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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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190190tnt · 03/03/2021 22:25

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'

Fudgemonkeys · 03/03/2021 22:31

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

Harmonypuss · 03/03/2021 22:34

@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.

winniestone37 · 03/03/2021 22:36

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

FreezerBird · 03/03/2021 22:47

Thing people will have heard me say:

"We do not practice free-running in Clarks."

"Do not hit your brother with a croquet mallet." (This gives a very wrong impression of us as a family).

We regularly used to visit a place you can watch birds of prey being fed. DS struck up quite a friendship with the regular feeding guy and once, on peering into his wheelbarrow of meat, said "and do you feed them human flesh?", which wasn't weird at all.

Proudofmynane · 03/03/2021 22:53

Sparlesox giant Wotsits and Tomato Soup is ok tho!!

Justlovedogs · 03/03/2021 23:01

Oh, this thread really makes me want a 'like' button! Some magic here.

My contribution. I spent most school holidays with my aunt and uncle (DF's sister and husband). I tended to always want the last word. If my uncle wanted to close out a conversation, I'd get 'how old are you?'. Answer current age, instant reply 'do you want to be (whatever next birthday was)?'. Always said with a smile, though. Grin

sunset900 · 03/03/2021 23:02

I remember apologising if the gravy was lumpy but I had used the sieve to clean out the fish tank. I meant that therefore I hadn't been able to sieve the gravy (hadn't had chance to buy another) but that wasn't how it was interpreted.

DragonPoop · 03/03/2021 23:08

“Romilly, Darwin, will you PLEASE put back the Ryvita!”
Truly overheard in M&S last week

tinkerbelldot · 03/03/2021 23:12

Picked my daughter (9) up from school in the car as it was raining/thunder storm. Parked in drive, daughter got out but wouldn’t carry her rucksack indoors, asked me to.
“I carried you for 9 months and you can’t carry your own bag?”
I left it in the middle of the drive, it was still there when her dad came home from work!

spiderlight · 03/03/2021 23:13

We had a club at primary where parents would go in and read with their kids for half an hour before sometime once a week. When DS was in Y3, he was obsessed with the Guinness Book of Records but really reluctant to read big chunks of text in chapter books. During a debate about what he should read to me, I heard myself say, loud enough to be heard above the general classroom hubbub, 'Look, just read me one page of this book and then you can have some Guinness!' 😳

spiderlight · 03/03/2021 23:19

Oh God, just thought of another one. DS was about 2. He was brought up with dogs and cats and has a cast-iron immune system. A very protective friend had brought her slightly younger child to play, who dropped a huge chunk of muffin and walked off - her face was a picture when I called out 'DS, there's some cake on the floor if you want it!'

GabsAlot · 03/03/2021 23:23

@MMfanalltheway

MMfanalltheway I don't think you were a failure of a mother that day at all, I think your child was confident, curious and very secure! What a very sweet thing to say. She hasn't changed. Wants to travel the world.
I'd like to second this i think shes great!
SingingSands · 03/03/2021 23:27

When my kids used to come to me with a bleeding knee or whatever I'd always clean them up and say "now be more careful with that knee, I grew that from scratch!"

Ginsodden · 03/03/2021 23:27

Me giving crisp bag back to to dc5 ‘I promise you, they ARE your crisps’
Dc5 wailing ‘ but I don’t recognise that quaver!’

harknesswitch · 03/03/2021 23:29

I overheard my dad shout out the window at my daughter, in a lovely tone 'oh Molly, please don't eat the tent'

MumofSpud · 03/03/2021 23:33

@foreverold

Be a lady in the street but a freak in the bed.

Treat em mean, keep em keen.

Always worked a treat and how I landed my DH Wink

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Mumtofourandnomore · 03/03/2021 23:35

I was sitting in the extremely-full-but-pin-drop-silent doctors surgery when my then four year old pointed squarely at the very elderly gentleman sitting opposite us and said in her biggest voice ‘Mummy, has that old man come here to die ?’ 😬

harknesswitch · 03/03/2021 23:39

My mum saying to my brother 'I don't care if you eat your bogies, I'd rather you did that than leave them on your bedroom wall'

harknesswitch · 03/03/2021 23:42

I was sitting in the extremely-full-but-pin-drop-silent doctors surgery when my then four year old pointed squarely at the very elderly gentleman sitting opposite us and said in her biggest voice ‘Mummy, has that old man come here to die ?’ 😬

Best one yet.

I remember waiting for the loo in Tesco, got in a cubicle sat and had a wee, my toddler said in her loudest voice 'mummy, why have you got a hairy bottom' queue lots of sniggering from outside. I waiting in the cubicle for at least 5 minutes so the people who had heard had probably left Grin

DeliaOwens · 03/03/2021 23:47

Xxxx please! Give your mouth a rest!

TaraR2020 · 03/03/2021 23:55

@Biscuitmonster2318

My examples are probably not quite in keeping with others posted. But, reading these had me howling.

My daughter was autistic and at had no filter or volume button amongst others.

One day the neighbour over the road knocked on my door, stifling laughter and trying to look stern and cross whilst my daughter is following behind and looking really happy.

So I was told by DD that she had been playing knock a door run like her older siblings, on their group of friends doors. But my DD knocked on the door, then stood there waiting for it to open and very happily said ‘I’m doing knock a door run’
The neighbour said ‘ you forgot to run away though’ and was then told ‘no I can’t run away it’s rude and you will be scared’

So neighbour found amusing hence the pretend cross face.

My DD, then asks loudly if she is going to be grounded like her older sister gets. I said ‘if you want - you are now grounded’
She then flounces into the house in absolute hysterical crying threw herself on the floor ‘crying my social life is over’
Bearing in mind she learned to talk with echolia- so mimicked and remembered phrases and actions do well

After that she sat up and went - what’s grounded? Is it over now!
I asked why did she want it if she didn’t know what it was

She replied’her sister gets it all the time and she wanted it so she could match - but now what do I do mum!

Another time in the supermarket

She saw a couple giving each other a quick kiss on the lips ‘ she very dramatically- including loud noises - covers her eyes and shouts ‘awww mum tell them to stop making babies in the queue as they are kissing and it’s too rude’

😂

Howling - @Biscuitmonster2318 your daughter is adorable!
DdraigGoch · 03/03/2021 23:59

@ememem84

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!”
He'll go far, that boy!
tararabumdeay · 04/03/2021 00:00

Sitting outside Morrisons waiting for a click and collect the other day I texted, 'Don't let them know you're the murderer straight away.'

I should explain it was to a student who had written a very clever and funny story based on 'Goldilocks'.

truetuesdays · 04/03/2021 00:15

"NO- we buy the presents and then Santa gives them to you!!!"

Someone caught out and thinking fast on their feet