That's not very nice, trying to scam a kid out of their cool leaf for a measly ice cream.
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.
That's a dumb story. I give you my upvote. Now leave.
If they try to stay will you wrestle your upvote back?
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is
I mean, he learned haggling? Usually that happens BEFORE the exchange of money but... It's a start I suppose
he learnt theft and bribery.
She knows what she's got.
I ain't takin any low-ballers here!
The guy thinks he can get the $1 trillions leaf for an ice cream 🤑
A cool leaf for a bomb pop is highway robbery. That's worth an okay leaf at best.
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.
Depends on the size and the truck. The ones when I was a kid had the big 'uns. I don't know what size you're getting when it's 20 for $4 but I imagine it's one of the smaller ones. The flavor is the same though.
It doesn't matter to me, though. The orange sherbet Flintstones push ups were superior in every way.
If your favorite ice cream isn’t a screw ball (with gum on the bottom) then you are wrong. 2nd place is one of the cartoon character heads with gumballs for eyes.
I can respect that, but we were poor as fuck and those cost more than the humble push pop, especially from the ice cream truck. So the push pop beat them out by being the tastiest I could afford to get more than one of and I never really tried those.
I did try the bomb pop because they were dirt cheap at the 4th of July celebrations but they never did it for me the way the push pops did.
I’m going to be aging myself but I haven’t bought something from an ice cream truck since before 9/11.
I almost remember prices being either 1.25 and 2.50 depends how fancy the treat was.
I'm in my 40s, so you're not aging yourself too badly. I could get a couple of push pops for a buck. Anything else decent would cost more than a buck for two.
Ditto on the age. Kinda funny.
Actually stinks we don’t have an ice cream truck in my area. Only thing we get is nasty sno-cones that have decade old syrup or Hawaiian frozen ice that’s like $5.
I want a screw ball damn it.
If you're not getting the one that vaguely looks like sonic the hedgehog we can't be friends.
I’m on team Michelangelo.
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Push-pops are impossible to find these days. At least the ones we had as kids...with the stick in the middle.
I did manage to find them at one local chain supermarket (Wegmans), but they were store brand, not Flintstones.
They stopped making the big ones about a decade back. The ones sold by the truck should still be larger, but not by as much as they used to be.
They also went up in price a lot. Firecrackers used to cost ~$0.29 wholesale but they raised it to ~$0.55 when they shrunk them.
They did WHAT!?! First they took the Flintstones off the push pops and now this.
I just meant the popsicle brand bomb pops you can find at the grocery store. Because selling one of those for $5 would be price gouging children. Which is uncool.
The ice cream they sell at my local public swimming pool has "not for individual resale" written on the packaging.
How would you know the temperature of the leaf, unless you took it from the kid anyway?!
They must have thermal vision, it's the only explanation.
Everyone knows the ice cream trucks are operated by reptilians.
By the Yautja.
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
But this kid wasn't. How else should she react?
"children bad"
- former child
Well yeah it's sarcastic, obviously 9 out of 10 times it's adorable. But also really stupid in a funny way
Takes one to know one.
It's an opinion formed by personal experience.
I can attest to that opinion
more like kidsareadorable
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.
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:
Those ones are fun
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.
I member kidsarefuckingstupid
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
Kid destroyed LTV in a fell swoop
Marxists in shambles
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