Little girl: Mommy used to give me booby, but now she gives the baby booby.
Uncle: That’s what mommies do.
–Staten Island Ferry
Overheard by: greenwood
Little girl: Mommy used to give me booby, but now she gives the baby booby.
Uncle: That’s what mommies do.
–Staten Island Ferry
Overheard by: greenwood
Rambling six-year-old: … And when she came home, there was a body, and blood was everywhere ’cause he didn’t clean up after he murdered someone, and that’s when she realized–
Bored mom playing with cell: –That her husband was a slob?
–2 train
Overheard by: Good thing I’m neat
Seven-year-old: The devil may be Jewish… The devil may be Jewish!
Father: Quiet, please.
–181st & Haven
Overheard by: Ben Moore
Mother: Did you see your aunt mailed you a present?
Four-year-old boy: No…
Mother: Yes. You can have it when you get home.
Four-year-old boy: Oh. Did she get one for Dustin*, too?
Mother: Yes, and it’s something I think you’ll like, too. It’s a book about sharks and sea monsters.
Four-year-old boy: Oh, Mom, there’s no such things as sea monsters, except back maybe a million years ago when people thought there were.
Mother: Well, sharks are kind of like sea monsters.
Four-year-old boy: No, they’re not!
–F train
Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster
Toddler in stroller: Fuck you! Hahaha! Fuck you! Hahaha!
Tourist mom: Did that baby just say ‘fuck you’? This is the tenth time we’ve been to the city, and I’ve never seen anything that odd.
Tourist daughter: We are on Canal Street, Mom.
Tourist mom: This is very true. Way to go, stroller kid! Yeah!
–Canal St station
Overheard by: AldaRin
Little girl, about hobo wrestling with a bush: Mommy, why is he doing that?
Mother: I don’t know, honey.
Little girl: Maybe he’s the gardener!
Mother: Maybe! Or maybe he’s just fucking crazy.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: tj
Preteen girl on bike #1: Do you know which way we’re going?
Preteen girl on bike #2: This is 30th Avenue… Let’s go this way [points toward 43rd Street].
Preteen girl on bike #1: No! Don’t go down that street! That’s the sexual predator block!
–43rd St & Newtown Rd, Astoria
Overheard by: what do they know that i don’t?
Child when Ahmedinejad was in town: Mommy, is the bad man here yet?
Mom: He is, and we should all be very scared.
–Columbia University, 113th & Broadway
Overheard by: Tadi
First grader: My aunt is a lesbian… Both of them.
Tour guide: Are they happy?
First grader: Yes! Yes! Are you a happy lesbian?
–Cloisters Museum, Fort Tryon Park
Overheard by: angry-lettuce
Six-year-old girl, grabbing a Bud Light: Daddy, can I get this?
Four-year-old sister: Yeah, can I have one too, Daddy?
Dad: Not right now, but if you two are good, I’ll get you a keg later.
Mom: I’d be down for that.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Jas
