Must be true then

Teen girl: "Mom, you are the most embarrassing mother on earth. All my friends agree."

Related

Teen girl to her mother: "You look like a cross between Lord Voldemort and your father. Who did your father mate with?"

Tough love

Young woman: "If I fall down and I'm not bleeding all over my mother is like 'just get up, you're fine.' That's the way she is.

Woman to daughter in her 20's: "Maybe when he comes out of the army they'll have turned him into the kind of insensitive guy you like."

Early sense of style

Overhear at Trader K's. Mom with girl around four years old.
Mom: "Oh look. Let's get you a beautiful shirt."
Girl: "I don't like beautiful shirts."
Mom: "OK, let's get you some not beautiful clothes."

Mom to pre-teen girl: "Questions about breasts? Yup, it's in my job description."

Maybe YOU do

Three women strolling in conversation.
Woman: "Yeah, you feel relieved when the head pops out."

Daughters in arms

Woman, looking at her freckled, upraised arm: "A couple of years ago my mother said 'I can't believe it, I have my 90-year-old mother's arms!'."

Overheard on Giles St.

Frazzled mom walking up the hill with her two sons: "OK, Children of the Corn, stop touching each other!!!"
Older boy in ridiculously loud voice: "I LOVE touching people."
-Vikki

Woman looking in the bathroom mirror in disbelief: "Pretty soon my hair will be completely white."
Teenage son from two rooms away: "And then you will be EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL."

Formerly private moments

Overheard in a public restroom:
Young woman: "Yeah, OK. I love you too mommy. (LOUD FLUSH) Bye."

A tight spot

I was sitting at the table, my boyfriend stood, blocking my only way of leaving the table. I said "I hate this feeling of being trapped. Mom, what do you call that?" Mom replied, "Marriage."
-Ashley

a day off

High school boy to disgruntled mother: "And how was your Veteran's Day?"
Mother: "It was lovely, I wasn't with you."

Gender differences?

Mother commenting on her two very different daughters: "I would attribute their differences to gender, if they were different genders."

Overheard not so clearly

Overheard at Frendlys in Ithaca
A daughter and her mother were eating lunch together and the daughter was eating fries. She looked up at the mom and said
Daughter: "You know what's really good?"
Mother: "What?"
Daughter: "Fries with a Jamocha Shake."
Mother: "Flying with mocha fish?"
Daughter: "No mom."
- Ashley