Dad: Honey, where’s your teddy bear?
3‑year-old girl: Oh, the terrorist are hiding him.
Overlake Hospital
Bellevue, Washington
Overheard by: Nurse says what
Dad: Honey, where’s your teddy bear?
3‑year-old girl: Oh, the terrorist are hiding him.
Overlake Hospital
Bellevue, Washington
Overheard by: Nurse says what
Woman to child: Some people are just wicked. Put that pumpkin back.
Wal-Mart
Aberdeen, Washington
Employee accompanied by small child: I smashed it on the ground and then I hit it with a chair, and now it feels like it’s on fire. It’s not, but it feels that way.
Small child: (inaudible)
Employee: No, I don’t think any blood’s coming out.
Redmond, Washington
Worker: Hello! Are you looking for anything in particular?
Eight-year-old boy: Barbie!
Calendar kiosk, Victoria Mall
Victoria, Texas
Four-year-old kid to dad: Dad, how old will I be when I’m a Jedi knight?
Barnes & Noble
Manhasset, New York
Overheard by: Jen
Little girl #1: I love you! How do you spell ‘you?’ Is it Y‑E-S?
Little girl #2: Nuh-uh. [Pause] Y‑O-U.
Little girl #1: Ohhh. How do you spell ‘I love you tonight’?
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Lea
Kid: You know, if Europe and the US teamed together the entire world could be white.
675 27th Street
Chicago, Illinois
Girl: Auntie Dee*, how did you know Uncle Frank* was in there.
Auntie Dee: Well, Molly*, he’s not in the waiting room, so he has to be in there with the doctor.
Boy peering in window to exam rooms: He’s kissing that nurse like he knows her!
Doctor’s office
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Overheard by: Patiently Waiting
VP to secretary’s six-year-old daughter: “Hot fireman,” as in “cute” or as in “sweaty”?
568 Broadway, NYC
Father to son about to eat crayons: No, no, no! Crayons aren’t for eating!
Four-year-old boy: But I eat them at school!
Everett, Washington
Overheard by: Hopes their food comes up soon
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