Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

A few years ago now, I could hear one of mine squeegeeing the shower dry, all good you might think, except they were still in the shower with it running. They said that they were trying to save time and do it while they were letting their conditioner sit on their hair.... 🙄

I knew a fellow student ( now an imminent neuroscientist) in our 1sr year who had a crush on a girl and was waxing lyrical about her. One of her many attributes was that he watched her, in the communal kitchen, make an AMAZING soup out of nothing other than vegetables, herbs and water! Oh, the sheer genius of this girl…this talented goddess
He was genuinely surprised to hear that’s HOW vegetable soup is made.

Oh, to be perfect and never ever to have made a mistake or done something thoughtless. Particularly at a time where you might be studying for exams in 10 different subjects, dealing with hormones and growth spurts, being at one of the most self conscious time of your life, trying to separate from your family to be a young adult while simultaneously being very reliant on them.
Tell us, oh wise one, how DID your parents mould you into the flawless person you are today?
I’m mean I say flawless but you appear to not have actually developed a sense of humor … or empathy…

At my teacher training college, I was in a residence block where five of us shared a small kitchenette. The one who tried to boil an egg in the communal kettle never owned up, but we all suffered the shock of the explosion, the awful smell and the lack of a kettle.......and this young woman was on track to take daily responsibility for thirty-odd youngsters at a time.
But I have my suspicions that it was the same one who found out the hard way that heating up a fruit yoghurt does not produce a tasty hot pudding but a curdled mess.

@Sugargliderwombat - oh I agree it needs to be hot but this was way too hot. The tortilla would have been black before any heat hit the cheese and there was way too much oil in the pan, in fact maybe it would have melted the cheese as it would have been swimming in the oil and near enough deep frying itself. I've shown both kids how to make them numerous times as well and I've even told them how to do it in the air fryer now. We have an extractor fan that wasn't turned on too, the window would have also been acceptable. I'm just surprised the smoke alarm didn't get triggered from it. 🙈

There is a man on FB/TT who is compiling a book about "Texts from Teens". A couple that made me laugh was "Is Jurassic Park based on a true story?" "When does my SSN expire?".

I remember a certain someone, who, as a fully functional adult and a medic, who wanted to make her DD's 13th BD special. So, in their basement, with an ice cream cake at her mercy, this person lit 13 sparklers. NOT sparkler candles, because she did not know they existed. Real, live sparklers. Chaos ensued, and the cake did not survive, though the funeral was spectacular! And bright. And loud.

Made that birthday one to remember for sure, and hopefully the birthday girl will someday forgive the sparkler lighter. It's only been 33 years, so we're hopeful.😬😳😇

People saying these teens can’t be very bright… here are a few things I remember other (and otherwise very bright!) students doing whilst I was at Oxbridge 10+ years ago:

• Multiple people in freshers week bamboozled by how to turn on the washing machine because it wasn’t the same model as at home even though it was all clearly labelled
• melting the cheese in their toastie by laying it on top of the toaster and running the toaster with the slots empty, the cheese dripped in and caught fire
• Pouring grappa into a wound because alcohol is a disinfectant
• washing a duvet in the shower so they didn’t have to carry it down to the laundry room, it took over a week to dry
• And, in a postgraduate house (!), someone trying to cook a piece of salmon from frozen by putting it in the oven on a plate. The plate cracked from the thermal shock before the salmon even defrosted. I saw the same person drop an egg on the floor and just leave the puddle of egg there because they didn’t know how to clean it up

This.

I'm reading this thinking, isn't this down to your parenting? Like teach your children these things? My parent did.

That's not so out there. Ireland introduced a postcode system 4 or 5 years ago (Eircodes) and every property has its own code. It has revolutionised having things delivered to our remote, rural home. No more standing in the garden with a crackly phone signal saying 'drive up the lane until you come to the house with the green door... no, if you've passed the church you've gone too far.. Oh sod it, I'll walk up to the main road and wave at you!'

Admittedly Ireland has a much smaller population than the UK. To do individual postcodes in the UK they'd probably need to be about 10 characters long.

I was a pretty sensible kid/teenager/young adult but still had plenty of gormless moments. Laundry was one of the areas where I'd never had a lot of practice - in our house our dad did it all, so while we might be asked to hang a load of washing out to dry, we weren't ever really tasked with washing clothes from start to finish. I went off to uni with the blithe confidence of an 18yo who obviously knew best and figured that this whole separating whites and coloureds business was overblown nonsense. Ended up with a lot of murky grey clothes pretty sharpish.

I was also fairly convinced that as you use a towel to dry yourself when you're clean from a shower, that you don't really need to wash towels. After a term or so of trying that, I finally accepted that no, you really do need to wash towels at least every now and then.

I'm still confused though about teens buttering toast before putting it in the toaster to "save time" - how does it save time doing it before rather than after? 🤔

My DS is very , very clever. Excellent qualifications, high powered, well paid job. When he was in his 20s he didn't understand why there were no ripe tomatoes or peppers growing in our London garden in December.

To be fair, I was probably equally dumb at his age, just about different things. You live, you learn.

I've done this!

All these microwave stories but this is my actual grown up husband!!!

He refuses to admit the microwave had been on fire (popcorn left too long) even though the house smelled like a BBQ and the wall was singed!

He just isn’t able to use his eyes or nose to judge anything, he will follow the cooking instructions to the absolute letter even if flames are coming out of the oven, or the chicken is still pink.

No sense of basic hygiene.

Ironing board is for clean clothes; draining board is for clean crockery etc.

Dirty shoes do not belong on either.

65 year-old DH still acts like a teenager !

That's okay. There is always one like you. Sadly.

And you aren't discussing. You are pontificating.

I'm not sure what point you're making other than this particular son who may or may not be a child requires more supervision?

We all know fires can break out, floods can happen - this isn't about that.

DD thought each address had its own post code. This came about because of my frustration when, even asking for the house number or name I was supposed to pick her up from. She kept insisting I didn't need it as I had the post code.

Haha! I would recommend just getting rid of your toaster when the kids reach about 13. Teens + toasters are not a good mix 😂.

Very funny thread! I should makes notes of all of these so I know what to teach my primary-aged kids. It's hard to know what they don't know and you might not think to teach them something that seems so obvious to you, so I get how these happen!

I have a friend with a son who decides to use the microwave last week,caused a fire, but he has severe learning disabilities and autism..glad you're all enjoying hilarity, hopefully all concerned have actually learned by their "mistakes" before they burn the house down,kill or injure, your insurance policy refused to pay. I would give them a stint in the casualty department, where I worked for 5 years.

I moved out age 16/17 and bought my first home age 18......

I still once tried to boil an egg in a cup of water in the microwave. I can confirm.... DONT TRY IT!

Well my MIL did this! Helpfully put clothing to dry over the radiators and it hadn't been washed yet

The judgey pants on this thread need to remember that a lot of modern day tech was discovered/invented by accident.

Either because something went wrong or because somebody thought "I wonder if......"