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We Paid a Lot of Money to Get You Into That School for Mutes

Two-year-old boy: Mom, I missed you a lot in school.
Mother: Don’t talk.

–Pizza Place, 86th & Broadway

Overheard by: eliza

  • Posted on June 24, 2008
  • Boys, Default, Kids, Moms, Offers and requests, Parents, Restaurants & Cafes, School, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Weirdness
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