Out of the mouths of babes...

[Jenny]

(No, not a hot chick thread! )


Taken from here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/wic...sh/545877.html


It's a writer's job to eavesdrop, yes?
[Overheard in McDonald's this morning]

Two little boys, approximately 4 or 5 years old, spy each other in line. Their mothers are holding their respective hands, staring straight ahead at the menu board with that dispassionate glazed look -- like they're pumping gas, or waiting for a dog to do its business.

Little boy #1: Hey! You get McDonald's for breakfast too!
Little boy #2: Yeah! I'm getting pancakes! I thought I was never going to get pancakes again.
Little boy #1: How come? Your mom doesn't make pancakes at home?
Little boy #2: No. I only get them here. And I didn't think I was ever going to taste them ever again.
Little boy #1: How come?
Little boy #2: Because after my little brother's birthday party, my Mom said she'd rather take it up the ass than eat here anymore.


I do believe that this little fellow* has officially topped my brother's "from the mouths of babes" gem -- wherein he once, as a wee 'un, approached an army officer at a party and asked if he could sleep with the man's daughters.

Ah, kids.


* Who, as he was being led back to a booth by his hysterically laughing mother, was fussing, "BUT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!"

[Gothic Girl]

[Bill Cosby] Kids say the darndest things. [/Bill Cosby]

[Freelance Superhero]

well, not quite as good as that one, but...

once, when i was but a young child of 2 or 3, i believe, i was in a supermarket checkout line with my mother when i saw for the very first time a black woman, standing in line in front of us. reportedly, i began pointing and saying to my mother, "mommy mommy! too dark! too dark!"

to which the black lady reportedly replied to my mother, "ohh, you have such an adorable daughter." (i'm a son, for those who don't know)

touche, my first black lady, touche...

[ShawnLee]

well, not quite as good as that one, but...

once, when i was but a young child of 2 or 3, i believe, i was in a supermarket checkout line with my mother when i saw for the very first time a black woman, standing in line in front of us. reportedly, i began pointing and saying to my mother, "mommy mommy! too dark! too dark!"

to which the black lady reportedly replied to my mother, "ohh, you have such an adorable daughter." (i'm a son, for those who don't know)

touche, my first black lady, touche...

Darkness! Charlie Murphy! Darkness!

I have a similar story. There's a soup that you can find in Korean-Chinese restaurants (don't ask me) called jam-bong (make the J and B really hard with the B almost to the point of being a P). I asked my mom what it was, and she told me that jam-pong means mix, and that it was a soup mixed of a bunch of different ingredients (resulting in a spicy seafood, beef, noodle soup).
The following Sunday, we were leaving church (nearly all-Korean) and passed this white pastor and his Korean wife, to which I started screaming, "Mom look! Jam-bong!" I don't remember if she hit me, but I remember the look of horror on her face.

For reference sake: it's often phoenetically spelled Jjahm-bbong. And the bong is pronouced with the O sound from orange, not bong as in the water pipe you'd toke.

[Merlin]

(No, not a hot chick thread! )

[RIVERWIDOW]

The best thing about little kids is you never know when they will strike. They have little file folders for brains and they store everything they hear until that most inopportune moment when they draw it from some dark spot and blurt it out .For example, My daughter at age 5 just days before being very inquisitive about tampons, waits until we are in 7-11 with about 30 other people to ask in what can only be described as a booming voice ,"so now what are those tampon things for again?" Needless to say we left amongst much giggling. You learn very quickly little ears have long memories. And they just look at you with that what did I say look.

[avlena]

well, not quite as good as that one, but...

once, when i was but a young child of 2 or 3, i believe, i was in a supermarket checkout line with my mother when i saw for the very first time a black woman, standing in line in front of us. reportedly, i began pointing and saying to my mother, "mommy mommy! too dark! too dark!"

to which the black lady reportedly replied to my mother, "ohh, you have such an adorable daughter." (i'm a son, for those who don't know)

touche, my first black lady, touche...

my niece once pointed out her playmate was black... and that she was "pink". she refused to accept that she was "white", and kept insisting "he's black, and i'm pink!"

[brainsmile]

My friend, when he saw an african american for the first time turned and ran into the house screaming at the top of his lungs that he just saw a burnt man.

[Jenny]

I don't remember ever saying anything when I saw black or asian or hispanic or any other color/race. There is a high population of black people in the town I grew up in so it was just normal.

[cadetevon]

I don't remember ever saying anything when I saw black or asian or hispanic or any other color/race. There is a high population of black people in the town I grew up in so it was just normal.

Yah, where I was raised, right here in sunny San Diego, there is such a great mix of races and ethnicities that I never realized that there were places in the world that weren't all mixed up. LOL

[avlena]

I don't remember ever saying anything when I saw black or asian or hispanic or any other color/race. There is a high population of black people in the town I grew up in so it was just normal.

I was the only asian person my niece (she's white) ever knew, so she has some weird attachment to asians. Like, she'd go up to asians in the street, and try to hug them and whatnot, thinking that person had some connection to me.

[Markel]

[Bill Cosby] Kids say the darndest things. [/Bill Cosby]

c'mon, give credit where credit is due. That's Art Linkletter's line!

[Kevster]

Yah, where I was raised, right here in sunny San Diego, there is such a great mix of races and ethnicities that I never realized that there were places in the world that weren't all mixed up. LOL

I originally lived in the Bay Area (Hayward hills) for my first seven years and in my cul-de-sac there was one chinese family, one black family, two irish families (mine included), one greek family and one latino family. They all had children my age and we all played together. I miss that feeling sometimes.