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Rebeca's avatar

"it caught me off guard because we’ve only been doing this for nine months" - 😂 This whole thing is so brilliant!

Robin Darling's avatar

this was the one for me, too. it surprises my child daily that we need to go to daycare.

Lindsey @ Not Normal's avatar

Right? That one was inspired by my youngest. I swear every day for a year she acted like daycare was totally new information.

Sara's avatar

Assholes, the lot of ‘em! Hilarious. Especially the crusty old hooker ☠️

Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Lindsey, this is the most brilliant thing I ever read! Please promise me you’ll do more of these! 🤣🤣🤣

Lindsey @ Not Normal's avatar

Haha thanks- I am so obsessed with this Reddit thread so it was fun to think of a toddler version! Which aren’t even that much of an exaggeration in the end, let’s be honest 🤣

Patrick Eades's avatar

I can let the other stuff slide (on a good day) but the surfboard shit is asshole 101. Surfboards should be cared for with ice baths.

This was excellent!

Lindsey @ Not Normal's avatar

I couldn’t agree more! That’s the #1 asshole move for sure. Will have to try out the ice bath next time!

Katelyn Cnossen's avatar

I was using legos as a brass knuckle HAHA! And there’s no more padding there 🫠

Lee Bacon's avatar

My 3yo just wrote in with a new submission:

AITA for dumping a bowl of strawberries on my daddies head when he was just trying to check his emails?

Am I the asshole?

Lindsey @ Not Normal's avatar

100% the dad ITA, of course!

Alter Kacker's avatar

AITA for making progress on my potty training? OK, it was during Mommy and Me swim class at the Y, and I mistook the pool for the toilet. But that was an understandable confusion -- it's a big basin filled with water, right? And I'm just a toddler, right? You'd think those folks would give me credit for trying, right?

(You'd be wrong.)

Lindsey @ Not Normal's avatar

Ooh I’m all-too-familiar with this one. Of course you’re not the AH! It’s the mean mean Mommy who made you go into that cold pool in the first place- how dare she?!

Jim McKee's avatar

Dear Not-Normal, your material is so good that I am going to strip-mine your posts for humor and try to pass it off as my own. You are welcome to return the favor beginning with https://clarkaardvark.substack.com/p/tiktok-finds-a-clue-40 You may find it a slender harvest, but you never know. Humorists, like gardeners, should cross-breed their varieties to get a hardy hybrid. Stan Laurel (the British comic actor) was a relative unknown until he met Oliver Hardy (an American, equally unknown) and they teamed up to make comedy gold. May you stay forever young. Cheers--Jim McKee

Daniel Puzzo's avatar

I nearly pissed myself with the crusty old hooker line 🤣

The Messy Millennial's avatar

Hilarious! Well done Lindsey! I got no kids so I am of course the asshole in usually most situations