Four-year-old girl: Daddy, can you hold my hand?
Disheveled father: I am not your personal hand holder!
Wal-Mart parking lot
Warminster, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Catty
Four-year-old girl: Daddy, can you hold my hand?
Disheveled father: I am not your personal hand holder!
Wal-Mart parking lot
Warminster, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Catty
Dad to howling toddler: Stop it! Suck it up! You don’t hear anyone else crying, do you?
United flight descending into O’Hare
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Guy on phone: Hold on a minute, I just have to cut something off my daughter…
Jersey City, New Jersey
Mother to child in the girl's clothing aisle: No, you're not wearing a padded bra; you're six!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/438564746/all-the-more-reason-she-needs-one.html
Overheard by: me
Young girl from bathroom stall: Mom! There's no toilet paper in here!
Mother: I'd say that represents a failure in planning on your part.
Toronto
Canadia
Girl: I've heard that woman over there is giving away some of her kids.
Campinas
Brazil
Little girl: Mommy, can we have the monster beans? Mommy, look, they have monster beans, can we get the monster beans?
Mommy: Honey, I think that is the green giant.
Little girl: …or monster beans!
Dollar Tree
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Mother to son: Don't you talk to me that way! I'll put my finger anywhere I want to!
Turtle Back Zoo
West Orange, New Jersey
Overheard by: lickety-split
Four-year-old: I wanna go in there!
Mother: The small mammal house?
Four-year-old, screaming: Small mammals!
Mother: Do you even know what small mammals are?
Four-year-old now, quiet and embarrassed: No.
The National Zoo
Washington, DC
