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Mother to her approximately 12-year-old collector son on 20th Street in Chelsea:"I'll match your funds, but I want a say in your selections until you're 16."
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Father to preteen daughter walking by Victoria's Secret on lower Fifth Ave:"You're not going into that store until you're 50!"
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Mother to teenage daughter on the F Train headed into Brooklyn:
"You can talk until you're blue in the face, you're not getting a gun until you're 18."
Mother to teenage daughter on the F Train headed into Brooklyn:"You can talk until you're blue in the face, you're not getting a gun until you're 18."
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.What have you overheard lately?
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These are great! I was walking through NYC Chinatown the other day after some wonderful dim-sum and heard a girl, about 18, say to her friend "There are a lot of Chinese people here"
I saw a commercial that said: "Buy this truck today and we'll install a brand new gun rack in it for you. Come in the next 10 days and you get this hunting rifle too." I recently moved back to Kentucky from Chicago and this frightened me deeply. I guess it's supposed to be an incentive.
In Starbucks coffee:
"You know, Starbucks is one of the few overpriced places that is actually worth the money."
I overheard a little boy ask his mother, "Why?" It brought back such fond memories.
Asked at the farm tour about the fancy chickens, "Do they lay eggs, too?"
In a grocery store, girl approximately 4 years old says:
"Mommy, how come everybody looks mad?"
Here are two of my favorites. I witnessed both of these.
A boy asks his mother to read a sign by a dinosaur exhibit and she says "Oh honey, it's just words." and then she walks away.
At a gem show, a young boy reaches out to touch a meteorite sample and his mother, in a panic yell at him from across the room "Don't touch that! It's from Outer Space!".
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