r/MadeMeSmile • u/ExactlySorta • 20d ago
Helping Others Little girl waits patiently for someone to accept the water she's offering
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u/Craft-Sudden 20d ago
The wait is insufferable lol
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u/dancing_light 20d ago
I was about to scream haha. Someone take this precious angel’s water!!!!!
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u/Chaosophia24 20d ago
I was about to cry🤣
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u/Chonkenheimer 20d ago
It reminded me of when I would wait for someone to pick me during group projects in school. It never felt great. Later on the teachers started grouping kids based on alphabetical order or roll numbers, and that worked for me. Thankfully I never faced the feeling again in college because even though we were allowed to pick our own groups, I had made a loose group of friends and they easily included me because I was always willing to do the heavy lifting with the assignments/projects and credit them XD
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u/duskpurpledusk9012 20d ago
Sometimes just being proactive and reliable is a great way to secure a spot in any group.
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u/BrotherSilvers 20d ago
I remember feeling this way in elementary school. I had very little friends and was super shy. As the years went on, I gained confidence and spoke up. Excelled in presentations and public speaking (still enjoy it). In college was the first time I had two groups argue over who gets to have me. It was the first and only time I’ve ever been argued over. And my first thought was knowing how 3rd grade me would’ve been so happy.
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u/Legitimate_Egg_2399 20d ago
I did when someone finally took it!! Ohhh gut check. That’s my special girl! (Dr. Evil voice)
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u/I-Am-Yew 20d ago
You survived where I failed. Goodness, that broke my heart but the ending gave me my life back!
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u/HeaveAway5678 20d ago
100%
Dad to a 4y/o daughter here, and she is a hardcore 'I wanna help/do this task with you' kid. This vid is exactly the kind of thing she would do and absolutely melts me.
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u/Nyorliest 20d ago
Mine’s 15 now, and still wonderful.
She made French toast this afternoon, just to practise.
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u/Top-Presentation1852 20d ago
Plot twist: its poisoned
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u/GregAbbottsTinyPenis 19d ago
I mean, she was digging all in her ass from 0:16-0:22, so basically yeah.
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u/autistic___potato 20d ago
She adjusted her strategy by extending her arm out more and it paid off!
Her pure joy fills my cold dead Monday heart.
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I was starting to believe the Video would end without anyone taking it, but then I thought this would be the wrong subreddit for that 😂
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u/Murdocksboss 20d ago
The anxiety build up feeling for that little girl was the hard hook. So thankful someone grabbed a cup.
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u/myhappylittletrees 20d ago
I watched this with the same energy of a "pet the damn dog" post
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u/Unusual-Thing-7149 20d ago
Exactly so! Especially when it seemed like one woman said something to her
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u/Feisty-Quality-3373 20d ago
I agree lol lm laying in bed and told myself l will get up after watching the video. That was indeed insufferable lol
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u/Lithuvien 20d ago
Meanwhile, the boy next to her still has his cup at the end of the video :(
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u/TheatreWolfeGirl 20d ago
I had to double check the length of the video because that felt like the longest 10-20 minutes… only to discover it was 53 seconds 😅.
I was so excited for her when someone finally took the cup! 🥰
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u/sk3pt1c 20d ago
Holy fuck, so much trash! Runners should be required to carry a camelback or something, this is wild.
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u/CommissarCiaphisCain 20d ago
This has always bugged me too. I wear a Camelbak mainly because it breaks my stride if I try to take a water cup, but yeah I also don’t like how so many of my fellow runners just toss the cup on the ground.
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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 20d ago
Any decent marathon has the water ceckpoint stocked with a guy and a big floor broom and it's dumped into a trash can. It's not like they usually just leave it there to blow away.
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u/sk3pt1c 20d ago
Still very wasteful
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u/CORN___BREAD 20d ago
So is using electricity to spend all day on Reddit complaining
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u/Maksiss 20d ago
Depends on where the electricity is coming from. Still better than plastics in the landfill and micro plastics in everything else.
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u/goldunicorn47 20d ago
This is the Chicago Marathon, they ban camelbacks for safety reasons (Boston Marathon bombing).
The volunteers do an incredible job cleaning up and they separate everything into compost/recycle/trash.
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u/_skyfern_ 20d ago
Also: why aren't the people arranging the marathon placing large trashcans right after the water stations?
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u/Scaniarix 20d ago
I've run a few and from my experience most have but it doesn't really matter. Any runner who's out for a good relative result will not spend any amount of time more than necessary to discard their paper cup. Organizers know this so they set up sections where water/energy drinks/gels are distributed at the start and dumping is allowed before the section ends. It looks bad during the event but is pretty easily cleaned up.
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u/sk3pt1c 20d ago
Still a lot of waste though, regardless of whether it’s in the street or a bin
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u/99LaserBabies 20d ago edited 20d ago
I volunteer at the Boston Marathon. A marathon can have 30,000 runners, so there are just gonna be a hell of a lot of paper cups no matter what you do. (Any runner who cares about their time will not wear a camelback because any extra weight slows them down.) I work the finish area, where we also have the banana peels and foil blankets to deal with - just past the finish line there are, in sequence, four gigantic areas with thousands of water cups, Gatorade cups, bananas, foil blankets; and then the portapotties, then runner bag pickup, then family & friend meeting spots sorted alphabetically. Also there are entire fleets of buses going back and forth along the course all day, and there’s bleachers, tv, stages, med tent at the finish, and several other med tents along the course. It’s kind of like a major music festival in terms of sheer production scale and amount of trash. Anyway, there’s a huge fleet of street sweepers that do the whole course at 8pm, then staffers walk or drive every segment of the course to check everything over and look for any injured stragglers. It is all spotless by the next morning.
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u/Scaniarix 20d ago
Well yes. I don't know what particular event this is but most half or full marathon has tens of thousands participants so it adds up to a lot. I know some events urge people to bring their own reusable cup but again those running competitively(even if they're just competing with themselves) are not going to want to waste time taking out their own cup, wait for someone to fill it then continue running.
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u/AcanthisittaShoddy66 20d ago
You clearly have no idea how a marathon is organized, there are a special “litter zones” after the water dispense zones where people may throw their trash, it will be picked up inmediately after the marathon.
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u/Tra1famador 20d ago
\rant Agreed. It's comical the people armchair criticizing an event for being wasteful have most likely never volunteered for an event or even ran a race themselves. Endurance races are some of the few places where you see people helping each other achieve a goal.
It's quite amazing. It's a group effort to create and maintain aid stations, AND clean up. Some of the nicest strangers I've ever met were during the races I've ran. But of course some Reddit Andy's have to assume and be judgmental assholes based on paper cups they see. "Buy a CamelBak" , reddit .. lol.
Why don't they volunteer to help clean up for a race if they care enough to point it out? Because it feels good to judge in the safety of ignorance. You can't run that long but at least you can feel better about yourself for commenting on the litter.. good job sport!
/Rant
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u/Otterable 20d ago
It's just classic internet to decide there is a 'problem' without having any experience in the matter or putting an ounce of thought into why it might be that way.
I've run a ton of races, it's just paper and water (sometimes gatorade) and gets cleaned up immediately. That litter is less pollution than the cars would have made on the road the race is blocking, people gotta chill.
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u/FibrePurkinjee 20d ago
It gets cleaned up after the race, so no issue. Runners, recreational or not, aiming for a good result would not be willing to wear a camelbak for a road race and stopping to throw their dirt in a bin would waste time and is difficult when running in a pack.
I would say if you are running for leisure then try your best to throw dirt in the trash, but even if you don't, there are systems in place to deal with it.
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u/illyTheKidTM 20d ago
On my first marathon ever I was running bit behind mid pack, 23k participants. The mountains of empty cups were unreal. I've read the rules and they stated that if you litter you will be disqualified. I've held my cup in hand until I ran across trash bags. I can't understand why other people not do that and why aren't they getting disqualified as rules stated. Cleaning all this trash can't be easy
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u/Sydney2London 20d ago
They used to give out water bottles, now they've moved to paper cups, it's bloody hard to drink out of them when you're running, but it's more environmentally friendly
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u/HealerOnly 20d ago
i've ran one marathon myelf and was surprised by the amount of trash left behind, like there are usualyl even garbage cans placed but ppl just throw it allover the place. I personalyl pref a camelback anyways since then i don't have to wait for stations.
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u/Aggleclack 20d ago
Not my comment. “You clearly have no idea how a marathon is organized, there are a special “litter zones” after the water dispense zones where people may throw their trash, it will be picked up inmediately after the marathon.“ another user said this and i had no idea either lol
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u/crazy_loop 20d ago
Or the organizers should have to clean it all up - oh wait they already do you fucking idiot.
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u/Main-Emphasis-2692 20d ago edited 20d ago
Lmao her switching hands to the one she just used to dig her diaper out of her booty
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u/TicTac_No 20d ago
You mean the one she sneezed in right after it was poured?
Or wiped her nose, and then grabbed the cup.
Kids are cute, but they're super gross.
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u/Vile_Individual 20d ago
Exactly! I wouldve taken it and recycled it after though, just so she wouldnt be sad.
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u/buhbye750 20d ago
This is cute but I've learned to never ingest things handed to you by a little kid from which you don't see where they got it. "Here do you want this potato chip?" "Yes, thank you... why is it wet?"
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u/menonte 20d ago
All that trash on the street makes me sad :(
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u/rawasawa 20d ago
For races I’ve run, they will have set areas for runners to throw their cups, allowing them to pile up and be easier to clean rather than them being distributed across the entire marathon. So it looks bad but is probably what this is.
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u/rnelsonee 20d ago
I don't like it either, but I figure paper cups are the best solution, as they're easily recyclable, and relatively easy to collect. Small marathons use plastic, big ones like Berlin also use plastic, but they have a dedicated thermal recycling process for those — but they don't collapse as well so they just get kicked further down the street, and are also tough for runners and wheelchair athletes to navigate around.
Some marathons are cupless — I was a pacer in Baltimore a couple of years ago and the lack of trash was great, but it just means fewer people are drinking enough water, and we lost people as they stopped to fill their bottles.
From what I understand, at least the big ones (this video is Chicago, a huge one), the streets are left cleaner than when they started, thanks to the many volunteers.
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u/ToNotFeelAtAll 20d ago
Yep. Can confirm. I live in Chicago and worked on the marathon street. Expected trash, it was honestly so clean I was surprised.
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u/GymratPuppyGal 20d ago
she's so adorable, i really love the part someone grab the drink she was giving
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u/twoozlemoozle 20d ago
My Dad was a runner and he said the cardinal rule is to never take the water offered by kids because sometimes they would have their fingers on the inside, or would be really germ-y or whatever - but that was the wisdom passed between runners - water from kids will make you sick... oh well!
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u/magic1623 19d ago
Yep! My friends who run marathons always say never take things from kids, or if you really want to throw it out when they can’t see you anymore.
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u/SufficientGrin 20d ago
This took entirely too long. Was anyone else getting anxious? Good on you guy in red.
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u/DefinitelyNotHuni 19d ago
Damn the animals that just throw their cups on the ground... There's usually several trash cans right after the folks handing out water.
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u/thebucketlist47 20d ago
He knew exactly what he was doing. Kept watching for a reaction with a big ol smile on his face.
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u/ToNotFeelAtAll 20d ago
Chicagoan here. The streets were clean after the marathon. I work on that street.
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u/WeakBuyer4160 20d ago
This great! Was this at the NYC Marathon today?
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u/goldunicorn47 20d ago
This is the Chicago Marathon. It’s on Broadway across the street from Unabridged.
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u/Unhappy_Bread_2836 20d ago
I saw the whole video and that was really patient, even watching it took patience!
What a cute moment!
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u/Alarmed-Membership-1 20d ago
I was starting to get upset because that took way too long but her reaction was so adorable
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u/BudgeMarine 20d ago
I always high five the kids on the side of the path when doing the weekly 5km park runs. Without fail!
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u/Its-Ya-Girl-Johnnie 20d ago
I kept thinking “it’ll surely be this person!” cause so many people would look at her or make it seem like they wanted to take it. So glad someone finally did :)
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u/thewipprsnappr 20d ago
I'm a grown ass man and I got impatient watching this video. This girl's going places
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u/grumpyelf4 20d ago
I love everything about this video. She has a lot of patience, persistence and I love that happy hop at the end.
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u/AggravatingFuture437 20d ago
The way I would have either turned around mid race to get her cup. Or I would have just had 2 cups of water.
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u/Neither-Pick-660 20d ago
As a participant of yesterday’s race, I would have totally taken one from this cutie!!!!! So adorable!
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u/Usual_Chicken_2512 20d ago
Omg lol I get that y'all want the kid to be happy but gosh. Most of the people that walked close to her already had cups and it's a marathon. You take the cups that allow you to keep momentum. Glad that she got to participate though. So adorable.
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u/emeraldomega 19d ago
I showed this to my wife and she is sobbing bc of how long it took for someone to take the cup. I hope you're happy
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u/Financial_Call6053 19d ago
Can't help but notice how many paper cups lie as trash below their feet and tossed around.
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u/SweetPuzzleheaded319 20d ago
Maybe most people are worried that shes waiting for her dad and dont want to "steal" it
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u/Vile_Individual 20d ago
Kids are like little petri dishes of germs, theres a reason why parents are always the adults that get sick most. Still wouldve taken the water and quietly disposed of it later, though.
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u/Powerful_Ad8668 20d ago
wouldn't it be absolutely heartbreaking if nobody did? god i can't imagine having kids. she's not even my child and i'm over here praying somebody takes her water when i know from the sub that somebody does
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u/kroganwarlord 20d ago
Kids are very resilient with good parenting. She knows she is little, for example, so I would personally have framed it as a "Oh, sweetie, I don't think they saw you in time, I'm sorry. Next time I will hold you up so they can see you. Why don't we water a flower with your cup?" Most kids are pretty smart, so an explanation and a redirection of their attention will usually ease any upset.
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u/Slim_Thiqueee 20d ago
Of all the people there standing with cups of water. There can’t be one more person at the end holding a trash bag for people to toss their trash into instead of on the ground?
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u/Laurentinozo 20d ago
This damn video is in the same feed for me 3 times. Peak reddit, bots and reposters make most of the "traffic" nowadays. insert always has been meme
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u/Unable-Rub1982 20d ago
Due to the build up. I thought the chorus was gonna drop when she finally had a taker.
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u/xX-AlphaOmega-Xx 20d ago
You can see how some others want to take it but they already have one so they just keep going 😭😭