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

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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!

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.

Child somewhere late in the Terrible Twos who had joined a ballet class. After the first lesson:

"And did you have fun and listen nicely to Mrs. X?"
Reply: "No, not really, I got on and did my own thing."

From the next toilet cubicle at a motorway services during the summer holidays:

‘And at what point did you realise you didn’t have your shoes?’

@champagnetruffleshuffle haha that's my favourite saying too mummy will always love u but right now,I don't like u very much and they would always say how can u love someone and not like them to which I replied one day u will understand and sire enough as they aged and got to teenage I often heard mum u know I really love u then when I said no it was I hate u u ruin all my fun and that's when I knew,they understood (and were also just being emotionally manipulative little madams) 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂. Oh and yes I'm your mum ruining your life is my job get use to it darling child of mine 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

I reached middle class peak last year by saying to dd14, 'darling why dont you clean your cello on your yoga mat?'
I have loathed myself ever since.

DH to teen grumbling about his friends’ parents buying them lots of stuff:

“There were other parents available at the hospital.”

Me to grumbling teens:

“I only ever wanted a kitten.”

"Eat up your foie gras, it's all we have in cupboard"

A mum talking about her son’s new girlfriend:

“She’s got wee round glasses and an opinion.”

No point worrying about the future you might be dead

@Lepetitpiggy

I reached middle class peak last year by saying to dd14, 'darling why dont you clean your cello on your yoga mat?' I have loathed myself ever since.

Your more middle class than me. Dd now 24 advanced player has never cleaned her cello, although I did get told off for using her yoga mat to kneel on to weed the garden.

@SirSidneyRuffDiamond

A friend asking her son "Now did the Lego man have a hat on when you put him in your bottom?"

This really tickled me, I am sure I’ve said something similar.

My husband was in the showers in a campsite and reported back the following exchange.

"Dad, where are my pants?"
"You've got shorts, what do you need pants for? That's your mother talking, that is."

Going back a few years now and the era of Mr Blobby. Overheard in Littlewoods (I said it was a while ago):

"No, I told you - Blobby's dead!!"

At the Tower of London:

'I think you misheard - Samuel Pepys was famous for his DIARY, not his diarrhoea!'

"Darlings. Do hurry up. You know how Nanny hates us to be late when it's Cook's day off".
Actually overheard but funnily enough not in Waitrose......

Whilst in Disney lane Paris I was in the ladies toilets and overheard the following:-

Little boy whinging

Mom - " do you see any other boys and girls crying in Disney land"

Boy - "nooooo"

Mom - "well suck it up then"

I don't know why it just really tickled me 😂

overheard in the queue of M&S ladies toilets on a busy Saturday (pre-covid)......little girl in cubicle with her mum "Mummy, why don't you wear nice knickers, like ones with flowers on?"

God I wish that was the worst thing my DD ever bellowed out loud in a toilet cubicle with me.

@dementedma

As I was getting out of the car today I heard a man behind me saying" You need to remember that you just cant go up to people and want them to play with you. Not everyone is your pal you know". He was talking to his dog!

I say something similar to my two dogs "not everyone wants to talk to you".

"DC3, stop searching for particles in your willy."

My own youngest after hearing that there are particles in everything, trying to peer down his own pee hole to see them. He imagines them like skittles.

Oh! Another boy and willy story!

Picking up my son from playgroup over a year ago and a little boy came running out with his willy popped over the waistband of his shorts, pointing directly up. His mum cries, "Leo! Pop it down before you wee in your eyes!"

On the way home from the park and it was raining , I passed a mum and child probably 7 or 8 and the child was whinging that he was wet , the mum replied saying , don't worry you won't dissolve in the rain , keep walking .

Made me smile .

Friend to her then four year old son - "Be gentle with the crossbow"

LOL!

@xMarksTheSpotlight

My husband was in the showers in a campsite and reported back the following exchange.

"Dad, where are my pants?"
"You've got shorts, what do you need pants for? That's your mother talking, that is."

my DH took DD swimming when she was a toddler...and forgot a towel ! (i mean, really???) He used his boxers to dry her! She was not impressed!

Neighbour who was clearly having a bad day, "Is it too late for a post natal abortion?" Her kids were both teenagers and they didn't look impressed.