Doesn't Look Good for the Public Healthcare Option

20-something-guy: Obama condoms, for long and hard times!
Tourist mom: What's an Obama condom?
Tourist dad: I have no idea.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Shannon

Posted on October 5, 2019
Condoms, Dads, Erections, Families, Moms, President, Questions, Times Square, Tourists, Vendors & Street Performers

That's Obscene.

Little girl: Mommy! Mommy! How many times have I asked you for a brother?
Mother to friend: Yeah, she's been buggin' me about having a boy.
Little girl: Yeah! And we can name him David!
Mother: David? David? Hooooo, girl! Hell no!

–Staten Island Ferry

Posted on September 29, 2019
Family Ties, Ferry, Friends, Kids, Moms, Names, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Questions, Staten Island Ferry

This Just Prepares Them For Wives of Their Own

Mother, to her kids: Now here’s what you do -you go into the store, give the receipt to the cashier, and buy something else.
[Kids leave.]Mother, to herself: You are not getting me a mop for mother’s day, no sir.

–6th Ave

Overheard by: J.R.

Posted on September 19, 2019
Default, Gifts, Moms, Offers and requests, Parents, Shopping

And Again at Your Sister's Recital

Four-year-old girl to sister: You're hitting me with your violin case!
Upper West Side mom: Anne, sometimes you have to endure a little bit of pain on the subway.

–1 Train

Posted on September 5, 2019
Families, Family Ties, Instruments, Kids, Moms, On the Subway, Parents, Public Transportation, Sisters

Is It Supposed to Be Bubbling?

Toddler tourist boy, during rainstorm: Mommy, my shoe has a puddle in it.
Slightly older sister: So does everyone's. Deal with it.

–59th St & Broadway

Overheard by: she passes as a local

Posted on August 28, 2019
Brothers, Family Ties, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, Shoes, Tourists

I’d Guess Not Unlike Star Jones

Woman #1: …she’s also a lesbian.
Woman #2: Really?
Woman #1: Yeah. She’s a black Jewish lesbian mother.
Woman #2: …What do the kids look like?

–Central Park reservoir track

Posted on June 22, 2019
Black People, Central Park, Family Ties, Gays and Lesbians, Jews, Kids, Lesbians, Moms, Parents, Race

Don’t You Back-Sass Me — That Is a Metaphor

30-something mom: Darnell, how many times do I gotta tell you not to walk down the stairs on the left side when there’s people coming up?
Nine-year-old: But Maaama, you always tol’ me to make my own path!

–F train platform, W 4th

Posted on June 21, 2019
Directions, Kids, Moms, On the Subway

Bush Figures Out His Tailors Tricked Him

Mother: When is the president coming by? My children want to see.
Police officer: Well, nobody will be able to see the president because we were told no one will be able to face the motorcade.

–Chambers & West