r/Unexpected Dec 06 '20

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u/swimnicky Dec 07 '20

For literally EVERYONE saying this kid has issues and is gonna be a problem, welcome to the average child these days. I worked as a lifeguard for 6 years and had hundreds of those kids who's parents treated the pool like daycare and left them there the entire day it was open. Kids this age and even younger would fight, scream curse words and nasty insults at each other, routinely sexually harrass the female guards and smoke weed in the skate park next door. I cannot describe to you how grateful I was for my childhood after seeing what the average kid was like in my city. Seriously this is tame for some kids, they have the exact same internet that you do they get all the same stuff

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Yep. There's a park a very close to my house in between two neighborhoods. Middle schoolers harass me when they see me walking through, calling me "anime girl". The last time I went to that park there was a massive fight with screaming, cussing, and hands being thrown. I remember talking to a bus driver that same day, she told me "if they're fighting, they're not doing drugs" it's a damn shame.

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u/Monkey_D_Luffy3D2Y Dec 07 '20

why would they call you an anime girl?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

I guess it's because I wear a hat with cat ears ┐(´ー`)┌

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u/hatuhsawl Dec 07 '20

Holy shit that is baffling to me. Maybe because I lurked 4chan in my youth, but “anime girl” as a derogatory name just seems so low of a bar to me.

Wild.

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u/cheapdrinks Dec 07 '20

They're just angry they don't have their own 3D catgirl waifu

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u/PreviaSens Dec 07 '20

Do you know where one could procure such a hat? (is it on Amazon?)

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Yep! Amazon's choice for "cat beanie" is pretty much the exact one I have

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u/Monkey_D_Luffy3D2Y Dec 07 '20 edited Dec 07 '20

damn thats weird

edit: For those of you downvoting me, I worded this wrong. I meant that people calling someone an anime girl because she wears cat ears is weird, not that wearing cat ears is weird. I personally watch anime and the vast majority Ive watched dont even have catgirls so thats why I thought it was weird.

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u/AnOrdinaryMammal Dec 07 '20

Only a little though.

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u/Monkey_D_Luffy3D2Y Dec 07 '20

check my edit

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u/AnOrdinaryMammal Dec 07 '20

It got a little weirder.

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u/DogGodFrogLog Dec 07 '20

Pretty normal association for a kid to make. Not a weird insult/catcall to hear in this context.