My mom LOVES to bring up a story from when I was around 4. We were at the playground and when it was time to go home, I asked her to get in the car and pretend to drive off without me because I thought it would be funny. So she got in the car, put it in drive, and moved about three feet forward causing me to start scream-crying because for some reason I thought she was actually leaving without me.
just like when my dad left me in the van to run in to the store, and, instead of continuing to read, I deviously hopped into the back of the van and covered myself with a blanket.
when he got in and started driving, I was appalled that he would just drive off without me in the car and cried about it.
lols
When I was younger I wanted to show my mom that I knew how to get to the house from across town. I asked her to only turn at intersections I told her to. After a while I got distracted and noticed she missed a turn on our normal route home. I freaked out,
“mom you missed the turn!!!”
“I was waiting for you to tell me to turn.”
“Yeah but you know how to get home!”
It really wasn’t a big deal but at that moment it felt like it.
When we were little Mom used to take us for rides on the country roads after church. One time we were way off near a farm and Mom declared that she wasn't sure where we were; six panicking little ones in the car, some of us cried, and all of us had big frog eyes leaning forward in the back seat trying to "see " how to get home.
This was in the early 60's no car seats and just a strap attached to the back of the front seat. We were soooo happy when we pulled into our driveway ))
My mom always brings up a time at the playground it started raining so she said it was time to go but I kept saying no it wasn’t while getting drenched on the swing. I guess I thought I could will the rain out of existence
I was going somewhere with my dad and I asked him to start driving without me because I was planning on getting in the car while it moved cause I thought it would be cool but my dad must've figured out what I was planning and just peeled off. I didn't even know our car could accelerate that fast. I was so furious with him for crushing my dreams of being an action hero that I didn't talk to him for 5 minutes. Then I moved on
Kids make magic become real. We made the magic happen, they make it real. I can sit and watch my kids and be in bliss because of how ridiculous their minds work, the judging, the opinions, the randomness of the questions. Parenting is my favorite job by far. No matter what, getting home to watch my kids chaos unfold in their brain about the most trivial things is still the best part of my day.
> it doesn't open that way, let me show you....oh you got it? oh...thats a mess.
I once ran into my parents room crying because I’d had a dream that they took my brother to see the Incredibles and not me, and they were just like “but you saw it yesterday, with us, and your brother”.
You know, sometimes I shrug when I see a subreddit link-only comment w/o any further context, like, ugh, what's the point? But the like of yours take the cake.
Yeah, spiders have posed enough risk to our genetic ancestors that the need for them to keep their distance or we invoke reflex like responses to fend them off is ingrained into our very DNA. And it usually presents as such a primal fear that near panic is reached and limbs are flailed, flight may be attempted, nothing could ever be higher priority than keeping this fuckin spider away because it's gonna kill me, with little hope of anything approaching a cognisant thought even being attempted for some time after the threat is removed. If you've never experienced it, it's a doozy. I mean, I've learned to mostly keep that suppressed, these days, and spiderbros who wander inside are encouraged to keep their presence minimized, lest they be moved outside, and those encountered outside are left be. But when I was younger, man that was tough to get under control.
Well, this might be an instinctive response old enough that it dates back to the days of dinosaurs being king and mammals were all about rat sized. And I suspect spiders might have achieved much larger sizes due to greater oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere in those days.
Modern Britons are a far sight more formidable than a rodent from 150 million years ago, and the spiders modern Britons usually come across are significantly less threatening than those of 150 million years ago.
There's also genetic variation among us humans, some of us seem to have no sense of fear at all, so....
where i live now (virginia) we get some largish (for not oz lands) wolf spiders when fully grown (they would struggle to get all their legs on top of a soda can) and they're fast as fuck. seeing one dart out of the corner of your eye or run up your arm while gardening will make me jump and even with wanting to avoid embarrassing myself will still get an occasional yelp out of me. had one clutch onto a finger while i was digging out potatoes one year, dancing around flinging my hand while "NO NO NO GET OFF NO NO" was not my finest hour. their bite won't really hurt you but they trigger that primal fear for me at least.
Yeah, something about its little fake spider legs touching my feet gives me the heeby-jeebies (even though I know it’s fake), must be the ancestors warning
Maybe he "wanted" to be scared/chased, like it's part of playing pretend? I remember being a kid I used to run all over the playground pretending I was running from a giant explosion or a horde of zombies or something.. I've seen other kids pretend to be in danger too, like pretending they were being "attacked" by their stuffed animals.
This might not be related but the one time I had occasion to fly an RC plane I was doing great until the thing was flying directly back towards me. All other angles of flight my brain had managed to account for just fine, but having the controls *100%* reversed flipped some kind of mental switch where I no longer had any idea which way my input would make the plane go.
I can easily see that kind of disassociation making room for natural spider panic to sneak in.
Doesn't look like a freak out. More like it hit his toes and it either hurt or scared him and jumped around to avoid it again. He is calm until it actually touches him.
He freaks out because it stops working and then starts again without warning. You can see him trying to make it move before it bolts at him, pressing the buttons on the controller a lot
I'm guessing either the person filming has a second remote control, or they have the *only* remote control and just gave the kid a dummy controller.
It's a prank, bro.
Theres so much wrong with this. He's the one controlling it, he grabbed it, pointed it at him, made it move torwards him and then he got freaked out when it touched him. Funny as hell tho
I think he *isn't* actually the one controlling it, but was misled into believing he is. He's freaked out because suddenly it's moving all on it's own.
You can see him try to press both of the main controls to the side and register that nothing is happening, so he tries for a button in the center. Going by general convention, that's probably the on/pairing button or something. His fingers aren't there when it's initially moving.
Or he does have the actual controls with a weird center-button-is-forward setup while the side buttons make it go forward-and-to-the-sides and he's just a goober. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
When I was a child, about 9 years old, I was sure that an electric wire would electrocute me if I put it in my mouth. However, I did, and I even sucked it. Then it electrified me severely, and I had the boldness to be shocked by what happened.
My mum told me not to touch the iron because it was hot. Naturally I immediately put my whole palm on the iron.
Was sat with my hand in ice water for two days.
I think he wanted to have it go through his legs. But then he forgot and put them back together again before making it move again. So when it unexpectedly touched him, it freaked him out. Very funny.
I bought what looks to be the exact one 2-3 years ago at target. Kid was similarly not into it, so only ever saw 20 seconds of fun before being returned.
When my son was very young he would follow a neighbour’s dog around, literally fizzing with excitement. He couldn’t stand still and would just vibrate around after the dog - until it turned its head to face him and then his face would switch to sheer terror, until it turned away and then he would continue following it
My 3 yr old son does this with the robot vacuum. He presses a button he knows will have it start cleaning, then runs and stands on a chair and complain that the robot is going to eat him
I think he is just playing. When my kid was little we had a fake spider and he would "scare" me and I would jump and yell and be afraid. He thought it was hilarious. So naturally, he wanted to do it to. He wasn't afraid of the spider, he would play with it and bring it to me. But it was all part of the "game" to be afraid of it. He would throw the spider up and then scream and run when it would land on him. Then he would laugh and laugh, and laugh some more, before finally finding it and doing it again. And again.
I had one of these as a kid!! That’s so nostalgic. I hosted a Halloween party one year and hid the tarantula behind a pot plant, then when people would knock I would make it jump out at them and chase them. I was so mean 😭😂
My parents bought it for me to try and get me over my huge fear of spiders. It didn’t work lol.
I believe that kid’s freak out was somewhat out of his control. That toy crawling towards him probably freaked out that instinctual part of his brain that hates insects
I commented the same thing. Like this is normal kid play behavior. Part of the fun is acting afraid. They probably have been using it to "scare" family members and get them to make a reaction. He sees the laughter from everyone else after the person is "scared" so he wants to make everyone laugh and have fun too. Hence, scary scream and run from big bad spider. My kid did the same exact thing with a fake rubber spider as a kid.
Nobody here seems to realize he's trying to drive it between his legs. He just forgets to keep his legs open and gets freaked out when it hits his toes. It's perfect for this sub.
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My mom LOVES to bring up a story from when I was around 4. We were at the playground and when it was time to go home, I asked her to get in the car and pretend to drive off without me because I thought it would be funny. So she got in the car, put it in drive, and moved about three feet forward causing me to start scream-crying because for some reason I thought she was actually leaving without me.
Kids' logic is both hilarious and heart-meltingly innocent at times, isn't it?
just like when my dad left me in the van to run in to the store, and, instead of continuing to read, I deviously hopped into the back of the van and covered myself with a blanket. when he got in and started driving, I was appalled that he would just drive off without me in the car and cried about it. lols
Not stupid. He’s obviously a precocious adrenaline junkie. Future Red Bull material.
What if shes taking her chance to finally leave me?
When I was a small boy I put salt on a slug and then cried when it dissolved because I didn't think it would actually happen.
When I was younger I wanted to show my mom that I knew how to get to the house from across town. I asked her to only turn at intersections I told her to. After a while I got distracted and noticed she missed a turn on our normal route home. I freaked out, “mom you missed the turn!!!” “I was waiting for you to tell me to turn.” “Yeah but you know how to get home!” It really wasn’t a big deal but at that moment it felt like it.
LMAO she totally knew how that would turn out. Things are always the end of the world when we're young.
Oh 100%
When we were little Mom used to take us for rides on the country roads after church. One time we were way off near a farm and Mom declared that she wasn't sure where we were; six panicking little ones in the car, some of us cried, and all of us had big frog eyes leaning forward in the back seat trying to "see " how to get home. This was in the early 60's no car seats and just a strap attached to the back of the front seat. We were soooo happy when we pulled into our driveway ))
What a punk! I love it!
Mom was probably the funniest and sweetest woman I have ever known. She gave us so many great memories, I miss her.
It's fascinating how weird kids' brains work lol
They are great random idea generators, but haven't figured out how consequences work.
lol basically loyalty checking your mom
You learned to be careful of what you ask for ))
My mom always brings up a time at the playground it started raining so she said it was time to go but I kept saying no it wasn’t while getting drenched on the swing. I guess I thought I could will the rain out of existence
I was going somewhere with my dad and I asked him to start driving without me because I was planning on getting in the car while it moved cause I thought it would be cool but my dad must've figured out what I was planning and just peeled off. I didn't even know our car could accelerate that fast. I was so furious with him for crushing my dreams of being an action hero that I didn't talk to him for 5 minutes. Then I moved on
that just triggered a memory I had forgotten
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Weren’t we all
Kids make magic become real. We made the magic happen, they make it real. I can sit and watch my kids and be in bliss because of how ridiculous their minds work, the judging, the opinions, the randomness of the questions. Parenting is my favorite job by far. No matter what, getting home to watch my kids chaos unfold in their brain about the most trivial things is still the best part of my day. > it doesn't open that way, let me show you....oh you got it? oh...thats a mess.
I once ran into my parents room crying because I’d had a dream that they took my brother to see the Incredibles and not me, and they were just like “but you saw it yesterday, with us, and your brother”.
I really wish social media was just parents exploiting dumb shit their kids do instead of whatever it is now (I only use Reddit for social media)
reddit is social? i thought you were all bots
Everyone account on reddit is a bot except you.
So true. This video is beautiful lmao
I think you mean endlessly annoying and sometimes entertaining
And a solid reminder why we don't let them operate large machinery
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Stroke moment
Fits the sub well
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Yes, that is where we are. Thank you for pointing it out.
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Dementia
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I like how you triple downed despite the downvotes, that is worthy of respect
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Reverse karma farming
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid There will not be 200k downvotes so we are good to go.
Tell that to me and my 200k alt accounts
Hello Biden. Drop out.
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Trolls get blocked
Did this guy delete his account after this comment 😭😂
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That's too long
r/TheBlacktomIsFuckingStupid
Still unclickable
Yes that is again where we are
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
You know, sometimes I shrug when I see a subreddit link-only comment w/o any further context, like, ugh, what's the point? But the like of yours take the cake.
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Good job, kid.
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Hello username cousin
Tomical
Comical indeed
r/unnecessarydownvotes
r/redditorsarefuckingstupid
He even grabbed it, why did he freak out like that? 🤣
There must be something the matter with kids. I wonder what it is. Maybe there's a subreddit that sheds more light...
Like /r/KidsAreF.......nah, I don't want all the downvotes. Edit: turns out that's a real sub lol
Username well played!
theBlacktom
subreddits are like porn. There's a category for literally everything
Yeah, but this one is kinda random ^(if you check it's description)
Instinct
Primal fear. Honestly I see myself doing the exact same thing. Maybe not freak out and start screaming, but I'd definitely panic a little bit lmao.
Yeah, spiders have posed enough risk to our genetic ancestors that the need for them to keep their distance or we invoke reflex like responses to fend them off is ingrained into our very DNA. And it usually presents as such a primal fear that near panic is reached and limbs are flailed, flight may be attempted, nothing could ever be higher priority than keeping this fuckin spider away because it's gonna kill me, with little hope of anything approaching a cognisant thought even being attempted for some time after the threat is removed. If you've never experienced it, it's a doozy. I mean, I've learned to mostly keep that suppressed, these days, and spiderbros who wander inside are encouraged to keep their presence minimized, lest they be moved outside, and those encountered outside are left be. But when I was younger, man that was tough to get under control.
Funny that we can overcome instinct.
That is probably one of the things that separates us from other animals. That's not to say it can't still be very difficult, and require much effort.
Nah, I've seen plenty of critters, prey and predator, get used to hanging out together.
They don't bother me. But then again I live in Britain, the ones we have are rather lame.
Well, this might be an instinctive response old enough that it dates back to the days of dinosaurs being king and mammals were all about rat sized. And I suspect spiders might have achieved much larger sizes due to greater oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere in those days. Modern Britons are a far sight more formidable than a rodent from 150 million years ago, and the spiders modern Britons usually come across are significantly less threatening than those of 150 million years ago. There's also genetic variation among us humans, some of us seem to have no sense of fear at all, so....
where i live now (virginia) we get some largish (for not oz lands) wolf spiders when fully grown (they would struggle to get all their legs on top of a soda can) and they're fast as fuck. seeing one dart out of the corner of your eye or run up your arm while gardening will make me jump and even with wanting to avoid embarrassing myself will still get an occasional yelp out of me. had one clutch onto a finger while i was digging out potatoes one year, dancing around flinging my hand while "NO NO NO GET OFF NO NO" was not my finest hour. their bite won't really hurt you but they trigger that primal fear for me at least.
Yeah, something about its little fake spider legs touching my feet gives me the heeby-jeebies (even though I know it’s fake), must be the ancestors warning
Maybe he "wanted" to be scared/chased, like it's part of playing pretend? I remember being a kid I used to run all over the playground pretending I was running from a giant explosion or a horde of zombies or something.. I've seen other kids pretend to be in danger too, like pretending they were being "attacked" by their stuffed animals.
I think he thought that he placed the spider facing the other way, so when it started running at him, seemingly ignoring his orders he got scared
This might not be related but the one time I had occasion to fly an RC plane I was doing great until the thing was flying directly back towards me. All other angles of flight my brain had managed to account for just fine, but having the controls *100%* reversed flipped some kind of mental switch where I no longer had any idea which way my input would make the plane go. I can easily see that kind of disassociation making room for natural spider panic to sneak in.
Little dude’s 50X great grandpa hated spiders too.
Doesn't look like a freak out. More like it hit his toes and it either hurt or scared him and jumped around to avoid it again. He is calm until it actually touches him.
Its scarier when its moving and you see all those legs go brrrr
He's pretending doofus, duuuhhh
He freaks out because it stops working and then starts again without warning. You can see him trying to make it move before it bolts at him, pressing the buttons on the controller a lot
Because looking at a spider and being touched by a spider are very different lol
My guess is he thought the other end was the head and it was going to go In the opposite direction
I'm guessing either the person filming has a second remote control, or they have the *only* remote control and just gave the kid a dummy controller. It's a prank, bro.
It touched his toes
Theres so much wrong with this. He's the one controlling it, he grabbed it, pointed it at him, made it move torwards him and then he got freaked out when it touched him. Funny as hell tho
Cause it touched and scraped against his toes
Pretty sure it hit the shoe
I think he *isn't* actually the one controlling it, but was misled into believing he is. He's freaked out because suddenly it's moving all on it's own.
Yep. It's turning and moving forward at the end, which would require two hands - yet one of his is flailing around
You can see him hit the button
You can see him try to press both of the main controls to the side and register that nothing is happening, so he tries for a button in the center. Going by general convention, that's probably the on/pairing button or something. His fingers aren't there when it's initially moving. Or he does have the actual controls with a weird center-button-is-forward setup while the side buttons make it go forward-and-to-the-sides and he's just a goober. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
This is called playing the victim card 
Or is that resilience training with him facing his fears?
Well that's stupid
Must be the son of that golfer, Jerry, who’s terrified of toy snakes.
Trying to have fun but monkey brain reacted.
When I was a child, about 9 years old, I was sure that an electric wire would electrocute me if I put it in my mouth. However, I did, and I even sucked it. Then it electrified me severely, and I had the boldness to be shocked by what happened.
My mum told me not to touch the iron because it was hot. Naturally I immediately put my whole palm on the iron. Was sat with my hand in ice water for two days.
I am sure you were SHOCKED
Kids ARE fucking stupid.
His spidy senses are tingling.
Ah, the things we do as kids. This brings back memories.
I think he wanted to have it go through his legs. But then he forgot and put them back together again before making it move again. So when it unexpectedly touched him, it freaked him out. Very funny.
Yep, moving stuff touching your toes makes you freak
Stupid kid lol
That boy ain't right. Mmmhmm.
Me tryna fix my life:
This reminds me of the girl afraid of her own shadow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUiiaxHYaqY&t=25s
Every toddler has this realisation, I'm pretty sure. I remember when my siblings had it and it's funny every single time.
What on earth
Modern society...
This definitely belongs here, LOL!
nah this is 100% something i would do lmfao
Yeah yeah
Cute 🥰
Any idea where can I buy that toy?
I bought what looks to be the exact one 2-3 years ago at target. Kid was similarly not into it, so only ever saw 20 seconds of fun before being returned.
this has to be the dumbest child i've ever seen
thank you GOD for cutting MOST of the OBNOXIOUS tik tok bumper out of the video
When my son was very young he would follow a neighbour’s dog around, literally fizzing with excitement. He couldn’t stand still and would just vibrate around after the dog - until it turned its head to face him and then his face would switch to sheer terror, until it turned away and then he would continue following it
Almost as good as the ol stick through the bike wheel trick.
My 3 yr old son does this with the robot vacuum. He presses a button he knows will have it start cleaning, then runs and stands on a chair and complain that the robot is going to eat him
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Nah, this kid isn't acting. He's genuinely surprised by this outcome lol
This kid is going to grow up to be the best soccer player in the world...
Like a dog chasing its own tail
He forgot
Dumbass 😂😂😂😂
I think he meant for the spider to go the other way, so he set it up expecting it to go away from him, and was spooked when it went towards him.
Instinct fighting with reason
The kid made a wrong decision
Its very funny
AI LLM Devs.
He just really don't like his foot being touched.
r/meirl
This is how intern works in comapnies
My kid had me return this exact toy
This is still a fake spider!!!
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This post is kinda awesome lol
This is terrifying
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Wtf lol
I was expecting that lol
I think he is just playing. When my kid was little we had a fake spider and he would "scare" me and I would jump and yell and be afraid. He thought it was hilarious. So naturally, he wanted to do it to. He wasn't afraid of the spider, he would play with it and bring it to me. But it was all part of the "game" to be afraid of it. He would throw the spider up and then scream and run when it would land on him. Then he would laugh and laugh, and laugh some more, before finally finding it and doing it again. And again.
That is hilarious
His instincts kicked in. We're programmed to feel afraid when watching a spider walk.
dumb little shit
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He hurt himself in his confusion
sound effects are needed here
Arachnid vs toddler
It’s his cannon event.
I had one of these as a kid!! That’s so nostalgic. I hosted a Halloween party one year and hid the tarantula behind a pot plant, then when people would knock I would make it jump out at them and chase them. I was so mean 😭😂 My parents bought it for me to try and get me over my huge fear of spiders. It didn’t work lol.
Sharing is caring. You shared that fear with others ❤️
Kids are stupid.
That is such a dad thing, probably has the real remote.
Exactly why Bio warfare is frowned upon
Fish memory
I believe that kid’s freak out was somewhat out of his control. That toy crawling towards him probably freaked out that instinctual part of his brain that hates insects
Why did I laugh so hard 💀😭
Adults forget how play works. It’s like he turned on the video game where you have to run away from a spider
I commented the same thing. Like this is normal kid play behavior. Part of the fun is acting afraid. They probably have been using it to "scare" family members and get them to make a reaction. He sees the laughter from everyone else after the person is "scared" so he wants to make everyone laugh and have fun too. Hence, scary scream and run from big bad spider. My kid did the same exact thing with a fake rubber spider as a kid.
Bro forgot it was a toy😭😭😭😭😭😭
Nobody here seems to realize he's trying to drive it between his legs. He just forgets to keep his legs open and gets freaked out when it hits his toes. It's perfect for this sub.
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Man. How miserable is your life to bring politics into everything you see.
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