Mom to screaming toddlers: No! You are the noisiest humans I’ve ever seen!
Staples
Franklin, Tennessee
Mom to screaming toddlers: No! You are the noisiest humans I’ve ever seen!
Staples
Franklin, Tennessee
Mom reading book: This says ‘odd.’ Do you know what ‘odd’ means? It means something is funny or weird. Like when you said you wanted to eat a rock — that was odd.
Red Line train
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Sitting behind them trying not to laugh
Cranky mom: Don’t touch that!
Cranky four-year-old: I don’t like you!
Cranky mom: Good. I don’t like you, either.
Disneyland
Anaheim, California
Overheard by: Sally Ravenswood
Harried mom pushing stroller and toting three minions: Do you wanna see the llamas? We’re gonna see the llamas! Don’t you wanna see the llamas?!
http://community.livejournal.com/overheardincali/27175.html
Mom to 10-year-old son: I can’t wait until you’re 21 so that you can buy us beers.
T-Bones baseball game
Kansas City, Kansas
Overheard by: Teri
Kid: Mommy, I have to go to the bathroom.
Mom: It’s not too late, is it?
Kid: No, I just let out a little stinker.
http://overheardinlakecounty.blogspot.com/2006/07/cleanup-in-childrens-department.html
Russian mother to young daughter: No, you are not going to eat crayons for lunch!
Nashua, New Hampshire
Overheard by: Crayola
Mother, reading newspaper: Dear God, another rapist is loose…
Six-year-old daughter: Mom, what’s rape?
Mother, uncomfortably: Um, that’s when a man forces a woman to have sex with him.
Six-year-old daughter: What’s sex?
Mother: Look! A bird!
Market Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Queen Of Spades
Mother: If a man ever hurts you, spit in his face, then cut his dick off and hand it to his mama.
Nine-year-old daughter: What if it’s my brother?
Muncie, Indiana
Overheard by: rideabike
Mom: You wanna sleep in the bed with dad?
13-year-old boy: Why the hell would I do that? I’m 5’6″! That’s gay!
Baldwin Park, Florida
Overheard by: hmm… point taken.