A reminder that kids are gross

kid rant 🚼

It’s 11 pm and I’m dragging ass to make the 5 year old’s lunch for Kindergarten tomorrow. Grab the backpack and a bunch of papers fall out. Groan, DH did pickup Friday so I’m annoyed at him for not checking the bag after school.

I sit down by the front door to collect the scraps of construction paper and reach in to get the rest. My hand touches something cold and wet, snot texture but also solid. I scream, DH comes running, and I look in to find the core from the pear 🍐 he ate as his snack three damn mornings ago! WHY WHY WHY would he put it back in there?! 🤢🤬

So now I’m giving his backpack a whore’s bath in the kitchen sink bc of course it’s “spot clean only.” It’s too late to drink so I went outside for another cigarette before bed.

What lovely “surprises” have you all found in your offspring‘s school bags?

Update: the boy child says he put the pear back in there because “it wasn’t all gone.” Mkay, so you’re selective about the food you waste? This is the same kid who threw away today’s sliced fruit that HE REQUESTED yesterday because he “didn’t really want it.”

Posted Sep 30, 2019, 4:11 AM UTC · edited

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Built-In•

Lmao this reminded me of a comment i made in the parenting subreddit where i said it’s actually “whore’s bath” (not “horse bath” like the comment I replied to said). And that person replied to me saying “some of us don’t like to use those words.” 🙄🙄🙄

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Insidevoiceplease•

Well that's fucking obnoxious

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[deleted]•

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dugruna•

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel ostrich-sized."

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Funus_tuberosum•

I love that I'm not the only person who uses that phrase.

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I_RunWithScissorsOP•

That’s just...incredible.

I definitely can’t fit a horse into my kitchen /s

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Tossmetothewind•

A leaky thermos with three day old chocolate almond milk. It, the lunchbox and backpack were disposed of immediately

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carniejay•

A baggie of broccoli that she'd traded her friend for several days prior and then did not eat. Holy crap that smelled AWFUL.

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Mathochistic•

Neither of my kids are school-aged yet, but I once brought home a dead bird in my backpack.

I don't think my mom ever recovered from that one.

Also, I have never seen anyone else call is a whore's bath. My husband was horrified one day when I said I would just take a whore's bath before going out.

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I_RunWithScissorsOP•

Whore’s baths for everyone!

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Important_Phrase•

Leftover snacks from two weeks ago (after holidays) and once something that might have been an apple she got at school 6 weekish ago. I spare you the description.

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DarkStarletlol•

Week old spilled yogurt.

I puked.

I'd got her a new backpack for nursery, and she has a separate lunch box, so I left the old bag in the cupboard because there was nothing in there she needed. Went to go through it and dear god, the smell!

Why the flying fuck was her yogurt even there?!?!

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Kitsunefyreraising her geeky•

We moved about two months ago. Last week I found a container from kiddos lunch in a box. I don't know what it had been, but it was black and didn't move. Whole container is gone now.

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dugruna•

My son leaves fruit in his lunchbox often. Fuck a lemonade stand, we may as well start bottling the hooch to sell. He left his lunchbox at school over labor day weekend. I opened it Tuesday afternoon and I swear his pineapple prison punch would easily fail a breathalyzer test.

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I_RunWithScissorsOP•

Right?! Little moonshine runners

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