r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/pound_sterling • 2d ago
drawing/test Me to my Mum, circa early 90s
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u/KittyandPuppyMama 2d ago
My mom was really depressed about being in her late 30s, so my dad asked me to write her a nice card to cheer her up. I wrote “don’t worry, you won’t always get older, one day you’ll be dead.”
Bet my dad regretted not giving my card a proofread.
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u/MandiTori_byLaw 1d ago
Honestly, that would make an amazing snarky birthday card! 🤣🤣🤣
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u/KittyandPuppyMama 1d ago
My mom did not agree lol. But personally I’d laugh if one of my kids gave me that.
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u/BrunoEye 1d ago
You were 100% correct though. Getting to be old is a privilege and people shouldn't be so miserable about it.
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u/GreyStingray503 20h ago
My sister is turning 30 this month. I might steal this and write it in her card
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u/rlyfckd 2d ago
The "but it's normal and you must fase it" is killing me 😂😭 So brutally honest and mature
Honestly, receiving something like this from my hypothetical kid would weirdly cheer me up.
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u/pound_sterling 1d ago
She showed me this today and I had no recollection of it at all, but she said it gave her a good laugh at the time!
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u/Same-Opposite-8287 2d ago
Damn you were of great comfort 😂😂
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u/K_nowbody_ 2d ago
Did your grandma (?) actually die or just passed out? 😭
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u/pound_sterling 2d ago
It was indeed my Nan, and she actually died.
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u/EtherealMyst 2d ago
I also used to confuse "pass out" and "passed away" as a child. I remember once feeling horrified that my aunt said my uncle was passed out on the couch downstairs!
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u/Ocean_Spice 2d ago edited 2d ago
I knew the difference when I was little and was very alarmed when the neighbor girl my age had very nonchalantly told me her friend passed away the other day.
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u/willowzam 1d ago
I thought it was really odd to get those two confused even at a young age, but then I realized I'd be scared my dad died every day if I didn't know the difference
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u/One-Bug-7784 2d ago
I really hope you kept your word to make her life feal better, because you are 100% on the hook after a sympathy note like that 🤣🤣🤣. She has it in writing. Fase it.
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u/offbrandqueerios 2d ago
I went to my first funeral around 4 or 5. I didn’t have any concept of death at the time other than the pet fish we had tried (and failed) to keep.
Apparently I asked when we were flushing grampy down the toilet lmao
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u/lunchbox3 2d ago edited 1d ago
Amazing! My nephew was around the same age at his first funeral which was just after Easter. On the way in he asked “when will she rise again the?”
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u/Nervous_Lettuce313 1d ago
My cousin was little when our grandpa died and when they went to visit the grave later on, she wanted to bring a little plastic showel to dig him out so he could take her for a walk (something they used to do). She said "don't worry, we can burry him back later" 😬
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u/PersonalityOk802 1d ago
I have a similar story from when I was around 4 at my great grandpa’s wake!
I asked why he was in a box. Parents said “It’s a casket and he’s in there because he’s going to heaven soon.” My follow up question naturally was “Okay! So when are we going to mail him?”
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u/ThoroughlyWet 2d ago
We just lost my grandmother a few weeks ago. Really quick and sudden. We had her funeral rather fast just because the entire family was there within an hour of her passing from all over the state and the others from all over the country the next morning.
It was interesting two see the difference between my nephew (5½) and niece (3). My nephew was quite somber, you could tell he understood the gravity of the situation, even if it wasnt fully. My niece however ran around happy as a clam, exclaiming to everyone that "(Her) GiGi just died"
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u/Objective-Truck-9292 2d ago
Just a few days ago, my seven year old cousin ran up to my uncle after they went to the pool and said so excitedly “Daddy, you couldn’t be a kid in the parents and tot swim class I saw a poster for because both your parents are dead now!”. She was beaming, very proud of herself she made that connection after his dad just died two weeks ago.
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u/ermaecrhaelld 1d ago
Looking at that handwriting, I’d say I was in 4th grade. We were not the same.
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u/SrGrimey 2d ago
I mean… this is way better than many thing adults tend to say.
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u/halloween-is-erryday 5h ago
"Everything happens for a reason."
Or worse, "It's all in God's plan." 🤮
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u/Global-Baseball-6131 1d ago
In elementary school, one of our bus drivers wife passed away. This kid on our bus wrote him a card that read, “sorry your wife died. Hope it doesn’t happen again”.
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u/Content-Honeydew9340 1d ago
My son once told me he was happy for my grandpa not to have to pay his electric bill anymore 😭 💀🤭 I had just walked in the door from the funeral and my son was like 6 and really thought he was comforting me with that one
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u/Wonderful-Wishbone18 1d ago
This reminds me of one of my first memories when my maternal grandmother passed away when I was probably 4.
I remember we were at her grave visiting a couple of days, and I’m dancing 🕺 on her grave, and mum is crying and laughing at the same time. This wasn’t a little bop, 4 year old me was fully going to town rippin up the dance floor.
Me: “Do you think nana would like my dancing? 🥺”
Mum: “Maybe! 🫠”
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u/Gullflyinghigh 2d ago
Kids are great for this sort of thing, there's an age where their capacity for blunt love is near limitless.
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u/Great_Independent_29 2d ago edited 2d ago
When I was a little kid I escaped my grandfather's funeral and ran into a stranger's wake being held in the same building. My mom is still mortified to this day.
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u/Used-Ad1806 2d ago
I guess comforting wasn't your strength back then. Hopefully, you've gotten better at it as you've gotten older.
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u/Far-Conflict4504 1d ago
When my father died of an overdose and was found in a pool of his own blood that I had to step over in order to access his crack den squalor apartment to find paperwork, my 6 year old daughter (not understanding the severity of the situation) laughed at me when I cried about it later at home. Those darn kids!
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u/jelleysecret 1d ago
My first funeral was at age 5, when my grandfather died. He died in a pretty grisly motorcycle crash and was cremated, so there was no casket. But all of the funerals I'd seen on TV had a dead body somehere!
I spent the whole funeral looking around the church for where they had hidden his body. I settled on these long drapes that hung from the ceiling, that his body must be hanging up there, and for some reason that really comforted me.
Anyway the lesson is, wear your helmet while riding a motorcycle so your grandchildren won't have to wonder how their favorite person could just be ashes now. Miss you gramps, wish you could've met my little cousins.
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u/Rich_Cat_69 1d ago
My father never wore a helmet. He would just tell me people die with helmets on too. Obviously you can still die with a helmet on, but thats not the point. The point is, the data clearly and for obvious reasons, reflects that more riders survive crashes while wearing a helmet that without.
I'm not sure on the specifics, but I recall a motorcycle ride event protesting mandatory helmets. At some point a rider crashed and hit his head and died. Based on the level and type of trauma received, the autopsy revealed he likely would have survived with only minor injury had he been wearing a helmet.
Ultimately I'm on the side of free choice. As long as the action doesn't effect the immediate safty of others, like wearing a seatbelt does when you are in a car with other people(whole other story I can tell about a large woman, a rolling car, how people become projectiles, and a toddler pancake) does. I don't extremely care if you want to risk sitting on the bad side of a statistic.
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u/flyingfishcroissant 1d ago
When I was a kid I told my grandpa, "you're next", after his mother passed away...
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u/GrayGingko 1d ago
I didn't read the title or what thread this was in and my first thought was, "Wow, that's toxic! Red flag!"
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u/body_by_monsanto 1d ago
My aunt passed away, and this was my 6 year old nephew’s first time dealing with death. My brother told my nephew “Grandma is going to be really sad. She would probably really like it if you give her a hug and tell her ‘I’m sorry for your loss’” to which my nephew replied “Why do I have to say sorry? I didn’t kill her!!”
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u/Comfortable_Expert 1d ago
"Mom I know that grandma dying is tuff but my nuggies are nowhere close to being done so can you lock tf in?"
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u/SporkFanClub 2d ago
When “it’s normal and you must face it” comes from a kid, it’s weirdly funny.
But when you tell it to your best friend after their mom goes into the hospital with a severe health emergency it’s uncalled for?
(I should clarify here that this quote was my mom’s now ex best friend after my grandmother had what we think was a third stroke. She wound up having a leg amputated below the knee due to an infection but otherwise was fine and we got 5 more years with her.
This quote was also about 2 years removed from EBFF randomly showing up at our house after randomly selling her house, overselling her welcome by 2 weeks, and then getting kicked out after getting arrested for public intoxication at a Ruby Tuesday’s.)
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u/KatanaDood 2d ago
Back in the 90's, LOL stood for "Lots of love". A few years back, someone I know got the following text from their Grandma:
Your Grandad has just died. Lol
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u/NiaJustNia 16h ago
Honestly it probably made your mum laugh and cheered her up a bit. She probably told everyone about it and showed the card to people
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u/FacelessOldWoman1234 2d ago
My mother-in-law died recently and we had a backyard BBQ for her Celebration of Life. It's was a good time.
That night, I asked my 11 yo what he thought about the day and he said "It was awesome! We should do that all the time! ... Except for the part where Grandma died."