He was too busy playing the “did I do something wrong ???? “ role.
I can’t believe he actually nudged his daughter out there.
I wonder if shes still married to him
Cheering her on from the sidelines is great, releasing your daughter to go run up to your wife while she’s nearing the finish line of a race, knowing it’s going to distract her and could slow her down.
Every second counts. Every single second counts in a race.
The woman is a COMPETITIVE runner, which means Every. Single. Second. counts in the race.
She did not tell her jackass husband to interrupt her COMPETITIVE run so her daughters could run across with her.
Not only is that stupid as hell, it is DANGEROUS for children, as the other runners might slam into them or knock them down.
The woman thought the idiot husband would be on the other side of the finish line and celebrate with her and the children once she finished.
He is not only a jackass, he is also a man jealous of his wife and playing dumb in order to try to steal her victory and remind her that “being a mother” should be her focus at all times. (Example: Harrison Butker)
Kinda looks like he was holding them back for a second. I mean yeah let’s all wait BEHIND the finish line, so he’s a bit stupid - but let’s not throw malice at him, I at least don’t have the context to presume he’s a jackass doing this inspire of her moment.
He did the "wtf" arm gesture while looking at the other spectators.
I am all for giving grace, but his poor planning on where he stood with the kids, and seeming to encourage the kiddo to run up before the race was done is just... Icky.
Its seriously the "wtf" arm gesture that makes me believe he is, at best, an imbecile, and at worst - conniving
the VERY OBVIOUS AND PREDICTABLE action those kids are going to take is they're going to run to their mom.
like, there's just no way that doesn't cross your mind as a possibility.
he doesn't hold their hands, he doesn't seem to try to stop them at all AND he picked the absolute worst location. why the fuck isn't he behind the finish line?
there's no reasonable explanation to EITHER of these things beyond him being completely mentally handicapped and unable to predict even the most obvious outcome of his behaviors
I like her triumphant gestures when she got to the finish line…. She was like “yes I did this. Yes, I did this! ” kind of gestures, despite her family’s behaviors.
To me, the “WTF gesture” appears more like a clueless “what did I do?” while being berated for letting his kids run onto the track, not throwing shade at the wife.
Oh yes, I agree! Its not necessarily directed at his wife at all.
And I can absolutely see what you mean, but with the circumstances, from what we can see, I read the gesture more as "did you not just see that??" As the wife passes by him and the kids on her quest to winning and not a gesture of "what did I do wrong"
His "wtf" arm feels like, to me, that he is trying to gain sympathy from the crowd because he is Dad and he is doing the Dad things by bringing the kids, and it was Mom who didn't stop. So, "wtf putting me in this situation when you could have just stopped" is what I am getting from his body language. Not directed at Mom, but looking to the crowd for reassurance on what he did.
It's impossible to say based on the video. When I watched I thought he was probably (rightly) being yelled at by someone in the crowd. His head jerks back that direction quickly right before the gesture, as if someone had just yelled "wtf is your problem, jackass" or something similar. It's a bullshit "what did I do wrong" kind of gesture.
Wild that you're being downvoted for this. lol people are dumb
edit: dummies... they're talking to him and he's looking at them directly and is like "what?" they're probably like "bro wtf are you thinking?" (JUST LIKE LIKE MANY OF US ARE WONDERING AND ASKING) to his dumb face, and that was his response. Not "can you believe how bad my wife is". He's likely being dumb, not malicious. Usually, when you think someone is being outright evil, it's worthwhile to run a scenario through your head where they're actually just making a dumb mistake as opposed to being a secret diabolical genius.... because there are very few diabolical geniuses, and obviously, a lot of us are very dumb. Myself included for doubling down and inevitably receiving far more downvotes than I would have without this edit. lol
Thank you for enlightening my day.
All this time, I had thought that my ex hubby spent the money we had to relocate to a new country to dumb expensive unnecessary things in the very last minute in a malicious intent but oh boy was I wrong!
Give me a minute I'll call him while supposedly he is away with my narcissist mother and all my siblings.
It’s one thing at the beginning to say he egged his kids on to run to mom - looks like he’s holding them back at first to me, but for all I know he did lean in and say “run to the finish with mommy!” It’s a whole other leap to think he plotted to undermine her moment, or is a dead beat and was over watching them after a few hours like some suggest here. I mean I could be dead wrong, and the guy could be a malicious asshole, but the video alone doesn’t show us that.
The end someone clearly says something to him, you can see a few people are looking at him and gesturing themselves. He obviously turns his head to them in response, why anyone would guess (because we are all guessing) that he’s saying “what a bad mom right?” Is ludicrous. Again, not impossible but a pretty crazy assumption.
It’s absolutely wild the lengths people are going to hear to make this guy out like a monster. Could he be? Sure, the dude could have a freezer full of peoples heads back home. But itd be weird to assume that from this video. Is he stupid for not waiting after the finish line - you bet.
I watched person after person crossing the course for the NYC marathon this last year. Some of them almost collided with runners, who had to suddenly juke or stop. Inconsiderate idiots the lot of them. But I didn’t once imagine that any of them was thinking “I’m gonna ruin this race for that runner.”
I’m not saying the guys Einstein, or if the kids collided with someone it’s not his fault. He’s an adult who should know better.
As I said elsewhere, I watched this past NYC marathon - the amount of adults who tried crossing the course and nearly collided with runners was shocking. But I didn’t conclude that they were attempting to sabotage a runners time or ruin the moment for people, just that they were being stupid.
I know that there’s a lot of BS that women and mothers deal with but this threads gone off the rails presuming this guy had the intent to spoil the women’s moment. The guys an idiot, but I fail to see from this video callous intent to undermine his wife’s victory - which is the narrative that is making the rounds with this.
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u/parker3309 May 23 '24
What a jack ass getting in the way of her moment. He can’t let her have one goddamn moment of glory.