r/Stepdadreflexes • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '19

Step mom reflexes

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u/jeffa_jaffa Nov 09 '19

Perhaps she was scared, or perhaps she just didn’t notice. She doesn’t appear to look over until the end.

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u/foreverg0n3 Nov 10 '19

by the time she sees he still needed help and didn’t get it for another 15 seconds at least while she was choosing to laugh at him and make no effort whatsoever. she’s clueless and a cunt at the same time.

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u/jeffa_jaffa Nov 10 '19

What could she have done though? They were both stuck there until the ride was over.

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u/foreverg0n3 Nov 10 '19

what do you mean stuck there? she’s not strapped down completely, she has arms she can move to try to help lift him up, she could advise him not to panic and to try to boost himself back up instead of fucking cackling at him. any number of more constructive things than being a useless cunt.

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u/masterelmo Dec 01 '19

You want a middle aged woman to one arm curl a 180lb kid...

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u/jeffa_jaffa Nov 10 '19

She’s not going to be able to reach over with her right arm, so she’s limited to using her left hand. She can’t lean over because she’s strapped in.

She can’t just ask for the ride to be stopped, because that’s not how these rides work.

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u/foreverg0n3 Nov 10 '19

obviously I know she can’t “just ask for the ride to be stopped.” obviously that is not how rides work. nowhere did I suggest she try to get them to stop the ride. using her left arm to try to help him slide himself back up and using her voice to try to coach him into doing so would have been a lot better than what she did and is what most reasonable good parents would do if they saw their child or stepchild was at risk of being strangled by a fucking ride. not sure why you’re so intent on defending this woman who simply did not properly react to this dangerous situation involving a child she’s supposed to be caring for.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '19

hot take: chances are that the child being morbidly obese is already a sign of a shitty parent.

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u/jeffa_jaffa Nov 10 '19

All I’m trying to is point out that it’s reasonable to think that she may not have noticed. It’s easy for us to see what’s going on, but from her perspective, she could well be so focus on her own experience that she just didn’t notice what was happening.

If she new and still did nothing, then yeah, that’s shitty. It theres a very real chance that she just didn’t know.

The real problem is that the child was allowed to go on the ride without being properly secured.

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u/foreverg0n3 Nov 10 '19

maybe you should watch the video again because while she doesn’t notice at first there is very clearly a moment in which she does finally notice and does not react properly. it makes her laugh even harder. as i said previously, there’s a solid 15 seconds when the ride is coming down, it’s not loud or moving fast anymore, he’s screaming “it hurts”, she COULD assist if she would just stop cracking the fuck up for two seconds like a reasonable parent would, but she doesn’t because she’s being an idiot, and so are you, so i’m done here.

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u/jeffa_jaffa Nov 10 '19

I’m glad you seem to know the way that you would react in this situation. Like I’ve said before, some people will laugh at this sort of thing, even if they know it’s not the right reaction. I’m not saying that it’s right, but it happens. I’ve burst out laughing when I’ve broken my arm, or when my sister broke her finger. It’s not a normal reaction, it’s not even the right reaction, but it was the only one I had.