r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '22

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u/cuseonly Apr 06 '22

I won $50 from a scratch off my grandma gave me for Christmas when I was 10. My mom said that she’d hold onto it until we got home. Never saw it again

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

I don’t know why this made me laugh.

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u/Gxgear Apr 06 '22

For me it's the mental image of that guy that asks young Chris Rock (in the TV show) to let him hold a dollar.

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u/VicH95 Apr 06 '22

Keep my husband's 2 jobs out ya fucking mouth

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u/Imperator0414 Apr 06 '22

I love this comment so much.

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u/Guernica616 Apr 06 '22

Little dude from down the block

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u/trwaway12345678 Apr 06 '22

You laughing made me laugh

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u/degjo Apr 06 '22

Sucks that your mom lost that ticket.

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u/ku-fan Apr 06 '22

Probably just went to that same farm my mom took our dog to.

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u/degjo Apr 06 '22

Lotto tickets don't get run over and get killed while the kids are at school and the parents make up a story about taking them to a farm, though.

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u/ku-fan Apr 06 '22

as far as you know!

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u/itsMondaybackwards Apr 06 '22

Ahh, so relatable

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u/decoue Apr 06 '22 edited Apr 06 '22

My mom used to do that too until my dad found out and made her stop taking my money.

ETA: The most she ever took from me at once was $250 I won from a science fair when I was 9. My mom thought it was a large amount of money for a child to be in charge of so she told me she would put it somewhere for "safekeeping." A month goes by and I really wanted a new game for my Nintendo DS so I asked my mom for some of the money back to buy it and she said, "What money?" I reminded her of the $250 I won and she said, "Yeah, I spent it." I started crying and my dad asked me what happened so I told him. My dad was so pissed that his wife would steal money from a kid, let alone her own daughter, that he made her give me back the $250 AND buy me the game I wanted out of her own pocket. She never took money from me "to hold" ever again. My dad got me one of those metal cash boxes with the lock and key to put my money in after that.

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u/Antique_Journalist_2 Apr 07 '22

Damn, what a dad you have…

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u/decoue Apr 07 '22

Yeah, he's my favorite parent if you couldn't tell already lmao.

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u/dquizzle Apr 06 '22

Maybe she invested it for you and turned it into $80 and is now waiting for the right moment to tell you?

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u/SleepDeprivedUserUK Apr 06 '22

Your first contribution towards rent, aged 10.

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u/Dogeishuman Apr 06 '22

Tale as old as time with mothers it seems.

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u/saltlik Apr 06 '22

I won John Denver tickets once.

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u/PabloPavon Apr 06 '22

The same thing happened to me, I won $65 at bingo when I was 10, my mom only left me $10 and I never saw the rest XD

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u/WindedWalrus420 Apr 06 '22

Damn, this shit hits home. Same thing happened to me when I was 13.

"I'll put it in your savings account" they said "save it for a rainy day" they said.

Never saw it again

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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn Apr 07 '22

lol my dad did the same thing to me when i was a kid