30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts

We could probably all benefit from looking at life with a little bit more childlike wonder. Kids are curious about everything, and they’re constantly using their little brains to make sense of the world around them. So inevitably, from time to time, their reasoning leads to some hilarious outcomes.

Redditors have recently been sharing some of their favorite examples of “kid logic,” so we’ve gathered the best ones below. From believing sugar can make the ocean less salty to assuming your pillow isn’t working if you can’t fall asleep, enjoy reading through these adorable and hilarious thought processes, pandas. And be sure to upvote the “kid logic” that you think makes perfect sense!

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I was fly fishing a popular canoeing river when two middle school aged kids came paddling down ina rented canoe. They got turned 180 degrees in an eddy and instead of trying to turn their whole canoe back around they just turned around in their seats and started paddling downstream again. Most adults would try paddling back around but this was by far the more efficient way to handle it

valuesandnorms , louishansel Report

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Louise Clarke 10 months ago

Sometimes it's best to not over think things

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My sister has two children, ages 3 and 1. I had my first child in September so my nephews now have a cousin.

The three year old insists that it is only his cousin, since he is the oldest and his younger brother will have to wait for the next one before he gets a cousin of his own.

Nala013 , vinokurovyury Report

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The Mom 10 months ago

When I had my 3rd child my oldest (3 at the time) told me I had to have another one for the 3rd child. Number 2 belonged to numerous 1 but 3 didn't get one.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts When I was a little girl, I had a Barbie and a Ken doll. I wanted more Barbie and Ken dolls. I put them in a shoebox together, naked, and pushed it under the bed so they could make more dolls. I had no idea how close I was to knowing how babies were made.

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glowworm2 10 months ago

This is hilarious.

70points

Tanja J 10 months ago

I tried to do this with my car and my husband's car, put them together in the garage, put some mood music on, closed the door, turned off the lights ... I would have been happy with at least a scooter, but it didn't work.

18points

Anna Solan 10 months ago

If they aren't the same make and model, they can't cross-breed. If they are the same make but not model, you could get a hybrid car, though!

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Bell-icose Premium 10 months ago

Probably freaked your parents out a little.

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dayngerkat 10 months ago

Who'd you learn that from?

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Terran 10 months ago

I mean, we probably do have some istinctive understanding of how sex works.

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Surenu 10 months ago

I would think so. I don't remember getting "the talk" (disclaimer: me not remembering something doesn't mean it never happened, I am not infallible unfortunately), I think I figured it out somehow

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Amy Pontious 10 months ago

😂😂😂😂

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Catharina Geerts 5 months ago

You must have had some idea that it involved a man and a woman naked in bed, otherwise you wouldn't have put them there like that. Which is more than I knew until I was at least a first grader

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Jane Hower 9 months ago

Mom was explaing 'babies' to me at around age 11 and what I got was that a seed from the dad went to the egg of the mom and a baby was made. With nothing else to go on I thought the SEED literally FLEW, at night, into the mom's egg. Sure made me keep my bedroom door closed at night!!! whew

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Vicki Perizzolo 10 months ago

I did that to my GFs Christmas trolls one year - got her a baby troll for effect on Christmas Eve ... she got to work and, for the 5th day in a row screamed 'who is messing with my trolls?'... laughed so hard I bout peed myself... a great year.

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Sara(not Sarah) 10 months ago

I paired Barbie and GI Joe because Ken was a puss.

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Dread Pirate Roberts 10 months ago

ROFL this is the best one 😂 😂

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Treblewinners 10 months ago

Woah what did your parents think??

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LavenderHippoInAJar 10 months ago

I love the dress that doll is wearing!

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts Leaving the daycare center, a kid called back, "BYE-BYE! Be safe, watch out for polar bears!"

We are not in polar bear territory, but polar bears live in the snow, so since it snowed earlier in the day, it was only logical that we were at elevated polar bear risk.

ichigoli , hansjurgen007 Report

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Deborah B 10 months ago

An eight year old once warned me about the "abdominal snowman".

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When I (white) was a kid, my best friend (black) was floored to learn white peoples’ poop was brown. He’d just assumed ours was white.

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glowworm2 10 months ago

If it’s white, we should see our doctor.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts When I was really little our preschool class grew beans in a window and my little brain decided that all food must be grown from seeds. Long story short my mom found about 15 chicken nuggets in her flower bed when she was planting tulips.

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SCP 4666 10 months ago

I wish that would work😄

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My daughter was having trouble falling asleep and came to me crying that her pillow didn’t work

Fistandantalus , GalinkaZhi Report

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Nina 10 months ago

I feel ya, kid, my pillow is broken as well

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I remember a story of an astronaut going to give a talk in a school and one kid asked him "how do I become an astronaut?" and the astronaut replied "you have to go to school for a very long time and then train your body and mind and then pass a test. its very hard" and then the kid replied "thats like only 4 things!". Changed my outlook on life haha

HiThisIsMichael , Marinabars_photo Report

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glowworm2 10 months ago

I love this kid.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts Maybe not best but recent: My coworker’s kid lost a tooth yesterday, and the kid said he was going to wait until Sunday to put his tooth under the pillow so the Tooth Fairy can meet Santa lol

niikaadieu , amihay982 Report

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148points

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Alex Boyd 10 months ago

This kid may have a future writing Hallmark Christmas movies.

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#10

30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My husband was working at a child care center and his car was in the shop so he needed a ride. When I arrived to pick him up, one of the children who was also getting picked up asked if I was his mom. Because that's who picks up people from day care, moms and dads. Makes perfect sense using kid logic.

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glowworm2 10 months ago

Oh my gosh, that is cute.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My grandparents' old trailer had ants. I wanted to help and knew they liked sweet things, so I added a bunch of sugar to some juice and made a trail from the house to an ant hill to lead them out. It did not have the desired effect.

Kiwi-VonFluffington , JulieAlexK Report

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146points

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Phil 10 months ago

I see the logic there.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts When I was 15, I used to babysit this lovely kid called Jack.

He would very proudly tell people "I'm three!" And hold up three fingers. One day, I asked him how old did he think I was? He gave this very careful consideration.

"26." He said firmly.

"Why do you think I'm 26?" I replied, mildly offended.

"Mummy looks after me and she's 26. You look after me too."

Fair enough!

ElinorSedai , StiahailoAnastasiia Report

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Treblewinners 10 months ago

Awww!

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A toddler I was watching stood next to a tree. He then licked the bark of the tree the way a dog would lick an ice cream cone: full blown, no inhibition.

Shocked, I asked him why licked the tree, and he said, "I didn't know what it tasted like." He caught me so off guard, so all I could say was, "you know what, that's fair. "

I asked him if he liked it. He said, no, no he did not.

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I’ll have a treble thanks. 10 months ago

Depends on the tree.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I had just birthed my daughter via C-section. My toddler son saw my incision, and concluded that his baby sister had busted through my stomach like the Kool-Aid man.

thepeachlady , Michael Lehet Report

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Alex Boyd 10 months ago

Good thing the child hadn't seen Alien.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I desperately wanted a kitten when I was younger. Every time we went to the grocery store, I'd try and sneak cat food into the shopping cart, thinking that if we got home and unpacked it, we'd *have* to go out and get a cat.

AtLeastImGenreSavvy , kristinbrownphotography Report

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glowworm2 10 months ago

Oh my gosh, that is cute!

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My kid as a toddler invented the word “nexterday” because she knew “yesterday” and “next” but not “tomorrow”.

Amiiboid , behy_studio Report

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Lotekguy 10 months ago

Why do we have yesterday, but not yesternight?

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts Aight so one time my niece was over with my brother and his wife. My niece said “let’s be dragons” so I’m like ok cool this is f*****g awesome.

Here I am in my 50s and get to be a dragon. So I put up my big dragon wings and dragon face and she stopped dead in her tracks and said “uncle guru, you don’t have to pretend to be a dragon you can just BE one. See? I’m a dragon and so are you. Let’s go see dad.”

So we’re just standing there like two humans and she says “we’re dragons” with a shrug of her shoulders like I know it’s obvious but just in case..

So yeah, blew my mind lol

BlueCollarGuru , valerystefanysyn Report

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124points

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Couragetcd 10 months ago

Does this mean I really did grow up to be a dragon and just never noticed?

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#18

When I was about 6 or so, my very religious grandmother offered to buy me something at the church yard sale. There was a Grateful Dead shirt. I wasn't familiar with their music back then, I just liked the color and design. She told me it wasn't proper attire for a Christian. I responded with "Christians go to heaven when they die, right?" She said yes, to which I proclaimed they would then be grateful to be in heaven, and grateful they were dead. The logic didn't work, and I didn't get the shirt.

My mom still brings it up and laughs occasionally. As an adult I love the grateful Dead and for my 40th birthday my mom got me a grateful Dead vinyl box set.

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Lotekguy 10 months ago (edited)

Shame on granny. Logic like that from someone so young should be rewarded.

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#19

i dont know if this counts, but this kid asked something i never heard anyone ask before: how come Cinderella shoe doesn't change after midnight?

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Lotekguy 10 months ago

Excellent question. Anyone got an answer?

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My kid asked to go to the “fish museum.” She didn’t know the word for aquarium, but I’d say she got the concept across pretty well. Now we don’t refer to it as anything else.

BlazmoIntoWowee , timbmyung Report

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glowworm2 10 months ago

I love this term.

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#21

My son once told me he had a brew after he bumped his arm. I said I think you mean bruise. He said that it was a brew because he only had one.

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funkybluegirl 10 months ago

Clever boy.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts When I was a kid we experienced an earthquake. I ran to my mom screaming “the dinosaurs are coming!” I was really into The Land Before Time and whenever the Brontosaurus walked the ground shook so it made sense.

PuzzledImage3 , sgreer Report

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104points

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Ambry Petersen 10 months ago

Adorable. I loved those movies growing up. Now I show them to my kids.

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#23

So… I have a naturally-low core temp, which makes my skin feel like an ice cube.

Youngest Cousin (born 2019) had had a high temp back in 2019, my aunt just handed her to me to have me cool her down by holding her — I became the Baby-Cooling Station. When she decided she needed to cool down at a cook-out in 2021, she shouted, “I GE I PAK!”, toddled-over to where I was napping, grabbed my hand, and just put it to her forehead before shouting, “I GAH I PAK!” when my aunt asked her what she was even doing.

EDIT:

I just felt like typing-out how she said those two things, since it was super-cute. But, they mean, “I GO GET ICE PACK!” and, “I GOT ICE PACK!”, respectively.

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A girl 10 months ago

I share the low core temp. The grandkids lovingly call me Grandma Cold Hands.

60points

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I was a student teacher, and bumped into one of my seven-year-old students in the morning. He was walking and told me "I always step over the cracks [in the sidewalk]."

I asked "How come?" and expected him to say something about "So I don't break my mother's back." (That's an old rhyme).

Instead, he said he was "practicing" ... "in case there's an earthquake!"

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Lotekguy 10 months ago

Bright future for that one.

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My husband and I used to have two cats. One cat’s name was just Little Cat.

My 3 year old niece called our other cat “Big Cat” because if there’s a little cat, there has to be a big cat.

And our other cat was pretty big so I couldn’t even correct her.

notstephanie , arina-krasnikova Report

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98points

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The Other Ben 10 months ago

These are excellent cat names

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts I used to wonder why the snow was on top of the mountains if they were closer to the sun

Badaxe13 , stywo Report

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93points

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The Disneyland Duck 10 months ago

I still wonder about that

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts My niece said that Santa was fat because he was pregnant, and that he was going to give birth to gingerbread men.

Statman12 , timmossholder Report

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90points

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TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 10 months ago

No, he gave birth to an elf. The rest of them are clones, but don't tell Santa I know.

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High school friend shared that when she was little she thought babies came from Target because she always saw them in the carts when they went shopping at Target.

Keep in mind we grew up in the 1970s in Minnesota and Target was were we shopped. There was no Walmart here.

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Lotekguy 10 months ago

Triplets come from Costco or Sam's.

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I once fed our VHS player a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because my parents were tired of it "eating" the tapes.

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BitchinintheBurgh' 10 months ago

ooops It probs didn't eat any more tapes

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30 People Are Cracking Up At How Kids Hilariously Misunderstand Simple Concepts A friend's kid cut a big chunk out of his hair, then realized he'd get in trouble, so he carefully laid the hair on his head. It promptly fell off.

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70points

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EasyBreezyCataneze 10 months ago

Mr. Bean

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GirlFriday 10 months ago

During quarantine, my nephew explained to me all the things one must do to keep the Crona Pirates from finding you: 1. Wear a mask so they don't see you so good. 2. Wash your hands so they can't smell that you ate peanut butter (crona pirates LOVE peanut butter and can smell it from a long ways away, so WASH YOUR HANDS), 3. Stay around your house. Crona Pirates would have to knock on your door if you are inside or playing in the yard, and then we just don't let them in, and they don't get us.

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Sounds like a smart plan!

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BookFanatic 10 months ago

When my mom was 5 or 6, she saw identical twins for the first time. Family lore has it that she stopped dead in her tracks and yelled "They're wearing the same face!" Grammy had to explain some things to her, which led to The Question (regarding babies and where they come from). This was in the 50s and I really wish I could have heard Grammy's response to that one!

19points

Papa 10 months ago

One of the best ones I've heard of was a father telling his son he had his shoes on the wrong feet. The little boy looked puzzled, and finally said "But these are the only feet I have!"

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Love this one!

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ATTENTION ANYONE FROM BORED PANDA WHO MIGHT BE READING THIS: Am I the only one who gets a notification that someone has replied to one of my posts, or liked one of my posts, and I go to check it out, and "Wait! The list has been shortened to just show the most popular!", so the link doesn't work until I click on the note that says that? It's very frustrating. Please either stop making them shorter, or make the link work the first time.

Multa Nocte 10 months ago

I am currently at 711 notifications and it's too much work to pick through them to see which one is a Woohoo!, which one is a Congrats!, and which one is an actual reply to a comment I've made.

FABULOUS1 10 months ago

When I was little I remember my mother giving a family with a sign that said will work for food some money on our way home from the store. I was certain she gave them the money so they could come over and clean my room. I waited and waited, and didnt want to ask my mom and seem to eager that I was getting out of cleaning my own room. Finally a couple days later I asked my mother when the family she gave the money to was coming to clean my room. I asked while she was sitting around the table with my aunts. You would of thought they had been at a comedy club, they laughed so hard at me before being reminded my room still had to be cleaned.

BarkingSpider 10 months ago

My daughter once forgot the word for pee and told her preschool teacher she got some of her "body water" on her pants. We had a brief, very confusing conversation at pick up because the teacher thought maybe that was what we called it at home and just casually used it when telling me about the accident. We both got a good laugh at least!

Jesha 10 months ago

When I was small, I thought that since female dogs were bitches male dogs must be bastards.

WishIWasAFlapperGirl 10 months ago

My brother (37M) when he was about 3 years old was at a nursery Christmas party. Santa was there seeing the kids and asking them what they wanted for Christmas. It came to my brother's turn, sat on Santa's lap and Santa asked him what he would like for Christmas. To this day none of our family know why he asked for what he asked for and today he is happily in a straight relationship with his fiancée and 2 kids with the same woman. He asked for boobies and a handbag!!!! 3 years old!!!!!

Rhianna Hollowaye 10 months ago

My sisters coined the word 'plumptious' said 'plump-sh-ous' meaning fat, but in the most delightful, complementary, flattering way. Intended entirely as an observation, or a complement, not an insult. An example would be 'i saw a very plumptious pigeon this morning'

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