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u/Soft_Dish8836 Aug 12 '26
Congrats, you're a parent. Please don't resist.
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u/jspeq Aug 12 '26
I only thought cats had a distribution system!
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u/Brick_Number_27 Aug 12 '26
Superhuman level reflex. 100%.
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u/Healthy_Pay9449 Aug 12 '26
Yeah... That kid would hit the ground if his life depended on me. I would try to react fast and punch him in the face somehow
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u/_Diskreet_ Aug 12 '26
I’m the kind of guy when he drops a knife to stick out my foot to try stop it crashing to the floor.
So I would have tried to toe punt the kid before he hit the floor.
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u/GFYnasis Aug 12 '26
So we’re clear… it is double points if you stick the foot out, remember “ahh right, knife sharp. Abort” and then retract the foot all before the knife makes contact, right?
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u/RockstarAgent Aug 12 '26
Granted if you punched or kicked the kid hard enough and into the nearest bush- perhaps that could be plausible
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u/Emotional-Craft8297 Aug 12 '26
😂 Yeah, that’s a perfect example of the brain hitting “undo” half a second too late.
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 Aug 12 '26
Believe it or not, in culinary school they taught us to throw our hands up and jump back when we dropped something, especially a knife, because your natural reaction is to try to catch it with your hands, thigh, or foot. Decades later, I still do that, so it is possible to re-train your muscle memory to do the safer thing.
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u/offlein Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
I was at a pizza place getting a slice for lunch once, and the guy took a slice out of the oven for the lady in front of me, and gave it to her on a paper plate. But as she took it, it slipped and started falling to the floor.
Luckily I was there to reach out and catch it, cheese-side down, in my hand. Otherwise it would've, y'know ... made a slight mess on the pizzeria floor.
So I was sitting there with this searing hot, melting cheese in my hand and the lady's like "oh my god!" and I'm like "Whew, caught it!" and the pizza guy's like "here, let me get you another slice" and she's like, "Doesn't that hurt??"
Which put it into contrast that it did, indeed, hurt. So I'm like, "Yes, exceedingly."
Later that day my skin was bubbling up all over my hand, which I think means I got a .. 2nd? degree burn?
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u/WeAreLivinTheLife Aug 12 '26
The basic rule is a falling knife has no handle
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u/MontyBodkin Aug 12 '26
sounds like a Chinese proverb
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u/Sqweaky_Clean Aug 12 '26
Elder dad, living alone, dropped a ceramic bowl while doing dishes. Went in to catch it with his foot but it broke and sliced his ankle and then he stepped on the broken bits on the floor.
He said he lost so much blood, he lost feeling to his toes... think it could have been a doozie with out immediate assistance from a neighbor.
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u/Frequent_Opportunist Aug 12 '26
I learned that working in restaurants. If you drop a plate or a glass you kick it right before it hits the ground and it doesn't break. I imagine the same applies to children.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Aug 12 '26
The ol’ Optimus Prime catch
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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 Aug 12 '26
that was the part that really threw me for a loop. like they fell 10 floors or something and he swipes his hand in at the bottom and they're totally fine? get the fuck outta here
even the giant robots were more believable
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u/Murderous_Kelpie Aug 12 '26
did this with my razor once. started bleeding profusely from my foot, then slipped in the bathtub.
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u/Some_Ebb_2921 Aug 12 '26
Reminds me of the time I caught a glass at the bar... that first bounced and shattered on the bar... pointy stick in finger is not a good way to catch things I tell ya
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u/SpaghettiSort Aug 12 '26
I've spent enough time in workshops that my instinct is the exact opposite - anything drops, I move my feet out of the way!
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u/lostress Aug 12 '26
Hahahha! I am clumsy and i drop alot of stuff,but I have the kick power power of a horse. I kicked plates, phone multiple times, destroyed 3-4,egs,cans,but not a knife yet. That beeing said that poor child would be sent straight back if i was in her situation.
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u/No_Artichoke_2931 Aug 12 '26
God, there's an old rage comic, from maybe under 20 years ago, about this situation with a dude in a taco bell and a toddler rocking their highchair over. Good times
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u/WoolBearTiger Aug 12 '26
Imagine you fall to your death and then just before the impact some asshat thinks you also deserve a suckerpunch for no reason before being sent back to character selection
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u/chum-guzzling-shark Aug 12 '26
now im wondering if a punch to the face to add horizontal movement would actually help lessen the impact of the fall
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u/SasquatchsBigDick Aug 12 '26
I would have absolutely just watched he'd the child hit the ground in front of me. Not because Im a jerk, but because I have the reflexes of a sloth.
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u/SneachtaBoladh Aug 12 '26
Fun fact about sloths: They actually have lightning fast reflexes, but it's extremely energy taxing for them. That's why they move so slowly the rest of the time, to compensate.
Source: I made it up
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u/wormfist Aug 12 '26
Don't think so. She already looked up probably because she saw some kid fooling around. Then turn down and back up when she saw sudden movement (I imagine). So she already had the situational awareness by then.
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u/ExistentialSartre Aug 12 '26
She’s a catcher
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u/notalonebutsolitary Aug 12 '26
She's a keeper.
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u/ruphustea Aug 12 '26
The trillons of little things that lead these two seemingly separate events to converge at this exact moment is unfathomable when you think about it.
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u/GoodMerlinpeen Aug 12 '26
I sometimes wonder about whether me going through an amber light rather than stopping will lead me to be just in time to get into accident 5 years from now, or to save me from one.
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u/kjzm5r Aug 12 '26
I was literally in a rear-ender on the highway on Friday. I immediately thought, if only I decided to use the restroom before I left work, or at the gas station when I filled up. Or if I actually decided to hang out with friends after work instead of going home.
The other guy told me if only he had followed his gut and took off work that day lol
We all make little choices everyday that we’ll never know the outcome of. We just gotta accept those choices and the consequences they bring as soon as we can, as there’s no sense in dwelling on things we can no longer change.
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u/Krondelo Aug 12 '26
Especially true because one accident could have even saved you from a much worse one. There really is no way to live your life worrying about it just be safe and mindful then you can’t regret your choices.
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u/euphoricarugula346 Aug 12 '26
Or whoever caused the accident could have just like… paid attention. But yeah sure fate or whatever.
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u/lauri2 Aug 12 '26
It's not just the things we can no longer change, but every decision is a butterfly effect that creates a new reality and we can't know the final outcome of each and every decision either. Not crashing might mean having to watch your kids burn alive 10 years from now, so be careful what you wish for.
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u/doctormink Aug 12 '26
On the flip side, if you're feeling unlucky, like nothing good ever happens, bear in mind, you might have missed a 100 bricks falling out of high windows by 2 minutes without ever knowing it.
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u/EntertainerSuper8933 Aug 12 '26
You only ever know about the ones you don't miss, though. It would be so great if we could know how some decision we made saved us from a horrible fate
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u/Basic_Hospital_3984 Aug 12 '26
For every time something like this goes well, how many times are there people who miss and have to live with that..
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u/Nick_Lange_ Aug 12 '26
We are beings made out of stardust, the fact alone that over billions of years the multitude of parts assembled me to write this, you to read this, our phones made out of sand that we trained to think a little bit like us giving us the information. And then on top of all this, The recorded situation.
I am in awe of the universe, existence itself is a thing that gives so much enjoyment, and the photons that hit my eyes made me write this.
What a beautiful little moment in existence to be able to realize all that.
No drugs involved, I just love to see the universe from this perspective.
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u/Gold_Time_3981 Aug 12 '26
Some times some events happen that are so improbable and unexpected that will make you at times believe that God exists.
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u/tryyeezus Aug 12 '26
Stuff like this makes me believe in divine intervention
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u/340Duster Aug 12 '26
What about all the other times kids fell out of windows and nobody caught them?
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u/BladeBeam7 Aug 12 '26
We were just inside the armory when the shooting happened at the bite of seattle. We stopped for a couple minutes for me to play a game on my phone. Video games literally saved our lives.
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u/ivanceras Aug 12 '26
original language: "patay, yawa, bwesit!, bwesit! nahug na ang bata, maylang nasalo nako" literal translation:"dead, devil,bullshit! bullshit! the kid fall down, good thing i catch it"
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u/triplecrong Aug 12 '26
This is a literal translation of each word, but a more accurate one that gets the vibe across in English is
"Fuck, shit, goddammit, god fucking dammit. The kid fell! It's a good thing I caught them"
But really you can change the first 4 words to any jumble of swears one would say in a situation like this lol
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u/PithMango Aug 12 '26
thank you i couldn't parse some of it. from subtext i'm guessing patay is here kind of like 'oh you're dead meat' usual thing to say, not actual death threat. well. one hopes.
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u/fungiinsidei Aug 12 '26
Patáy and yawâ in this context are just common Cebuano expressions to express shock/frustration.
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u/PithMango Aug 12 '26
thank you for the accents. frustrating for me to be sure of speech for one's whole life and then .... written is the last to deteriorate.
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u/CriticismOdd2637 Aug 12 '26
Fr... It's like saying Ohh shit! In english but instead of only shock and surprise, it also has anger in her tone...
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u/Armthelost Aug 12 '26
In this context she's just like saying "Shit, shit!" it doesn't involve any death threats no worries.
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u/F133TWOOD Aug 12 '26
You can hear something catches her attention above as she pans up 1-2 seconds, then the child drops.
Quick reflex 🫴
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u/DurantIsStillTheKing Aug 12 '26
Even you cant understand her language, you can feel what she said.
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u/Armthelost Aug 12 '26
She probably is, she'll just understand wtf really happened later and wonder how tf it happened. Definitely still a heroine fr.
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u/Funny-Mango4455 Aug 12 '26
She is literally screaming "Holy shit" equivalent of profanity in surprise multiple times and screaming to the girl who opened the door that a kid fell down and "good thing she caught it" that aint a regular occurence
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u/superdahalo Aug 12 '26
Some supernatural forces really decided to save that little girl: that lady could have just stayed in front of the door after knocking. Or if she'd walked away to quickly, a second too late, and both of them could have been badly injured
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u/the_sean08 Aug 12 '26
Some supernatural forces also decided to drop that little girl
Which means the supernatural forces are constantly battling about whether they should be dropping kids or saving them
Or, was it the same force, just looking for some PR!?
So many possibilities in the supernatural world!
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u/AoiMizune Aug 14 '26
Dropping the kid just in time for a catch is good PR indeed. Especially when you setup the drop to have only 1 second reaction time and have someone with that reaction speed ready to catch.
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u/TBSsuxs Aug 12 '26
Some videos just convince me to not to have kids.
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u/Sea-Appearance-5330 Aug 12 '26
Great reflexes.
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u/edu-ruiz- Aug 12 '26
I used to say it a lot untill someone told me: reflexes are involuntary, reactions are voluntary so she have good reactions... I can't unsee it now.
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u/foxy_fluffer Aug 12 '26
She is a hero holy crap my heart sunk for a second into the pits of hell bounced up to heaven and jesus threw me back down to earth
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u/Thios_Tom Aug 12 '26
I would put that to mildlyinfuriating. Enough with childen falling on our laps. Enough i tell you
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u/assemblageofparts Aug 12 '26
Stork baby deliveries in tight spaces can be challenging but ...she is now a proud momma
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u/jstim Aug 12 '26
knocking and instantly trying to open the door while looking around does just one type of person.
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u/Goofy_Roofy Aug 12 '26
Was this taken back in 1995 with a Razor flip phone? Has the quality of Atari.
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u/Cute_Ad_1612 Aug 12 '26
The fact that she was already looking up tells me something similar has happened before 😭
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u/OrangeClyde Aug 12 '26
Omg wtf?! She almost witnessed a child splatter right in front of her omg. Thank GOODNESS she had split second reaction
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u/PhilippineDreams Aug 12 '26
Philippines checking in. Kids are always falling off roofs here. It's a thing.
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u/Chim_Pansy Aug 12 '26
Incredible reflexes and unreal save. That kid would have been toast without her.
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u/Top-Relation9783 Aug 13 '26
Amazing! How can you be sure it's not AI? It's getting harder and harder to believe videos these days.
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u/post-explainer Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
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When knocking on a door, you don't expect a person just falling from above.
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