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Sisters Lillie and Harper O’Reilly held up a sign asking vehicles to drive by a puddle and splash them with rainwater. Their mom Taylor Brooks shared the video on TikTok, which gained more than 10 million views and thousands of comments from grownups feeling the childhood nostalgia.
When their mom took away their mobile phones for the day on Good Friday, sisters Lillie and Harper O’Reilly were given the old-fashioned order to go outside to play.
That’s when the O’Reilly sisters noticed a huge puddle across the street from their house in St. Thomas, Ont. They decided to craft a sign that read, “Splash us,” and then stood in front of the puddle, waiting for vehicles to drive by.
“We thought why don’t we create a sign and get cars to splash us with the puddle,” said Lillie, 11. “A lot of cars drove into the puddle and splashed us, …
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