‘I don’t like the smell of you!’
There’s something about a child’s combined ignorance and perceptiveness that makes them capable of humiliatingly incisive observations. For this reason, it’s acceptable to cry yourself to sleep after being embarrassed by one of them. One Redditor remembers the time she rushed over to help a kid who fell on the playground, only for the child to back away and say, “I don’t like the smell of you!” Unfortunately, the Redditor admits that it “was a hot day,” so the child wasn’t necessarily wrong, which is even more embarrassing.
A number of other Redditors have revealed the times a kid got the best of them, and all of these would qualify as villain origin stories.