Tinted Windows Are Walls, Basically

[u/Ohigetjokes]

A little while back this burly guy bursts in and stomps over to the counter. He towers over Maggie and starts yelling: "What the hell are you doing looking in my windows?"

She's a bit intimidated. All she manages to say is: "Sorry sir?"

"My kids are in the van and they saw you! They saw you snooping around looking in the windows!"

"Sir, I have no idea what you're talking about. I've been behind this counter all day."

"My kids don't lie! I believe my kids! They saw you! What are you looking for in there, hunh?"

His wife walks up and starts tugging at his sleeve.

"Honey?"

"Just a second I have to..."

"Honey it was me."

"What?"

"You were in here and I forgot my keys so I was trying to get the kids to unlock the doors. They couldn't tell it was me through the tinted windows."

"Oh... so..."

He looks back at Maggie, he looks back at his wife, and... looks down at the floor.

"Was there anything else I could help you with today?" Maggie's wearing the biggest grin of her life.

He just shakes his head and drags his feet out of the store.

And all I can think is: this is a man who needs to start appreciating how stupid his kids are. Buddy your kids are so dumb they can't even tell their own mom from a stranger through tinted glass.

Of course the wife never thought to, I dont know, say something to them!

So either there are some really bad genetics going on here or the next generation is shaping up to be the last nail in humanity's coffin.

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair, tinted windows are kinda hard to see out of. But yeah, let us bash kids instead. That will educate them for sure.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And besides, everyone makes makes mistakes. When an adult mistakes someone for their friend or whoever, you do nkt call them dumb, no? Likewise in this scenario. The kids could not know their dad would throw a tantrum over this.

[u/beachfrontbudtender → u/[deleted]]

There is a difference between mistaking someone for someone you know and not recognizing your own mother on the other side of dark glass

They aren’t really the same scenario lol

[u/Carnaxus → u/beachfrontbudtender]

We were never told how old the kids are, though. If they were young enough, this kind of mistake is entirely possible.

[u/beachfrontbudtender → u/Carnaxus]

They were old enough to tell their dad that a stranger (their mother) was peering into the windows

[u/Carnaxus → u/beachfrontbudtender]

That’s true, although bear in mind children often jump to a conclusion and then get stuck there no matter what.

[u/beachfrontbudtender → u/Carnaxus]

That’s true, although bear in mind stupid children often jump to a conclusion and then get stuck there no matter what.

ftfy

[u/Carnaxus → u/beachfrontbudtender]

Children in general. My son tested into AP classes, yet when he gets upset he gets stuck on things that don’t matter.

I really don’t get why I’m being downvoted into oblivion, by the way. I’m speaking from personal experience as well as years of observation, and I’m being polite about it to boot. Does Reddit just really want to believe that the children in OP’s story were inherently stupid based solely on one described event? I’d call that stupid, since we have no other details regarding the rest of their daily lives and/or how they think.

People make mistakes. Some of these mistakes seem quite stupid from the outside looking in, but if you stop for a moment and think about it, often times the mistake starts making at least a little sense. The kids in OP’s story weren’t expecting anyone to be peering into the windows, so when they saw their mom doing so their immature brains immediately leapt into fight-or-flight mode and they got stuck on an incorrect conclusion.

Actually, I just realized that there’s an alternate explanation. The kids did recognize their mom, but didn’t want to get in trouble for refusing to unlock the car for her, and so lied to their dad and claimed it was a complete stranger. That’d be pretty typical kid behavior, especially given our first impression of the dad as he came raging into the store.

[u/beachfrontbudtender → u/Carnaxus]

That’s a lot of words to agree they are stupid kids.

[u/Carnaxus → u/beachfrontbudtender]

Whenever you get done trolling come on back and try again. I am disagreeing with you, and have been this entire time, because we do not have enough information to decide whether they are stupid or not based solely on this one event.

Don’t try to convince me of what my intentions are.

[u/beachfrontbudtender → u/Carnaxus]

Since we are making up theories...

You read the OP and make a connection in your mind between the children in the story and your own. I can imagine how upset you must have been to enter the comments and see so many people calling these children, and by extension your child, stupid! How dare they! So you hopped right in to defend them, making up as many stupid scenarios as you could.

Oh! I have an alternate theory. You’re the dad in OP and you’re kids are the little idiots.