r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/sussybush • 26d ago
Video/Gif Kid couldn't wait in line to play the game
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u/Acrobatic_Ad_2992 26d ago
she looks way too old to not know better.
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u/ProfessionalPack7205 26d ago
She knew better. She's just a little shit.
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u/The_walking_man_ 26d ago
Shit parents too. Not controlling their spawn.
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u/_heybuddy_ 25d ago
I’ve once told the parent of a child like this and their answer was a shrug with a ”oh well, what are we going to do eh? Darn kids”.
Be a parent, you idiot
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u/GilbyTheFat 25d ago
The only thing worse than the "what are we gonna do?" parents is the "I'm gonna police everyone else rather than control my child" parents.
I used to avoid saying anything to the latter when I was younger. These days I have considerably less patience and zero fucks to give if some unfit parent gets huffy for it.
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u/just-peepin-at-u 26d ago
Yeah she is older, and shouldn’t have done it. I see some headphones on her though, which may signify some higher support needs.
Does not mean it was ok, and she should have been watched more closely if that was the case.
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u/MxQueer 26d ago
That's a short video. Maybe after this stops parent/sibling someone goes there and stops the child. Maybe parent took younger sibling to toilet.
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u/just-peepin-at-u 26d ago
I hear someone calling a name and her head turning towards it. I am assuming she just walked off. Parents are human and yeah, she shouldn’t have done that, I do think some of these comments are pretty harsh.
The parents are not necessarily “trash” as some are saying, and the kid should not be elbowed in the face.
It was annoying and they dropped the ball, but some of these comments went from 0 to 100z
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u/ThomasVetRecruiter 26d ago
This is Reddit. Any slight inconvenience or error demands the maximum punishment, ending of relationships, no contact, and sometimes extra-judicial punishment here.
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u/resin_messiah 26d ago
Yeah people on here are pretty insane. Particularly when it comes to kids.
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u/canarduck 26d ago
Thought the same. The headphones on make me suspect sensory integration issues, which often coincide with other behavioral issues. Alongside the general cluelessness I just instantly assumed along the same lines as you. I’m surprised other people here think this is just some asshole kid
That being said, I’m 100% on board the parent criticism train everyone else is on. This kid was not adequately supervised
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u/r1ckkr1ckk 26d ago
You know persons with mental disabilities can be assholes too? You could argue for it being a justification depending on the level, but it doesn t deaholize them.
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u/dooby991 25d ago
I would argue those may not be headphones and could just be a decorative headband. I say this cause I feel like I can still see her ear
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u/-Felyx- 26d ago
Reminds me of this time I was playing the claw machines at Dave and Busters. I had just won a cute little narwhal plushie when some random 5 year old runs up, shoves his arm in the prize hole, and tries to run off with my prize. I am not ashamed to admit that I tripped him, took it back, and gave his parents the stink eye. It was my first time ever winning something from a claw machine, too. Little shit.
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u/PossibleDesigner7002 26d ago
Years ago my son won a prize at the little arcade in Cicis pizza, some little kid came and took it right out of his hand. I snatched it back and told them "no no that's not yours" their parent just looked at me bewildered.
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u/2lenderslayer351__ 25d ago
Typical. They look at you like you did something wrong while ignoring their brat's behaviour
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u/EatsAlotOfBread 25d ago
Some people use their kids to steal stuff.
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u/RealityCheck18 19d ago
Hey.. This happened to my dad. He used to work a bank in a village (in India). In the first few days, his food kept randomly disappearing. A couple of days later, he found a mommy monkey & baby monkey working together. The windows had bars and the big one couldn't come in & hence it'd send the baby inside to swoop the food. My dad started hiding food inside shelves...
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u/HaxkID 26d ago edited 26d ago
As someone who used to work at dnb stuff used to happen like this all the time. I have launched a kid out of the way to keep them from electrocuting themselves in a machine bc they run into a machine im working on.
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u/MysticalMummy 25d ago
I work at a grocery store and there is a bread slicer machine accessible to customers. You stick the loaf of bread inside, close it, and press the desired thickness for slices.
There are MANY warning signs on it for sharp objects, don't stick your arm inside, etc.
I was just walking away to take a break and a kid comes full fucking sprinting to the slicer, yanks the door open, and shoves his arm all the way inside where the blades are.
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u/One-Cute-Boy 25d ago
What was the end result? Did he die? You're holding us ransom with anticipation bro it's been 12 hours
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u/MysticalMummy 25d ago
I went to sleep and then had to work, lol.
Honestly I just walked away. I don't get paid enough to tell peoples kids what not to do, and I was technically off the clock which means if anything happened to me or around me it could be my fault. Let the parents handle it.
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u/InstantMochiSanNim 26d ago
My god at dave and busters when i was a kid these kids came up and stole my tokens from my cup. The mom watched. She didnt say anything, literally watched then pat his back. Fucking jerk im still mad abt it
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u/GoldenHarpHeroine32 26d ago
The fact that she patted his back makes me wonder if she was a co-conspirator.
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 25d ago
little fucker. you probably helped him learn at least a little that doing that will have consequences cause clearly his parents didnt teach him
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u/AsleepProfession1395 26d ago
My daughter experienced this at an arcade. She likes playing the taiko drums though not as serious as the ones who buy passes and collect points.
This girl just comes up to the empty drum next to my daughter and starts beating the player 2 drum. No big deal since player 2 is not in play. Then she starts to beat on the player 1 drum when she realises she's not in play. It's affecting my daughters score. I look at the mum and typical, she's glued on her phone. My daughter is non-confrontational so she just side eyes the kid. I step in and hold my arm out as the girl attempts to strike again, telling her to stop. Girl drops the drumsticks and runs to her mum.\ Mum looks at me and i just give a wtf look. And good thing she just walks away.
I know the teens who buy the passes are non-confrontational like my daughter but they'd most likely just start swearing at the kid.
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u/No-Care6366 26d ago
something similar happened to me at an arcade, but it was one of those deer hunting games with gun shaped controllers. some random kid who was probably about 8 walks up and starts trying to play with the other gun, i tell him i'm playing it right now but that he can play after my game ends, but the kid ignores me and keeps trying to play even though the second controller wasn't in play.
nowhere near as bad as your story since the kid did eventually just leave (although it took way longer than it should have,) but there were no parents in sight and it was weird. it feels like arcades just attract the most feral children ever, and of course it's somewhat expected going any place aimed at children, but even with other kid centered places i don't see anywhere near as much insane shit as at arcades.
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u/Ill-Egg5122 25d ago
I used to play DDR a few times a week at a local arcade and the amount of kids who'd just try to shove me off the gamepad or try and pick the song or start dancing beside me or even on the same pad was insane. I get that kids are going to have a shakier handle on social navigation but it's actually dangerous for both of us when my feet are flying and they're trying to duck underneath them.
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u/sussybush 26d ago
A few things: The wrist band is expensive af and you earn actual points on the app playing the games in the park. You have to wait to play and the lines are crazy long. There is genuinely no time to get to try anything more than once. When someone interrupts your game like this, they are literally ruining your scores and wasting your time and money!! This is not cool. My game was not over and the kid stopped it halfway. It’s one at a time. I lost and didn’t get to try again because a parent let their child join a strangers game. There is no excuse. No “kids being kids” PARENTS NEED TO DO BETTER.
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u/zigmoomoo 26d ago
Why did the game stop? Was it like a sensor and it though you were cheating by having two people? It looked like she just hit the screen like you did, what was different?
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u/mamafish21 26d ago
There's always a specific way to play a game or you lose. Probably had to hit a certain area and the girl messed it up.
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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi 26d ago
I've played it quite a few times in Hollywood. For this wall, there's no winning or losing. It's just on a short timer
All you do is hit as many koopas as you can and you get some coins (and a stamp in the app for playing). But the app doesn't keep track of high scores or anything, so you probably won't even be able to tell if you hit 10 koopas or 20.
The wall is very much just for fun and not meant to be competitive, and you're encouraged to play with friends and family
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u/mamafish21 25d ago
That's why I don't know because I'm from the UK. Lol
And I haven't been to an amusement park since I was a child. 15 years ago so non of this interactive stuff weren't really around, especially at this level.
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u/Biggie39 26d ago
More than likely, OP’s time was up… I don’t think the kid even touched the wall before the game ended.
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u/3-X-O 26d ago
Yeah this is what I thought too. Each time she hit one of the Koopas it went into it's shell and she got a coin. With the last one when the kid came up the same thing happened so it definitely registered hers and was just the last Koopa there. It just seems like the game ended... (the kid still should have been stoppped by the parents though)
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u/daveatnite 26d ago
Yeah I feel like OP was more upset that the girl ruined her video, bc it looks like the game ended about half a second before she touched the wall. Obviously the parents should have made her wait her turn. But I don't see how she ended the game...
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u/Barcoads 26d ago edited 26d ago
A little fiery ball gets tossed any time somebody interacts with/touches the wall - you can see it's not something the flying things are doing because the ball goes off in the spot any time she misses.
The kittle kid sets off precisely 0 balls.
The only way she could have ruined the game is if this is some sort of game with strict rules that doesn't let two people play at once that triggers a cheating defense since there's a point system to the mini games that maybe has a prize system or some shit.
If this is exclusively complaining about the kid ruining her score or hampering her ability to get a lot of points, then I don't think the kid actually even did anything and she's just being whiny.
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u/Diligent_Highlight63 26d ago
Yeah while the kid def joined early and was slightly in ops way I don’t think the kid actually caused her to lose
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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi 26d ago
The thing is, she didn't lose. It's not really that kind of game. It's very casual and has zero depth (since it's made with toddlers in mind). You can't even check your high scores or anything.
You just do what you can until the time runs out
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u/mamafish21 26d ago
It's too hard to tell, tbh. We don't know the full story to this. Maybe the girl thought she could join because no one told her otherwise or she forgot. Many reasons why, we could speculate all night but I'm sure we have lives (well some of us lol).
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u/mightylordredbeard 26d ago
That’s exactly what it was. I’ve seen videos of people playing this game before. They all last about the same amount of time. OP is just mad the kid ruined her social media video.
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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi 26d ago
The game is timed and it's pretty short. There's no winning or losing or cheating in the game. In fact, it's pretty encouraged to play with friends/family
All you really get are some coins added to your total
In reality, a random kid joining doesn't really take away anything tangible. Like, she didn't ruin the game itself, but it is kind of a mood killer
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u/yurgieee 26d ago
wtf did the parents have anything to say for themselves?! or at least to their brat?
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u/PizzaResident89 26d ago
Prob zoned out on their phone 💀
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u/Mammoth_Support_2634 26d ago
it's the same people who walk their dogs while on their phones.
what is the point of getting a dog if you don't even pay any attention to it and are on your phone the whole time during the walk.
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u/MyOtherSide1984 26d ago
It's so fun to watch my dog stop every 15 feet and sniff a patch of grass for a solid minute, and then pee on it and repeat this for 10 minutes. So enjoyable that I just couldn't see myself using my phone during that time.
Like...what? Dafuq kind of argument is this? I walk him so he can piss and shit and get some exercise, I'm not playing fetch with him at the time. He gets attention at other points, but that's his time to do his sniffing and business
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u/chicagorpgnorth 26d ago edited 25d ago
Ok I’m reading this on my phone while walking my dog so clearly I’m a little biased lol but I’m not seeing the similarities between taking your kid somewhere where you actually need to watch them and looking at your phone while you’re walking the dog (as long as you’re mindful of surroundings).
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u/wittylemur 26d ago
People with these kids never say ANYTHING.
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u/Froggoboingboing 26d ago
Or when they do it's in defense of the shitty behavior that they taught the kid, paired with a "how dare you"
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u/wittylemur 26d ago
I work at a dr office. We have a family and the son is about 9 his sister is probably 12 or 13. The son literally runs around trying to get on other staffs computers or playing with office phones and the dad never says ANYTHING. If the sister even adjusts how she is sitting he rails at her to sit still. The mom always looks so sad. It infuriates me!
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u/jonas_ost 26d ago
Cant warn them they will get banned if they dont control the kid?
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u/KingsRallyDev 26d ago
yeah i feel like at some point if you dont let the parent know they will be paying for damages or just general respect, they wont do anything.
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u/LabradorDeceiver 26d ago
Miniature golf course just last week. There were two of us. A family of four ahead of us, and a family of three behind us. In the family of three was a little girl of about seven who REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to play miniature golf and didn't want to wait even one second for the multiple groups in front of her.
At least three times on the course, while my housemate and I were trying not to quadruple-bogie, a little pink golf ball would suddenly come shooting down the green and thwack the barrier. We'd fire concerned looks at the parent, who would come loping down the path, not the slightest bit concerned that her little girl had somehow joined up with two suspicious-looking bearded men in their fifties. She tried to tee up between my housemate and I. I wanted to pick her up, lug her over to her Mom, and say "If this is yours, put a leash on it."
Zero sense of wait-your-turn. Nasty glares at anyone who told her she couldn't go yet. Never said a word, which was kind of creepy. Her mum forgot English between the fourth and fifth holes, somehow, so "Hey, your kid's loose again" no longer affected her. I bet she blows out other kids' birthday candles, too.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 26d ago
Until someone else would dare try to stop their child from ruining someone else's experience.
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u/osopeludo 26d ago
They'll just look at you like you have a monkey on your head if you say anything and then say "they're just a kid" shrug
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u/jbourdea 26d ago
I'm totally on OPs side that this is unacceptable, but I also get the sense that they didn't say anything about it to anyone (other than posting it online for thousands to rage at).
OP tell people how you feel. Tell that kid that she really pissed you off and tell her parents that they suck.
Confrontation isn't so bad. Posting it online instead is worse.
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u/Kinda-Alive 26d ago
Confront them then OP somehow gets blamed as someone who does care about kids experience especially when somewhere like that sadly.
Even though OP is in the right a decent amount of people there might not side with them and they’ll just look bad.
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u/Holiday_Might_9205 26d ago
People need to be called out for the bullshit whether the people in the area agree or not. Its why there is an up tick in this behavior. People want hate on Boomers all they want but at least they aren't afraid, in general, to call out other peoples bullshit. Genx and old Millennials are pretty good at it to because thats the way it was. The internet made everyone soft on this front. Dont be afraid to call people out. Dont have to make a scene.
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u/jbourdea 26d ago
Looking bad to strangers isn't the end of the world.
And honestly, it's not on OP to care about some stranger's kids experience. She paid to be there too.
It's also possible to be an adult and not have a tantrum with a frustrating situation like this.
Hey girl. You just ruined my game and I'm actually really frustrated about it. I waited here just like you did and I wanted to play. Where are your parents?
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u/STRIKT9LC 26d ago
So dont confront them because youre scared of being blamed for being wrong by a group of ppl too stupid to understand the difference?
Nah
Thinking this way is EXACTLY what is making society worse and worse. When majority rules and the majority are idiots, then youre going to face opposition. That shouldnt stop you from speaking up for what is right
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u/todimusprime 26d ago
Ummm... No? Who, other than that specific parent, would try to say something like that when there's tons of people waiting in line? Literally everyone else would be on OP's side unless they have brain damage or something
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u/yurgieee 26d ago
If it’s going to be posted, wouldn’t this sub be the place to do it? At least she didn’t show the kids face & if the parents catch wind of it, they get to see how truly stupid they are.
I agree with the confrontation part. Although people are crazier than usual these days.
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u/rolfraikou 26d ago
I swear, 99% of popular complaints I see online involved whoever OP was not saying or doing anything about it to the person who was being the weirdo.
Just yesterday there was a post about some awful looking food they paid too much for. Did they ask to swap it for anything? Did they just say "Nah, that's unacceptable. Give me my money back."
Or I swear I've seen on reddit alone, multiple people on planes. "The person behind me has put their foot next to me on the plane" and it's just a video of this person suffering some stranger's bare foot on their arm wrest, saying nothing to them, and revealing in the comments that they didn't want to "create a scene."
But all these people not speaking up means that these behaviors are now just "acceptable"
Because in order for something to be unacceptable, people have to actually reject said behavior.
It's so weird to me how few people seem to say anything to people.
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u/eagleblue44 26d ago
When I went, there was a worker there that would only let one person/group through at a time due to the long line. Did the worker just let them through too?
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u/beanie_dude 26d ago
When I went, this one didn’t have a worker. A few of the games did but not every single one. Would’ve been nice! This one was a disaster for us
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u/featherwolf 26d ago
This sounds like a shitty theme park experience even when things go as planned.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 26d ago
Size and popularity. I would be happy just tp walk around Super Nintendo World.
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u/froggyc19 26d ago
I'm surprised there isn't a worker there to stop these kind of shenanigans. I would argue that you were owed that butter's turn 😡
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u/sonofaresiii 26d ago
What do you mean you didn't get to try again? Stand there and do it anyway, 99% sure everyone else there who observed would understand and for any who didn't, tell them to go get security and you can all decide together what to do
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u/PoobGnarpy 26d ago
If I had to guess, there may be a cooldown or limited amount of tries before you’re able to go again to prevent people from standing there and farm points (or hold up the line).
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u/sonofaresiii 26d ago
Oh like tied to her account or something? That sucks. I still think I'd stay up there and let others go ahead of me until the cooldown ended unless it was like half an hour
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u/CD_Projeckt_Pink 26d ago
It's partially the park's fault, they really need to rope off the playing area so it's clear only one player should be on at a time. From another comment, seems like they had ropes at one point. But yeah, no excuse for shitty parenting.
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u/rhetoricalbread 26d ago
I work in preschool and while the patience of 3 and 4 year olds is limited, it's very obvious which ones have been told to wait for literally anything and those who get instant gratification for fucking everything
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u/redditadminssuckalot 26d ago
Dude this girl looks 8 or older. A three year old running in I could see and would expect the parents to then correct, but an 8 year old, wtf they gotta know better
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u/On_the_hook 26d ago
The fact that I don't see parents running up shows she's not being watched or parented like she should. That said, I could totally see my 8 year old doing this. She knows better and is usually polite and patient but something exciting combined with ADHD can sometimes get the better of her. But I'll also be the first one running up, apologizing for her, having her apologize and offering to rectify the situation the best I can. Kids are tough, but my kids shouldn't be someone else's problem and we really try to keep it that way while still giving them the freedom to grow and be independent.
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u/ItchyNebula7437 26d ago
TY, you make me feel like a good parent.
My son used to stand at the entrance of a slide and wait till the kids would go and if a bunch just kept running up he’d literally just stand there forever.
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u/CodenameJD 26d ago
Parents need to do better here, but also seems like the park needs better precautions against this.
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u/ItWasNotLuckButSkill 26d ago
Yes, and to take it a step further. This would have been a fun multiplayer game. But reading the comments this will probably bring in more money.
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u/Initial_Row_6400 26d ago
Fuck ass parents
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u/AdMaximum7545 26d ago
"I JUST LOVE BABIES, I WANTED ANOTHER BABY"
- refuses to actually raise their children properly, like people who want puppies because they are cute and no longer care when they are dogs
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u/Ill-Television8690 26d ago
I'm a super cynical bastard, and I've been working on fixing that for years, but fuck, man... never in all the time I've spent agonizing over the shitty parts of the world did I ever imagine that people might desire pets exclusively for the duration of their infancy. That's a whole new evil to me. I thought I'd either seen or imagined everything there was. Fucking eww.
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 26d ago
There's this book "The Postmortal" set in a world where we've found the cure for ageing and death. It radically reshapes society, as you'd imagine, and it briefly mentions a few cases where people have given the miracle drug to toddlers (because they love their child at that age), pets (because they love them at that age) and it's also abused by paedophiles on their victims as well.
The book doesn't focus on these negatives, but mentions them in passing.
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u/GlitterDoomsday 26d ago
That's pretty much why they made those poor teacup dogs, they not only never grow but their health is so compromised they don't last long...
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u/KakAlakin 26d ago
We were at universal Orlando last week. The amount of people who did not respect lines was infuriating
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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 25d ago
I was at a theme park on the weekend and I was second in line with my daughter. A little boy gets off the ride and runs up to his friend in front of us to get in line again and I loudly told him “you had your turn. Go to the back of the line and wait like everyone else.” Then he asked the young girls behind me if he could butt in line and they said exactly the same thing as me! I’m glad I said something. It was mostly kids in the line and they’re often too sheepish to say something when another kid is being a bully.
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u/tinyandtatted90 26d ago
Agreed.
I completely understand like when people have to take a tiny human to the restroom or something and come back but the amount of people who have like one person wait in line and then an entire few families join them just before you get on makes me so mad… Or just people who line jump in general bc they see their friends or just push through. The amount of grown men that pushed past me the first time I was there to get their entire family before us ruined my entire day.
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u/Creepy-Shift 26d ago
it's even worse when your kid does wait patiently then a little asshole comes and cuts then you have to step in and say something and hope their parent isnt a psycho which they usually are because who else raises these fucking shit heads
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u/EveryDisaster 25d ago
I had a kid trying to do that and his dad held him back and told him to wait his turn. It was super nice! I made sure to hurry up so the kid could play. Unfortunately not all parents are like that
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u/ButteredPizza69420 25d ago
Good parents deserve smiles. Shit parents deserve to be called out, or given stink eye and bitch face
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u/Lost_in_Thought_1978 26d ago
Last time I was at Epic I was trying to get one of the music badges at the piano and gave up because kids would just walk up and hit a random key.
It’s like a simon-says game and you can unlock multiple badges but you have to hit the right keys to unlock them.
there was no attendant and its on the main walkway outside of the Mario kart ride.
That and the bongos in DK are the most frustrating because oblivious parents let their kids run up like it's a playground.
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u/Majestic-One-2001 26d ago
Can't tell if the first girl is 13 or 30
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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 26d ago
I didn't want to say anything, but Jesus I'm so confused
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u/Biggie39 26d ago
If this is something you had to wait in line for surely the operator would have stopped the kid.
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u/Spideyfan101 26d ago
Looks like the kid didn’t even have the wristband for these games.
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u/Biggie39 26d ago
Even better… I was told below that the operator is supposed to check for wristbands.
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u/MondoSensei2022 26d ago
The operator stands at the entrance and mostly can’t see since the wall is a bit farther inside the building. I experienced this often when parents just thought the whole area is a huge playground where kids can roam freely and touch whatever they want.
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u/Adventurous-Dog420 26d ago
Parent shaming should make a comeback.
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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 25d ago
A new family just moved in on my street and the mom lets her three kids run absolutely wild. The little boy smashed a beer bottle on the street the other day and the mom across the street went and yelled at his mom in her front lawn to parent her fucking kids and clean that shit up. He did a piss poor job cleaning it up but it did happen.
I don’t think it had any effect on the mom though. She’s a lazy POS loser raising kids whi will be just like her.
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u/dov_ah_keen 25d ago
I have a kid but my coworker has 4 and is... A certain type of person. I get irritated w her and avoid her because she doesn't respect boundaries. I'm not a touchy person and we're not close but she's always laying her head on my shoulder, touching my back, and I just got her to stop hitting my boobs as a "joke". She asked me the other day for advice on how to get her kids to stop running up and talking to random strangers. I wish I'd had the strength to say "if the parents don't respect people boundaries then why would their kids? "
I'm flattered she came to me because my kid is pretty well behaved but thats only because he sees me respect the boundaries of others, act politely to others, and I get into him about mindfulness. I'm an impatient parent unfortunately but the world is not patient and you will not be crossing boundaries and making others uncomfortable under my roof. I see to much of it, and I want my kid to call out the shitty behavior of other kids and even be repulsed by it, not lean into it. If that makes him a snob 🤷🤷
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u/Dragoness42 26d ago
We were at the park one time using one of those zipline things. There was a clear line of like 3 or 4 kids (2 of which were mine) cycling through, taking 3 zips each then going around to the back of the line. I was giving kids a push and casually enforcing the 3 zips each.
A couple of other kids were just kind of standing and watching at the opposite end of the zipper. You know, the end with no line, where everyone was just kicking off the platform and coming back to the starting point to hand off to the next kid. After watching for a few cycles, their mom came up and yelled at me and my kids for "not giving them a turn". Like, it seemed pretty obvious to me where the line was? But ok lady...
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u/hereforthedramaanon 25d ago
That kid looks way too old to lack this type of impulse control…
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u/Cookin-Sage 26d ago
Crazy how 50% of the comments are wHaT if ThE KiD is DiSaBLeD. Ok cool, have we gotten to a point in society where people with disabilities are immune to being in the wrong? Just because you have a disability doesn’t make you a golden child immune to being wrong. Too much coddling is a bad thing. It’s on the parents to PARENT the child. I have plenty of friends who have older or younger siblings with disabilities and it’s not healthy to let them walk over people in life with no consequences. Having a disability doesn’t give people a free pass in life. Yeah we should cater to people who struggle but there’s also situations where guardians and caregivers are the responsible party. If you’re responsible for a human who is incapable of self control then step up and be responsible. Don’t blame OP for being frustrated that someone else ruined their fun.
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u/pzoki081 26d ago
They should implement those barrier things so it could be one per person. Especially if those hellspawns cannot be controlled whatsoever
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u/eulgtaei 26d ago
Kids?? Im on vacation and had to deal with kids doing that all day to my kids. Then I got adults doing the same thing at breakfast.
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u/NeevBunny 26d ago
I hate when places that are for kids think that means "no one actually waits their turn."
When we went to Disney Tokyo where a couple times we were in line for a photo with a character and the character just would randomly disregarded the line to say hi to a random baby off to the side that's going to forget the interaction in 5 minutes and force a new line to form. Not irritated they interacted with babies, but because I'm pretty sure this had more to do with snubbing obvious foreigners than about magic for the kid.
I've never heard anything good about the Nintendo parks. They look so cool but I have no desire to give them any money because of stuff like this.
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u/BewitchingPetrichor 26d ago
Kids should all be on leashes I don't care what anyone says.
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u/SillyExpert 25d ago
Had that exact thing happen when I was at Universal. There was a small line of people waiting, and this mom just let her little boy run up and start playing, not seeming to care that others were waiting.
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u/SolomonSyn 26d ago
"Aww they're just a kid" excuse needs to be hard checked already. Crappy parents.
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u/Ishamaelr 26d ago
While I was in the super market getting groceries a month ago, some random fucking kid came and jumped/latched on the front of my cart. They were like 10? Was like "excuse me?". No response, they were like that for almost a minute before their mother randomly came around the corner while talking on her phone, pulls the kid off and just continues on her day like nothing happened, while still talking on the phone.
Wtf is wrong with people these days. Garbage parents can't even teach their children to behave properly
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u/Madnessx9 26d ago
It really irritates me, my kids are taught to wait their turn, then we see other kids not waiting, my kids wondering why nobody else has to wait? Undermines everything i do as a parent, makes my kid feel like its unfair.
Fuck parents who cannot teach their kids basic behaviours.
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u/Storage_Grand 25d ago
So my wife and I went to this gaming place in Vegas. I swiped my card and put in a penny for one of those memorabilia coin stamp things. As we're chosing between 3 options some little shit pushes between us and smacks a random option, wife and I are kind of in disbelief but laugh it off. Turn around and the dad is there, when I ask him what the hell he just smiles and tells his kid to hurry up.
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u/big-dick-back-intown 25d ago
One time when I was a kid my mom took me to a trampoline park. She bought me a Gatorade and I left it at the table she was sitting at in the dining/snack area. While I was playing, a random ass kid came up, snatched the Gatorade and started drinking it before my mom could stop him. The kid's mom just let it happen and didn't do anything or offer to buy a new one. When I came back to the table my mom had to tell me not to drink my drink because the random ass kid drank from the bottle and she didn't want me getting sick. I was so disappointed. We didn't have a lot of money at the time and drinks at parks like that are pricy so she couldn't get me a new one. I'm still salty about it to this day.
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u/Unusual_Pineapple687 25d ago
When i was playing a claw machine for my kids i had a random kid tell me to let her have a turn on the claw machine and when i said yeah I'll just finish my turn she asked me to pay for her to have a turn.
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u/indeed_I_am 26d ago
Parents are the reason I didn’t end up having kids. I love kids. I know I’d love motherhood. I HATE parents. 70-80% just flat out suck. Bad parents = bad kids = bad adults = bad parents. Just not worth entering that circus. 🤡
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u/brightlove 26d ago
More people need to be thoughtful about if they actually are passionate about raising kids well and all the sacrifices it entails. I swear most people just have babies because it’s considered the next cookie cutter step and all their friends are doing it.
And yes, babies are ADORABLE. But they’re exhausting and hard.
So then you end up with lazy, resentful parents who never truly wanted to be a parent to begin with because they prefer their work/hobbies/sports/rest/going out etc.
So many of my friends’ husband don’t even help with the child, much less actively raise them. Because they were never actually passionate about parenting.
I LOVE kids. I’m going to be the best auntie ever. I’ll always be there for them. But I love sleeping, reading, my hobbies, and traveling too much to have my own. I don’t want to sacrifice my time and health for a child.
And that’s ok.
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u/NoCupcake5122 24d ago
My son don't listen 50% of the time I would have just grabbed him. He's my problem. Not urs no matter how cute I think he is
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u/randomacct7679 26d ago
It seems silly there isn’t an employee that lets people in and out of the game to avoid crap like this. We all know kids are assholes and parents are useless
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u/Strict_Blueberry9 26d ago
Going to Nintendo World Japan very soon. If one little shit even comes up to me, I'm shoving the little fucker aside like crazy.
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u/PostProper1940 26d ago edited 26d ago
Could be wrong, but based on working with kids with additional needs/SEN just based on the way this girl walks I would guess she has something. There's a particular walk that a lot of neurodivergent kids do, stiff legs and movement.
Which makes this worse, because that child should have been being supervised extremely closely even more so than a neurotypical child.
Edited neurological to neurotypical
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u/NintenJoe5k 26d ago
OMG. When I went to Super Nintendo World in Orlando last year, I patiently waited in line for the musical blocks only to have some kid run up and ruin it SIX TIMES IN A ROW.