What is the dumbest family argument you’ve had?

[HeechulOppa]

Lighthearted thread, but I was wondering what stupid arguments have you ever had with your family?

For me, it’s over a riddle. My parents thought the answer was one thing, I thought another. Both sets were adamant we were correct. It started off lighthearted then descended into full on arguments, diagrams and a bit of shouting! My parents (who are really lovely and supportive and we’re very close) started mocking my intellect somewhat and I got quite affronted and stormed out. It carried on to the next day. Even now, about 20 years later, we do not talk about The Riddle. I still bristle about it! I am absolutely not saying what the riddle is because I Am Not getting into that shit again, but I did just Google it and I was right!

Anyone else?

DH and his sister had a argument last Christmas in front of everyone.
DH was talking about making dinner, and his sister went nuts thinking he meant for her to cook (he didn't he was cooking).
She ruined New Year's Eve for everyone after storming off and didn't even apologise and has held a grudge ever since.
Most dumbest argument ever.

My mum went absolutely mad at me for something I'd done which she said was massively inappropriate and way out of order given I was only 13.

The argument only stopped when she let me get a word in and I pointed out I was actually 18.

It wasn't a riddle about a man called Boswell, was it?

@Antarcticant No - are there other people out there who have had big bust ups over riddles??

It's got a name here as a contentious riddle. There was a huge Mnet thread about it a couple of years ago, and no one could work out the answer. It was eventually solved by accident on another thread.

Is your mum ok?! Why did she think you were 13 at 18!

I bought us a board game called Muso DJ for Christmas one year. The unprecedentedly vicious row over what the rules actually meant has led to a family-wide ban on discussing the rules before playing, and just 'sort of getting on with it and negotiating in-play'. Which weirdly always seems to work.

@GreyTCat I have many siblings and she got me confused with someone else!

Worst argument with DH in 33 years of marriage was over the position of the washing line after a house move in which we’d managed to agree or compromise of every single thing. Boy, that was a bad row.

We don’t fall out very often at all.

Op, Was the riddle something about someone going up stairs ? There was one on mumsnet a while back that had us all scratching our heads ! Can't remember it now though.
Sometimes little things can set people off
My Dh has fallen out with someone over a maths question that was online.
They don't speak now.

Sorry to hijack but someone mentioned the Boswell riddle had been solved. Could someone possibly chare the answer? That bugged me for ages and I missed the reveal.

''There once was a man called Boswell. For short they called him Bos and he walked up the post office steps."

I think it was something stupid like For short they called him 'Bosandhewalkedupthepostofficesteps." and that was his nn making it longer than his full name.

The Thread Where Boswell Was Solved:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4156434-This-puzzle-answer-is-ridiculous-right

Not even a row really just two stubborn people!

I had watched something on tv that had a particular piece of classical music played behind it. I recognised it, but couldn’t name it, so I sent a voice note to my dad humming it down the phone asking if he recognised it.

He calls me - it’s from The Nutcracker says he. It’s definitely not, says I - ballet is kind of my thing and I know the music from The Nutcracker.

Are you sure? Sounds like The Sugar Plum Fairy to me. It 100% wasn’t. I was certain and told him so.

I then found out what it was (although it escapes me now, sorry!) and texted him to tell him I had identified it.

TELL ME WHY he sends me a bloody CD in the post a few days later - so definitely after I had text him - with The bloody Sugar Plum Fairy on it, telling me he thinks it’s this?!

Oh my god I was raging. And it was so petty and stupid!

Me and my brother had a huge argument at an airport in Turkey waiting for the flight home over whether Whales have nipples ( I was right, they do). It was Pre mobiles so couldn’t google it
We were both in our 30s and didn’t speak on the flight or for a few days afterwards

My father once didn't speak to my mother for a good week because she said he didn't look like a young Paul McCartney. He was 67 at the time!

A long lasting argument about the colour of a bin.

Whether I had been to Stratford-upon-Avon. I haven't. My mother swore black was white that I'd gone with her and stayed in a b&b for a weekend.

I had been in Tenerife that weekend. She wouldn't have it! 🙄

Started off lighthearted but then h really lost his rag.
Was quite bloody fantastic to have proved him wrong.
He was adamant the Cheeky Girls were transsexuals..
When in fact they were from Transylvania!!
Was quite a highlight of my marriage to be catagorically correct!

We don't fall out much at all but dsis probably still hasn't forgiven our parents for not sending her newborn a postcard

DH and I over a sock and if it was dirty or not.

It WAS dirty, I was right but the argument was not our finest moment 🤣

Whether it was the dead sea or the red sea that Moses parted. I maintained that it was the red sea, my parents disagreed. Long story short; the trivial pursuit game got thrown out the living room window and none of us spoke to each other for over a week. Oh, and we have NEVER played a board game since.

DM and I had a massive fight in the MoMa in NYC over whether "Artisanal" is a word or not. It is a word - it's in the dictionary. I looked it up on my phone and she said the dictionary must be wrong 🙄.

She's really difficult and contrary, so I have a list as long as your arm of stupid arguments we've had...before I had therapy and learned not to rise to her being goady.

Where the new hoover was going to be located. DH and I rarely argue and DS remembers it and he was only about 3. He wanted it in the cupboard under the stairs which meant it had to be picked up. I have a bad back so didn’t want to have to pick it up and over. In the end when we had our new kitchen built a special cupboard was built for it with no kick board so it could roll in. Of course the bloody bastard Dyson has now died, it was so heavy and I hated it, plus I didn’t like seeing all the gunge in it, I have a lovely lightweight Miele now.