Mom: Remember, I am the mother and you are the child.
Son: Yes, little girl.
–Broadway
Overheard by: Ally
Mom: Remember, I am the mother and you are the child.
Son: Yes, little girl.
–Broadway
Overheard by: Ally
Teen daughter: I love the city. I can easily live here.
Mom: You don’t know anything about this city. Keep walking.
Teen daughter: Mom, I know enough. I drink Starbucks and loved Sex and the City.
–31st & 7th
Mom: Honey, I just wish you would want a happy, successful marriage like I have.
Adult daughter: Third time’s the charm, huh, Mom?
–Starbucks, 78th & Lex
Overheard by: Shut up, Mom, a.k.a. this is so much like my life it’s crazy
Mom holding cardboard James Dean stand-up: I’m comin’ to get you! I’m gonna get you!
Two-year old son, screaming: Nooo! Nooo!
–LaSalle & Broadway
Overheard by: EthanK
White mom: Which kitty is your favorite?
Little girl holding book of baby animals: The black one!
Mom: The black one? He sure is a cute kitty.
Little girl, loudly: Once you go black, you never go back!
Passing thug, flashing her a thumbs-up: Word!
White mom: I don’t care what your father says, we are so moving to Westchester.
–Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Straightfaced, but barely
Kid: What’s that?! What’s that?!
Mom, reading magazine: It’s a picture of an airport.
Kid: What happened?!
Mom: Someone was arrested.
Kid: For what?!
Mom: For yelling.
Kid, seriously: At her kids?
–F train
Six-year-old: She didn’t like Ringo!
Mom: Well, who was her favorite Beatle?
Six-year-old: She doesn’t even like the Beatles!
Mom: Don’t talk to her.
–Park Slope
Overheard by: a
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
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
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
