Sue in Northbrook, Illinois says that some 10 months after tricking her 6-year-old daughter with Jimmy Kimmel’s “I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy” challenge, little Mia remembered the prank and, with a renewed sense of outrage, stormed off to express her anger in note form.
Mia’s mom notes that she’s normally referred to as “Mommy” by her daughter (and by her friends as “Sue”), so she knew she was in trouble when she saw this missive addressed to “Susan.”
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92 responses so far ↓
#1
Chinchillazilla
Hell hath no fury like a child pretend-candyrobbed.
Sep 21, 2014 at 10:48 pm rating: 90
#2
zenvelo
Her women folk
are yucky like yolk
Sep 21, 2014 at 10:54 pm rating: 90
#3
havingfitz
That child has excellent penmanship. I’m almost 40 and even when I print mine still looks like hieroglyphics. Her cupcake looks like it was dropped and sat on, but kudos on the handwriting, kiddo.
Sep 22, 2014 at 3:15 am rating: 90
#4
Polyergeist
I’d like to think that little Mia did not truly forget about the jolk for 10 months but rather she carefully calculated how long it would take for the guilt to fester and eat away at her mother before the time was right to deliver the final blow.
Sep 22, 2014 at 4:32 am rating: 90
#5
kaetra
Mia is adorable. Serves her mom right, that was a dirty trick indeed!
Sep 22, 2014 at 9:47 am rating: 90
#6
Jami
Any parent should be ashamed for playing a cruel joke on that or the “give them gifts they don’t want” one. Neither joke is funny. It makes kids cry. Shame of Jimmy for coming up with it. I hope he has nightmares of a thousand kids ripping his guts out while saying “It’s only a joke, don’t cry Jimmy, it’s only a joke.”
Sep 22, 2014 at 10:34 am rating: 90
#7
Whut?
Honestly, even though it’s misspelled, I’m oddly proud of the kid for spelling joke ‘jolk’, because not many children (or adults for that matter) even really know about that phonetic, let alone can use in a situation where it fits by sounding it out. Some accents do pronounce it with the same L sound (or lack of) like in yolk, mine included.
Sep 22, 2014 at 11:26 am rating: 90
#8
Ace of Space
I think that cupcake is giving Susan the finger. Or maybe I should put my glasses on. Either way, I bet Lil Mia closely guards her candy this year. With armed militia.
Sep 22, 2014 at 12:36 pm rating: 90
#9
Raichu
Team kid. Sorry, note-writer, if you played that nasty prank on your kid, you deserve to be shamed. >:/
Sep 22, 2014 at 5:54 pm rating: 90
#10
Lita
Team kid. Not a funny prank at all. (But then again, I do not have a very high tolerance for most pranks.)
Sep 22, 2014 at 8:07 pm rating: 90
#11
Susan
As another Susan, I’d have to say that if I did have a kid and if I had played that prank upon her, I’d have earned the well-wrought PA scorn.
But, alas, I’m childless. So I get to pick my own nursing home out and not rely on the judgment of offspring that I’ve somehow robbed of childhood innocence.
Sep 22, 2014 at 10:40 pm rating: 90
#12
assiveProgressive
So parents are playing mean tricks on their kids after they go trick or treating? Fine. Yet another reason for me to turn the lights off on trick or treat night and hide in the basement. And stay off my lawn!
Sep 23, 2014 at 12:16 am rating: 90
#13
phoenix
The cruelty of a prank is not in the eyes of the pranker, it’s in the prankee.
If you, as an adult, say candy is bad and a joke isn’t a big deal, that doesn’t matter. What matters is what it means to the kid. That’s what makes cruelty- it’s never cruel to the person DOING the act.
If the point of a prank is to upset, to make cry, to take advantage of, and to laugh at the pain and discomfort on someone else’s face…that’s cruel. A kid doesn’t have perspective, and their pain is real.
It’s amazing how many “funny” jokes relatives played on me as a five year old and brushed off because it was “little” things. Well, to a thirty year old it was obviously trivial, but to a five year old it hurt. And the fact it hurt was what made it funny to them.
Sep 23, 2014 at 7:37 am rating: 91
#14
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Sep 23, 2014 at 7:10 pm rating: 90
#15
Arhi Mith
The first sentence is making me REALLY ANGRY here.
“Sue in Northbrook, Illinois says that some 10 months after tricking her 6-year-old daughter with Jimmy Kimmel’s “I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy” challenge, little Mia remembered the prank….”
Who tricked her daughter? Susan. Who remembered the prank? Mia, the daughter. So, why oh why does it say that Mia remembered the prank after tricking her daughter? No, it does not make sense this way, does it?
I hate when people confuse subjects and objects in a single sentence.
Let’s learn the correct way, shall we?
Susan say that after 10 months after tricking her daughter she was surprised to discover a note addressed to her written by the very same daughter.
Oooh, I have vented. Not so angry now. Thanks for your kind attention (goes away, muttering).
Sep 25, 2014 at 8:06 am rating: 90
#16
larsjaeger
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Oct 11, 2014 at 1:55 am rating: 90
#17
Littlest Hobo
I know I’m really late to the party with this one, but when you have parents beating the shit out of you and lying about who is who in your family, lying about their ages and calling you every horrible name under the sun, telling you they wish you had been aborted, etc fucking etc, THEN you can snivel about a candy lie. Stop being so dumb about a stupid prank. Children expect their parents to love them, cherish them and NOT BEAT THEM, KICK THEM DOWN STAIRS and continually wish you weren’t born. Get over it. Please.
Oct 18, 2014 at 7:38 am rating: 90
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