Girl: I've heard that woman over there is giving away some of her kids.
Campinas
Brazil
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
Five-year-old girl to hair brush: Mommy doesn't want me to buy you or to talk to you… That makes me sad.
Embarrassed mom: Come on sweetie, let's go home.
(kid keeps talking to hair brush, mom yanks it away)
Mom, leaving store: Now is not the time to talk to hair brushes!
North Carolina
Overheard by: Wondering why mom was embarrassed
Mom to well-behaved 18-month-old son: You're about to be on eBay!
Washington, DC
Dad sitting on a bench, holding misbehaving son: Well, I guess we are going to have to go then. I was really hoping we could enjoy it here…
Son, at the top of his lungs: Whhhhyyyy are you doing this to me!?
Disneyland
Anaheim, California
Overheard by: Mouse Goer