Overheard at the big pedestrian crossing on the corner of Adelaide and Edward.

Little boy (about 5yo): There's too many people here!
Grandma: *nods*
Little boy: Are we in heaven?
Grandma (absently): No, we're not in heaven.
Little boy (sounding wistful and confused): But there are so many people...

In Coles at West End...

Mother: Ok, what else is on the shopping list?
Little girl: Friends.
Mother: What?
Little girl: Can we buy friends?
Mother: You don't buy friends.
Little girl: Daddy says you can.
Mother: Daddy says a lot of things.

And on the 109 bus...

Girl 1: (whispering loudly to Girl 2) I don't know how they work!
Girl 2: I don't know either. Ask someone!
Girl 1: (to passenger across the aisle) Excuse me. How do buses... work. Like, what do I do to make it stop when I want it to stop?
Passenger: Just press the button.
Girl 1: What button?
Passenger: That one. (Points to one of the many bright red buttons)
Girl 1: That's a BUTTON?! (She sounds like her world has just been rocked to its foundations)
Passenger: Yes...
Girl 1: So if I press that thing, the bus stops?
Passenger: Yeah, it'll stop at the next bus stop.
Girl 1: Really? Really?
Passenger: Yeah...
Girl 1: (to Girl 2) We just have to press this thing, I think it's a button!
Girl 2: Really? And the bus will stop? Wow.

They successfully got off the bus at South Bank.

On the Cleveland train...

Teenage boy: I go to a Lutheran school and we have 45 minutes of chapel every day so we learn heaps about our religion, and we have religious education classes as well as chapel. Lutheran is basically better than all the other religions.
Little girl: What's Lutheran?
Teenage boy: Well, we're different from the other religions because we have pastors instead of priests. And... what else do we have? Umm... yeah... I don't know. But we have pastors instead of priests, which makes everything a lot more... good.
Little girl: (looks out the window) Wow this train is fast.

Ahh, religion.

A girl in a medical supplies shop talking to a young customer about her puppy:

Kid: Do you like my new puppy?
Girl: It's adorable, is it a Christmas present?
Kid: We don't believe in Christmas; I love Jehovah!

She sounded so happy with herself too.

A 4 year old explaining things to his mum:

"No mum!"

"The train isn't on the road, and it's not on a bridge so it MUST be FLYING!!!"

He was very serious about it...

could have fooled me!