Working mom asks husband to look after 2yo for 3 hours. Then watches, horrified, how they ‘nearly died’ together

There’s a universal truth every mother knows deep in their bones, even if they have no forewarning of it: The moment you leave your child with your partner and walk out that door, the gods of chaos begin to take over the household. And for every minute you’re absent, their grip tightens.

For Loredie Olivo, a 29-year-old preschool practitioner from Cambridge, England, that grip lasted exactly three hours before her fiancé delivered news that stopped her heart cold: “Mas and I nearly died because of you.”

Per a report by Newsweek, those were the exact words Bradley Munro, 32, told Loredie the second she climbed into the car after her shift. No preamble, no words of warning to prepare, and no “honey, how was work?” Just straight to the near-death experience announcement, as one does.

Bradley was supposed to pick Loredie up after her shift, but told her he couldn’t make it because their 2-year-old was refusing to get dressed. Imagine her surprise, then, when she spotted them in the parking lot behind the preschool anyway. Before she could even get out of the car, Bradley hit her with the bombshell.

As Loredie explains to Newsweek, she was completely baffled, her mind racing through possibilities ranging from a car accident to the house finally burning down because their son figured out how to work the matches.

Then she watched the Ring doorbell footage, and everything became clear. As you can see in the video Loredie has shared on her TikTok, Bradley is walking down their front path carrying 2-year-old Mason. It’s raining. The ground is slick. And Bradley, bless his confident heart, decides the muddy grass bank looks like a perfectly reasonable shortcut.

Spoiler alert: it was not.

The footage captures the exact moment gravity reminds Bradley that wet grass and dad reflexes make for peak content on social media. In a breathless second where both father and son are about to become intimately acquainted with the earth, Bradley’s supernatural dad instincts kick in and allow him to make a full-body recovery—though, as a user pointed out in the comments, poor Mason probably got a nice serving of whiplash.

Fortunately, Mason is fine and so is his neck. He even quipped about the incident with the energy of an unbothered 2-year-old living his best life. “Watch mommy, we nearly fell down,” he exclaimed, as Loredie watched the presumably harrowing footage for the first time.

Bradley was eager to highlight his heroic reflexes, informing Loredie she should be “proud of him for not letting go” of their son. Which, technically, represents the bare minimum of childcare, but in dad terms apparently qualifies as Olympic-level performance.

The TikTok video has since racked up over 236,000 views, with commenters torn between howling laughter and genuine concern. And the lesson? When it’s raining and you’re hauling a toddler, maybe just take the sidewalk or watch your steps.