Kids

Mother to quietly weeping child: Can’t you just… be happy?

Target Parking Lot
Cumming, Georgia

Overheard by: Caylin

Little boy, to stoic mother in shoe aisle: I love the night life! I like the boobies! I love the night life! I like the boobies!
(five minutes later, at checkout lane)
Little boy, to stoic mother: I love the night life! I like the boobies! I love the night life! I like the boobies!…

Kohl’s
Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Me too, my man.

Little boy, covered in glitter: Mom! Casey’s whompin’ glitter on me again!
Little girl: I am not!
Mother: She’s just tryin’ to make you look pretty!

Magic Kingdom, Disney World
Orlando, Florida

Overheard by: Natalie

Mother to impatient son: Do you want to show me how you count?
Five-year-old: Ok. One. Two. Three. Fuck.
Mother: What!? Adam*, you know you’re not supposed to say…
Four-year-old: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Mother: Adam*, I said stop! That’s a very, very bad word.
Four-year-old, putting hands on ears: You fuck, you fuck, you fuck.

Holt Renfrew
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: M

Seven-year-old girl: Mom, when I grow up I wanna be big and beautiful.
Mom: What?
Seven-year-old girl: You heard me, big and beautiful!

Target, Connecticut

Little girl: My pizza is naked!

Fresh Grocer
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania

Little kid in stroller: Ouaf! Waf! Ggrrr! Ouaf!
Mom: Oh yeah! Yeah!
Little kid in a stroller: Ouaf! Waf! Ggrrr! Ouaf!
Mom: Yeah! That’s it. Yeaaaah!

St Laurent Boulevard
Montréal
Canadia

Overheard by: Augustime

Little kid: I have a powerful thing coming to me. Ya know what it is? Pizza!

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Dad pushing stroller: [Singing.] Got a stroller so tight, you don’t have to walk, got a stroller so tight, it’ll fuck you up.

Denver, Colorado

Female student, looking at Valentine candy display: Oh, I love those little cinnamon hearts.
Male student: Oh, me too. When I was a kid I used to snort them up my nose.

Guelph
Ontario
Canadia