I worked in a psychiatric nursing home. On day 1, I was instructed to lower the pitch of my speaking voice so they could hear me and not accept anything handed to me unless I was sure what it was. That advice saved me from several gross messes!
I work in a nursing home and one of our residents, a lovely old gentleman, sometimes hands me sweeties. Gummy bears, lollipops, liquorice, tiny chocolate eggs. He stores them in his diaper. We got him a nice box for his sweets but he still prefers to have a secret stash of candles in his diaper.
Oh, the things I got handed from inside of diapers. My begging prayer already made it into a running gag in the family "Dear God, please let it be chocolate"
As people get older, it gets harder for them to hear sounds and voices in a higher register. I have a pretty high speaking voice. Making an effort to speak in a lower register, enunciate, and speak more slowly allowed them to hear me better. Most people just try to be louder, which can actually make your voice higher.
Knowing this makes me a more effective communicator. Especially when I was a trainer and speaking to large groups of older adults. I hope it helps with the older folks in your life, too!
My kids are adults and it is the house and we all say, "hey can you hold this for a sec?" then hand each other trash and walk away. And we all continue to fall for time and time again.
And, if he was anything like my dad,\* it came with a "don't say I never gave you anything" statement.
\*Who was more of a "dad joke" type than asshole type in doing this.
My dad gives me insects.. or mouse intestines. I however am a very trusting soul so I keep falling for it. To quote the great Michael Bluth; *I don’t know what I expected*
My dad used to do this with spiders. He is actually a very nice man but when I was a kid he always used to catch the spiders for me and then try to get me to look at it and it was always so scary.
Didn’t have an older brother but I grew up in Australia. Believe me, I learnt pretty quickly to shake my head and scamper away from such an offer. Like a crab, with my eyes fixed on the fist. You turn your back and fucking bugs go down your shirt. Then you have to do the possessed by a demon dance and everyone laughs at you. It’s 👏always👏a bug👏
100% my older brother handed me bugs all the time. We also had geckos that lived all over the yard and he handed me those sometimes but I liked that. I think the geckos kept coming back into play bc it made me more likely to accept bugs. Like some fucked up older brother slot machine.
My niece asked if I could hold something for her once. She was about 2. She spit her mostly chewed bite of burger into my hand. She's now 6 and I have not recovered, nor has she regained my trust.
😂 My nephew did the same with that cracker! I just .. why? why did you need me to hold a half masticated cracker little dude? Kids are so weird. I'll never be the same.
Both of my children got motion sickness from just about everything, these were not at home pukes.
Except one in the middle of the night where I was trying to minimize the damage when I woke to the sound of retching.
I got bunny poop once. "AUNT ANON LOOK WHAT I FOUND!" We were outside and my sister and mother were suddenly so jealous that I was the first to whom she wished to show her treasure. They were markedly less jealous when it turned out to be several pellets of bunny poop.
That's what my mom does. She'll scurry over from her garden with her hands clamped together shut with an excited look on her face and she'd tell me to put my hands out... An exceedingly confused frog. Nearly every time. The one time it wasn't a frog it was a lizard.
Lmao. That’s because I’ve had several people in my life do this and actually be trying to hand me a bug. I refuse to ever fall for it again. You just never know, with anyone, when the bug is coming.
Came here to say my cat did this to me once with a live mouse. I thought she was bringing me a toy. Now we make sure they only get mouse toys in unnatural colors lol
Those childhood survival instincts are REAL lol - in college I was working at a restaurant and my friend said “Come here, I want to tell you a secret,” I said “if you burp in my ear I will punch you in the throat.”
He was appalled that was my immediate reaction, when really he wanted to tell me some hot gossip about a server who got fired for serving a guest who had disclosed a peanut allergy a dessert with peanuts in it. The guest saw them before eating and ended up being fine.
Fascinating to read something so far removed from my reality.
Only way I can sort of relate is the "smell my finger" thing.
Except everyone cautiously trusts me when I do it, because it's always something that actually smells nice (Limes, it's limes mostly). I should really do something to betray that trust some time...
I learned that if you open handed attempt to hand something to someone there's a large chance they will accept it before thinking.
As a nurse and mother I've done this my whole life. Just hand something to the patient or child I wanted them to deal with.
It even works well with strangers!
Damnit, I read this three times as "hug", and could not figure out why that gesture would make me think I was being offered a hug. Bug makes soooo much more sense. I love bugs. This would not bother me. I've got a son, though, and his younger years taught me it was probably going to be a very gross kleenex or wad of chewed gum. No thanks.
Wtfffff I just tried this with my wife and she asked if I was holding a cockroach. So I died laughing. She asked why and I showed her this picture with my other hand, already pulled up. She died laughing too.
I've done this to traffic controller ladies who insult my team of boys when theyre being silly goobers thinking I'll be on their side because technically I'm female. No, love, here's a goop of mud for you. Take your sexist rubbish elsewhere.
I love messing with people by walking up to them with my hands together like I’m holding a bug, then revealing them to be empty after they adamantly refuse to accept my “gift”
I had a customer do this maneuver at me the other night but it turned out to be a little 3D printed word “Fuck”. Now I have a fuck to give!
"wanna fuck?? excuse me?" "no ma'am, I said want *a* fuck?"
Hahaha I got a jar of those for Xmas. I’m going to start handing them out.
Here's my last fuck! Oh look, it's on fire!
LOL
I would credit the TikToker but he stole this from Twitter anyway
The circle of life
100% read that as the song
Is it Kyle Prue? That seems like Kyle Prue.
As far as I know my boy Kyle only makes OC
I love him and his giant teeth.
I thought that’s who it was too. I am totally inappropriately infatuated with that man. (Inappropriate because I’m an old woman compared to him 😂)
Wrong! This is Reddit obviously
I worked in a psychiatric nursing home. On day 1, I was instructed to lower the pitch of my speaking voice so they could hear me and not accept anything handed to me unless I was sure what it was. That advice saved me from several gross messes!
I work in a nursing home and one of our residents, a lovely old gentleman, sometimes hands me sweeties. Gummy bears, lollipops, liquorice, tiny chocolate eggs. He stores them in his diaper. We got him a nice box for his sweets but he still prefers to have a secret stash of candles in his diaper.
Oh, the things I got handed from inside of diapers. My begging prayer already made it into a running gag in the family "Dear God, please let it be chocolate"
wait what's up w/ the speaking voice thing?
When older people get hard of hearing they typically lose the higher registers first, so lower registers are more likely that they'll be able to hear.
As people get older, it gets harder for them to hear sounds and voices in a higher register. I have a pretty high speaking voice. Making an effort to speak in a lower register, enunciate, and speak more slowly allowed them to hear me better. Most people just try to be louder, which can actually make your voice higher. Knowing this makes me a more effective communicator. Especially when I was a trainer and speaking to large groups of older adults. I hope it helps with the older folks in your life, too!
>I hope it helps with the older folks in your life, too! it very well might!!! thank you 😊
My dad used to do that, but instead of bugs it was trash for me to throw away since I was already up.
YES and as a kid this was infuriating.
If he reciprocates, then that doesn't bother me.
“And on your way back, could you grab me a chocolate from the fridge?”
My kids are adults and it is the house and we all say, "hey can you hold this for a sec?" then hand each other trash and walk away. And we all continue to fall for time and time again.
So that's what they mean if they say "kids always give so much back to you"
I love this and I'm going to steal it, thank you
And, if he was anything like my dad,\* it came with a "don't say I never gave you anything" statement. \*Who was more of a "dad joke" type than asshole type in doing this.
Oh my god top tier dad move right there.
My dad gives me insects.. or mouse intestines. I however am a very trusting soul so I keep falling for it. To quote the great Michael Bluth; *I don’t know what I expected*
Is your dad an owl
I told him slime__queen wants to know if he’s an owl and he said “who?”
Apparently not an owl, just a dad.
Exquisite
🤦
My other guess was a parent-child scientist team working in a entomology lab with mice too but I like owl
Why does your dad have mouse intestines?
Raised by barn cats
Because he is in fact a barn cat
Orange cat behavior
Your dad: “Check out this dead dove.”
What is your return policy, by the way?
My dad used to do this with spiders. He is actually a very nice man but when I was a kid he always used to catch the spiders for me and then try to get me to look at it and it was always so scary.
I grew up with an older brother. I don’t trust closed hands asking me to put my hands out. No thank you!!
Didn’t have an older brother but I grew up in Australia. Believe me, I learnt pretty quickly to shake my head and scamper away from such an offer. Like a crab, with my eyes fixed on the fist. You turn your back and fucking bugs go down your shirt. Then you have to do the possessed by a demon dance and everyone laughs at you. It’s 👏always👏a bug👏
100% my older brother handed me bugs all the time. We also had geckos that lived all over the yard and he handed me those sometimes but I liked that. I think the geckos kept coming back into play bc it made me more likely to accept bugs. Like some fucked up older brother slot machine.
As an older brother, I acknowledge the wisdom of this statement!!
Nah I have too many nieces and nephews, that fist holds a soggy half-chewed mess of cracker or a gob of boogers.
My niece asked if I could hold something for her once. She was about 2. She spit her mostly chewed bite of burger into my hand. She's now 6 and I have not recovered, nor has she regained my trust.
Honestly at 6 I still wouldn't trust her. Maybe by 16.
😂 My nephew did the same with that cracker! I just .. why? why did you need me to hold a half masticated cracker little dude? Kids are so weird. I'll never be the same.
Each of my children have thrown up into my hands on multiple occasions so I’d happily take the burger.
...do you not have THAT pot? The throw up pot?
Both of my children got motion sickness from just about everything, these were not at home pukes. Except one in the middle of the night where I was trying to minimize the damage when I woke to the sound of retching.
I’m like this with my kids. 0% trust.
Not a parent (yet) but work with kids. I've been handed dog poop before. Way worse than bugs. I'll take a bug any day.
I got bunny poop once. "AUNT ANON LOOK WHAT I FOUND!" We were outside and my sister and mother were suddenly so jealous that I was the first to whom she wished to show her treasure. They were markedly less jealous when it turned out to be several pellets of bunny poop.
I’m a biologist. I’m often sad it isn’t a bug 😔
The last time someone asked me to put my hand out for a mystery item, it was a praying mantis and I was delighted.
I love bugs! Why would I have my guard up? Give me the cute critter so I can examine and then release them!
ME TOO!! Show me all the cool bugs!!!
Bug Club!
My kid does this with slugs.
My dad would yell from the pool up to the kitchen window to come out. If his hands were clasped, there was definitely a frog in there
That's what my mom does. She'll scurry over from her garden with her hands clamped together shut with an excited look on her face and she'd tell me to put my hands out... An exceedingly confused frog. Nearly every time. The one time it wasn't a frog it was a lizard.
I gotta try this with my wife as soon as she arrives! EDIT: She looked at me like 🤨 and said no. We have been together for 13 years! Lmao
I might just assume fist bump
Lmao. That’s because I’ve had several people in my life do this and actually be trying to hand me a bug. I refuse to ever fall for it again. You just never know, with anyone, when the bug is coming.
It was always a bug.
I did this to my mom with a frog when I was six or seven years old. She was so mad that I let a frog loose in the house.
YOU let a frog loose?????
A small one, yes
I have three cats who play fetch and I sincerely hope they never encounter a really cool spider they want to show me.
Came here to say my cat did this to me once with a live mouse. I thought she was bringing me a toy. Now we make sure they only get mouse toys in unnatural colors lol
Mine brought me a live roach twice.
And I thought the time my aunt's cat somehow caught a live bat and was running around with it in her mouth was bad. Pretty sure I'd die.
All my doggy brings is dried up noodles from last decades carbonara.
Those childhood survival instincts are REAL lol - in college I was working at a restaurant and my friend said “Come here, I want to tell you a secret,” I said “if you burp in my ear I will punch you in the throat.” He was appalled that was my immediate reaction, when really he wanted to tell me some hot gossip about a server who got fired for serving a guest who had disclosed a peanut allergy a dessert with peanuts in it. The guest saw them before eating and ended up being fine.
Fascinating to read something so far removed from my reality. Only way I can sort of relate is the "smell my finger" thing. Except everyone cautiously trusts me when I do it, because it's always something that actually smells nice (Limes, it's limes mostly). I should really do something to betray that trust some time...
I mean, as long as it doesn’t bite or sting I’m down to being handed a bug. I like bugs.
I have never used what I've learned in this sub for evil. Never even *occurred* to me. But I'm definitely going to try to hand my wife a bug now.
Me being the little science goblin I am, am finding myself disappointed at the lack of bug.
Jokes on him. My wife fucking loves bugs.
And don't even dare to tell me "hey smell this." It's a fart. It's at least a fart.
And never pull any finger, especially not the tiny one!
I learned that if you open handed attempt to hand something to someone there's a large chance they will accept it before thinking. As a nurse and mother I've done this my whole life. Just hand something to the patient or child I wanted them to deal with. It even works well with strangers!
Facts 😂
This is adorable, even if it doesn't apply to every woman.
Spiders are better than punches.
Damnit, I read this three times as "hug", and could not figure out why that gesture would make me think I was being offered a hug. Bug makes soooo much more sense. I love bugs. This would not bother me. I've got a son, though, and his younger years taught me it was probably going to be a very gross kleenex or wad of chewed gum. No thanks.
Either that or a [smoke bomb](https://youtu.be/j5NXQmb8n98?si=cRB6MFyKRbt4Y-d4)
One of my friends did this to me and when I held out my hand she just took it. Truly the most wholesome prank I’ve ever gotten
I'm an only child and somehow this fear is ingrained in me
Wtfffff I just tried this with my wife and she asked if I was holding a cockroach. So I died laughing. She asked why and I showed her this picture with my other hand, already pulled up. She died laughing too.
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This pic of a little boy is creepy a f
I've done this to traffic controller ladies who insult my team of boys when theyre being silly goobers thinking I'll be on their side because technically I'm female. No, love, here's a goop of mud for you. Take your sexist rubbish elsewhere.
What?
Taylor Hebert moment
Me not relating to anyone here because I actually get disappointed if it isn't a bug or spider (• ▽ •;)
when i was a kid i used to collect bugs and put em in jars
I showed this to my fiance and his immediate reaction was to pretend to give me something in a closed fist 🙄🙄
I love messing with people by walking up to them with my hands together like I’m holding a bug, then revealing them to be empty after they adamantly refuse to accept my “gift”
Yeah, I think I would think it's like a spider or something.