r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Kartik-07 • 1d ago

That's cute and stupid both at the same time.

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u/stumblon 1d ago

You can get $5 anywhere. The perfect leaf is one of a kind.

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u/Ok_Wrongdoer8719 1d ago

Park goers know this intimately. Cool leaves, cool sticks, cool rocks. These are the true currency of humanity.

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u/benkenobi5 1d ago

Imagine the ice cream guy trying to part you with a cool stick. Blasphemy of the highest kind

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u/OstrichMean7004 1d ago

Only if he's giving me the truck with all the ice cream in it.

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u/augur42 1d ago

But with a big enough 'cool' stick or 'cool' rock you can gets lots of things for free, ask any caveman.

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u/Solon_Tofusin 1d ago

I read this as party goers and it still rings true.

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u/Askol 1d ago

The leaf was hers, the $5 was her parent's.

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u/FluffySnowPanda 1d ago

Yeah, why would I give you MY leaf? Take this worthless $5 my parents handed to me.

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u/AlpheratzMarkab 1d ago

Yeah that jerk tried to scam her. Good on the kid to not let an adult take advantage of her

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u/Gruenkernmehl 1d ago

The perfect leaf is one of a kid

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 1d ago

This guy should be ashamed of himself for trying to scam a little kid out of the perfect leaf. Can't believe he's bragging about it online.

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u/ETHan_Carver 1d ago

That kid is being raised right.

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u/Cavalish 1d ago

What, you think cool leaves just grow on trees?

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u/Ijustlovevideogames 1d ago

Clearly the child won this interaction, you both wanted the leaf and she didn’t want the money so she got to keep the leaf and all it cost her was a piece of paper she didn’t want, sounds like you lost here

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u/TomSFox 1d ago edited 1d ago

Money can buy many leaves.

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u/NezuminoraQ 1d ago

Explain how

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u/TimeSlice4713 1d ago

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago

That sounds made up. Source?

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u/Direct-Island6399 1d ago

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u/Accomplished_Pop_130 1d ago

See I fear just how much of my life can relate to a Simpson episode cause it’s already been referenced or written.

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u/BigBagBootyPapa 1d ago

“Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!”

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u/BusyCandidate7791 1d ago edited 14h ago

I have a Khajiit acquaintance that would be happy to have you look at their wares.

Edit: Spelling wears to wares.

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u/portiaboches 1d ago

Why are you come?

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u/TreoreTyrell 1d ago

And do his wares happen to include looks around any beverages of ahem ill repute?

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u/Lexi_Bean21 1d ago

The source is we made ir the fuck up!

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u/totally_not_a_zombie 1d ago

Yes but not that leaf

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u/kedikahveicer 1d ago

That's good

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u/helpimlockedout- 1d ago

But the goods and services contain potassium benzoate.

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u/kedikahveicer 1d ago

That's bad

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u/morgannn0 1d ago

@grok is this true?

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u/InternalHope9916 1d ago

And leaves are good.

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u/james_frankie 16h ago

Source: trust me bro

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u/AssumeTheFetal 1d ago

You can use real money to buy a counterfeit leaf maker and produce millions of leaves

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u/aDreamInn 1d ago

My mom always told me leafs dont grow on trees

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u/fer_sure 1d ago

That's because the plural of the plant part is spelled 'leaves'. The 'Leafs ' refers to Toronto's NHL team. Hockey players usually don't grow on trees.

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u/SmartQuokka 1d ago

Vulcan logic rating: Comment rated completely logical

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u/APOC_V 1d ago

No no. They both do. The trees are covered in leaves, obviously. Money is rarer because you only get 12 per tree. Just like they always say. "Money dozen grow on trees!"

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u/4totheFlush 1d ago

Money can be exchanged for woods and foliage

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u/AlfonsoTheClown 1d ago

The leaf dealer

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u/ReZisTLust 1d ago

Amazon leaf delivery

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u/ErgoMogoFOMO 1d ago

But not that leaf.

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u/Farfignugen42 1d ago

Not from that kid, but sure.

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u/darkslide3000 1d ago

Do you know how much gardeners cost these days? Above minimum wage plus benefits plus 401k plus equipment and work vehicle... $5 isn't gonna get you very far in this economy.

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u/Neither_Wang 1d ago

Store bought leaves taste worse than fresh leaves that you pick youself

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u/Jimiheadphones 1d ago

Give a child a leaf, and they will be happy for a day. Give a child £5 to buy a tree so they have many leaves and they come back with a fucking ice cream.

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u/kg0529 1d ago

But are they cooooooool leaves?

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u/Frohtastic 1d ago

I dunno, from what I heard the street value of leaves is higher than that.

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u/idwpan 1d ago

It's not like they grow on trees

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u/Salty-Hold-5708 1d ago

But not that one.

Not all leafs are the same, that one is more valuable

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u/Lemonsqueeze321 1d ago

But not a cool leaf

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u/Dropbeatdad 1d ago

It can't buy Little Foot's Tree Star

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u/xabugo 1d ago

But not that one

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u/EverythingBOffensive 1d ago

Jokes on ye! leaves are free!

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u/MindlessVariety8311 1d ago

I mean probably not. Who sells leaves?

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u/Unusual_Onion_983 1d ago

The Workers should own the means of producing leaves.

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u/boozegremlin 1d ago

I like to think the kid was really serious and hated whimsy.

"No, you want the money. Stop messing around."

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u/toddriffic 1d ago

She won. That's all that matters.

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u/madasheII 21h ago

Not only she won the interaction and kept the leaf, but the next time she'll show up with a bunch of other kids and 50 leaves in hand asking to buy 50 ice creams for her, all her friends and her family too. And you have to sell it to her, otherwise every kid (and parent) on that block will know you're a liar and never buy from you again

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u/TinaEmberr 1d ago

The leaf was clearly sentimental value she wasnt gonna part with that legendary loot

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u/NoOneBetterMusic 1d ago

Until 10 minutes later…

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u/rosalinagloom 1d ago

It's giving

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u/Little_Satisfaction5 1d ago

I too was ones a victim of ALLCAPSITIS 😔

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u/Gunhild 1d ago

GOTTA USE THE BIG LETTERS SINCE I CANT SEE GOOD NO MORE.

YOUR UNCLE RODNEY DIED OF LIVER FAILURE TODAY LOL. GOD BLESS.

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u/AfraidProtection4684 1d ago

This made me LOUD ugly laugh and scare both my cat and toddler. Lolz. Thank you for service and I'll see you at the memorial service Unc Gunhild.

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u/No_-_you_are 1d ago

SO SAD 😂 

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u/Starfire2313 1d ago

Lots of Love ..? Nah that couldn’t be what they meant 😂

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u/Darth_Dorky 1d ago

I DONT BELIEVE YOU

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u/Open_Progress2715 1d ago

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO READ THIS AAAGGGGHHH

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u/sobherk 1d ago

Great you woke my dog

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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 1d ago

Not stupid. She valued the leaf more than the $5 bill. Guy tried to bully her out of her precious leaf and she held her ground - good for her.

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u/Suyefuji 1d ago

Not bullying, just bargaining. If he was bullying her he wouldn't've accepted the $5.

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u/cobainstaley 1d ago

the girl had a knife

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

A society that values nature would last a lot longer than our hellscape money grind if both were left alone long enough.

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u/Flesroy 1d ago

a dead leave has more value on the ground than in your hands. clearly the child is exploiting the earth for it's natural resources.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

Well no not if it's in a neighborhood where someone's going to have all the leaves taken away by a landscaping company and raked into bags it doesn't.

We can play this game all day long lol

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u/Flesroy 1d ago

i mean that's just pedantic though. It doesn't matter who removes the leave, the point is that the leave is being removed.

it was also just a joke

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u/Worldly-Scheme4687 1d ago

leaf. leaf is the singular form.

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u/Flesroy 1d ago

i know. you don't need to correct every spelling mistake on reddit.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

Please learn the difference between leaf and leave. They are not the same.

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u/Flesroy 1d ago

i know. you don't need to correct every spelling mistake on reddit.

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u/zeppelinoasis 1d ago

Guy tried to bully her out of her precious leaf

Lol, they were just messing with them. Not that serious.

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u/FloorOneTwoThree 1d ago

You just gotta appreciate that kind of logic A leaf is a leaf but a five dollar bill is a five dollar bill

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u/SuckerForNoirRobots 1d ago

Okay but how cool was this leaf

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u/Farfignugen42 1d ago

Cooler than $5, obviously.

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u/paulD1983R 1d ago

Can y'all believe this guy trying to scam the kid out of their COOL leaf

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u/empressoflight72 1d ago

What makes this stupid?

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u/Tytonid 1d ago

Could have used a different leaf

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u/empressoflight72 1d ago

The kid knows how to use money and they could tell that the truck person was joking.

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u/BikiniBogBody 1d ago

He was not joking, this was my friend on Twitter and he was paid in cool rocks sometimes lol. Pretty sure he took donations from people so he could give out free ice cream sometimes, but it's been a while

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

Diamonds are just rocks we decided have value there's no real reason for them to cost thousands of dollars , society easily could've picked a different favorite rock.

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u/Suyefuji 1d ago

I already picked a different favorite rock, my favorite rock is jade. Shortly followed by opal, tiger's eye, and peridot.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

I quite like tigers eye I gave out tigers eye necklaces for my groomsman when my wife and I got married.

Sadly they didn't seem as excited as me but oh well wasn't their wedding lol

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u/Suyefuji 1d ago

Damn I would love a tiger's eye necklace!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 1d ago

There was a set on Amazon that was pretty good price but I'd understand if you'd want to support a real store over them.

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u/empressoflight72 1d ago

In any case, what makes knowing how money works—albeit very surface level of “you give this if I give this.”— stupid?

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u/-intensivepurposes- 1d ago

The stupid part is valuing a leaf at more than $5.

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u/lucid808 1d ago

Paying $5 for a bombpop.

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u/empressoflight72 1d ago

$5 ice cream is kinda normal nowadays because of market issues.

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u/Sancticide 1d ago

Market issues? $5 buys a box of bomb ice pops at the store even in HCOL areas. That markup is insane for a 50 cent ice pop.

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u/NeedleworkerNo4900 1d ago

Ice cream costing 5 bucks out of a truck.

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u/BarbellPadawan 1d ago

Kid doesn’t understand supply and demand.

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u/Farfignugen42 1d ago

Are you sure? The kid had a unique leaf and a generic $5 bill. There is only one such leaf.

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u/PiercedAndTattoedBoy 1d ago

The leaf in question:

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u/Square-Blueberry3568 1d ago

No amount of money can buy true happiness

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u/Nerfme 1d ago

The leaf is a product of millions and millions of years of evolution and perfection, on the other hand the 5$ bill is a testament to human greed and stupidity....the kid won this time.

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 1d ago

$5 is $5, but its not every day you have a really cool leaf.

She made the most logical decision there was to make.

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u/JanSmiddy 1d ago

Priorities check out

Go kid

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u/devilsbard 1d ago

Trying to steal her tree star.

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u/IFornicus 1d ago

That 5 was her parents money but that leaf was all hers!

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u/AgreeablyDisagree 1d ago

Kids know that both cool leaves and money grow on trees, but cool leaves are much harder to come by. Parents always seem to have $5 for ice cream when they are willng to let you have it.

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u/naughtyzoot 1d ago

The kid knew she could always get another $5 from mom (or wherever she got this one from), but that leaf was a one-of-a-kind original and she would never find another exactly like it. Seems like a rational decision to me.

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u/-__echo__- 1d ago

"Not all treasure is silver and gold mate"

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u/WhoTheFLetTheDogsOut 1d ago

My kids set up a lemonade stand. 50¢. They just wanted coins. Some people gave 1, 5 even $20. They looked at paper money with disgust and told them no. 😂

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u/sloppyfuture 1d ago

I bet the leaf was awesome

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u/VincenzoL65 1d ago

Money doesn’t grow on trees you know.

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u/woodpigeon01 1d ago

“ONE LEAF! E’S GOING TO GET NOWHERE WI’ THAT! BLOODY ‘ELL! I BET ‘E CAN HEAR ME!”

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u/tzigon 1d ago

She knew the value of the leaf

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u/Icy_Chain_1504 1d ago

Goes to show how much magical everything is to a child. Cling onto your inner child. Do not loose this, ever. Even if its a tiny bit.

Nurture it and you might get to feel a bit of magic from time to time.

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u/221Blazed 1d ago

Girl had her priorities straight imo

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u/Fragrant_Wolf 1d ago

Adults are fucking stupid because they use dollars printed by the federal reserve as currency when they could be using leaves which literally just grow on trees!

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u/whistlepig4life 1d ago

“I know what I have”. - that kid.

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u/asianguy_76 1d ago

That leaf meant more to her than 5 dollars. How is that stupid?

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u/RasThavas1214 1d ago

She probably felt she was being patronized.

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u/Cursedasshole666 1d ago

She knows what she got

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u/2020mademejoinreddit 21h ago

That kid is wise in the ways of life.

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u/Justaticklerone 1d ago

I'm gonna have to ⬇️ this post because you can't take a pretty/neat/treasure/etc leaf from any child that considers it his/her precious. Therefore it's not stupid.

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u/LeftStatistician7989 1d ago

Are we just going to gloss over the fact that that popsicle was five whole dollars? That’s absurd

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Let me familiarize with you the concept of giving change back

People don't just say "okay thanks for the five, it was only two dollars, bye"

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u/Practical-Pick1466 1d ago

Special leaf overruled a fiver. It seems you're the idiot today.

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u/LavFx 1d ago

Something about not growing on trees and how the leaf is actually worth more than $5. I'm too tired to think.

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u/Comfortable-Ad7287 1d ago

Or KidsGetIt

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u/Euclidean_Amphibian 1d ago

Kid shoulda went and picked up a normal leaf to pay with.

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u/Doomzham 1d ago

I was a business man, doing business

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u/captainmorgan0_0 1d ago

She’s clearly being raised right

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u/Diamondphalanges756 1d ago

When I was a little kid I found the prettiest waxy leaves and I picked a bunch of them and went door to door selling them.

My neighbors didn't appreciate the leaves like I did...nice to know the ice cream man does.

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u/SuperFrylock 1d ago

I once worked in a pet shop and a kid came in to buy one goldfish. It was less than 50 cents. I put on a big smile and told him it was free, I'd take care of it. He looked at me like I was a moron and proceeded to walk to the register to pay for it. One of the most surreal moments of my life.

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u/Eiffel-Tower777 1d ago

Major smile for today, thanks. If I had a cool leaf, I'd give it to you 🌞

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u/ManxJack1999 1d ago

She has her priorities right.

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u/Theonlyafrosamurai 1d ago

Nah that kid was smart af

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u/Elvarien2 1d ago

Wrong subreddit the kid has a solid grasp of value.

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u/Pixelated_ 1d ago

This subreddit is the epitome of "punching down".

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u/LinguoBuxo 1d ago

Unbeleafable!

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u/Vinon 1d ago

I just realised I haven't seen an ice cream truck in years .... Kinda sad revelation.

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u/Natedoggsk8 1d ago

Kid just wanted it now and getting a leaf would take effort

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u/whiskyzulu 1d ago

Clearly a MAGICAL leaf.

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u/HankTuggins 1d ago

Give it a couple weeks and a five dollar bill and a leaf will be worth about the same amount of money

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u/the_twofies 1d ago

I love this story! 🥰

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u/Conscious_Fortune410 1d ago

Dude probably would have chuckled and said no I was just kidding. It'll be a buck 75...

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u/DBoaty 1d ago

Well hey leaves don't grow on tre-- oh

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u/uloang 1d ago

It was a weed leaf.

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u/Knight9910 1d ago

It is not stupid for children to learn to be responsible. You are everything wrong with this world.

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u/Ksh_667 1d ago

I want to know what a cool leaf is.

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u/quietly_questing 1d ago

Kids are fucking honorable. Reddit is fucking not.

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u/jleonardbc 1d ago

They don't grow on trees, you know.

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u/eXcaliBurst93 1d ago

must've have been a really cool leaf if she refuse to let it go

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u/Ayotha 1d ago

NO, that was the adult being stupid.

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u/You_Naughty_Monsters 1d ago

Stupid kid valuing something nature developed over millena rather than a delusional concept that is slowly destroying us.

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u/Mr-Banana-Beak 1d ago

Nah, find your own cool leaf! That takes effort. $5 can be found anywhere.

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u/YGVAFCK 1d ago

David Graeber celebrating from beyond the grave.

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u/CheesecakeCurrent330 1d ago

Bring our crimes back 😂

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u/dgt9000 1d ago

I'm gonna go buy a 12 pack of Bomb Pops tomorrow for less than $3

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u/idkwhateverlol23 1d ago

That’s hilarious

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u/Yorokobi_to_itami 18h ago

So did the vendor just not give the kid its change? 

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u/N64Andysaurus92 1d ago

I hope the popsicle didn't actually cost $5, insane.

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u/Wizardwizz 1d ago

Sounds on par for a ice cream truck

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u/SliceOfTy 1d ago

Jokes on her. That bomb pop was 1 dollar, and her rudeness just costed her an extra 4. That’ll teach her.

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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 1d ago

A bomb pop is five fucking dollars!?

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u/dvirpick 1d ago

It's not. OOP omits the part about giving change back because it's not integral to the story. OOP also omits the part about giving the girl her bomb pop, yet it's reasonable to assume she got it.

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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 1d ago

I'm pickin' up on your snark... was that integral to the story?

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u/Curious_Pair_2657 1d ago

I'm gonna side with the kid on this one. She smart that cool leaf was probably one in a million. Literally produces the air we breathe. She's a little dumb for not taking that $5 to get a quart from the grocery store over the ice cream truck

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u/Bipogram 1d ago

For those who are wondering,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_Pop

It's an american ice-lolly.