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A hilarious video on TikTok with nearly 600,000 views has delighted and confused viewers online.
In the video, which has the text "The audacity. Wait till the end," a postman in the UK can be seen knocking on a door, caught by a security camera, and looks for the best place to leave a parcel before a young child comes to the door, but doesn't open it.
While the postman sorts through the letters, the child can be heard asking his name, he responds, "What's my name? Where's mummy I need a parcel? Where's mummy?"
The child doesn't immediately reply but proceeds to pull the letters through the letterbox, while the postman warns, "mind your hands."
The postman then steps back and asks again, "Is mummy about," to which the child utters the immortal words, "Mummy's upstairs having a poo!"
The postman replies, "Oh, tell her there's a parcel in the cupboard," before making a hasty retreat.
Unfiltered Kids
Their complete lack of filter is one of the reasons we find younger children so amusing.
Sometimes it's just downright funny, but sometimes adults find the raw output of young children endearing because at that age they have a gift we lose as adults: to be blunt and say it how it is whenever we want.
Adults have to use rational thought, are mature, and are (generally) subtle, when all we really want to do is say what we see, whether it's calling out a whiny friend, telling someone we hate what we think of what they're wearing, or gently embarrassing someone in a well-meaning way.
Or just simply saying the first thing that comes into our heads.
Luckily, some of these wonderful children's moments have been caught on live TV, and can be enjoyed again and again.
The 'I Love Turtles' Kid
Although this video first circulated in 2007, now a crazy 15 years ago, the iconic phrase still pops up now and again.
The then-10 year old Jonathan Ware uttered the phrase during a local news interview at the Rose Festival in Portland Oregon, when he was asked what he thought of his face paint, he answered "I like turtles."
The interviewer, somewhat perplexed, responds, "Alright, you're great zombie" and wraps up her broadcast. The clip became many, many memes, and the YouTube video has been viewed 71 million times and counting.
Kid Crashes Their Dad's BBC Interview
In 2017, a few years before we were all going to be locked down, and have sympathy with Professor Robert Kelly, he went viral after his young child wanders in to his office during a live stream interview with BBC World News about South Korean politics, in a video which now has 53 million views.
During the interview, which Professor Kelly is taking from his office, his young daughter Marion opens the door and comes swaggering prompting the interviewer to comment, "I think one of your children has just walked in."
Hilariously, the younger child James then bounces through the door on a baby walker, before his wife Jung-a Kim races after them and fairly gracefully removes them from the office, while Professor Kelly stifles a laugh, and goes back to his interview with great professionalism.
A Legend Is Born
In 2014, 15-year-old Brendan Jordan went viral after dancing in a crowd behind a live broadcast on NewsChannel 8 outside the Downtown Summerlin mall, Las Vegas.
The background music was Lady Gaga's "Applause," to which Brendan mimicked the moves perfectly, loving the camera and ignoring those around him in a video that has over five million views on YouTube.
The video became an instant GIF and the next day Lady Gaga herself tweeted "She liked him," and RuPaul actively shared the video. Known as "the diva kid," Brendan is now a YouTube star with over 250 thousand subscribers, and a campaigner for the LGTBQ communities.
Confusion and Hilarity
Back to the present day, and users on TikTok were delighted with the postman/child interaction, with one user commenting, "Aren't kids the best!!", while another wrote, "Kids are hilariously funny upstairs having a pop comedy gold xx."
Some users were confused about the content they were watching, thinking they were going to see the postman do something wrong. "I thought he was going to take the parcel after he sent the conformation photo," said one user, while another agreed, "where's the audacity of that, he's not got all day to just hang around waiting."
One user put the issue to bed, commenting, "Don't worry, us posties have seen and heard it all."
About the writer
Leonie Helm is a Newsweek Life Reporter and is based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on all things ... Read more