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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay, yeah, funny story, but are these the bomb pops that you can buy in a box of 20 for like $4? Or do ice cream trucks get something different? I need to know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The ice cream they sell at my local public swimming pool has "not for individual resale" written on the packaging.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

A cool leaf for a bomb pop is highway robbery. That's worth an okay leaf at best.

[–] [email protected] 194 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's not very nice, trying to scam a kid out of their cool leaf for a measly ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I ain't takin any low-ballers here!

[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In an effort to teach my kid about money, I offered to give my kid $1 to buy the rocks in their pocket. They said yes, but took my dollar and tried to walk away. After wrestling the dollar back, it became a uneasy truce where we both hand things back at the same time.

And halfway through, my kiddo said this was dumb and gave me some of his rocks if I left him alone.

There's no meaning to this story.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he learned haggling? Usually that happens BEFORE the exchange of money but... It's a start I suppose

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

he learnt theft and bribery.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a dumb story. I give you my upvote. Now leave.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they try to stay will you wrestle your upvote back?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Kid destroyed LTV in a fell swoop

Marxists in shambles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How would you know the temperature of the leaf, unless you took it from the kid anyway?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They must have thermal vision, it's the only explanation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone knows the ice cream trucks are operated by reptilians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

By the Yautja.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Do we have a kidsarefuckingstupid community? We should

Edit: I guess people haven't heard about the joke sub that posted silly stories about kids doing illogical things. Ya know, kids being kids.

I'm willing to settle for c/kidsarefuckingadorable if there is no similar community yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There was a lot of general child-hate on that sub. If people are going to have a community here posting when kids doing weird or silly things, let's not name it something that will attract toxic garbage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have a leaf collection from when I was a kid - this kid very well might grow up and still have that cool leaf. People assume kids will just throw them away, but it's not necessarily true. That leaf is probably even more than just a cool leaf to her now, because now she'll also have the memory of nearly losing it to an ice cream man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I member kidsarefuckingstupid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As funny as those subs were, imortalizing a child on the internet doing something stupid is pretty fucked up.

If they're not old enough to have scocial media, they certainly are not old enough to be on scocial media.

Although, I suppose anonymous stories like this one are fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah it's more stories like this post. A meme community to share kid stories that are a mix between dad/parent humor and absurd/illogical/stupid scenarios (through the lens of an adult, but makes perfect sense for the kid). Like this:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Those ones are fun

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"children bad"

- former child

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Takes one to know one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's an opinion formed by personal experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I can attest to that opinion

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Well yeah it's sarcastic, obviously 9 out of 10 times it's adorable. But also really stupid in a funny way

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

more like kidsareadorable

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

But this kid wasn't. How else should she react?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago

The guy thinks he can get the $1 trillions leaf for an ice cream 🤑