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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/kaka0bistan on 2025-07-12 06:41:20+00:00.
I work at a restaurant as a hostess/waitress/cashier person. As much as I'd like to advertise, I won't include the name, but it is very family friendly. My boss has 4 kids, 2 girls and 2 boys. The youngest is a 5 year old we'll call Carlos.
Carlos really loves sharks and dinosaurs and tends to draw them whenever he tags along to work with his mom. Today, he complained to me that they were out of paper. Sure enough, one printer check and there was no paper. I looked around for anything that could substitute because that kid can be an absolute menace to society if not distracted. This is when I found the label sheets.
I guess I should elaborate a bit. We're a hotpot restaurant set up in a grocery store format: little dishes of food you buy to cook in big pots of soup. There are labels for each kind of food you can cook, hence the label sheets. I end up telling the child he can use the label sheet to draw and we create a few rainbow sharks and write his name with markers they just have there.
Tell me why Carlos then runs up to this party of 3 that just walked in (a dad and his 2 girls) and just puts the sticker on the youngest girl's arm. Mortified, I start apologizing and gently berating Carlos for bothering the poor girl, but the dad just kinda waves it off and laughs.
Carlos proceeds to draw multiple sharks and just randomly gifts customers with these stickers throughout the night, telling them to "close your eyes!" or just straight up grabbing their arms to put his shark drawings on them. I can't keep an eye on him since obviously I'm working, but whenever I can I apologize and "yell" at him. Thank God he's just a silly 5 year old or this could've gone so much worse.
I was also gifted a shark sticker. He told me it's a great white shark.
TL;DR: I gave my boss's 5 year old a label sheet to draw on. He slaps his shark "stickers" on random customers' arms for the rest of the night.