August 2nd, 2009 by Jay

Overheard in Guangzhou #1

On the train to Hong Kong. A young family of three sits in the corner. The mother and father are in their early 30s. The daughter is 4-5 years old, very cute, and mischievously bouncing around on the seat.

Father: (using a baby voice) Sweetie. Don’t misbehave. If you do, you could die. Think about that … if you die, who will take care of Daddy and Mommy when they get old? Not you, you’ll be dead.

Daughter: (terrified expression)

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16 Responses to “Overheard in Guangzhou #1”

  1. Gahool says:

    wuhahahahahahahahaha

  2. helen sim says:

    omg. that is totally hilarious and frightening! really freaky…

  3. Erni says:

    Where’s the ‘twit this’ link? This is cute

  4. Junde says:

    @Erni, i figured most of our readers would not be on Twitter, so that thing is not up. but u can always just find my page and retweet me : )

  5. asm says:

    If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.” - Jack Handey

  6. helen sim says:

    man, that unfortunate girl is probably messed up for life now. talk about weird parenting methods. funny, but weird.

  7. Jay says:

    @Gahool

    I was positive your name was fake until I saw you have a facebook account.

    @Helen

    Why two substantively similar comments?

    @Junde

    Stealing my thunder.

    @Asm

    I always tell kids that the angels are peeing.

    @Helen

    Substantively similar.

  8. Carol says:

    the Daughter: “Then it’s legal for you to have another kid if so.”

  9. helen sim says:

    it’s called “recapitulation”.

  10. meilifafa says:

    教育孩子,方法很多。
    我看了,觉得问题不是太大。

    桥唔怕旧,最紧要受。

    细路都系一个弱势群体,要让他们也成长!

  11. Pandora says:

    Early 30 ? Waa . i thought they should be in their late 60 …… am i just missing something in my brain ?

  12. Jay says:

    @meilifafa

    context. context.

    @pandora

    perhaps. haha.

  13. angalaxy says:

    I couldn’t see their faces..??
    poor internet in Lijiang.,..
    and gahool is my friend, maybe?
    I wonder how could he wrote comment here..lol

  14. Sophia says:

    How could a father say like that to his daughter? Even though the little girl doesnt know what death is, she must have guessed from her father’s words be dead is not good thing

  15. Jay says:

    @An

    Stop getting online while you are on vacation!

    @Sophia

    Agreed. In his defense, he realized it was probably not the best thing to say the moment the words left his mouth.

  16. Ark says:

    I sent this around to people at work who recently had kids.

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