Why are people so gullible? I can't imagine a single scenario where a stranger would say this to OP.

Even if the story was true.

"You're really pretty"

"Yeah well hey kids you're all ugly haha I'm cool"

I was actually the train driver, I looked back and saw the kids crying and the mother looked shocked. She opened her mouth to say something but then shut it cause she knew she had been defeated. The rest of the ride was really quiet.

The woman was so triggered by the comment that she popped like a balloon, and each of the 3 kids gave OP $100% dollars

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Do the people who make stories like this not realize how difficult it is to look at what someone is doing on their phone unless you're standing right over their shoulder?

she didn't even post a picture and she's getting upvotes for being so hot. He stories may be fake but her internet attention whoring skills are next level

Damn I wish people irl could say things like this to me. That way I could take the headphones out of my ears and say "huh?".

That'll show them.

Is 'mombie' a new term? I've never seen it before, but now a couple different posts have shown up with it.

I get the reference, and it must be a heck of a zinger to label the fabricated enemies of the dedicated childless.

Some people on that sub are super cool people who just know that having children is not something they want to experience and deal with. Others, such as this person, feel that children are the worst thing anyone could possibly want, those that do are complete idiots, and they are constantly being persecuted for feeling the way they do, so much so, that they feel the need to fabricate stories about said persecution and how they are totally witty and shut the situation down like a boss. It's like the atheism subreddit had an adult (because it would literally implode on itself if I referred to it as a baby, even in the context of a well known saying).

Yep, some woman on the train stared at OP's phone for no reason. Does she has /r/childfree sensing powers?

what a waste of beauty and potential

suuuuuure

As a user who's subbed to that subreddit, I completely agree with the fact that at least 85% of people there are complete idiots, who take pride in the fact that they don't have children, for the simple fact that it makes them able to spend more money. So they seem better than everyone else. Bunch of snobs, is what they are. Without realizing it, they end up as the person who claims entitlement to something, when they claim that whoever they interacted with, was indeed the person to do so. Anyway, back on topic. We're not all like that. I didn't choose not to have children because of economy. I'm one of the leftover 15%, who knows for a fact that I'm not interested in having a child myself. I'll take care of others children, but I never want the full responsibility of bringing a child into the world. Now, there's more than one reason for that, but I'll give you the biggest; my family, and me in particular, have a long history of mental disabilties, and other health related issues. I'm not willing to take a risk of passing that on to a child, knowing how hard of a time I had growing up with it.

That's just my two cents, and I hope that some people will take the time to read it, and realize that we're not all selfish bastards.

Though, some people will undoubtedly still think so. Oh well, their loss.

Are these people retarded? Do they ever even leave the house? They think that everyone gives a shit about them and their life. How many instances are there where someone is getting shot, attacked, harassed in public and no one does anything and yet we are to believe that everyone is giving their two cents on your life. Don't think so.

So I don't ride trains or subways that often, but on the few occasions I visited New York City it was basically the main form of transportation other than walking.

At no point during any train ride did I witness anyone starting a conversation with anyone they didn't know. Public transportation is like an elevator, you don't talk to the other passengers if you don't know them.

Well, one thing is for sure.. it's a damn good thing none of the people in that sub are going to reproduce.

Childfree is such a weird subreddit. I don't want kids either but those people have a very strange, unhealthy obsession with their hatred of children. It's very odd. Like, what an oddly specific thing to be so angry about.

The biggest slap in the face of "miserable and poor" parents, is to waste your child free time reminding everyone how child free you are...instead of enjoying child free life.

That sub is fucking weird. How do you... continually use it? Seems like a one-time deal: "I don't have kids. I have more money/time/etc than people who do. Neener-neener." What do you post after that?

Well he's got the shit eating grin part right.

That sub should be aborted.

Half of the stuff in there belongs here.

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It's the fucking winkey face in the edit that does it for me. That and her "thank you". God fucking damnit, I hate that shit. I'm all for living your life as you want, but fuck you for making up these lies to seem more interesting, you fucking cunt.

/rant over

But I guess she showed her with her $100% true story.

No applause?

Are people in /r/childfree seriously that gullible?

The oddest thing about this is that the statement the stranger made wasn't even rude. It was rather flattering.

Because if you don't have kids with you, you don't have kids. How stupid are people. You can have a life independent of your children

How would the mom know that OP didn't have kids? Do mothers give off a scent that only other mothers can pick up?

R/enough(insert here)spam

At times I feel like the very stereotype this sub is known for. I mean, I know half the stories people post there are fake and I don't go making up my own, but every time an argument about the place comes up, a bunch of subscribers always defend themselves by saying not wanting kids doesn't mean they hate kids.

Except I do. I really, really do. And honestly I do kind of revel in it, even though I'm aware it's an incredibly pathetic waste of my time. I didn't even have a bad childhood or any issues with my parents. I'm just a dick who's not doing the sub's stereotype any favors.

I've never met anyone that cares if someone else doesn't want to have kids. I have kids, so I get it that they are a lot of work and expensive. I just get annoyed when people have kids and then are shitty parents.

Holy shit that sub makes me wanna kill myself.

I knew that somehow or another that post would end up here... It's sad because a lot of us CFers do experience backlash for our life choices. There's really no need to make stuff up.

That place is a goldmine for the most $100% stories that ever happened.

I have never had an interaction with a child, or the parent of a child in relation to their child/child rearing, that was negative enough for me to remember it vividly...And I worked retail for 8 years.

I'm sure there's been a dozen or so occasions in my life where a parent or their kid has been shitty to me, but nothing that comes to mind automatically or vividly. I can say pretty confidently that I have never been given shit from a stranger about not having kids.

What a strange thing to be angry about. What a strange thing to dedicate a subreddit to.

Childfree is a sub filled with college kids that don't realize half of them will end up having kids at some stage anyway.

Sitting on a train with cell phone? SOO much potential. You can tell a lot about someone by how they sit and stare at a phone.

IM SCREAMING

How could they see what subreddit you were on..?

I'm all for people choosing to not have children. But 90% of people I know who declare they are "CF" are all narcissistic ass holes

And now the person deleted it. Someone called her out on it, and she asked why he has to be negative.

Can't I tell my fake story in peace? Gosh.

That sub is one of the saddest, most despicable and pathetic things I've ever seen. How empty and miserable must your life be that you find an identity in not just being childless, but actively hating children and the people who love them; the people who find fulfilment and happiness in bringing life into the world and making it prosper.

Fucking pricks.

That was a mother with three children with her. She doesn't give a flying fuck what you're reading on your phone or who you are. She's too busy telling Billy to quit picking his nose and Jacky to quit hitting her other brother. Even if her children were well-behaved, her entire attention is still on them so they stay well-behaved. Or if she's a bad parent, if she's ignoring her devil munchkins, she's probably ignoring you too.

This sub looks like such cancer. They use "mombie" unironically. All they do is complain or brag. The post that is at the top right now is a guy bragging about how much money he has coworkers and insulting them.

that didn't happen

WHY

Boosts her own ego within the fake story, In order to boost her own ego with fake internet points, what is wrong with these people?

What is CF?

"Guess you may need to try again, huh?" How is this even a comeback? What am I missing here?

My god, half that sub is people who are pissed 2 year olds can't act like well articulated adults.

I want to say a stranger would never say this to someone about having kids but I was out to dinner with a friend and their baby when someone walked up to the table and thanked them for having children. It was weird. No one clapped and we all sat there kind of bewildered like... uh.... you're welcome we did it just for you...

mombie

Fucking pathetic. Also, how the fuck did she know you don't have kids? It's not because she recognized what you were doing on your phone, you pathetic cunt.

Childfree sucks. I once, when trying to better understand my own thoughts on the matter, asked if anyone was willing to share the factors that led them to choose to be childfree, or the signs that they knew meant they would be happier that way. Was told that "this place is not a zoo for me to come in an look at all the CF people". Was really weird--because... I mean its an entire community dedicated to that life-choice. Seemed like it was the right place to ask that sort of thing. They're very persecuted it would seem.

The best part of that sub is that subscription isn't required to vote on posts or comments.

=D

In what world do these people live where people on public transport aren't mindless robots?

Is Mombie common? Is it something they say in that sub specifically? Weird because I heard it yesterday from my girlfriends sister who is a mother of two.

My wife and I are considering whether or not to have kids. If we decide not to, this sort of thing will never happen. What makes someone think this sort of thing is believable?

Shit i just got a tiny bit upset when everyones kids used the pool....

I wonder how you can dedicate an entire subreddit to one thing.

"I don't want kids." "Somebody said I will one day/I should have them."

What else is there to post about exactly? Seems more like that sub is a bunch of people with some mental trauma trying to cover it with being childfree.

Mombie? MOMBIE?

TIL there's a sub for crazy aunts.

As someone who lived in New York City for 11 years, I actually don't find this very unrealistic at all. In fact, I would see exchanges like this regularly

How can people sink that low that this is how they need to feel fulfilled in life.

Bonkers sub, full of cunts.

I went there, because I have no children nor a desire to have one.

But they have funny ideas, you have to kind of hate kids to fit in that sub. You have to have a zeal.

/r/truechildfree is okay for normal people who choose not to procreate.

Everything about having children is selfish.

/r/nothingeverhappens

btw, If you people want /r/childfree to not exist, simple, stop pressuring people to have kids! Is that simple, isn't it? If people stopped and respected childless people for a moment, subs like that wouldn't exists, disrespectful cynics. It's a sub for rants, the same way that the Trump sub is a sub for supporters only. So yeah. As a 17 years old, it's not cool to hear "You'll change your mind in 10 years" like, seriously? Why should I change my mind?

I personally love /r/childfree. Don't have to worry about them passing on their defective genes. It is the best solution.

As a cf woman who used to visit r/cf, I left bc many of the stories are fake and/or grossly over exadurated as well as the many of the people being hypocritical whiney tarts.

Lol I had totally forgotten about /r/childfree but I'm so glad it exists because it's basically a female version of all the incredibly toxic and hateful male-dominated Reddit subs and proves that both sexes can be assholes.

I actually subbed to /r/childfree for about a week, as I am 'child free' and thought there'd be some fun memes or similar about how great it is not to be tied down with kids, but all I actually saw was incredibly arrogant and bitter beings actively hating on people who've made different life choices. It was awful and when I mentioned how disappointed I was in some of their hateful rhetoric, they pounced on me like Trigglypuffs at an MRA rally.... It was hilarious.

I really hate childfree

this might just be one of the reasons why i don't go to that sub anymore. so many fabricated stories and rude replies, not to mention blatant sexism and general prejudice against whoever dares reproduce.

this... has got to be satire, right?

I imagine that the people that post in /r/childfree are neckbeards with better BO.

r/childfree has a lot of interactions with total stranger that, if they went down exactly as the posters said, I'm sure would result in some type of beat down or stabbing.

Maybe it's all my years being in Philadelphia and Camden, NJ, but you can't just go around lipping off to total strangers for practically no reason and not eventually do it to the wrong person and get your teeth kicked in.

That place reads like a sub full of bitter people who are unable to have children.

It's really very sad :(