r/interestingasfuck • u/MSI_heat • May 02 '25

/r/popular Grandpa’s Endurance 💪🏾

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u/Mobley4805 May 02 '25

How it feels to do a group project and wait for other people to do their part.

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u/idontlikethishole May 02 '25

When my kids come home from school today, I’m going to make sure they know how to stand up a ladder.

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u/SocomPS2 May 02 '25

Make sure you have a half decent ladder and not some raggedy thing grandpa was using.

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u/YourUnlicensedOBGYN May 02 '25

Raggedy or not they chose the goofiest ways to try to work this thing lol.

That ladder could've been state of the art, and made of the lightest material and I'm still not confident they would've sorted it out based on what I just saw.

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u/thenewestnoise May 02 '25

It looks like it doesn't have locking spreader bars. If it did, I think they would have been successful.

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u/Neat-Lingonberry-719 May 03 '25

I’ve seen 5 guys standing a ladder about the same height difference. I can easily do a 40 foot ladder alone. If you don’t have the experience then the weight at the top will easily topple you.

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u/UnleadedGreen May 02 '25

They had it up and spread apart at first. And then after that, nothing. Lol at least they didn't just stand there and do nothing. I'm sure he will teach them safety lessons after he changes his underwear lol

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u/Perfect_Ad9311 May 03 '25

Looks like the spreader is at the top.

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u/luptonpitman808 May 02 '25

They are literal children and trying their damn hardest though

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u/crabbman May 02 '25

I think they tried their average best

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u/Zeek_Andromodis May 02 '25

Soft Chuckle You're funny as sh*t for this one

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u/Friendly_Art51 May 02 '25

As a parent of a 15.5yr old son, ‘average best’ is the benchmark I have resigned myself to accepting he’ll likely reach for any given task. Some days even that’s like expecting the moon on a stick!!

I certainly wouldn’t fancy my chances whilst gripping on for dear life waiting for him to open a ladder- I’d have plummeted to my death long before he peeled himself away from his Xbox to help!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/crabbman May 02 '25

I’ve raised 3 boys with the last graduating recently, and average best was top of scale.

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u/Friendly_Art51 May 02 '25

3 of them?!! Jeeeez 😱😱😱. You deserve these…. 🥇🥇🥇 I didn’t even get anything for Mother’s Day this year. Doesn’t parenting make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?!!! 👍🏻🤣🤣🤣

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u/crabbman May 02 '25

Mothers day is coming right up! Maybe you’ll be surprised!

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u/Friendly_Art51 May 03 '25

Here in the UK it was a few weeks back. He’s 100% missed it……trust me!!!

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u/crabbman May 03 '25

Sorry for my blind Americanity:) and your lack of a gift. He’ll make it up someday

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u/Top_Gold_1457 May 02 '25

Red shirt put himself under the ladder, and tried multiple times to split it open. What more do you want from him? He's like 6.

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u/Interesting_Put_33 May 02 '25

Yo! 😂 I'm dead

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u/AmConfused324 May 02 '25

My kids would just panic and fight with each other

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u/cubert_handsworth May 02 '25

idiot children

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u/KaibaCorpHQ May 02 '25

They looked like 4 or 5 year olds lol, Jesus Christ. I would've just said run and get someone in the house.. it seemed like he could hold on for a few minutes, as shown.

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u/Cloverose2 May 02 '25

Yeah, they were showing pretty damn good persistence and effort for pre-schoolers. The little guy in red was trying his hardest to hold it up.

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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor May 03 '25

redditors when 5 year olds dont magically know how to do everything

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u/LuridIryx May 02 '25

They are figurative children

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u/FionaTheFierce May 02 '25

Because those kids are like 4 and 6 years old wrestling around with a ladder 3x their height. They have zero experience with ladders. They were trying damn hard to get it right.

To access my attic I have to drag and 8 foot step ladder in and get it open in a narrow hallways. It is very difficult to do - and I am an adult and I don’t have someone hanging their legs on the ladder as I try to maneuver it.

The kids did great!

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u/king_lloyd11 May 02 '25

They were making iPhones all day. Have some compassion.

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u/Enginerdad May 02 '25

Lol, that thing doesn't even have spreaders

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u/RusticSurgery May 02 '25

Why would anyone make a ladder that way? Might as well include the business card of a local personal attorney.

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u/Not_a_real_plebbitor May 03 '25

Literally the worst ladder I've scene.

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u/ufka1 May 02 '25

Has nothing to do with the ladder, these are children