Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

It’s a real shame we can’t just have a funny enjoyable thread where we all entertain each other with a bit of lighthearted moaning. Join in with your own tale of woe or just read and enjoy, why make a smug self satisfied comment like this? Not meaning to pick on you in particular, there’s plenty of others on here too. I just don’t understand why people do it.

These stories are very funny but I find the lack of common sense and logical thinking surprising. I never had my daughter doing chores, but she would observe and ask questions. Always sensible. It does seem these young people think domestic tasks must be easy because they are mostly done by women. Also applies to men.

We have two machines, one in the kitchen and one in the shed. My 18 year old daughter FaceTimed one day when I was away asking how to wash her jeans. Whilst on FaceTime she started to go outside with the jeans. When I asked her why she didn’t use the kitchen machine she said she didn’t know we even had a machine in the kitchen! Honestly it’s been there her whole 18 year!

I feel that I may never complain about my teen again.
They tick the boxes for untidy and mess-blindness but I was out yesterday and on my way home got a message to say they were cooking some dinner.
Got in to a home-made meal.
I'd not asked or prompted other than saying before I went out that maybe they could do themselves some pasta.

Admittedly the kitchen looked as though a tornado had been through it and there was food dropped on the cooker but all the pots and pans were used properly, and the oven was used and turned off safely.

Case in point- peri me spent hours making stock from chicken carcass and veggies. I was super smug about how great it was going to be. Went to strain it but didn't put a bowl underneath so strained all the stock straight down the plughole like I was draining pasta and was left with a sieve full of bones and overcooked veggies.

I always remember when my brother was a teen, my mum telling me he was running late to a night out, had got ready and looked in the mirror, realising his shirt was creased.

To ‘save time’ he had decided to iron it WHILST he was wearing it by attempting to lift it away from his skin and pat the iron onto the fabric.

He obviously burnt himself, missed the night out and spent it in a and e - no major damage thankfully but I can just picture my Mum’s face when retelling the story 😂

My ds, 13.

He was feeling hungry so exploring the cupboards for something yummy. He didn't fancy normal bread but saw a packet of baguettes, so made himself a sandwich with one of them. Except they're the part baked ones.... and he just ate it and thought it tasted not quite as nice as when I make them.

My Son in law , not a teenager but a 24year old, went to boil the electric kettle and the switch had broken so it wouldn't turn on so he thought he would boil it up on the gas hob !!!

I have teased my brother over this for YEARS...

Mum had gone out and left him home to cook his own dinner. She'd peeled the potatoes and left them in a pan on the stove (yes, yes, she DID pander to him, how did you guess?) and told him to make mash; boil the potatoes then turn them off and mash them.

He brought them to the boil, turned them off and tried to mash rock hard raw potato. He 'didn't realise' you had to boil them until they were soft...

So far I've got nearly sixty years of teasing out of it, and I shall be continuing.

And it's even worse now that google has that AI function that scrapes the internet for any response and amalgamates it into one response.

I was an adult in my late twenties with two children when I thought it would be a good idea to make a "snowstorm" by turning the hairdryer on the polystyrene the toddlers had had fin breaking up.

It did create a good snowstorm... which I was finding for weeks afterwards. It was everywhere.

Ds14 when asked to turn the chips halfway through cooking, turned the tray not the chips...

My DAD did this to me!

He was visiting me as I'd just had twins, so he was well into his 50s at this point! Asked if he could bring me a glass of squash - which we had a lot of as kids - and he poured me out a double-strength tropical squash neat and brought it to me.

Luckily it was only a tiny sip I had as it looked suspiciously concentrated even to my tired eyes!

Yep, the need to prove their superiority is insecure and sad.

Well no, this thread isn't about teens or adults actually causing house fires is it?

But would your 21 year old necessarily tell you if they'd put the pizza in the oven upside down or washed the toastie maker in the sink?

To be fair to your toddler, that does sound fun 😁, especially if you're not going to be the one cleaning it up!

On a train once, two students got on from the local university.

While chatting one of them said to the other "What do you think is the strongest English accent?"

The second thought for a while before saying "Hmmm... Scottish, definitely Scottish."

The first student just replied "Oh, yes, definitely!"

These are very funny.

I don't have a teenager yet, but this morning my toddler pulled a box of Coco Pops out of the cupboard. Pulled out the bag and whilst I wasn't paying much attention smacked it between his hands, popping it like a balloon. An entire bag of Cocopops spewed out over the kitchen floor 😫

I believe I have some of your scenarios in my future.

erm... I was well into my 30s when i realised Madagascar was a place not just a cartoon 😳😂

Didn't spot this one in particular, but it wouldn't surprise me!

I showed my teenage daughter how to do the washing.
Sort clothes, put in machine, add detergent and turn on.

She was so confused that she asked me to explain again and she’d film me on her phone.

My DD put a pack of dry noodles in the microwave with no liquid (luckily without the plastic wrapper!) - smelled like the house was on fire 😂

Don't tell me, on the thread where someone's child was ill and mum had only managed to get some crisps n tot he child gave a mini lecture on nutrition and bad diet?

DH did that. I made him buy me a knew one.
(He's not a teenager)!