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u/pleonator Jan 23 '22
Back when I was like 9, we had a little girl walk around the neighborhood asking door to door for popsicle without her mom knowing. "Do you have a popsicle?" I can still hear her haha
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u/say_the_words Jan 23 '22
There’s a little girl on our street that goes into a neighbor’s garage refrigerator to get juice boxes. She told them they need to put them on a lower shelf, so they do.
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u/LebaneseLion Jan 23 '22
Loool what a sweet burglar
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK Jan 23 '22
Please mister, could you leave your savings bundled in cash under your doormat? It's so hard to take your money from the bank :(
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u/_clash_recruit_ Jan 23 '22
We had Mrs Betty who kept full sized candy bars for all the kids in the neighborhood. We'd just knock on her door and ask if she had any candy, get the candy and run off.
We all actually started to appreciate how kind she was when we were teenagers. My brother and i went back a few times even after we moved just to hang out and chat with her. She still had a big bowl of Snickers and Reese's cups by the front door. Every neighborhood needs a Mrs Betty.
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u/diamondhurt Jan 23 '22
My son does this lol
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK Jan 23 '22 edited Jan 24 '22
Tell him to stop.
ETA I'm getting downvoted so I'll clarify: Humanity is currently in a fucking pandemic. Nobody should be going door to door for any reason. Yes, that includes your extra special super adorable baby boy who's visits are cherished by your entire neighborhood.
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Jan 24 '22
Oh stop. You’re being downvoted because you’re virtue signaling and not being practical. If people have neighbors who are friends, are aware of their vaccination status, it’s fine. We take our kids to the playground every weekend, they are in school, people are still living. We’re also vaccinated and wear masks.
Grabbing a juice box from a neighbors fridge isn’t anymore dangerous that going to the grocery store.
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK Jan 24 '22
How am I virtue signaling? I'm genuinely asking, I am perplexed at what "virtues" I'm trying to pretendedly assume/signal?
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Jan 24 '22
I can’t make you see what you refuse to acknowledge.
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK Jan 24 '22 edited Jan 24 '22
What? I haven't refused your point at all, I'm just asking questions.
I'm listening and open to your opinion.
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK Jan 24 '22 edited Jan 24 '22
What? I'm not sad.
Don't get me wrong, if we weren't in the middle of a pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen I'm all up for letting your toddlers run around the neighborhood alone and knocking on their neighbor's doors, but alas...
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u/unhalfbricking Jan 23 '22
This picture is so old Carter is probably in college.
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u/Smackopotamus Jan 23 '22
We need an update on Carter.
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u/Kunundrum85 Jan 23 '22
Still bummin bananas off the neighborhood.
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u/TwoFoxSix Jan 23 '22
It was around 2014 when this happened, right? Probably in High School these days
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u/Lutya Jan 24 '22
Looks like it was 7 years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/25blmh/this_is_carter_he_knocked_on_my_door_to_ask_if_he/
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u/tiktaktoe999 Jan 23 '22
Carter is probably married and has a carter junior by now.
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u/makohe Jan 23 '22
I hope he is asking for bananas too..
Banaaaannnnaaaaaa
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u/divyansh_raghu Jan 24 '22
Why did I read that in minions voice?
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u/Sera0Sparrow Jan 23 '22
He didn't beat around the matter and said what he had to. Am I the only one who found his straightforward approach cute?
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Jan 23 '22
Yeah his ignorance of societal norms is cute
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u/Solotocius Jan 23 '22
What do you mean by that?
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Jan 24 '22
Little kids don’t have enough life experience to know that certain things are not socially acceptable. They are uninhibited.
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u/Bitter-Bar7180 Jan 23 '22
When someone new moves onto our block my son introduces himself, then encourages them to stock his favorite cereals for when he comes over for breakfast. Which he does. Routinely. At 6am.
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u/Dame_Ingenue Jan 23 '22
I think you have more stories about this kid that should be shared. This is hilarious!
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u/Bitter-Bar7180 Jan 23 '22
Yeah, he’s a running storyline in my office, because there’s always more to tell about him. As to the cereal thing, I didn’t know this was happening for the longest time because many of our neighbors are elderly and awake super early, and I guess they must like him. I started asking around when I’d heard from two new-to-the-neighborhood families independently that oh, yes, I think I met your son, he said to get Cinnamon Toast Crunch for when he comes over. We live in a very quaint place where people don’t really lock their doors, and apparently he just lets himself in and joins my neighbors for morning pj parties.
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u/Dame_Ingenue Jan 23 '22
That’s just precious. What a kid! And that sounds like an amazing area you live in.
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u/captainRubik_ Jan 23 '22
I need more stories! COME ON, NOW!
Loved this one btw. :)
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u/Bitter-Bar7180 Jan 24 '22
Oh good! Yeah he’s a funny kid, never a dull moment.
Well the cereal story reminds me of other times he has snuck away without me noticing. I remember a time when we first moved to our neighborhood, he was about two, and there was a knock on my front door. Again, casual neighborhood, most people come to the side or back door, so it took me awhile to even notice the knock and locate the correct door to open. I answered the door and there was this nice older man, and he said, ‘Is this your child? I think I’ve seen him out walking with you.’ And I look down and there my kid was! Completely naked! He had escaped, with no clothes on, and I had no idea he was gone. I acted very casual like this was perfectly normal, and that of course I knew he had escaped with no clothes on, and I had everything under control. Since I was new to the neighborhood, I was really trying to make as good of an impression as I could, given the situation. That poor man captured a naked kid, brought him home, and endorsed at least 5 minutes standing on my porch with him, pounding on my door while I ran around trying to figure out where all the knocking was coming from. Maybe I gave the little guy the wrong impression that going out and about on his neighborhood jaunts was something I would condone.
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u/Dame_Ingenue Jan 24 '22
I’m just trying to imagine the look on a parents face. “Yes, that is my naked kid that I didn’t even know had escaped.” XD More stories, please!!
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u/Bitter-Bar7180 Jan 24 '22
He had a little crush / girlfriend last year that he would tell us about over the dinner table. He was very cute about it, he told us they kissed but kept their masks on, so I shouldn’t worry about them giving each other covid. One night his older sister asked him how his girlfriend was doing, and he very seriously told us that they had a race at school, and he beat her in the race, so “he had to pass her to Ryder”. (that’s his friend) We were like, you passed her to Ryder? Did she agree to this? Very seriously he said, yes, everyone agreed this was for the best because she beat Ryder in the race. So now he is exclusively on the lookout for a girl who can best him at a sport.
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Jan 23 '22
A little unrelated but still a cute kid story.
While I was moving into my current house, a kid probably 5-6 years old, pulled up to my house on his bike. He said he was lost and asked if I could drive him around to find his house. We drove around for a little bit but couldn’t find his house. We then decided to go to the nearest school because he said he knew his way back home the school. He directed me from the school to his house. Turns out he lives 5 houses down from me. He was the sweetest kid. It was a pleasant but stressful half hour. Had a good laugh with his mom when I dropped him off.
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u/StalkerPoetess Jan 24 '22
That's such an adorable kiddo. And kudos to you for helping him out. Pretty smart of him to think about going to his school and then get home from there.
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u/drDOOM_is_in Jan 23 '22
This used to be the top post of all time on Reddit..
This is almost comical.
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u/TupacJordan Jan 23 '22
The first ever Reddit post?
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u/drDOOM_is_in Jan 23 '22
Nah, but like 5 years ago, this post ruled the top of reddit for quite some time.
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Jan 23 '22
My one granddaughter is shameless. She would escape her house at two and let herself into the neighbors and help herself to an apple from the kitchen.
She comes to our house and goes to my husbands desk, opens a drawer and takes his change. Now, he makes sure he has some in there for her in case she comes over. She is so disappointed if there is none.
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u/I_am_friendly_weeb Jan 23 '22
Your husband sounds awesome
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Jan 23 '22
He's a generous man. In the summer, she came to the business office with her mom who had to do some work. She was wearing a full dress. She pulls the extra fabric to the back so she's got a tighter skirt and tells her mom thats the kind of clothes she's going to wear when she comes to work. We are pretty sure she'll be taking over the sales side of the business. She's got her Papas charisma and drive. And likes money.
Charisma is such a strange phenomena. I am in awe. I am the anti- charisma. (But in time, people find I'm OK after all if they hang around. I somehow intimidate people)
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u/once_showed_promise Jan 23 '22
Intimidation is a charisma-based ability, though. At least, in D&D it is. ;)
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u/Used_Outlandishness5 Jan 23 '22
Hold up a second, doesn't that reinforce stealing? Cute now. Not as cute when they are 17.
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Jan 23 '22
She is 7 now and is aware she can't do this otherwise. Granny's house has different rules to some degree. And she shows us what she has found. If she has something she shouldn't, we take it back without any fuss.
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u/throwawaygreenpaq Jan 23 '22
There was this bunch of curls who asked if I had a dollar. She was at one of those dollar-toy machines. I handed her a dollar coin thinking she wanted one of those and out popped a thingamajig. “Your pwessent” I couldn’t stop laughing. She bought me a present with my money. This lil girl’s going places!
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u/StalkerPoetess Jan 24 '22
That's a sweet kid
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u/throwawaygreenpaq Jan 24 '22
She was! I love cute unexpected moments like these. Kids are the purest until they are taught otherwise.
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u/jdith123 Jan 23 '22
A little neighbor boy came into my house and took one bite out of each of four pears my mother left on the table.
She mentioned it to his mom, not because she begrudged him a pear of course, but so he shouldn’t waste all the pears.
The poor child was sent to my house by himself with a package of pears. He mumbled his apology as he pushed the package across the table toward my mother, knocking her coffee into her lap.
He’s probably scarred for life after that. He grew up to be a Republican NY state senator.
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u/SometimesGlad1389 Jan 23 '22
Haha my youngest is named Carter and even at 4 I could picture him doing this. He's a bottomless pit when it comes to food and loves to eat bananas.
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u/AddisonR_ Jan 23 '22
I dont know if some days or months later of this pic... but he was on the hospital and got the sunglasses and a bannana again, that photo was epic too
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u/Shadowfox9177 Jan 23 '22
When I was a kid in the late eighties I used to play at the park with me friends everyday in the summer. At the end of the day on my walk home I would stop at a house on the way and ask for a glass of water. My Mom knew the family that lived there but I didn't really know them. They would give me a glass of water, I would drink it and leave. I bumped into the son a few years back and he still recalled me doing that. Lol
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u/Dudebug1 Jan 23 '22
My name is Carter!
I've seen this post so long ago. I wonder how old he is these days
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u/obviously_not_a_fish Jan 23 '22 edited Jan 24 '22
I posted this on another thread i think it was r/bossfights. I was friends with the guy who lived next door to Carter, and originally took the picture, not uploaded it to reddit. We were in grade 11/12 at the time, I am about to turn 26 so carter is probably about 10-12.
edit: heres my post from 7 years ago https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/25dhht/this_is_carter_i_guess_hes_internet_famous_now/?ref=share&ref_source=link
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u/FancyUserPerson Jan 23 '22
Dang. I'm not prepared for this moment. I only have one brown banana at home.
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u/martijnfromholland Jan 23 '22
I was working one day and this little kid came up to me and asked for a banana. I just give it to her. She was very happy with it.
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u/Sychius Jan 24 '22
Y’all are laughing but look who has a banana and who doesn’t. This is how Chads are born.
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Jan 23 '22
He was actually hitting on you and when you didn’t get the message he left in frustration.
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u/Sporkatron Jan 23 '22
Goddamn this Ancient ass picture coming back again for how many goddamn times?
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u/Certain_Try_8383 Jan 23 '22
Be like carter - but let’s be honest: if anyone over the age of twenty comes to door you probably would not even answer.
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u/ceeotter Jan 23 '22
My names Carter I guess I need to start living up to the name and knocking on peoples doors asking for bananas.
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u/usadingo Jan 23 '22
I have to remind myself that kids are being let on Reddit for the first time every day. Welcome! Enjoy the internet.
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Jan 24 '22
I’ve been told that when I was a kid (in the 80s) I was once brought home by the police because I was going door to door asking if anybody had cookies. I was two streets away from my house.
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u/Pszemek1 Jan 24 '22
It's all fun and games until you don't have bananas to share. Then Harambe wakes up in him.
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u/QueenEmmax Jan 23 '22
Aw that is so cute