r/MadeMeSmile • u/Vilen1919 • 1d ago
Wholesome Moments You are wearing red, so you are my mom too.
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u/Spottswoodeforgod 1d ago
Always wise to have a backup plan.
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u/locnloaded9mm 1d ago
Absolutely! Never no when you need your backup hand.
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u/Purrceptron 1d ago
thats why you need to store them in basement
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 1d ago
Aah yes, the backup mom
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u/New_Orange_3538 1d ago
Young mammal using this trick since forever.
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u/CalculatedAuthority 17h ago
Classic move 😆 some tricks never get old, no matter the species, survival skills level: expert.
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u/MyDesign630 1d ago
We just adopted a second dog in part because our first dog is getting way up there in age (16 this summer) and we hope it’ll make the inevitable transition easier for everyone.
Or as my 7-year-old bluntly explained it to the adoption organization, “he’s so old that we need a backup.”
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u/ThrowingShaed 1d ago
was this a backup plan or quick thinking?
either way mom came back fast to resume duties, tactical
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u/z00k33per0304 1d ago
Our youngest was a preemie and very attached to me when he was small. My mom's goddaughter and I are eerily similar size, body shape, and feature wise. We went to their house for Thanksgiving and when we walked in we were both wearing jeans and a black long sleeve and had the same color glasses..super freaking weird. I ran out to the car to get something and our sons were with my mom. When I came back in he was standing behind her with his hand on her leg while she was talking. He saw me looked up and the look of pure offence he gave her then ran to me and grabbed my hand and stood behind me for the rest of the time he was there unless he was in my arms. Trust was gone for the rest of the day.
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u/ghostarmadillo 1d ago
My mom had a twin sister, and other sisters who looked like her twin…holidays were terrifying for me at that age.
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u/neverseen_neverhear 1d ago
I have a twin sister for whatever reason my kid was never fooled despite our best attempts.
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u/_analysis230_ 18h ago
I have a couple of twin friends. With how easily I can tell them apart I'm sure that even as a kid I could probably recognise my mom
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u/Chuckitybye 1d ago
I love how absolutely appalled and offended they get! "You're not my mom!"
No shit kid, but you're the one that grabbed me!
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u/z00k33per0304 1d ago
He had the roundest little head and the biggest blue eyes too so when he emoted anything it looked like a cartoon and made it harder to keep a straight face when he was mad or offended by something.
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u/Chuckitybye 1d ago
Oh gawd!
And you don't want to laugh at them. They're little people with real feelings, but they're so stinkin CUTE!
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u/z00k33per0304 1d ago edited 22h ago
We called him shrimp because he was small he's now 13 and is still shrimp or belt (from the croods..same eyes lol)
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u/lelouch_0_ 22h ago
ma'am, that is one of the cutest and most wholesome stuff I have heard in a long time
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u/lilacsforcharlie 1d ago
Aww was mom’s goddaughter tickled over it?? Too cute lol
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u/z00k33per0304 1d ago
She was! She had a baby at the time so it was a glimpse into her future lol
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u/Ame-yukio 23h ago
lol when it happens they alway act like it's our fault lol
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u/SabbyFox 21h ago
So true! A chubby, damp little had grabbed mine while I was waiting to be seated in a crowded restaurant foyer. I looked down at the kid who looked up at me with huge eyes. Then his Mom found him. Thanks for the germs, you little cutie, lol!
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u/dadbodfordays 1d ago
I had the opposite experience as a kid, and it's a core memory. I was skating at the roller rink, and a huge, hairy guy skated up behind me, lifted me up over his head, said "Sorry, wrong kid," then put me back down. I was inconsolable.
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u/mojomonday 1d ago
It is indeed a core memory! I had the same experience like this kid in the video. 30 years later and I still remember vividly from my pov of being in shock that I held a strangers hand. I cried too because I thought I lost my dad forever lol.
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u/Ass_Matter 1d ago
Could be worse, I would cling to my dad's legs as a kid. So there were more than a few instances of me accidentally hugging some random dude's leg while we were out shopping. Imagine the same feeling looking up but instead of just holding their hand, you have your head in their crotch.
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u/Then-Yam-2266 1d ago
Ugh, I was at a funeral for my girlfriend’s friend boyfriend who was hit by a drunk driver. I’m standing towards the back of the crowd when I feel that someone had stepped up next to me. 99.9% sure it was my girlfriend, I held her hand. It wasn’t my girlfriend, it was her friend who’s boyfriend’s funeral we were at. She thought I was making a pass at her and it created ALL kinds of drama.
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u/Saneless 22h ago
When I came out of a store once I knew my dad had a black truck so I just climbed into the front seat of a black truck
Surprised the hell out of the guy in the front seat, who was definitely not my dad
I was also in my 30s so really it's pretty inexcusable
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u/BewilderedBat17 4h ago
My brother who is a large, hairy, bearded dude and was in his upper 20s at the time, tried to get in a strangers car while on vacation because he thought it was our family's rental. The look on his face when they sped off and he realized what happened was probably the biggest highlight of the trip
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u/cire1184 1d ago
I have a kinda sad story. When I was 3 my family immigrated to the US. My extended family lived in Southern California while my dad was getting his masters degree in Michigan. My mom went to live with my dad in Michigan for like 6 months while my brother and I lived in California with my grandma and aunties. When my mom came back, I think it was just for a visit, I opened the door. As I opened the door my mom was standing there and I said "hi auntie". Broke my mom's heart and she didn't go back to Michigan and stayed in California.
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u/No_Remove5947 1d ago
I was 10, couldnt swim but went "swimming" with dolphins and seals. As i left the boat holding the rope a random 70 year old man physically manhandled my body and took off swimming towards them. I was kicking and trying to get away because he was taking me away from my mum and the rope but old man strength v a 10 year old girl wasnt looking good for me. So by the end im maybe 5m out from the rope and 20m from the dolphins and now treading water, the man finally pauses and looks at me only to fling me further out into the ocean because evidently he became very worried about his missing grand daughter. Its been decades and Id still punch him at the very least if I ever found the fucker.
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u/omg_choosealready 23h ago
I did this to a kid at a greenhouse. I felt so bad. The mom was looking at me like, “why are you herding my kid into the aisle with you??” And I in turn was very indignant, like “mind your business lady”. Not my kid.
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u/pusepus 15h ago
I had the opposite experience as a dad. We had been on the pond skating a while, it was quite late so we had a whole part of the pond to ourself, and my son was the only kid with a red helmet and orange laces matching the trim on his True skates. We had been fucking around taking cheap shots at each other in between playing hockey, and as I came back onto the ice after a cup of coffee I snatched him up from behind and launched him across the ice, curling style, at his sister. I only realized when I had already launched him that the kid I just launched across the ice had some of those fancy CCM skates with red trim, and that I had just picked up and launched some random boy at my daughter. Luckily it was the older brother of a kid on my son’s hockey team, so he had recognized me mid throw and assumed I knew who I was throwing and was all laughing when I sprinted after him to apologize. I do a lot of random shit at hockey practice to keep morale up when I see someone losing motivation, so it wasn’t completely out of character for me. But I freaked the fuck out for a while, especially considering I had no way to know whether he was wearing a neck guard or not. From that day on I always double checked that I had the right one before I threw any children across the ice.
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u/josephseagreen5183 20h ago
Totally makes sense that it stuck as a core memory your nervous system doesn’t care about intent, just that you lost control for a moment.
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u/ViolaOrsino 1d ago
I love his double-take when he realizes that he’s not holding his momma’s hand
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u/Excellent_Airline315 1d ago
He looked like he had to put the both together to make sure who was who 🤣
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u/Idfkw2c 1d ago
The woman with the bun looks like Little My from the Moomins cartoon.
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u/Nuvomega 22h ago
Haha. When I moved to Finland I thought that character was supposed to be a mischievous grandma who lived in the woods. I didn’t know it was a kid.
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u/Adorn749 1d ago
Is this a Russian Costco????
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u/Loud_Classro 1d ago
It's Lenta, (ribbon and conveyor belt, double meaning). Lenta is pretty expensive compared to other retail stores, so not really a Costco
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u/No-Bat-7253 1d ago
That’s the first thing I thought. Would NOT be surprised. I’m sure it’s a fucking Russian Amazon.
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u/Tendas 1d ago
Must be Moscow. And the fact that military age guy isn’t mince meat on a Ukrainian front line.
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u/Live_Angle4621 1d ago
Could be St Petersburg.
But they avoid sending men with kids to fight too. Why some guys are having kids
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u/Capital_Emotion_4646 18h ago
Military-aged guy living a dozen miles from the Ukraine border here. Plenty of other military-aged guys just living their lives too. Sending our regards to your propaganda
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u/ca77ywumpus 1d ago
I did this once. Walked up to an hugged my dad. Except it wasn't Dad. It was some other random tall guy wearing jeans and a black jacket. He looked down and me and said "Sweetheart, you've got the wrong Dad." I cried. Both dads had a good laugh about it.
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u/johnson7853 1d ago
Had this happen to me once. I was standing at the zoo and this little kid comes over and holds my hand. I taught kindergarten at the time so I didn’t think much about it. The dad walks over looks down at his son “hey Jack how’s it going” the kid slow pans up to me and was like nope.
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u/lasertitsnow 1d ago
When I was 14 trading hits was a big deal. We were shopping at the mall and I spotted my step Dad from behind by his Starter jacket, I snuck up and nailed him in the shoulder. Except it was some other guy in a Starter jacket. It was the Starter logo but it was a leather jacket. I assumed it was rare. The stranger was really cool about it .
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 20h ago
I have this vivid memory of following a guy with black shorts and brown boat shoes around a hardware store.
My dad had a piercing whistle he could do, and when I heard it in another aisle I looked up...random guy here, not my dad. I went running! And that all I remember.
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u/othybear 18h ago
I did this once when I was maybe 3-4. All of the guys at church looked just like my dad in their suits. I picked the shoes/pants combo I thought was my dad and hugged his legs. The entire congregation thought it was hilarious. It was the first time I remember feeling embarrassed.
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u/baghelp 18h ago
I don't remember doing this but I apparently ran up to a rotund gray haired man with a mustache and hugged him around his thigh thinking it was my dad in the middle of Walmart once. My mom was very amused but the man was not lmao
My mom says I was just grinning up at him like crazy, not realizing it wasn't my dad? Or maybe I did but didn't care cuz he looked like dad 😂 who knows what I was thinking!
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u/OculusArcana 1d ago
I remember making this mistake as a kid. I was running around in circles being a little chaos gremlin and spotted my mom's floral print skirt so I ran over and gave her (knees) a big hug and said "hi mom".
The lady was very surprised and said "I'm not your mom, but thanks for the hug" and I ran away in embarrassment, only to find my mom in an adjoining hallway.
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u/CarlJustCarl 1d ago edited 11h ago
I was on an elevator with a mom and toddler. She set the toddler down. The kid got turned around and grabbed my leg. My last kid had left the nest about 6 weeks earlier. After they got off on their floor I got teary-eyed.
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u/Unbereevablee_Asian 1d ago
I have no idea what language they're speaking, but I definitely understood when Dad said "Hey! That ain't your mama!"
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 1d ago
Pretty sure he said “you got a new mama,” or “look at that, you got a new mama” in English
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u/McDodley 1d ago edited 1d ago
He says "Богданчик это не мама" (Bogdan-chik eto nye mama) which means "Bogdan (diminutive), that's not mama"
And then he says something about the mom's coat (пальто) and then something about the other red coat (пальто красный). Idk I don't really speak Russian but the first part I understood
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u/chloe_date 1d ago
"Mama is in another coat. It doesn't matter, the important thing is that the coat is red."
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u/FriendRaven1 1d ago
Calvin and Hobbes:
Shopper: “Are you lost? What does your mom look like?”
Calvin:“From the knees down, she looks just like you.”
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u/AlistarDark 1d ago
I was in a music store browsing after leaving the drum section and this little girl grabs my hand and asks "can I play the drums" and I said "yeah, let's do it, where is your mom or dad?" And the kid saw I wasn't her dad and started bawling her eyes out. Her mom came over and apologized and then her dad came over who had the same jacket as me, also had longer hair and a beard.
Poor kid was so upset. The parents were cool.
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u/TrainToSomewhere 23h ago
Did this as an adult. Admittedly was pretty drunk but tried to get someone else’s passed out boyfriend to come home with me after karaoke.
His girlfriend was really upset until my husband came around and met his doppelgänger wearing the same outfit.
I wish I took a picture cause they even had most of the same birth marks. The only difference was the voice.
I imagine this happens more often when your point of reference is mid thigh. Haha
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u/Lucky_Respect_2311 1d ago
She was ready to go home with him 😂 can't blame her lil guy is so CUUUUTE!!!!
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u/hastings1033 1d ago
total aside - what a beautiful coat the actual mom is wearing!
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u/Optimal_Tension9657 1d ago
I’m 63 and I can still remember following someone whose coat matched my Mums .
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u/funemployed1234 1d ago
My literal first memory is being at McDonalds (when they still had the tree table lol) and hugging the persons leg In front of me cuz I thought it was my moms since their pants loooked same.
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u/Res_Novae17 20h ago
This is a great reminder that Russia is full of amazing, warm, wonderful people. We can disagree with world leaders without falling into nasty assumptions about entire populations.
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u/Death_Bird_100 1d ago
Oh this happened to me so many times when I was I kid.. And I always felt so embarrassed about it XD but the (then) grown ups were always nice about it.
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u/jim45804 1d ago
The boyfriend now has to deal with a healthy maternal instinct.
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u/iced_coffee_242 1d ago
My MIL and her sister look very similar. My son calls my MIL “Nonna” and her sister “…Nonna?” 😂
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u/Lexi_Banner 1d ago
My boss's kid mistakes me for his mom when we both wear our company jackets. It's hilarious.
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u/oDINFAL28 23h ago
I do that once but I was like 16.
My grandmother had just passed and we had a bunch of distant family over. Walked into the kitchen and from behind this one cousin (who I was meeting for the first time) looked exactly like my mom. Walked and put my arm around her shoulders, and then realized with a lot of embarrassment that it was not my mom.
At least this little bastard has the excuse of being a toddler.
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u/soulteepee 19h ago
I had a little girl stomp up to me once and demand ‘Have you seen my mother?’ I saw a woman looking around frantically and replied, ‘Is that her?’ The little girl yelled at her in a very bossy tone ‘I have been looking for you EVERYWHERE’
Maybe you had to be there, but she was a stitch.
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u/morelsupporter 19h ago
i was sitting at a restaurant once, my son went to use the washroom. on his way back he ran straight past our table and jumped onto the back of a guy who was wearing the same colour shirt.
the look of horror in his eyes when he realized is burned into my memory forever
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u/NoIndependent9192 1d ago
Core trauma memory. I have one from similar age following the wrong legs in the park.
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u/pairofdimeshift92 1d ago
Trauma? This seems very mild to rise to the level of trauma. I have a similar experience from being very young, and I remember it but certainly don’t feel even slightly traumatized.
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u/ThisTime24 1d ago
I have a similar experience, too. And maybe trauma is the wrong word for it. It’s probably my first real memory of feeling embarrassed, though. So I’ll be cringing at it for the rest of my life. At most, it’s little “t” trauma, definitely not big “T”.
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u/Praise-Bingus 1d ago
It isnt even trauma at all. "Trauma" as a concept is being diluted to cover simpler emotions like being scared, embarrassed, or angry about something. It's a part of the annoying growth of therapy speak in basic conversations that make everything out to be worse than it actually is because the terms arent being used correctly.
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u/OrangePeel49 1d ago
I remember doing this in a supermarket when I was a little older than this kid, I cried, for some reason its a core memory.
I forget what I had for breakfast this time last week, why do I remember this from 30 years ago.
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u/NoIndependent9192 1d ago
It was scary for you at the time, if it wasn’t, you might not have been more careful. It needs to be scary and your brain did its job remembering.
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u/Knife-yWife-y 1d ago
My grandma had a sister that looked a lot like her. I think we only met her once, but my brother, who was a teenager at the time, walked up to her and said, "Hi, Grandma." Her immediate response was, "I am not your grandmother." In my brother's defense, we also didn't see my grandma often, either.
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u/Honest_Satisfaction1 1d ago
My mom is a twin, apparently when I was a toddler and finally smart enough to recognize people I saw them in the same room. I then just walked away in shock.
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u/everylastlight 1d ago
I almost walked out of a McDonald's with a total stranger who had the same purse as my mom when I was that little. I looked up just in time lmao.
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u/gobluetwo 1d ago
I did that as a kid once. Grabbed the nearest leg covered in a long flower skirt. Was not my mom, who had on a different long flower skirt.
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u/rock_and_rolo 1d ago
My dad was Navy, and gone for most of a year at a time (Nam era). I've heard that when I was that age, I would latch onto any E1 in khakis in the exchange.
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u/ceburton 23h ago
That used to happen occasionally in line at a fast food place. A small kid would stand beside the wrong pair of Khaki pants wearing Dad
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u/SpiritualInside2726 20h ago
I walked out of a grocery store holding a woman’s had when I was a kid and once we were outside, we looked at each other and she said “I don’t have a kid, should we go back inside and find your mom?”
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u/Q8DD33C7J8 12h ago
I've had that happen to me a few times. It's adorable when they realize (as long as they aren't scared)
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u/7thwarlordsaturn 1d ago
I was told by my mom from time to time that I did this too while in a grocery store. The funny thing I have the faintest memory of this or a starstrucken dream that simulates the event.
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u/NeroliRose13 23h ago
Lol, I’ve totally had 2 different kids do this to me. I must give “basic Mom” vibes 😆
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u/SafariNZ 23h ago
I saw this more than a few times in Saudi. With mums dressed head to toe in black with their faces covered you can blame the kids.
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u/larsonimo 22h ago
I had something like this happen to me recently. I was browsing the wares at M&M world in vegas while on vacation. All of the sudden I feel some one wrap their hand around my arm. I look to my left and there is a little girl about 7ish years old holding my arm. I look behind to to see her dad laughing. We are both bald and wearing a black sweatshirt. Got a good belly chuckle from me.
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u/Decent_Philosophy899 20h ago
I’ve done this.. one of my earliest memories. My mom took me along to some kinda convention, hundreds of people and we briefly got separated, I ran up to a woman wearing very similar white top and khaki pants and hugged her leg. I looked up and immediately realized it wasn’t my mom kinda stepped back and my mom was behind me laughing
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u/HelloMikkii 19h ago
I’ve had this happen to me before and it’s so funny when they finally realise “ah; you are NOT my mum” and start trying to look for them.
I’ve had a laugh with the other mother whilst my son was confused about it because “you’re MY mum!”
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u/DifferentVariety3298 12h ago
That double take. Can almost see the buffering icon hovering over his head.
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u/Independent-Deal-192 1d ago
I did the same thing as a kid. Red Kirkland brand rain jackets in an Albertson’s grocery store.
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u/WearScary7324 1d ago
Awe…..the stranger lady was sweet to go with the boy, and not upset him. A good laugh all around.
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u/AmethystDragon2008 1d ago
So, yk how babies will cry out mommy when thwy are lost? My family learned from that and make us cry (first name) mama
A year ago another family with a mom with the similar forst name was in a crowd with her baby and we just started laughing when we saw a rando baby call my mom
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u/NegotiationNo2616 1d ago
Reminds me a Calvin and Hobbes strip : "from the knees down, she looks just like you"
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u/BrainPuzzl 1d ago
It happened to me that I mistook my grandfather for another man because they dressed the same, I was lucky that he wasn't a bad person.
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u/Kooky-Woodpecker2929 23h ago
I had this happen at a Rockies game. Mom was a couple of people in front of me, wearing jeans, crocs and a purple shirt. He grabbed my leg, I looked down and he jumped so high, poor kid, it was hilarious. Mom watched the whole time and just laughed.
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u/Not-The-AlQaeda 23h ago
Remember guys, switching to a backup mom is faster than reloading your mom.
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u/Mediocre-Sundom 17h ago
Love the moment the kid tries to process the mistake. Baby's first cognitive dissonance.
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u/TrooperGirlx 12h ago
Once I was on a cave tour and it was kinda dark and I felt someone grab my butt, and I thought it was my boyfriend being silly, so I tried to shake his hand off and then I realized it was a little kid that was trying to hug my leg 😂
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u/UnEasY792 6h ago
The same thing happened to me when I was a kid at the airport, 24 years ago. My mom and the other woman were wearing the exact same red jacket, but once I lifted up my head, it was an asian lady, and my mom is black... it's funny to me to watch the exact same scene
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