This hurts even just looking at it. Source: TwitterThis is why people with toddlers can't have nice things.
Any parent who has - or ever has had - a toddler will sympathise with this couple from Utah in the States.
Ben and Jackee Belnap had been turning their Utah home upside down trying to find a missing $1000 they had been saving for season football tickets.
Before suddenly realising their son had turned it into paper shreds.
Two-year-old Leo Belnap the culprit, after discovering the hidden stash the rouge toddler thought all that green money looked prime to be put through the shredder.
What did I do? Picture: Twitter.After some initial shock and disappointment, Ben was able to see the funny side and shared a picture of little Leo and the pile of torn-up dreams on Twitter.
The toddler’s father, Ben told KSL-TV: “I’m digging through the trash and she hollers and says, ‘I found it’.”
The couple had saved the money to pay back Ben’s parents for Utah football season passes, before it was destroyed.
“She’s holding the shredder and she says, ‘I think the money is in here’,” Ben said.
So me and my wife had been saving up to pay for our @Utah_Football tickets in cash. We pulled our money out yesterday to pay my mom for the season... Well we couldn’t find the envelope until my wife checked the shredder. Yup. 2 year old shredded $1,060. pic.twitter.com/93R9BWAVDE
— BB (@Benbelnap) October 2, 2018
Jackee said she felt “sick” and “devastated” when she realised what her son had done.
“Leo helps me shred junk mail and just things with our name on it, or important documents we want to get rid of,” she said.
Recalling the gut-wrenching moment, she said: “We just, for like five minutes, we just shuffled through it, not talking. We didn’t know what to do and then I broke the silence and I’m like, ‘Well, this will make a great wedding story one day’.”
