Overheard...

I take the train home. Sometimes the people on the train make me want to get off and walk. Other times they make me want to cheer. Overheard today:

Gum-Smacking-Heavily-Made-up-Mother: Stop making faces.

3-year-old-girl: No. (Makes even more horrible monster face)

GSHMuM: Stop. Making. Faces.

3YOG: (More faces, this time with monster noises and hand-claw actions)

GSHMuM: If you make faces you won't be pretty. Don't you want to be a pretty girl?

3YOG: (Thinks about this. Looks around train. Looks at GSHMuM) No. (Resume monster faces.)