DS1 (8) took my instructions a bit too literally!

[MyGastIsFlabbered]

I asked him to put the toilet rolls in the toilet and look what he did!

At 15/16 I would have hung out the washing AND the note. And left a note saying “ I hung the washing out for you Mum, without you even asking” 🤣

My DS would do something like that too, he's got a great sense of humour.

This thread has brightened up my tube journey to work

This reminds me of when I was 6 and DM told me I can either go and tidy my room or she would do it later but all toys would be going into the bin... I took her options literally and didn't tidy it, so when she got cross and asked why I hadn't done it I explained that she gave me a choice and her tidying/binning stuff was preferable to me having to tidy 🤦🏻‍♀️

My dh is still a bit literal with explanations and cannot do something unless he gets specific instructions

Drives me ducking insane

DS, who’s 9, would do something like that with the toilet roll as a joke. Just testing out his sense of humour I suppose!!

Wow some people appear to have had a sense of humour bypass. It's just a wee giggle ffs.

OP there is a lot of this type of thing in our house.

@StillMedusa

^He opened the back door and launched her like a rugby ball
DH and I just stared at each other in horror.^

🤣🤣🤣🤣

my dad takes everything literally (on purpose).

if you asked 'could you pass the butter please' he would just answer 'yes, I could'
you would have to ask 'pass me the butter. now. PLEASE.'

I can remember asking my mum to put "elbow grease" on the shopping list as our cookery teacher had said we'd be cleaning the kitchen in next week's lesson and we all needed to bring some.

Reminds me I once asked my parents if i could paint a tree they said yes thinking I was going to paint a picture of a tree no I actually took a tin of wall paint and painted a tree outside I went to get mum and dad to show them they were a little bewildered when I took them outside they couldn't stop laughing and it still gets brought up x on a side note the tree is still very much alive x

There are some humourless fucks on here!
I'd have laughed, OP.

Summerisdone I did something very similar, but in my case it was 'tidy your room or get a smack.' I was completely overwhelmed by all the mess (one of those children who really needed to be told to focus on tidying one type of thing at a time rather than just 'tidy it') so I reasoned that I'd be suffering for a far shorter period of time if I chose the smack.

Cue utter shock and bewilderment when I was still expected to tidy the room afterward! (ASD literalness, in my case - which I didn't figure out until 20 years later)

When DS was 8 his swimming instructor kept saying ‘go on, push me in’ with her arms open. I had a feeling this wouldn’t end well but hey 😂 He pushed her in and HE got banned for a week! Well don’t tell an 8 year old to push you in then 🤷‍♀️

I’m reminded of a story a mature student told me once. He had something like 16 A levels, as he just kept returning to college to gain more each year. I asked him what his motivation was and he said he wanted to get into Oxford. He had been for an entrance interview when he was younger, but had been turned down, despite securing As in his A levels.

He said that during the interview, he’d been handed a large rock, or brick and had been asked to throw it through the window. He refused at first, but the interviewers said that they couldn’t continue until that instruction had been followed. He was worried because the windows were leaded with tiny panes and he didn’t want to damage them- but they insisted, so he did.

Without opening the window first...

I don’t know how true the story is, but it made me wince!

I came back to find the toys all put away, but their homework was artistically scattered all over the floor.

Oh excellent.