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

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Backtoreality1 · 02/03/2021 13:46

Had a lovely one yesterday....family were in their back garden but mum could be heard from the front in total exasperation saying ' xxxx, you are getting on my last nerve today'. Wasn't said with aggression just a clear voice with the tone of someone who was getting so tired. I wanted to go and give her a hug and I have never met her!

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Bananabuddy3 · 03/03/2021 20:20

Actually another one I had at work, one of the parents in my class:

“Look Mrs Banana you can be perfectly straight with me, no need for all this teacher talk, my daughter is a pain in the ass and we both know it. Forget sending her to the other reception class when she plays up, send her to year 6 and get them to give her a bloody fright. That will stop her yacking. You have my full support for which ever way you want to clobber her”

Iwishiwerephoebe · 03/03/2021 20:20

Overheard in Waitrose today...Mother and daughter are looking at sweets...the mother suggests "Perhaps you can have some of them later". The daughter retorts "I don't want some of them, I want all of them".....naturellement

TheVolturi · 03/03/2021 20:24

Not a parent talking to a child, but two women I passed in town;
When I said carpet munchers I meant rugrats! 🙄

Creamcakeandrhinos · 03/03/2021 20:25

Crankley
Woman and crying baby on a bus. The mother attempts to breast feed which the baby rejects. Woman says, if you don't want it, I'll give it to that nice man over there (sat opposite on long seats). Cue all eyes swivel to poor man who has turned puce and who jumps up and can't get off the bus fast enough.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Gabbianni · 03/03/2021 20:26

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!

zxy12 · 03/03/2021 20:27

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.

NovemberR · 03/03/2021 20:37

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.

Pinkandwhiteblossom · 03/03/2021 20:39

@FrickinA

To a small child who had got herself lost in M&S and was crying to her mum that she’d thought the mum had left without her ‘ I would NEVER EVER leave you, NEVER. Think of all those months you spent growing in my tummy. Would I go to all that trouble just to leave you in Marksies ?’ Followed by a big hug...
Oh I can hear the panic from both of them in that exchange and ALL the love. I’d say there were a lot of hugs and possibly a stiff drink in that house that night.
BikeRunSki · 03/03/2021 20:48

@FrickinA, that’s so lovely

Sunrainsnow · 03/03/2021 20:51

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' 😂.

adnilc · 03/03/2021 20:52

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!! 🥺

LivingDeadGirlUK · 03/03/2021 20:55

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

MirandaWestsNewBFF · 03/03/2021 21:16

@Frty

“Please stop licking the car, Penelope”
I think you may have heard my niece’s mother trying to control her craziness....
Hopeandglory · 03/03/2021 21:18

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"

subsy1 · 03/03/2021 21:23

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

niceandsimple · 03/03/2021 21:34

@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...

Nanalisa60 · 03/03/2021 21:44

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

AliceMcK · 03/03/2021 21:47

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

Standrewsschool · 03/03/2021 21:48

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.

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 03/03/2021 21:59

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.

MrsPnut · 03/03/2021 22:07

@HoldontoOneMoreDay

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.

That sounds like my youngest, walking along the seafront in Bridlington. Mum, mum, there’s a little daddy. Why is he a little daddy. Why don’t I have a little daddy.

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

ememem84 · 03/03/2021 22:10

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!”

hamptonedge · 03/03/2021 22:11

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 conversationGrin

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 03/03/2021 22:13

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

RiderGirl · 03/03/2021 22:19

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