Overheard (frustrated with child talking)....

[paigevz]

....just wondered if you've been overheard saying something that made sense to your family but you realize sounds crazy to someone else?

In a store today, I turned to DS and said, "If you don't stop talking, my head is going to explode. Can you see the steam starting to rise?" I then saw some seniors giving very strange looks and realized I'd been overheard! This is the older ds. Now the background, he'd been talking about Bubblicious flavors and comparisons of them for at least 5 solid minutes, nonstop. "I like sour green apple best because it's sour, but ...........is sour too, but it's sort of a raspberry flavor and I don't think I really like raspberries though I haven't had any real ones, but I really like the strawberry flavor though they don't make a sour strawberry, so I think I'd like the watermelon, but if it's not sour maybe I wouldn't, I once tried a cotton candy and that was really gross...............on and on.........." Get it? Seriously, we had walked down about 10 aisles by this time, slowly, and me looking at things and younger son also looking at things, so I know it had to be at least 5 minutes. I wasn't angry and I didn't shout it, but I can see it sounding shocking to someone else who merely saw a boy chattering to his mother.

Then I was walking by a counter and a woman said "Where did you go (some name)? A little girl, about eightish comes around the counter and says "I'm just right here, I didn't run away." The woman says, "Well, just right here isn't the same as in sight. What if someone comes along and cuts your head off while you're just over there? I guess I should show you scarier movies so you'll know what can happen."

I hear a lot of stuff, but this one really threw me! I can only assume there is background there like there was with mine.

How about you? Any crazy talk stories to share?

 

[Pugdog007]

Then I was walking by a counter and a woman said "Where did you go (some name)? A little girl, about eightish comes around the counter and says "I'm just right here, I didn't run away." The woman says, "Well, just right here isn't the same as in sight. What if someone comes along and cuts your head off while you're just over there? I guess I should show you scarier movies so you'll know what can happen."

I hear a lot of stuff, but this one really threw me! I can only assume there is background there like there was with mine.

Maybe one of Zarqawi's crowd?

 

[Luv'sTink]

....just wondered if you've been overheard saying something that made sense to your family but you realize sounds crazy to someone else?

In a store today, I turned to DS and said, "If you don't stop talking, my head is going to explode. Can you see the steam starting to rise?" I then saw some seniors giving very strange looks and realized I'd been overheard! This is the older ds. Now the background, he'd been talking about Bubblicious flavors and comparisons of them for at least 5 solid minutes, nonstop. "I like sour green apple best because it's sour, but ...........is sour too, but it's sort of a raspberry flavor and I don't think I really like raspberries though I haven't had any real ones, but I really like the strawberry flavor though they don't make a sour strawberry, so I think I'd like the watermelon, but if it's not sour maybe I wouldn't, I once tried a cotton candy and that was really gross...............on and on.........." Get it? Seriously, we had walked down about 10 aisles by this time, slowly, and me looking at things and younger son also looking at things, so I know it had to be at least 5 minutes. I wasn't angry and I didn't shout it, but I can see it sounding shocking to someone else who merely saw a boy chattering to his mother.

Then I was walking by a counter and a woman said "Where did you go (some name)? A little girl, about eightish comes around the counter and says "I'm just right here, I didn't run away." The woman says, "Well, just right here isn't the same as in sight. What if someone comes along and cuts your head off while you're just over there? I guess I should show you scarier movies so you'll know what can happen."

I hear a lot of stuff, but this one really threw me! I can only assume there is background there like there was with mine.

How about you? Any crazy talk stories to share?

 

[Aidensmom]

DS and I have so many inside jokes, even my DH gives us strange looks.

One of the latest is that my son is for some reason obsessed with what his hair looks like, and he has this little exact routine he goes through when he thinks it is messed up. It takes him about a minute to complete it, and if we are in hurry, and I see him starting it, I rub my hand across his the top of his hair and say "We don't have time for nice hair." I have gotten a few looks from parents on that one when dropping my son off at school.

 

[lbgraves]

LOL! I have told DD that she needs to listen to me & stay with me in the store so that a bad man doesn't come & take her away from us so that we will never see her again. She then says...and he will kill me? I tell her yes & I would be heartbroken. She says OK mommy...and stays with me the rest of the trip. This probably sounds terrible to anyone overhearing it but I need to reinforce this with my independant 5 yo.

 

[DisneyPhD]

I told my 5 year old she was acting like a child the other day. As the words came out of my mouth I realized how dumb I sounded. Like one of those dumb parents.

I guess it is true, being a parent does make you dumb!

BTW, I have felt that way with my nephew, who is 10 years old. "If you don't stop talking, my head is going to explode. Can you see the steam starting to rise?" I never said it, mostly becuase he wouldn't listen, he is so wrapped up in is own little world.

 

[lewdyan1]

My DD hears this at least once a day!

"If you don't stop talking, my head is going to explode."
Sometimes she even gets the shorted version, "Head - Exploding!"

 

[rabx5]

old daughter talks a mile a minute. Drives me crazy-sometimes she talks so fast you can't understand her- yadda yadda yadda-blah blah blah- I tell her she makes my ears hurts and they will soon start to bleed. I feel your pain with your DS as that sounds just like my DD.

I can't think of any weird stories about other parents though- I guess I just don't pay enough attention them.

 

[mojophone]

omg if you all had my dd8 you would really know what nonstop talking is. This girl even talks in her sleep. It is at the point that I have tried bribing her with 50.00 to be quiet for 5 minutes. She has yet to get that 50.00 which when combined with the talking in her sleep should clue you in that my daughter is the queen goddess of talking. lol

 

[SleepyMom]

Not in the same line as yours, but we did have a weird look to a question I asked DD recently in a store. It made sense to us, but the look I got made me think for a second.

I asked DD as we were walking through the shampoo aisle if she needed anything for her upstairs bathroom and when she said no I then asked "well OK, do you need anything in your downstairs bathroom then?" Again the answer was no and then I noticed the weird look. Maybe she thought we lived in a huge mansion with tons of bathrooms, but DD and I really knew what I meant.

DD's bedroom is downstairs and the bathroom on that level only has a tub, so she uses it to brush her teeth and get ready in the mornings. The upstairs bathroom has the shower and DD only uses it to take a shower, so when I asked if she needed anything up there she knew I meant shampoo and etc... and when I asked for the downstairs bathroom I meant toothpaste, deodorant, etc...

Made sense to us

I guess I do remember have a saying when the girls were younger that would sometimes get me a look. Whenever the girls would act up in the store I would say to them "the first person who tells me what a cute child you are gets to take you home". Then I would follow up with "but they way you are acting right now, no one would ever think you are being cute". Eventually it was shortened to just the first line because the girls knew what I meant. (we are kind of sarcastic in our humor and the girls are just like us, so no they never really thought mom was going to give them away to a stranger, they just knew that was my hint that they were being over the top and needed to come down a bit).

 

[luvdzne]

I told my 5 year old she was acting like a child the other day. As the words came out of my mouth I realized how dumb I sounded. Like one of those dumb parents.

I guess it is true, being a parent does make you dumb!

I have caught myself telling my girls to stop acting so childish. Once it's out of my mouth I realize how stupid it sounded. So yes, I have my dumb parent moments.

 

[gallaj0]

We have some inside jokes, most fo which are based on "cartoon" violence type stuff. I've told my kids I was going to knock their heads together so I could see if it sounded like coconuts.

I've also told them we were selling them to gypsies, but they always play along and say "good".

 

[Kimmielee]

I sometimes joke with my son... especially in crowded areas that I don't know who he is.... and that I'm looking for my son.

"Anyone, anyone.... have you seen a little boy that belongs to me? I've lost him!" The whole time DS (6) is pulling on my shirt..."Mommy, Mommy, I'm not lost, I'm right here."

I usually do this when he's wandered to far away from me and I want to get his attention.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

This isn't about one of my children I gave birth too, it's about my child I married!! He's forever trying to embarrass me in a store, (asking loudly at the checkout in front of lots of people) things like "Honey, did you need anymore Monistat 7?" or "So what did the doctor say about the crazy rash on your butt"? My favorite was "Now, when does your mom get out of prison?"
He thinks he's funnier than he actually is.

 

[Kimmielee]

This isn't about one of my children I gave birth too, it's about my child I married!! He's forever trying to embarrass me in a store, (asking loudly at the checkout in front of lots of people) things like "Honey, did you need anymore Monistat 7?" or "So what did the doctor say about the crazy rash on your butt"? My favorite was "Now, when does your mom get out of prison?"
He thinks he's funnier than he actually is.

Oh my.... THAT would be funny to watch!

On a sadder note.... my Grandpa had a closed head injury and his emotions were backward. If he wanted to laugh he cried and vice versa.

We were standing in line at the grocery store and he was bit scruffy looking so I started teasing him about not shaving. This, for years, had been an ongoing joke between us... He HATED shaving. So, I was saying things like... "I'm not going to be able to take you out in public anymore" and "What did you do? Take the razor out of your razor this morning?" Well, he started to cry... which to him was laughing. The more I teased, the more he cried, so the more I teased... it's one of my most memorable moments before he passed.

Until I realized the shock and horror of all the faces around me.... like I was torturing him!!! I've never went in that store since.... and he's been gone for 10 years! RIP Grandpa!

 

[porterbl1]

M and Cs mom, My DH is the same way.He'll also use crazy accents in fast food drivethroughs. When we first started dating it would mortify me. Now after 9 years together I just laugh it off.
-Becca

 

[milkabum]

Wow. I really am annoying.
One time a while ago, I was at the grocery store and my mom told me to grow up. I told her to wait a few years. I can't believe I remember that though.. ah, the good years.
Emily

 

[irishbosoxfan]

We have some inside jokes, most fo which are based on "cartoon" violence type stuff. I've told my kids I was going to knock their heads together so I could see if it sounded like coconuts.

I've also told them we were selling them to gypsies, but they always play along and say "good".

OMG I thought we were the only ones who said this!!--I even posted about this a while ago!

MIL said this to DH when he was growing up but then they're Romanian so he believed it based on his family members! He started saying it to our kids and when DD8 was younger she believed him and would cry---Now however she says "Can I pack first"!

 

[preb]

I frequently tell my DD, now 7, that if she doesn't cut it out I'm going to sell her to the gypsies for $5.00.

I said it one afternoon when she was around three and 5 minutes later the doorbell rang. It was my brother and sister-in-law, but she answered the door yelling "The gypsies are here! The gypsies are here!".

 

[AllAboutPluto]

I frequently tell my DD, now 7, that if she doesn't cut it out I'm going to sell her to the gypsies for $5.00.

I said it one afternoon when she was around three and 5 minutes later the doorbell rang. It was my brother and sister-in-law, but she answered the door yelling "The gypsies are here! The gypsies are here!".

When I was a child, my mother always said that if gypsies stole me, they'd bring me back before nightfall!