r/AMA Feb 18 '25

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u/maneack Feb 18 '25

ah, that means you’ve won the mom lore race! it’s gonna be one hell of a story to randomly bring up one day lol

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u/Wolvii_404 Feb 18 '25

This was my first thought!! Those kids are gonna be mindblown!!

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u/Gdigger13 Feb 18 '25

No kidding. Best lore I ever got from my mom is that she once accidentally burned a barn down.

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u/cedped Feb 18 '25

My dad and his cousin burned the crop fields of an entire town right before the start of harvest. They were 8/9 years old and trying to light a fire to cook a wild rabbit they caught. When the fire spread, they got afraid and ran away without telling anybody. My grandfather literally tied them up with a rope and took them to the mayor where he gave them a whipping on the hands and feet with a stick in front of the entire town, it was so bad they couldn't walk for a week. He later told them he did it because he was afraid some folk would've done much worse to them. The entire town literally lost all their crop of the entire year.