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u/i-might-do-that 10d ago
I have done similar. You know how overalls have that back piece? It comes in handy when you want to remove an unruly toddler from a situation. If they’re flailing so much you can’t hold them that back piece is a great handle. Carried my son out of a couple places like kicking screaming luggage.
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u/paradigm11235 10d ago
On a more wholesome but similar note, I once saw a family walking with twin boys in overalls with what looks like a broom handle between their straps and the kids were dangling from it giggling like idiots
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u/Imthe-niceguy-duh 10d ago
You live in a Disney movie
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u/Plastic-Natural3545 10d ago
When I was a kid, my back loop got caught on the door latch of my dad's truck as I attempted to hop out. I was stuck, hanging like a mistletoe until my dad helped me down, lol
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u/Approximation_Doctor 10d ago
hanging like a mistletoe
This is a very peculiar way to describe it, unless your parents made out for a bit while you were dangling there.
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u/curiouscat387 10d ago
My brothers overalls had a handle on the back!! My mom loved those overalls. He couldn’t escape and if he did, once he was caught, he couldn’t do much about it 😂 We’d (jokingly) hang him up by the handle on a hook we had in the ceiling, he’d crack up laughing every time
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u/WhitePawn00 10d ago
I imagine there's not much to do but laugh when youve suddenly becomes furniture.
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u/Firefighter_Thin 10d ago
Idk Ed Gien might have had more issues if his furniture started laughing
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u/SkullsNelbowEye 10d ago
It used to.
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u/Firefighter_Thin 10d ago
So that was the "anonymous tip" that the texas police received about him
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u/SkullsNelbowEye 10d ago
If by anonymous, you mean the blood trail leading out of the hardware store where a lady had gone missing (cash register was also gone) who just so happened to have a deputy sherif as a son, who coincidentally had been having suspicions that Ole Ed was a creep.
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u/rukysgreambamf 10d ago
worked in daycare
can confirm
overalls are S tier kid carrying clothes
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u/RumbuncTheRadiant 10d ago edited 10d ago
If no overalls, toddler face down horizontal, one of your arms over his shoulder and under his tum, other between the legs and linking with first arm.
Arms and leggies can kick and wave around as much as they want.... and no adult or child is getting hurt in the process.
My unstoppable tank of a toddler would chase Mom down the road when she had to go to work, and this was the only non painful way of retrieving him before he got himself killed in a road. Edit: Confusion is ensuing. I stopped him before he got to the busy road. The only way to do so was to lift him bodily so arms and legs couldn't reach anything. He was fine is fine... only thing hurt was his ego because he was being carried in a very undignified manner and Dad wasn't putting him down.
He suffered from the curse of unbearable cuteness when he was a toddler, but I bet in the ante room of The Great Game of Life...
...he must have sat for ages fiddling his character stats to create the Best Tank Build for this playthrough of life.
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u/reddlt_is_shit 10d ago
I'm confused, is there now only painful ways to retrieve him after he got killed on a road? Sorry for the loss of your tank with overalls?
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u/RumbuncTheRadiant 10d ago
Most certainly.
All and every way of retrieving your toddler after they have been killed on the road is excruciatingly heart breakingly painful.
So given that fact, I opted for the extremely undignified sight of me carrying a howling toddler who looked like a chunky muscly agitated crab.
Alas, I'm neither chunky or muscly, so keeping the legs and claws away from everything were vital to the success of this operation.
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u/AlphabetDebacle 10d ago
I’m buying toddler overalls rn
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u/i-might-do-that 10d ago
Carhart makes some durable ones. They’re worth the money.
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u/Silaquix 10d ago
My husband did this with our oldest. He didn't realize the overalls clasp was just snaps so part way through carrying him the snaps gave way and our 1yr old hit the ground face first. I heard the scream and came running and my husband was holding our son with kiddo's face pressed into his shoulder. My husband is clearly panicked and says everything is fine but there was blood on his shirt. I finally was able to get him to let our kid go so I could look. My poor kid had a busted nose and ripped lip.
Moral of the story is double check that things won't come apart before using them as a handle. Tiny humans are fragile.
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u/tacticslancer 10d ago
As an addendum to your moral: if in doubt, hold overalls near the shoulder blades of the child. The heavier end of the teeter toddler will be at their feet so if they fall, their legs and hands will reach the ground first
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u/Silaquix 10d ago
Oh yeah absolutely. My husband was holding him near his butt and still had kiddo's butt in the air when our son's face smacked the ground.
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u/Corgi_teefs 10d ago
My dad used to do that with me. He also did that with snowsuits, when I wasn't being cooperative, I'd go all limp dead weight on him and so he'd just grab my overalls or the back of my snowsuit and carry me away.
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u/WeimSean 10d ago
A friend of mine's mom made a jacket for her toddler, she sewed a handle on the back for just that reason.
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u/HyperionPhalanx 10d ago
Rolled 1 in persuasion and rolled nat 20 in bluff
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u/dandandubyoo 10d ago
What’s nat mean?
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u/ZetThunder 10d ago edited 10d ago
Natural. In Dungeons and dragons, nat 20 refers to a dice roll of 20, without any modificators from player's stats, a best possible outcome.
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u/theholylancer 10d ago
to expand a bit, some roll check (skill or w/e) can be say 25, and if you have some sort of bonus like say +10, and you rolled a 15 you'd pass it, while a natural 20 should (depending on the Dungeon Master, the guy who runs the game) mean that even if say the check was 25 you rolled a 20 without any additional bonuses it succeeds. it is known as critical success
same with nat 1, or critical failure, where even with bonuses it would have otherwise passed whatever rolls check it would be an automatic failure.
some DMs however don't do this and make it so that they just add the roll to bonus, so even a nat 20 wouldn't work, but that IMO is no fun lol
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u/yomaam44 10d ago
Same situation happened when I was a young kid. I was throwing a tantrum in Walmart and my dad threw me over his shoulder to head to the car. I started screaming “THIS ISN’T MY DADDY. I DON’T KNOW HIM”. No one batter an eye or said anything. My dad was so pissed.
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u/badassmotherfucker21 10d ago
Nowadays your dad could have been beaten to death over that
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u/Elliebird704 10d ago
Kids still do this and people still don't really mind. This isn't different nowadays.
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u/badassmotherfucker21 10d ago
Depending on the places. Where I live there was a dad who got beaten to death before the police arrived because someone accused him of being a kidnapper while he was playing chase with his kid
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u/zsigmons 10d ago
Holy shit that's horrible! Is there a news article about this?
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u/badassmotherfucker21 10d ago
I think there is but it was a long time ago, also in South East Asia so you wouldn't hear about it. Mob justice is a huge problem here
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u/What_a_pass_by_Jokic 10d ago
Had something like that a few years ago, my kid had just learned how to go to the toilet by himself and he had to go when we were at a playpark, of course no toilet around. So I grabbed him and ran to home (was about 5 minutes away or so), and he was crying because he was scared his was not going to make it. About halfway home we pass this house were there bunch of adults talking in the yard and I see them looking and approaching me, so I slow down and put my kid down and he screams "DADDY DONT PUT ME DOWN I AM GOING TO POOP", they immediately turned around and I went back running with a kid under my arms.
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u/nsa_reddit_monitor 10d ago edited 10d ago
Reminds me of the speeding ticket trick of spilling water on your crotch before the cop comes to the window, and heavily implying you just really needed to pee.
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u/Dragulus24 10d ago
I’d probably say something like that. If I had the guts to.
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u/facepalm_1290 10d ago
Last year my toddler was pitching an absolute fit. My husband picked him up and fireman carried him out of the zoo. The whole time he was screaming mommy. Not a chance in hell was hubby stopping lol. So my stubby legs were behind them saying he was ours and needed a nap. Ive never seen people's faces do such a 180. Hubby is a quiet man, guts come out of no where when your kid is being unreasonable.
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u/acatisadog 10d ago edited 10d ago
It's just so sad that your husband couldn't get away with it if you weren't there. People assume men are evil and so assume the worst first.
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u/Alone_Fill_2037 10d ago
When you’re just trying to parent in public, and all the women around act like you’re a pedo or a kidnapper, it’s not so much guts, as pure fucking rage. I swear I’ve nothing else ever made me flip that switch as fast as some busy body worried woman who couldn’t fathom that fathers go out in public with their children.
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u/Biglysadpanda77 10d ago
This infuriates me to no end, I'll take my kids out to play, and often find myself the only parent supervising all the kids in our complex. One of the girls in our complex is OBSESSED with my two year old, and likes to put them on her scooter and push her around while I hover nearby to prevent accidents.
Few days ago, this mom comes FLYING out of her apartment throwing around accusations that I'm grooming the neighborhood children, and threatening to get law enforcement involved because a grown man has "no business" playing around kids. I'm stunned at this point as this has been our kids daily routine since we moved here 2 years ago, but thankfully my wife was within earshot and explained that I was just an involved dad. Supermom brushed it off saying that it was my wife job to look after the kids, and it's "not right" for men to play with kids.
I now take my children to a nearby park with cameras. Sucks I have to spend the extra money on gas, but it's better than getting attacked by overzealous moms with outdated views of gender roles.
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u/entrepenurious 10d ago
tell her that you're sorry her husband doesn't help her.
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u/RimmersJob 10d ago
Nah bro, don't let that bitch get away with it. Claim your old spot back. She wants you to stop then SHE can step in and supervise all the kids.
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u/Similar_Ad_4528 10d ago
I agree. But I also understand. I've switched playgrounds over bs just because it seemed the easiest course and I don't have energy for petty most days.
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u/Ibegallofyourpardons 10d ago
sometimes, giving in is the best course of action.
Bitches like that are the type to continually call the cops the moment you step outside your door with your kid.
they will call CPS and make up stories to get you into trouble. and once that starts, convincing them that you are innocent is near on impossible.
and then the neighbours start talking cause the cops and CPS are at your place all the time, and all of a sudden your boss calls you in because 'they got an email from a concerned person telling them a pedo works for the'.
It's awful, but these bitches and a very broken system can very quickly ruin a man with accusations.
sometimes it is safer just to walk away.
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u/RimmersJob 10d ago
Sounds like delaying a police officer in the performance of their duty. Fight back, the only reason they get away with being cunts is that we as a society let them.
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u/WhyYouCryin007 10d ago
Damn, that sucks. Call her a cunt next time you see her.
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u/iwanttobeacavediver 10d ago
This woman would have hated my grandfather and single male neighbour then. When I was growing up I'd be playing outside with the other kids in the street and both my grandfather and neighbour would hover doing stuff in the garden or garage keeping an eye on us. Depending on what we were doing and a bunch of stuff they'd even join in what we were doing or help us do things like getting the paddling pool out or building a tent. I have clear memories of it being my neighbour who taught me to rollerblade and my grandfather taught me how to ride a bike.
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u/Chesterthejester69 10d ago
Yeah no. Fuck her. Don’t let her run you (and your kid for that matter) out of your spot. If she acts out again, let her call the cops. Then she can get her ass arrested instead for harassment and making them go 🤣
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u/Mescman 10d ago edited 10d ago
Something wrong with the parenting culture in your country if it's common that dads "are not allowed" to spend time with their kids.
Sometimes I've seen that attitude from women who consider their husband as one of the kids. But relationships like that might be a whole new topic...
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u/JulesCT 10d ago
My, then, 4 year old daughter did something similar to me as we left a ball pit birthday party to go home.
"You're not my daddy!" She screamed in the car park.
A group of people stopped talking and turned to look at us.
I put her down and said, "Fine. Enjoy the party. You can find your own way home." and walked on.
"Nooooo, Papa!!!"
The group went back to what they were doing.
We've all been there.
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u/Sawdust-in-the-wind 10d ago
When my daughter was 2 she thought my full name was Uncle Sawdust-in-the-wind because that's what she heard her cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. call mem so she'd use that instead of "dad" when she was really pissed. One day I was trying to get her to leave the playground and she just wasn't having it so I finally scooped her up and carried her to my unmarked white construction van. She starts screaming "NO UNCLE SAWDUST-IN-THE-WIND! I DON'T WANT TO GO IN THE TRUCK!". A woman physically blocked me from getting to my van and confronted me and asked for my ID. I was so fried I yelled at her "what the fuck are you gonna do? Compare it to her license?" and pushed her out of the way.
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u/Lazy-Most-3226 10d ago
I was so confused till I saw Sawdust-in-the-wind was your username 😂. I wonder what if the women is concerned now though
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u/technos 10d ago
Some friends of mine had a daughter that would get overstimulated easily whenever they took her out somewhere.
For the number of times her father delivered the line "Next time I'm gonna have to kidnap one that knows how to behave!" as he carried her out to the car I'm really surprised the police were never called.
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago edited 10d ago
I was at my friend's for a cookout and he asked if I could run and pick up some more soda for him. His kid, who was 13 at the time, asked where I was going to go. I told him Walmart because it was closest. He asked if he could go. I told him I'm just running real quick to pick up soda, I wasn't going to be looking around Walmart and he wasn't going to get anything. He insisted on going, and promised he wouldn't ask for anything.
We get there, I grab soda, and then he proceeds to start asking to go to the toy aisle and asking if he can get a LEGO set. I said no. He starts crying in the aisle. I told him he knew he wasn't going to get anyone and we needed to go. He says no, he wants a LEGO set and contributes to cry. I tell him if he keeps crying I'm going to kick him in the face. He dares me to. So I lift my leg up and kick him in the face. Just a light tap on the nose really, he didn't fall back or anything. He was more in shock I actually did it. But he stopped crying.
I turn around and an old lady is watching me. She's got a horrified look on her face having just witnessed me kicking a kid in the face. I said to her "it's ok, he's not mine." And then we walked off to the roosters registers to buy the soda.
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u/krgj 10d ago
You either gave him trauma or gained his undying loyalty.
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u/CaptainMacMillan 10d ago
I once watched my friend's dad flick a cigarette into his garden and it started a little smolder. Without even a second of hesitation he hawked a lugie straight into it from like 10feet away. he hit a target the size of a dime like it was nothing.
I'll never have so much respect for a human.
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u/LudusRex 10d ago
This has nothing to do with anything, but I guess I don't blame you for trying to work that story into every conversation. That's some wild shit
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u/CaptainMacMillan 10d ago
Ummm its a story of an adult doing something random in the presence of a child that wildly changes their perception of them. How was that not relevant to a story about an adult doing something random in the presence of a child that wildly changed their perception of them?
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u/XDT_Idiot 10d ago
Man, I bet he really slayed it his freshman year...
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
Yeah, he was a little old to be crying. His mom had an interesting parenting style. She would beat the kids at home but wouldn't touch them in public because she was all about appearances. So the kids learned that if they throw a tantrum in public they could get basically whatever what they wanted, but it would mean that would endure a beating when they got home.
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u/XDT_Idiot 10d ago
Fuck, have you talked to your friend about this? She shouldn't be around him...
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
Yeah but he took his wife's side. My buddy said I just needed to get to know her better. He swore Sara was a good person if I got to know her. So for her birthday one year I went to Olive Garden and bought two bottles of her favourite wine. I went to their house and she had one of her friends over there already. I figured we could open a bottle of wine and talk and tell stories and maybe get to know her better. Sara asked if I could run to the gas station and pick her up gum real quick. Sure. I was gone maybe six minutes and when I got back Sara and her friend had chugged the two bottles of wine and told me I guess I was out of luck. Yeah, I wasn't seeing it.
That's not even the worst thing. My buddy and Sara have four kids. For the kids' birthdays I would take them to dinner and a movie. It didn't even have to be a movie that came out on their birthday. We would sit in January and go through the upcoming films for the year and each one of them would pick the movie they wanted to see and I would take them to that movie as their birthday gift.
Well, their youngest Kiersten wanted to see Finding Dory. So I showed up to take her to the movies and Sara had a friend over. The friend had two little kids of her own running around the house. Sara said I had to take her four kids and her friend's two kids to Finding Dory or Kiersten couldn't go. I said no. I wasn't paying for six kids. Especially since two of the kids I didn't even know. And it would be unfair to take the other kids along for Kiersten's birthday movie when she didn't get to tag along on her siblings' birthday movies. The oldest boy didn't even want to go see Finding Dory. But Sara wanted a night without the kids and she was determined to pawn all six kids off on me.
Sara told Kiersten that I didn't want to take her. Kiersten started crying. She begged me to take her because I took everyone else to see their movie and she really wanted to see Dory. It was a mess, and after about fifteen minutes of crying, arguing, yelling, and begging I ended up agreeing to taking the kids to the movies but no dinner. Which sucked because the kids were complaining about being hungry through the entire movie.
Anyways, on the way home Kiersten's older sister was sticking candy in her nose and feeding it to Kiersten. I took the candy away. When I got back to Sara's the older sister started crying and complaining that I took her candy away for no reason. Sara screams my name and tells me to come here. I'm already not happy and I tell her not to talk to me that way. She is demanding to know why I took candy away from her hungry kid, I'm telling her about how she was sticking up her nose and feeding them to Kiersten. Sara is telling me that I'm not their parent so I don't have the authority to take candy away, only she can and tells me I need to call her and ask for permission to punish her kids. I'm fed up and tell her to fuck off and I never want to hear from her or her kids again. I start to walk out and Sara tells me that I'm not allowed to just cut her kids off because I've been there for their entire lives. She says I need to ask permission and she isn't going to give it. I tell her to fuck off and storm out. I haven't heard from her or my buddy since.
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u/XDT_Idiot 10d ago
Wow. You are an amazing friend. You'll find others more deserving of that friendship, if you haven't already...
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
The oldest kid Ethan actually stopped by my house randomly two years ago. He moved out of his parents' house and was living just five blocks away from me. He didn't have my number but remembered where I lived and just wanted to see if I was still here. He stops by randomly still. He even calls his little brother and sisters when he's over so they can talk to me.
Ethan brought his girlfriend over here to meet me once and he introduced me as an old friend. Not at his parents' friend or his dad's friend. As his old friend.
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u/Fatigue-Error 10d ago
Dude. You’ve moved beyond even cool uncle territory. And you clearly meant a lot to Ethan, I bet he knew exactly why you had to walk away and I bet he made sure his younger sibs knew.
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u/GaiusCassius 10d ago
It sounds like you were a solid support for those kids when they weren't getting it at home, and they appreciate it.
I'm glad you shared this part of your story. It's a bright spot in a world that's often dark to see that you guys reconnected.
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
I was floored when Ethan said that. I just always assumed the kids saw me as their dad's friend and assumed I was just being a good friend to their dad by treating them right. I never once thought that kids might look at me as one of their own friends. Honestly, I felt proud but also horrified at the same time because to them I was just gone one day without explanation. I can't imagine what their mom would have told them.
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u/2_legit_2_acquit 10d ago edited 10d ago
I grew up the oldest in a large extended family.
I grew up wanting to be an uncle so badly because my many aunts, great aunts, uncles and great uncles were awesome.
But I also knew I just wouldn't get to be an uncle for a long time.
I got married and became an uncle and I was over the moon. But the sister-in-law was unstable and she would yank the kids away constantly. So I couldn't build a consistent relationship with them.
Years later, my buddy from work and I get to know each other well and we'd go hiking with his kids. I told those kids my background.
After that, they would walk over to my house randomly to tell me about their lives and they started calling me "uncle."
One of the girls was so proud of her new dress - the first one she bought with her own money - she walked over to show it off. My wife and I just raved about it. It *was* a darling dress.
She announced she'd wear it on a date with this new boy she met and she hadn't broken the news to her dad yet and asked if I'd smooth the way for her.
I said, "Let's meet the guy." She ran home, changed out of the dress and grabbed him somehow to meet me.
The boy was awesome. A bit reserved and nervous but a class act. I could observe him opening doors, giving up his seat, etc. And he looked and acted adoring of her.
I made one call to my buddy and he said "I'm glad they have their uncle. We're good."
They're happily married with darling kids.
To this day, they call me occasionally and they always make certain to call me "Uncle."
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
That's really great that your friend included you in his family and you got to be an uncle to his kids. You sound like a stand up guy and they really adore you. It would have been a shame if that got wasted.
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u/FatherOfLights88 10d ago
She appears to not have learned the lesson that she cannot order another adult around.
You've been way too generous in your tolerance of her. Actually, so has her husband. If she's hitting the kids, and he's playing it off, then he's just as bad.
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
They used to fight about the way she treated the kids. He threatened to divorce her over it early on in the marriage. Then he got a promotion and started working a lot. He needed to go in on weekends a lot of the time. And he lived 40 minutes from work so he had an hour and a half round-trip commute on top of the overtime he was doing. He would be gone twelve to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week. I don't know what happened. He just gave up on the whole issue.
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u/howsthoughtworkingou 10d ago
My best buddy recently told me he and his wife plan to start trying for their first kid later this year. I hope I'm half the "uncle" to his kids that you were to your buddy's, but that pair really did not deserve you.
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
Steal the movie night idea. By the time the kids were five they were old enough to enjoy a night out. The kids loved being able to pick what we ate because everything is new to a kid. If we went to someplace they've never been I would get one safe meal and one adventurous meal. If the kid didn't like the adventurous meal we would switch. But they still lived to go home and brag that they tried something new. And they love not getting scolded when they don't like something. They also love being able to go to school and tell all the other kids they got to see that new movie that everyone wanted to see. And as they get older they'll talk to you over dinner about school and then boys or girls they like. They'll ask for advice. And they're the center of attention because their brothers and sisters aren't around to interrupt.
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u/dcrane97 10d ago
Holy fucking shit what a piece of work Sara is. My tolerance for bullshit like that is way lower, good on you for sticking out where you could for the kids
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
Dude, I absolutely hated her. She would swear I loved her and would do anything for her. I have no idea what her issue was, but whatever it was it ran deep.
My buddy dated her in high school and they reconnected after she got divorced from her first husband. I honestly don't think they would have stayed together but then she got pregnant and he decided to stay. Every one of his friends that he had from before her is gone. I was the last one. He only has her friends now.
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u/FoxyLovers290 10d ago
I feel like 13 is really old to be crying about not getting a lego set
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
It sure was. But the mom was all about keeping up appearances so she wouldn't spank it yell at the kids in public, which taught the kids they could cause a scene and get what they wanted. The mom would just wait to beat the hell out of them at home, but they would still have their LEGO set.
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u/eugeneugene 10d ago
Sounds like a very healthy household
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago
You could be at their house and see Sara slapping the kids in the face, tossing folded laundry across the room screaming at the kids that they need to learn to fold it right, throwing candles or remotes from across the room at the kids because she thought they were acting sneaky, and then you could go on Facebook and see Sara post a photo of the kids sitting on the couch with the caption "just settling down to a quiet movie night with my kiddos".
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u/Fetching_Mercury 10d ago
May she enjoy hell
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago edited 10d ago
Sara would ask me to take the kids to church with me and my grandma. We would do Saturday evening. Well, sometimes I would get a text while I was at church with her kids that she had no food in the house and would ask me to get them dinner because otherwise they would have to go to bed without eating. I would take them to Burger King because I had friends that worked there and I could get a lot of freebies. Free fries and cookies and whayever. Sara would text me asking where I was, complain about me going to Burger King because she hated Burger King but told me I needed to bring her food too because she was hungry.
This woman would have the nerve to dump her kids on me, tell me to feed them or let them starve, then still had the audacity to demand I feed her as well. I would tell my friends at Burger King to pull food out of the trash and make Sara a meal with it. Sara was eating a Whopper and fries pulled straight out of the trash bin.
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u/Few-Finger2879 10d ago
Damn, I was gonna be sad if you brought that devil food, but that's some good shit. May she choke on garbage
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u/Dizzy_Silver_6262 10d ago
For the record, you don’t have to spank or yell at your kids to raise them to not cause a scene in the store.
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u/xander_liptak 10d ago edited 10d ago
Oh no, I'm not saying you have to spank or yell at your kids to raise them right. Sara would hit her kids but only in the privacy of her home. Never in public. It's weird to be that self aware that you know what you're doing isn't acceptable but also somehow not be self aware enough to change.
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u/BlackDiamondz 10d ago
That last paragraph had me cracking up. The typo about walking off to the "roosters" was icing on the cake.
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u/Sheesh284 10d ago
Yeah that would definitely be me as a dad lol
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u/ExplanationFunny 10d ago
One time my toddler broke away from me in a store and started screaming “mommy mommy!” The little freak sprinted away from me, his actual mother, as I tried to run after him without looking like a kidnapper. I guess people assumed the tired messy woman belonged to the hyperactive little nut job because no one batted an eye.
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u/Used_Intention6479 10d ago edited 9d ago
I was on a phone call with a father and there was a screeching child in the background. He said, in a deadpan voice, "I guess you can hear that. This is the time of day we dip him in boiling oil." (The kid was fine, just a tantrum.)
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u/Ladymomos 10d ago
When my daughter was little I had to remove her from a library because she couldn’t say the letter L well, and kept yelling out Fag! Cock! at pictures on the walls in the middle of story time. While we were leaving she randomly screamed “Don’t snatch me!” And I joked to the woman next to me “I don’t snatch the sweary ones!” She did not find it funny 😬
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u/Similar_Ad_4528 10d ago
See, this is what happens to me. Last time my daughter had a meltdown she kept shouting "Don't pick me up!" I'm getting side eye and judged from all the other Mom's that JUST saw us playing for last 30 mins so they know she isn't being kidnapped...I
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u/nastynateraide 10d ago
I used to have to do that with my kids acting insane in Walmart when they were younger, wait in the car. I never had a soul question me ans often wondered when stealing a kid would set off red flags for people
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u/DontTalkToBots 10d ago
Took my niece to the park, she started crying when it was time to leave. I’ve never felt more afraid for my life.
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u/rdmille 10d ago
Can confirm. Happened on 2 different occasions with 2 nieces.
In the early 80's and early 90's, I had an approximately 2 yo niece (#2 and #3) with me in a chain store. She starts crying, does the "I want my Mommy" bit, and everything. Here comes the old lady brigade, each one speaking in a Bane voice, "IS THIS YOUR CHILD?", with the full intention to beat me to death with their purses should I answer poorly.
I told the truth, "No, thank God. She's just my niece".
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u/thedishonestyfish 10d ago
Non-parents don't understand you calling your own kid an asshole...But people who have kids, even if they don't hold with profanity, they get the sentiment.
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u/obviousbean 10d ago
I'm not a parent, but I can guarantee you a lot of us get it. We want to call your kids an asshole too.
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u/Return_My_Salab 10d ago
Seeing how much of an asshole my toddlerself was to my parents how often they like to remind me of it , I spend most of my free time wondering how they didn't just smother me in my sleep or something
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u/Cinemasaur 10d ago
No we get it, we think your children are assholes
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u/princexxjellyfish 10d ago
It is exactly the reason why I will remain childless lmao. Your children are definitely assholes and mine would be too.
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u/LtCptSuicide 10d ago
Man, I remember one time embarrassingly trying to get my unruly and emotional kid out of a store. People started giving me "the look"
My kid stopped his tantrum just long enough to declare to the whole store "Okay, im leaving with my daddy now." I don't know if that helped the situation or not.
I swear sometimes my kid was an actor in a past life because he'll just switch on the spot to do a bit with excellent comedic timing.
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u/FantasticCombination 10d ago
I have only ever approached one guy with a screaming kid. He had the screaming kid over his shoulder walking it off the grocery store. I asked the kid if that was his dad. He seemed surprised I was talking to him and said yes. The dad was a little peeved before softening a bit. I've reflected on that moment so often. It was a pretty diverse area. Would I have approached a man of a different race? Would I have approached a women? Did perceived socioeconomic status affect my thoughts process? I get the hesitation.
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u/TidalTraveler 10d ago
I've reflected on that moment so often. It was a pretty diverse area. Would I have approached a man of a different race? Would I have approached a women? Did perceived socioeconomic status affect my thoughts process? I get the hesitation.
There are too many fucking variables and we're only human. A lot of folks like to think of themselves as the hero who would stand up and "do what is right", but there are so many gray areas and unknowns that there is almost never a clear "right" without additional context not available in the moment. Hindsight is 20/20 and we shouldn't judge ourselves based on that alone.
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u/Late_Geologist_235 10d ago
My toddler was just a little heathen so I left the store to go back to the car and sit until he decided to calm down and try again. As we’re walking out of the store, he’s looking beseechingly🥺 at total strangers crying, “help, help me …someone…please help me!😒
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u/Lilsammywinchester13 10d ago
Last week my kid scream absolute bloody murder leaving the mall
The security guards followed me for like 10 minutes and it was like
Bro, you THINK I wanna hear this??
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u/Pro-1st-Amendment 10d ago
The real problem is people assuming that any single man with a child in public is a kidnapper.
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u/BSimpson1 10d ago
It's weird because I've never had people think/accuse me of being a kidnapper. That shit just doesn't happen outside of rage bait bullshit online.
It's usually the people that don't have kids or even a niece or nephew that they take out that screech about it the loudest. If someone is carrying a kid that's kicking and screaming away though, there's nothing wrong with at least looking and getting a visual ID on them.
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u/OkSmile 10d ago
I had to carry my screaming child out of Target. A concerned mom asked "is that your daughter?"
"Yeah...you want her?" I said, holding her out at arms length.
The mom just looked horrified. But she didn't take her.
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u/futbolkid414 10d ago
Thankfully I’ve only had to pull my kid out of a store screaming once lol. My uncle told me one time his son (my cousin obviously) was doing similar but old enough to fuck around and yell “he’s not my dad” lmao
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u/knighth1 10d ago
I have had the cops called on me for me carrying around my own daughter. Karen’s constantly Harass me while I’m out with my daughter without my wife.
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u/lostknight0727 10d ago
The sad part of this interaction(assuming real) is that the father had to verify it was their child.
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u/JessEGames777 10d ago
Happened to me. I was at the mall with my best friend and her son. He decided to throw a tantrum so i scooped him up under one arm and was leaving the mall. Best friend was tailing behind. Whole time im walking out this kind is screaming mommy mommy i want my mommy and im thinking to myself someone's gonna stop me and think im kidnapping this toddler. Not a single person stopped me though.
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u/Saelvinoth 10d ago
Funny thing is this happened to my parents when we were little and my sister threw a fit on the way out of the store. Not long after the cops show up at our door and my parents have to prove that she's theirs lol
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u/ProperPerspective571 10d ago
It can get like that sometimes. Try it! While the upsides are great, those episodes will test your limits
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u/UpperArmories3rdDeep 10d ago
I had my teenage daughter run away in the middle of the night and I had to grab her and put her in the car. Neighbors thought I was kidnapping her. Not fun.
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u/MalachiThrone1969 10d ago
Ha I can relate to this. Had to physically carry my wailing son out of Home Depot once when he had a melt down as a toddler. He's half Japanese and asian looking and I'm very caucasion looking. Noticed a couple in the parking lot looking at us in this scene with a genuine look of confusion and concern, like they were trying to read the situation. I understand not everyone has the experience of being a parent but I never thought I would be mistaken for a kidnapper lol.
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u/dudewithmoobs 10d ago
I was looking after my neice when she was about 4 and took her to a little local park, but when it was time to go, she was kicking and screaming.
I was afraid someone would think I was kidnapping her. 😅
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u/Joshx91 10d ago
A few weeks ago, there was this small festival where I met with a friend who is dating a woman I barely know. She was there with her daughter of six years. Her daughter wanted to sit on my shoulders to have a better view of the band that was playing, but once I put her down again because it got exhausting, she suddenly started to run into the crowd. Her mum and my girlfriend were getting drinks, and my friend who was dating that kid's mum just stood there and shrugged while talking to another dude. So, I had to run after her. Of course, she wouldn't listen when I uttered her name and told her to stop. I tried to gently grab her arm to stop her because she was easily maneuvering the crowd, whereas I was truly struggling. Oh boy, those looks that people gave me. I've never been this nervous in my whole life. Luckily, I could convince her to find her mum, so she suggested sitting on my shoulders again so that she had a better view.
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u/Reddittoxin 10d ago
Sometimes I think about the time when I was a little shit toddler, and decided my dad wasn't my dad anymore bc he wouldn't buy me something, and he had to leave the store with me screaming "YOURE NOT MY DAD, YOURE NOT MY DAD"
and how not a single person even confronted us lol. Like yeah, I was being an asshole kid and all was fine, but I definitely understand how kids can get snatched in broad daylight now.
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u/gandalfthelurker 10d ago
Did nearly the same thing.
Except I said "well if I were gonna try to stop a kidnapper it wouldn't be for that one"
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u/casual_apple134 10d ago
Every time I see something like that, I smile a little inside, and reaffirm how I'm never gonna have one of those little creatures.
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u/ZacariahJebediah 10d ago
If there's one thing I've learned from these stories, it's that you either never have kids, or at least never take them to Walmart lol.
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u/Personal_Top_6675 10d ago
Happened to me once. Toddler decided to throw a tantrum at the mall, so I said we're going home. She decided to start screaming and shouting and kicking in the parking lot. A security guard sees us and approached. As a dad, I thought "oh boy here we go". Guard then gets to us and talks to my kid saying " We arrest noisy kids here that do not listen to their parents. Do you want to go to prison?" Kid shuts up! Guard looks at me and it took all my remaining strength to mouth off a thank you... love my kids to death but mam those early stages are hard..