Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

I wasn't feeling well so asked my 14 year old to make the gravy to go with the dinner I'd prepared. Told him how to do it plus he'd seen me do it lots of times (just Bisto gravy granules). Anyway got into bed and left them to eat. A few mins later hear them all moaning about the gravy. Turns out he'd added the entire tub of gravy granules, he thought one full container was needed for each time 😆🙈. The gravy was like cement, no idea how he'd mixed it!

A neighbours daughter asked me to put some large rollers in her long hair, which I did. I said go home and dry it then come back and I'll finish it off for you. An hour later she came back, hair still wet, she hadn't used hair dryer as she thought it would melt the rollers.
Offered to hoover for me (upright hoover) didn't press foot button to release handle and was trying to hoover with handle locked upright. 🤦

My 40ish husband hoovered up brick dust with our brand new Miele hoover.

It wasn't ruined but it's filthy inside, even washing and scrubbing doesn't seem to get all the crud off.

So it's not just the kids who are daft

I left home at 18. Had a flat, paid all my bills, full time job. A very well functioning adult. However..... I was trying to teach myself to cook. My parents never cooked anything that wasn't frozen. I decided it would be roast potatoes. I read to heat the oil before adding the potatoes. My donbass heated the oil in a baking tray on the hob and it over heated and the smoke in my studio flat would make you pass out. Luckily I had huge sash windows and I got it off of the hob. Stupidity put cold water on it making the smoke 100 times worse and black all up the wall!

To.make it worse my older bf (now my dh) was coming round and I was so embarrassed I was trying to clear the smoke and then had to wash down the walls. Stank of smoke for ages. People walking past where laughing at me trying ti waft smoke out the window. I was ground level studio flat on a main road.

Anyways, sorted all. If arrived a couple of hours later. No food and it still smelt. I blames the smell on a neighbour.....

I'm an excellent cook now! 🤣

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Got a love a chancer 🤦‍♀️😂

I put a takeaway cheese burger in the oven to keep warm. Didn't take it out of the yellow polystyrene box. Late 40s. I'm not even adding a defence 😕

I was the ultimate teenager with lots of brains and no common sense. I recognise my teenage self in a lot of these stories

My DS - now in his 20s, so really should have more common sense - told me recently about a brilliant tip he’d discovered. Apparently, if you toast your bread the night before and stick in the microwave for a minute in the morning, it saves time. I pointed out that he could possibly cut out the middle man by putting his bread straight in the toaster in the morning as it would also take around a minute, it would be fresher and he could do it the same time as he put the kettle on for his cup of tea!

What is it with toasters that somehow make young people lose all rationale?

my teen daughter at the time put her full hand on the hotplate to see if it was hot, resulting in very painful blisters

In the 90s, my younger bro dropped and smashed a jar of Branston pickle and then hoovered it up. Dad was wondering why the vacuum cleaner smelled ‘spicy’ and then blew up. To be absolutely fair, if you’d never vacuumed the carpet, then why would you know not to vacuum pickle? We laugh about it to this day!

I remember way, way back when. My brother was a teen (18/19) and he stuck a bottle of pop into the freezer so it would be cold when he took it to work the next day. Back then, pop was only in glass bottles and it makes a lot of noise when it blows up in the freezer. And he was an honor high school and college student.

Even us grown-ups do dumb stuff once in a while. My Dad tried to loosen the bolts on the toilet with a sledgehammer. One bathroom for everyone. Oh what fun, when, as a teen, we caravaned up to the gas station every couple hours to use the restroom. The poor man, God love him, did not get along with toilets, and we lost more than a few in the years growing up.

I took Home-Ec as a teen. Once, I could hardly wait to make cinnamon rolls for my family because they were so good. Really should have been a tad bit more careful copying the recipe. The difference between 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 Tablespoon of salt is HUGE! t=teaspoon T=tablespoon.

In my 30s- still can’t do rice!!

DS (16 at the time, I think) was filling his fish tank with a hosepipe attached to the tap, but thought he would have time to eat his dinner while it was filling... needless to say, he forgot about it until water started pouring through the ceiling downstairs. I asked him why he didn't just turn it off while he came down (there was plenty of water for the fish to be ok for a while). Of course his logic was different from mine!

DD at 13 decided to cook herself some pasta but didn't add any water then in her panic lifted the boiling hot pan and placed it on my vinyl table cloth, which left a perfect circle shaped hole in it.

When Ds was about 13 he came downstairs in a pair of joggers that were very short and looked like leggings. He'd got his 8 year old brothers joggers on. The most worrying thing is he probably would have gone out with them on if I hadn't said something!
Even now as a 20 year old when I tell him to take his laundry upstairs and put it away he asks "Is this t-shirt mine?"as he's picking up the hangers. Baffles me how he can wear his clothes and never notices what they look like!
This weekend Ds 13 was about to put on one of his older brothers hoodies. "Is this mine?" He asks. I'm like look at the size of it. Look in the label. Seems like history is repeating itself here🤦🏻‍♀️😅

I highly recommend putting milk in the kettle.

.. hot off the press...was head to hospital appointment with my ds after school. He has bus pass ,I'm behind him wait buy my ticket. He says."Can I have a return please" driver"where to?' Ds ...."here"...

Am not sure he's realised what was funny and we been and back,lol.
Also witnessed him put bread in toaster, tick tock tick...= Bread..reset 3 times before.thought to plug it in.
Having murdered full tub of Ben and Gerry s estimating 3 mins would soften to scoop out he created merry hell. Thought and logic from learned a lesson that day resulted in... solution based thinking (?!?) so put the (silver/metal) ice cream scoop in to heat instead.
It's funny now(and,he was pre-teen) but whatta bang ,big fright at time.

my teenager travelled the world solo and stayed in hostels alone yet when she came home put a hot pan on kitchen side and burnt a ring into the worktop.
youngest has asd and it takes forever for her to remember instructions so she is a slow burn.
my adult, high paid,extremely clever, late 30s brother had a baby with his very intelligent partner and they couldn’t understand why it was vomiting after every feed until we felt the bottle of pumped breast milk - straight from the fridge. They didn’t know it needed warming.

Twin boys 14 …both had the same life experiences and seen the adults of the house functioning fully and taking time to explain how things work . One boy perfectly capable … the other is Captain Chaos ! Sprayed oil from a spray dispenser all over the kitchen because he thought it was water and “ he was hot ” to name just one of daily mishaps . Kids can process info so differently …so to all the smug posters enjoy your high horse and speaking down to people ! We love all our crazy kids and keep a sense of humour !

Are we deevolving as I cooked from 10yo and never did any of that stuff? Anyone seen the film Idocracy? Are we headed there😮

This just made me Google “what is brandy butter”. I also just thought it was brandy flavoured butter. Who knew??

My eldest (10) is pretty sensible on the whole and can do all sorts alone but doesn’t stop and think before doing at times. She’s already had a genius moment where she put a croissant in the microwave and set it to 10
minutes because that’s how long it takes to
warm up in the oven from oven being cold. Youngest had already told her only to do 30 seconds and then ran up to get me. Eldest said “how was I supposed to know” and 8 year old piped up “because the whole point of the microwave is heating things up fast so obviously it’s faster than the oven”
accompanied by some great eye rolling. This is normal for them. Some kids/teenagers & indeed some adults are much better at taking the knowledge they have and applying it to new situations than others. It’s a skill you can definitely learn but some people are just naturally good at it. It’s much easier to not make daft mistakes if you have that skill.

My 17 Yr old (long before TikTok) asked if he could borrow my car. When I pointed out he couldn't drive, he confessed he'd told a girl he was eager to impress that he would collect her from a party. He said he'd thought of just taking the car but then decided he'd better ask and couldn't understand my negative attitude. After all he'd 'been sitting in the passenger seat for years. How hard could it be?'

That's exactly what happened to Rudolf 😂

17 year old daughter asked if we are going to the "Reading Festival", but she said it as "Reading a book, Reading". She asked if we could take her and her friends with a few books and would I buy her new headphones...so they could listen to their own choice of music from the festival while reading their books. They were all set to buy tickets. Should have let her carry on and asked for arrival photos, just for the look on their faces.

She and her siblings have also slathered bread in all sorts and popped it into the toaster. Toaster has gone to toaster heaven.

Oldest son couldn't understand why his stomach was hurting after scoffing 12 packets of cheap crisps. "Can't be the crisps. They were mini packets of corn crap, so the calories would have been negligent." ...right..OK then. What do I know! Greedy little b*stard.

Eldest found a photo of Disneyland Florida, we had photoshopped her into, as a baby, was an in-joke at the time. She took it to school as part of a project and told everyone she had been. It is clearly photoshopped- She was 16 when she did this. I have attached said photo. For 16 years she thought it was real 🤣.

Eldest daughter set microwave on fire with a baking potato.