Things teenagers don't believe

[sadbutdontknowwhy]

I'll start...

That buses don't run on Boxing Day.
(DS15 wants to go to the local football with friends, I asked how he was getting there he said bus.....)

Next???

That I can help with maths homework because, believe it or not, I am reasonably intelligent and educated.

That they not the centre of the universe.

I always thought bank holidays were when you had a picnic on a riverbank

That if they stand in front of their open wardrobe looking gormless, the joggers that they want to wear will miraculously fall out of the sky. Despite said joggers being screwed up in their sports bag from last week.

Just realised I've done that back to front. That's what he DOES believe!

Did you grow up in the 1990s by any chance? Banks in the UK went through a phase of competitive branch opening hours and were often open on bank holidays.

That we have a life outside of them?

That putting things NEAR the dishwasher does not have the same result as putting things IN the dishwasher

@ANightingale Born in 1977, so this is circa 1995. I did t go down because the bus service was also reduced 🤦🏻‍♀️

TBF to my dm the clue is is the name “Bank HOLIDAY”

That light switches perform the 'off' function just as well as the 'on'.

Not really the point of my post....

That their parents have their own lives and can't always just drop everything to drop them to their mates house or the cinema.

Tbh this was a lesson dh had to learn as well.

Really? I worked in a bank throughout the 90s. I don't recall that.

That replacing the toilet roll will not cause them any harm whatsoever. I am assuming they think this as they never do it!

Really? I worked in a bank throughout the 90s. I don't recall that

Me too, and neither do I - although it was an international not retail bank.

That there was a time the internet didn't exist.

The "that they are beautiful" one gets me every time, so true for all of us at that time of our lives I think.

I worked in a high street bank in the 90s and I don’t recall bank holiday opening either.

I remember the huge fuss and ad campaign when my bank began opening on Saturdays tho. That might have been a bit earlier, late 80s perhaps.

That lynx isn't a deodorant

Banks being closed is pretty much the meaning of 'bank holiday,' after all😉

That he doesn't have a god given right to sit on his arse 24/7 while me and his dad run round after him.

Banks being closed on Bank Holiday is100% the point of, and reason for, the name. If the Banks weren't trading then businesses couldn't trade.

The main Clearing Banks have never opened on Bank Holidays; however some other smaller commercial banks that began to infiltrate in the 80s/ 90s did open some branches.

That giving them lifts to and from our rural location actually costs money. And time.

My mother doesn’t believe this!

The teen in my family doesn’t believe that there are some pieces of paper that need to be kept somewhere safe as they cannot (at least quickly and easily) be replaced.

That you can't get a full sized settee into a small car.

That you don’t need to revise in order to pass exams (despite his lacklustre academic performance to date suggesting otherwise)

That we can come and pick him up from <wherever> even though we’re at work

That he can use the washing machine at a time of his choosing and that he doesn’t have to wait for me to do the family wash in order to have the once-worn hoodie washed

So many things really.