Whats the best quote you have heard from a parent in passing?

@SaharaSavana she’s not rude she’s brilliant and you’re humourless misery guts.

@dementedma ... I regularly tell my crazy cocker spaniel not to keep pestering strangers, I'm sure he thinks that the world revolves around him and that everyone is his friend and loves him.

My DH says his favourite child, has 3, is the one that lives furthest away

Other way round: me and DS arguing, I got annoyed, lost my rag and used slightly fruity language, he said ' don't you tell me to sod me'

I have 3 sisters. My mum used to say that when we were little, keeping us all in one place was like trying to nail jelly to a wall

@MrsPnut actual snort at 'Why don't I have a little daddy?'

Me - dont make faces like that, the wind may change and you will stay like it.
Daughter aged 5/6 quick as a flash replied ' is that what happened to Auntie Sue?'

30 yrs on we still remind her of the conversation

Ds when we went for a walk one evening last summer and saw a guy running with no shirt on “man!! Put your shirt on man!”

I could feel me walking quicker and getting redder and redder.

On the bus, years ago, small boy sitting with his mother (thankfully not mine) and a man with dwarfism got on.

Well. The young lad was both delighted, fascinated and loud.
'Look mum - that's a man but he's the size of a boy. Imagine that! Are you looking mummy - he's a man but he's just wee like a boy.' He actually said 'well I never'. Mother was mortified, the man was raging, rest of the bus looking out the window trying not to laugh. He wasn't being mean, he was full of wonder.

Overheard a father and child (5-6 years) having an earnest conversation about spaceships. The youngster was deciding whether to get one or two and the dad said one would be enough if it were big enough. It was a very serious, and also very sweet conversation.

X just let your sister murder you will you 🤦‍♀️ When the DCs are fighting over some game in Roblox

You love him more then me!! That’s not true I can stand the pair of you!!

@2tired2bewitty you remind me of the time, I must of been around 9/10 when after arriving in school, a 15 minute drive from home, I got out the car and said to my mother "I've left my shoes at home" so she told me to go and put my plimsolls on. Only I had just taken my PE kit home to be washed.
My mother nearly left me in school with no shoes for the day...

Dear Granddaughter (10) whinging for yet another Freddo after being told "No."
"Call yourself Grandma? You're just a mean old woman!"

after watching a junior tennis tournament years ago, I overheard the parents of one of the loosing children saying about her opponent "she should have gone to Spec Savers"

At a local zoo 'What have I told you about being a wallaby in public' said to a young boy by an exasperated father as he bounced into various passers by :p

I used to say to my boys when I'd had enough; change your attitude or I'll change the shape of your face. I was joking though, honest!! 🥺

Most sweet one: a Grandad saying goodbye to his grandkids as they were leaving his house, 'thanks for leaving'.

Funny one: a small girl had a bagpuss soft toy. Lady 'I think we really do need to come up with another nickname'. She had taken to calling it 'baggy pussy' 😂.

@FrickinA, that’s so lovely

Grandad used to say Smart boy wanted! Not too smart...

And my DF always said, Well, it's been nice seeing you when he'd had enough of me visiting with small DC.

A parent's Labrador kept frolicking happily around the cricket pitch during a match. The parent shouted (in complete seriousness) "Lily, please will you come this side of the boundary rope."

Funnily enough the dog had no concept of the boundary rope nor field of play and the match had to be stopped until it was captured.

parent to child - come on, its time to leave playgroup and go home for dinner
child - nooooooo, don't take me away from the little people!