Parenting

Mom: Nathan, stop it! Stop it! Get ov– [Nicely] Come over here, Nathan…
Misbehaving boy: Nooo! I know you’re going to spank me!

Calgary, Alberta
Canadia

Overheard by: Glad she’s not my mom

Mum to small son: Stay with mummy or someone might take you.
Son, very excitedly: And eat me?

Target
Australia

White mother to white toddler son: You're going to be black by the time we leave!

Grand Sierra Resort Pool
Reno, Nevada

Teenage daughter: Mom, I have a plan for my future.
Mother: And what's that?
Teenage daughter: Save someone's life so they are indebted to me and will buy me the complete Twilight Zone boxed set.
Mother: Between this and your brother who I haven't seen in four days, I don't think I screwed up at all.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Overheard by: Julia

Mother admonishing her child for sticking his head through the bars in a fence: You do not put your head through anything. Ever.

Disney World
Florida

Overheard by: Becca

Grandma, after car cuts bus off: Bitchassfaggot.
Daughter: Mom!
Grandma: Well, that's what they are!

Public Transit
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mother holding DVD box to two tween kids: No, we can't get this one, it has too much (whispers) anal sex.

Best Buy
Calgary
Canadia

Mom to adult daughter: Now what you do is you pick an aisle to go down that you think has magic at the end of it.

Dutchess County, New York

Overheard by: Rich Mintz

Five-year-old girl: I think we got almost all of the blood out, mommy. You know, Liam's blood? We got almost all of it out of the sheets. That was a lot of blood.
Mom: Yes we did, honey.

Rest Stop,Turnpike South
New Jersey

Overheard by: TM

Stop Being Black at the Store!

Mom to child yelling and running around: Quit it! You embarrassin' me in front of the white folk!

Memphis, Tennessee

Overheard by: A white folk