgusting, you'll die!
Little child, crying: Please, mommy, I need to go!
Rich mother: Don't you value your life?

Annapolis, Maryland

Overheard by: Alex Ello

Dude: But he fucked my mom!
Friend: Well, you did steal his dog.
Dude: Yeah, I guess.

Flea Market
Tennessee

Overheard by: Mouse

Nine year-old girl: I want that shirt and you are going to get it for me. Any questions?
Mom: Many. Shut up and put the damn shirt back.

Target
Atlanta, Georgia

Son: Mommy, why are you going through daddy's phone?
Mother: Because I love him!

Panera
Howell, New Jersey

College girl: I may have made the best porn movie ever, but I’m not going to show it to my mom.

Lincoln Park, Illinois

Girl on phone: He says that we can't be together because it bothers him that we're cousins, and we were intimate. I think it's because doctors are more sensitive to that kind of thing than the rest of us.

Train, New Jersey

Overheard by: NoNoK

30-something druggie girl: I know my dad's looking down at me, helping me and shit. That's how I got my handbag back.
30-something druggie guy: Yeah? For fuckin serious?
30-something druggie girl: Yeah! I feel like he's telling me shit sometimes. Sometimes I reckon he wants me to stop taking the pills and the smack, but then I'm like, “Nah, that's just the drugs talking.”

Train
Melbourne
Australia

Overheard by: XPIOTOS

Girl: So, my roommate’s mom still lets her use her credit card, which is crazy! I mean, we’re like 24, and I’ve had my own credit card since forever… But anyways, I guess my roommate had a huge bill last month, and her mom got all upset and called her and said, ‘Maybe you should soak the credit cards and put them in the freezer, so when you get the impulse to use them they’ll be frozen.’ So now we have, like, three credit cards in a tub in our freezer.

Brown Line El
Chicago, Illinois

Girl: When I see small children, I feel like I owe my mother an apology.

Baltimore, MD

Overheard by: Ren

Girl: No, isn’t Macbeth the one where she gets her husband to kill Macbeth?

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Overheard by: Stu