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  At least he got a variety of food and dad had people over? Still horrible
context: It’s 2023, if you hand your kid your unlocked phone unsupervised for more than two minutes, whatever happens is on you. >
  
  Kid thought he was the mayor from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs apparently. >
  
  Might as well be a music video for It's Raining Tacos >
  
  Well the food starts coming
  And they don't stop coming
  Food for days and my tummy is rumbling >
  
  Didn’t make sense not to eat 4 tons
  My brain ain’t smart and my head’s sure dumb…
  Hey now! >
  
  You're the food star, make some mukbang, Go play >
  
  Man he ordered like 10 meals on GrubHub. >
  
  Went to order some tacos the other day. $5 per taco! I’m talking street tacos here, like 3 bites. Outrageous. >
  
  don't forget the $20 delivery >
  
  Don't forget the driver only gets $3 of that $20 fee.
  I've been tempted to make business cards and hand them out to customers so we can skip the middle man >
  
  I’ve thought the same thing. There’s a few people I deliver to multiple times a week and I only do this part time. Always thought I should tell them to call me and we can cut out the middle man lol >
  
  As an instacart customer  I too have wanted to cut them out and use one of the drivers direct >
  
  My dad got lucky and found a really amazing instacart shopper. When he found out how little she gets paid, my dad offered a deal to her. 
  He now emails her his list, reimbursers her, and tips generously. >
  
  I’m glad to hear it, I might do that. What does instacart pay shoppers? >
  
  It's so much easier. She knows what she can replace if something is out, she knows what sales to pay attention to, what generics we are OK with, etc etc. 
  I'm not sure of their pay, but it definitely isn't worth a couple of hours at the grocery store and driving around. I've seen as little as minimum wage to 20/hr. 
  Good luck finding a shopper that will take you up in your offer! >
  
  Wasn’t there a kid that spent like 20,000 on loot boxes for FIFA a couple years back? >
  
  The mom's bakery got some free advertising, though. >
  
  Would be a riot if $1k in food expense = $10k in extra bakery revenue from publicity 
  Probably the writer saw a way to help the guy out.  “Give us an interview and we will plug your bakery.” >
  
  It's a good thing the kid clicked on Grubhub and not Tinder >
  
  Or Grindr.  Ooof that wouldn't look good for the poor visitor when mother came home. >
  
  Mother: little timmy found me a date! >
  
  You even brought sausage pizza for us? Well, we'll just give that to Little Timmy and enjoy an evening out. >
  
  I know there’s r/kidsarefuckingstupid but is there one for parents too? >
  
  It's r/kidsarefuckingunsupervised. >
  
  Read this as "gun supervised" and got confused for a moment. >
  
  Some kids apparently aren't gun supervised either... >
  
  But why are children fucking while unsupervised? >
  
  ...Would you rather them fuck while supervised? >
  
  If only there was something like Face ID, or fingerprint, or passcode to prevent unauthorized purchases… >
  
  Am I the only fucker than manually puts in my details? Unless the app is set up to directly open up my banking app which requires my touch ID?
  Like listen if I want takeout, I'm sure I can spend 30s putting in my details. Sometimes I've been halfway through and said to myself that I don't really need to buy this for x reason. >
  
  Apple Pay is secure and requires Face ID to work. >
  
  Google pay same way u need to unlock  ur phone and still enter a pin you can also toggle disable your card and it wont work until u toggle it back >
  
  The pepperoni pizzas are what the credit card cancelled 😞 >
  
  Classic Berners Street Hoax prank. >
  
  Fun read - thanks for that!
  Sounds like an episode of The Dollop >
  
  Love that podcast! >
  
  Isn't it a tickling podcast? >
  
  "Dad, did the pepperoni pizzas arrive yet?" lol >
  
  That was the best part. >
  
  On old girlfriend of mine's 10 year old spent almost $10k on iTunes before she noticed.  Credit card bills that get paid automatically without review are dangerous!  Apple refunded a ton of it.   I hear they aren't so good about that these days. >
  
  This is why I keep the account that I pay bills with quarantined from all my other accounts with overdraft protection off.
  Well the main Reason I did it is someone stole my wallet once but similar type of reasoning. >
  
  This is called poor parenting. It's not cute that you let your kid play with a cell phone so that you didn't have to watch over them. >
  
  Everyone who is upset about this comment is insecure about how much their kid/s use a cellphone >
  
  I think it’s a dumb comment and don’t have kids >
  
  Eh I also don’t but I look around and see children behave much better without a screen in their face. My younger siblings/cousins who’ve had somewhat more interactive and social upbringings have better cognitive and social tools than those who were too deeply infatuated with TV/cellphones/video games etc., it’s poison >
  
  It's a pretty hot take in the era of phones and iPads, that you must helicopter parent so hard a 1st grader cannot have any screen time without a parent also watching the screen.
  This is on parents for not locking phone to an app, it's not on them for having kids get >0 screen time without a hovering parent. >
  
  How much screen time to buy $1000 worth of food? 😂if the kid has enough time to do that he has enough time to get seriously hurt while unsupervised >
  
  ?
  People with disposable income are able to buy things like iPads as they already have food. This isn't weird.
  Parents also do not hover over their elementary school children 24/7. It's not weird for a 6 year old to be in their room playing, or a living or family room, without a parent present for a period. Despite your fear this could result in "serious" injury, to exist without a parent watching, it is normal behavior in a regular household for a kid to be in their room for an hour etc. >
  
  Not only is it normal, its required. I dont even have kids but it's so fucking obvious that you need to, from early on, start easing your child into being alone. Or else they end up 35, can't cook, still living with you. Balance is key, and the thing people who go "screens are killing the youths brains" hardly ever do is acknowledge that they are never the parent. They don't know a single thing about how people parent, they just want to go "screen bad, helicopter good" >
  
  I was trying to be polite as the person doesn't seem to be a parent, but yes if you saw someone who never left a 6 year old alone you'd almost want to have child services do a wellness check on that house. Poor kid. >
  
  lol the shameless plug for his wife's business and the news website happily links it!! >
  
  Can't blame them! I don't see how they could get the money back, so at least this way they can view that 1k as a really expensive ad fee. >
  
  To be fair, he did get food out of it. At an inflated cost, for sure, but at least it wasn't spent on loot boxes in some mobile game (although if that were the case he might have been able to get the charges reversed?) >
  
  "Son, you are eating leftovers for the next 3 weeks..." >
  
  $1000? So he ordered two meals? >
  
  Nah he got 3.  Now if he ordered from Uber Eats, then it would be only 2. >
  
  Uber Eats: where "free delivery" means $12.99 not including "fees" and "regulatory compliance fees" >
  
  That's like a modern day Berners Street hoax on accident >
  
  How many meals were actually ordered vs. how many were delivered? >
  
  Beware of six year olds, the last six year old in the news managed to get a secured pistol with a trigger lock smuggled into school and shot his teacher! >
  
  Hmmm, was the dad like blackout drunk or something? Everytime I try to purposely order something, it takes forever for the app to go through. How did this kid get multiple orders from different stores? >
  
  He went big on the tips. >
  
  Hey at least the kid was a responsible firearms user >
  
  Gig apps need  a parental lock code. >
  
  or just don’t let your 6 year old have open access to your phone. >
  
  This. Get them a cheap tablet to fuck around instead, with no payment stuff attached to their account. >
  
  It’s wild how this has become the answer to keeping kids quiet in a public space. I’m a barber - I see it nearly everyday with parents bringing kids in. They are GLUED to their tablet. If you try to remove it they become instantly upset. I’ve seen kids literally come into the shop, wait for a cut, get a cut and then leave - having never looked up from the tablet. It’s crazy.
  How is that raising a healthy and well adjusted kid? >
  
  Cool. Now try and get a grown up who's using their phone while waiting to give it up.
  Go on, go ahead.
  We'll wait. >
  
  That's a bad comparison. Having a someone glued 24/7 to an electronic device while they're still developing mentally and emotionally is different from a full-grown adult. Shit, it's even different form a Gameboy, since Gameboys weren't an endless stream of ads and instant gratification in the form of apps and videos. >
  
  How is it different? Other than you feel like that kid must not be making any connections to other real people because they didn't spend 20 minutes making fucking small talk with a barber? It's okay if people don't want to talk to strangers, seriously. >
  
  You can't honestly believe that having a child constantly on a device engineered to addict you to social media and predatory apps is a good or neutral thing? And it's not just the barbershop, it's everywhere, even at home. We used to joke about kids being raised by the TV, now it's gone to a new and even worse level. >
  
  Some big assumptions there. Kid could be doing homework, could be reading, could be playing a game (building hand and eye coordination), could be socializing with school friends or any multitude of things not harmful. You aren't the parent of the kid, mind your own business. >
  
  I know what I see and many people can corroborate this, these kids get plopped down with their devices in a booth at a restaurant, bar, shop, etc. and then spend the entire time ignored by their parents and watching video after video. And I'm not talking about 13-14 year olds, I'm talking toddlers and up. This is not healthy. >
  
  I was at the pizzeria for carry out last weekend and I was amazed at the number of door dash/grub hub drivers were picking up food. There must have been ten different drivers in less than 15 minutes. >
  
  Lock your shit down if you deal. With kids for fuck sake they'll waste all your money on bullshit that you won't be able to get back >
  
  
  However, the $183 order of jumbo shrimp from the same restaurant did go through just fine and arrived at the house.
  
  For $183, those shrimp better be the size of a dog, I’ll tell you hwhat. >
  
  
  “While all of the food was being delivered and I figured out what happened, I went to talk to Mason about what he did and this is the only part that makes me laugh. I was trying to explain to him that this wasn’t good and he puts his hand up and stops me and says “Dad, did the pepperoni pizzas come yet?” I had to walk out of the room. I didn’t know if I should get mad or laugh. I didn’t know what to do.”    
  
  Yeah I would not be able to stop myself from busting out laughing at that. >
  
  So then, bad parenting. >
  
  Never give a kid your phone. They can, and will, do damage - somehow. 
  I let a friend’s kid play Pokémon go. We had a talk about not evolving or making changes, she was 6. 
  She purified my maxed out shadow mewtwo. There’s no going back, all my other ones are crap. 😂
  But, it was my fault. I gave her my phone. Just like this is dad’s fault. Shame on us. 
  Buy the ticket, take the ride. >
  
  Holy smokes I would never let a child or even another adult play my PokemonGo. Too many permanent, undoubtedly actions. >
  
  People let their kids use their phones and give them the password? My kids are in their 20's and I don't like them even touching it. >
  
  Their taste is expensive at that age!  My oldest son likes his stuff. >
  
  My god if I had pulled something like this as a toddler my ass would still be red 20 years later. >
  
  Who would your kid have unfettered access to your phone? 
  This is one of the many reasons my phone locks as soon as it leaves my hand. >
  
  We’ve come a long way from (my) childhood in the 80s, when I called the 800-number to order the video More Dinosuars but hung up the phone when they asked for a credit card number. >
  
  Step 1: Don’t have kids 
  Step 2: Profit? >
  
  Kids under 13 shouldn't have phones and shouldn't be playing on an adult's phone. This is just r/parentsarefuckingdumb >
  
  In other news, "Parents left kid in a mall with their credit card " >
  
  sigh yet another reason I don’t want kids >
  
  And each order still missed something. >
  
  So he ordered two burritos and a pepsi? >
  
  And one emergency sisterectomy >
  
  This is it. The best birth control out there. >
  
  It would be hard to get mad at the kid >
  
  I’m surprised there’s no go fund me link to save the family from debt.
  But given they made a massive ass plug in the news, you can almost see it as paid advertisement. $1000 is not bad to make it to the papers and into the internet memes. >
  
  Reminds me of that one episode of Rugrats >
  
  Kind of begs the question why there isn’t some sort of dual profile or child mode on phones just yet. Parents could have everything of theirs be on a set of screens only available to them, and could choose a child profile with a set of apps of the parent’s choice. With no access to store or settings. Or have I missed something with Apple updates about this? >
  
  Perhaps an aunt or uncle who happened to have too much giggle grass have their nephew the phone and told them to get some food? 😂😂😂 >
  
  A little parenting goes a long way. Stuff like this happens when you have screens entertain and raise your children for you. >
  
  GrubHub has 15% added to the price when you order FOR PICKUP. >
  
  Grubhub is ridiculously expensive, it costs me $30 to buy a $10 pizza pie from Singha’s. >
  
  this is why parents need to learn parenting skills instead of using their iphone/ipad as a babysitter while they fuck around. >
  
  Lol abortion should be legal until 81 months >
  
  I agree, that way your parents still have time to make it to the nearest Planned Parenthood >
  
  1 k on grubhub would probably only result in 3 deliveries though? /s >
  
  r/kidsarefuckingstupid >
  
  Cynical side wonders if this was a publicity stunt. Father of 6 year old side believes it without question. >
  
  Same. Especially since he managed to plug his wife's business. >
  
  This belongs in /kidsarefuckingstupid >
  
  Legend. This little dude is living our dream. >
  
  Getting cold, overpriced food delivered to your house constantly? >
  
  On someone else’s dime? That’s rockstar status right there. 😎 >
  
  It's his parents' dime. They're probably going to tell him for the next few years "Sorry, Timmy, we can't get you that toy you want. Remember that one day you got all that food delivered?" >
  
  No way, this kid is famous now. This is one of the best moments of his life, and will grow up telling this hilarious story for the rest of his life. GrubHub probably looking into sponsoring him. >
  
  
  This is one of the best moments of his life, and will grow up telling this hilarious story for the rest of his life.
  
  Man, spending $1000 of my parent's money when I was a kid would mean we don't get groceries or make rent that month. That'd be the month I remember I got us kicked out and went hungry without assistance. >
  
  How is this not r/kidsarefuckingstupid >
  
  6 year olds definitely know what’s going on, if you teach them. Sounds like the kid didn’t understand it was a bad thing to do. >
  
  I know at 6 I had a tenuous understanding of how buying things worked, and I'd had a small allowance for a year already. I didn't really get it until probably 9 or 10, and didn't really understand the concept of savings and debt until the 5th grade. >
  
  That's like 6-7 orders where I live... These services are such a massive scam. They are insanely overpriced. >
  
  By the time I checked out my noodle bowl was $40. Wtf >
  
  It doesn't get any better.  My son is 17 and he spent all his money on eating out lunch and dinner even though we were pay for school lunches.  I'm talking all the money his grandparents have given him over the years for Christmas, birthdays, etc.  Probably $6K gone in the last 2 years.  My wife set up his bank account without me so I can't see it through my logon.  She's horrible with money anyway and never looked at his account.  She gave him his debit card info a couple years ago so he could order a game he wanted on the xbox and she told him to keep it in his wallet in case he needed gas for the car, etc.
  My wife has been giving him $250 monthly for gas since he spent all his savings.  Now he has a girlfriend and I found out he's been spending all his gas money taking her out to eat and going to movies and buying her gifts so he has no money to buy gas now.
  I'm just hoping that with his straight As he'll smarten up when he's in college.  The only money he'd getting there is for his meal plan since he spent all his college fun money before college. >
  
  That's only like 4 orders >
  
  My mother knows the people this happened to, I heard about it this morning in her daily dump of crap that people I've never met are up to, alongside the neighbor who bought a new mattress. Rather surprised to see an article about it outside of one of the local subreddits. >
  
  Sounds like more work than just locking your device or not losing your wallet. >
  
  It's not, I do it as well. Literally takes less than 2 seconds to unlock it. >
  
  Bet he got that ass tore up. >
  
  The picture is killing me. I love it >
  
  We sure the kid didn't get into his Dad's stash of gummies first? >
  
  Thank god you can't order college textbooks or printer ink.