This is why moms worry.

flimdex · 11 months

that guy has ridiculous core strength

guy123 · 11 months

As someone afraid of heights, I can assure you that this is how I feel when I lean over a balcony too.

verstas · 11 months

I recently found myself telling my 7-year-old nephew not to lean over the balcony because 'he could flip over at ANY MOMENT'. I've become old.

leafstomper · 11 months

relevant story:

I was babysitting for 5 kids in a huge 3-story house. While on the 2nd story, I call up to the 3rd floor/loft to the seven-year old, to invite him to play hide and seek outside. When I look up, I see him leaning over the railing, smiling, about to tell me something. Then he falls. Flipped over, hit his head on the wall, flipped back over, hit another wall, and landed on the ground floor. Unconscious. Blood all over the carpet and walls. He wakes up as I'm calling 911. Had to get life-starred to the children's hospital. He ended up with a concussion and a fractured face.

Scariest fucking thing ever. And, needless to say, I never babysat for them again.

tl;dr watched a kid lean over a railing too far and fell 3 stories.

Biganon · 11 months

Captions :

1 : Nice view

2 : lol what the fuck am I doing

orange_jooze · 11 months

A sweater is a piece of clothing that children wear when their mothers feel cold.

Vedlen · 11 months

My neighbor's 7yo daughter used to lean over the balcony on a regular basis too. Until the day she did fall over and cracked her head open on the sidewalk (from 2nd floor).

Edit: typo

patriotsfan · 11 months

That's planking over the balcony, I believe.

omplatt · 11 months

that makes me nervous too, especially if the leaner is wearing glasses

imtheprofessor · 11 months

This is how my mom has always been with anything a few feet of the ground. Although, her cousin fell into the Grand Canyon, so I guess I understand her fear of heights.

ass_herpes · 11 months

i would worry too. that balcony would not pass inspection.

Geschirrspulmaschine · 11 months

My mom freaks out any time a plastic bag gets anywhere near her kid's faces. I try to cure her through exposure therapy, but she just starts crying when casually I walk into the room with a grocery bag on my head.

thatsnogood · 11 months

Blatant Repost

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Original Post http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ltlmx/leaning_over_the_balcony/

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IbidtheWriter · 11 months

I am not afraid of heights, but I am definitely afraid of heights by proxy. If my brother is near a banister, I just can't take it. Fear grips my heart.

gibsoncoca · 11 months

This is why moms worry

FTFY

Mlemac28 · 11 months

I think the reason moms worry has more to do with the fact that kids are fucking stupid.

Vyae · 11 months

It's okay, they worry because they love us. (:

pegbiter · 11 months

Does anyone else, when peering over a tremendous height, have a tremendous desire to jump? Not a suicidal desire, exactly, it doesn't happen for 'normal' (yet fatal) heights, but only for really vast ones.

rainbowmarchenko · 11 months

As someone who has actually leaned over too far and fell over, I agree. I was 7 and fell two stories on top of my mom's convertible. Scariest moment of my mother's life.

kyleisagod · 11 months

This is how my fear of heights is defined. I'm not afraid of being high up, I'm afraid of being high up and leaning over a balcony.

sniffles_snort · 11 months

This would be an example of how moms worry. One article about one balcony rail giving way would be why.

clrtxf · 11 months

I definitely have that parent gene. Any time I see a little kid doing anything I IMMEDIATELY see the worst possible outcome and I freak out.

witch_vampire · 11 months

we all love our moms.... :) <3

Deathaurora · 11 months

TIL moms have planking vision

smexyfish · 11 months

Buster?

markandspark · 11 months

Canny expensive trainers.

888alltheway · 11 months

But OP, that's how I actually lean over the balcony!

curvy_lady_92 · 11 months

Just.. Yes.

ctskifreak · 11 months

90 degrees from batmanning

daskrip · 11 months

When I see a cat on the barrier... my cringe shakes the ground.

bitethemuffin · 11 months

OP, just out of curiosity, how old are you?

Isvara · 11 months

Why's it always gotta be moms? Dads worry too. Especially ones with OCD who imagine every horrific death imaginable.

ge6ko911 · 11 months

Only if your parents are two lesbians. (how your mothers see it)

Acidyo · 11 months

My mother goes apeshit whenever she sees me lean over the balcony. I usually do that when smoking... I am 22.

Moms... AMIRITE?

RedSquaree · 11 months

An Enderman leaning over a balcony. That's How I see it.

VastDeferens · 11 months

That guy is a world class planker

Alex-the-3217th · 11 months

I sent this to my mother and she couldn't spot the difference.

wirralriddler · 11 months

I can lean over balconies without having any heart attacks, yet everytime someone near me gets near a balcony I get over excited. What is this, irrational fear of seeing someone fall?

goats · 11 months

My ex-girlfriend once started crying when I stood too close to the edge of a cliff once.

phoenix762 · 11 months

So, so true....as a mom who is afraid of heights, I can attest to that:)

kyledouglas521 · 11 months

This is how I used to feel, until my neighbor who lives above me was leaning on the railing and legitimately did a flip over his balcony and landed on his spine. Now I'm a little iffy about leaning on railings.

FlusteredNZ · 11 months

That's what makes them mums!

h_lehmann · 11 months

I've been a rock climber for many years. Standing on a 2 inch ledge, umpteen feet above the nearest horizontal surface, no problem. Good finger locks while 30 feet beyond my least piece of protection, also no problem. But, you put me next to a balcony railing and I start to sweat. Whenever I stand on a balcony of a high rise building, I just know that it's going to collapse the moment I put any weight on it. Maybe it's because everything's built by the lowest bidder.... I don't know.

Ender11 · 11 months

Fathers get the same exact feeling.

Rotten_in_Denmark · 11 months

you need to do one of these, but for blowjobs.

JJB-125 · 11 months

Whenever I lean over a balcony, I usually imagine what would happen if the surface I am leaning on disappeared. Pretty scary.

dinokitten101 · 11 months

I can relate.

deadbydesign · 11 months

i hope you hit her with a pan.

crystalbluecurrents · 11 months

I feel that way and I'm not even a mother yet. I'm going to be such a paranoid mom.

undoneian · 11 months

Feel off a balcony 3 months ago. Sitting on the ledge just like they tell you not to. Life flighted, got really lucky with just some surgery and a broken neck. I imagine the same thing applies when your teachers tell you not to lean back in your chairs at school.

nyanyanyanyanyan · 11 months

Look Ma, no hands!

BadKitty420 · 11 months

My mom freaks out whenever I'm on a balcony or near a ledge. Probably because I almost jumped off a cliff when I was 5...

MrOrsom · 11 months

That's not why moms worry, that's what moms worry about.

hamhead · 11 months

Although that's pretty much what it was at Rangers Ballpark over the summer...

your_masturbator · 11 months

My aunts 8 year old child died from a fall because he was leaning through the apartment window.

RC-7201 · 11 months

Sooo...they are worried we are planking?

Alexandurs · 11 months

Mommycam.

Anon6942 · 11 months

anyone else see #2 as 60's spider-man?

johnathanstrangescat · 11 months

I wish I could downvote this a million million times.

PolarX · 11 months

When a child leans over a balcony, their mother sees them as a vampire?

There-Wolf · 11 months

That's also how wives afraid of heights see the situation. Ask my husband who I cling to desperately the moment he gets close to the edge.

triel187 · 11 months

It worries Eric Clapton too, now.

[deleted] · 11 months

please don't cough a lot when you are eating or I will call 911 and tell them that you are choking to death

Grundle_Troll · 11 months

I thought this was why moms worry. http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/luk80/this_is_why_moms_worry_fixed/

dunnowhathuh · 11 months

As an acrophobe, that's how I see it too.

VoodooWoman · 11 months

HEIGHTS!!! noooooo.... shiiiiiit

BakedPotatoTattoo · 11 months

I lived in an apartment complex years ago where some guys were having a spitting contest off a 3rd floor balcony. One guy backed into the living room to get a running start, hit the balcony and went over, killing him when he hit.

Still baffles the fuck out of me to this day.

Tanspriter · 11 months

Forget that, this is how I see it. I'm terrified of ledges.

SAHDman · 11 months

Anyone else think the second part would read better as "How mother sees it"?

Ninjawithcandy · 11 months

My husband freaks out when our now teen age children do this. He was paranoid to the point I had to reassure him that they were ok and the railing was safe. He is terrified of heights, and I have flown planes, cliff and mountain climbed. If I could live in a house on a sheer faced cliff, I would. He, on the other hand, would prefer the hobbit shire.

ebolabandit · 11 months

You sir, are a boss.

myPuppysCute · 11 months

upvote bc this is exactly how I feel when my children are any where near a ledge

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