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Things your parents do

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 21:53

They never hang up after a call and I can always hear them bickering in the background afterwards.

What else?

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:22

They also can have whole conversations about what day of the week something occurred on.

Hope someone else knows what I'm on about

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AbigailsPartyFrock · 21/12/2024 22:24

Narrate episodes of Judge Judy and The Chase.

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 21/12/2024 22:25

Moan about everything. Something bad will always happen/has happened.

PollyCreo · 21/12/2024 22:34

My mum does the thing with the phone too. Took me years to get her to download WhatsApp so we can chat for free but she still hasn't cottoned on that her mobile has to be switched on for it to work. I constantly have to ring the landline (I'm outside the UK) and tell her to switch it on - costs me 50 cents a minute to explain this every time!

ShortyShorts · 21/12/2024 22:35

My elderly dad rings me up to tell me he got my text! 🤦‍♀️🤭

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:38

ShortyShorts · 21/12/2024 22:35

My elderly dad rings me up to tell me he got my text! 🤦‍♀️🤭

Aww mine does that too 🥰

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:39

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 21/12/2024 22:25

Moan about everything. Something bad will always happen/has happened.

Oh yes and who just died too.

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SundayDread · 21/12/2024 22:40

My late PILs, wouldn’t pass on any information to each other given over the phone. So DH would have to have the same conversation twice. I used to lose my mind listening to it.

BadgerInDungarees · 21/12/2024 22:40

Give me updates on everybody they know who is sick or dead. It doesn't matter if I know them or not.

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 21/12/2024 22:42

BadgerInDungarees · 21/12/2024 22:40

Give me updates on everybody they know who is sick or dead. It doesn't matter if I know them or not.

My dad does this. "John who lived at number 59 50 years ago is dying" but when I tell him I wasn't born he still says I know him.

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/12/2024 22:44

DM will only phone my landline from her landline, or my mobile from her mobile. She will not phone my mobile from her landline or vice versa.

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:45

SundayDread · 21/12/2024 22:40

My late PILs, wouldn’t pass on any information to each other given over the phone. So DH would have to have the same conversation twice. I used to lose my mind listening to it.

LOL!!! this is hilarious.

Not the same but reminds me of my mum telling my grandma my news on the phone and then when it was my turn to speak she'd act surprised as if she didn't already know if I mentioned it too but I always knew she knew.

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:47

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/12/2024 22:44

DM will only phone my landline from her landline, or my mobile from her mobile. She will not phone my mobile from her landline or vice versa.

I get not ringing a mobile from a landline (no idea if it still costs more these days) but I don't get the reverse 😂

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HomeworkMonitor · 21/12/2024 22:50

My mother still breathes.

Every conversation is about her health, how she slept the night before, her upcoming hospital appointments, etc. If not, it's all about what her friend says to her over coffee (the same friend she moans about) and her whining about my sibling. Lord only knows what she says about me to others. I am meticulous about what I don't tell her.

FluffBut · 21/12/2024 22:51

Won’t put the heating on. I left there today cold to the bone. Heated seats on before I had even reversed off the drive.

Lifelover16 · 21/12/2024 22:51

They argue about what day of the week something happened “ it must have been Thursday because it was after we’d been to Beryl’s” etc. This can go on for what feels like hours.
Every place they go to is described terms of what they had to eat there. “Oh yes, such and such a place - we had those cheese sandwiches”. “ That’s where our fish and chips were so bad we had to throw them away”.
Sometimes they combine the two and it’s enough to make me want to scream.

MiniFig · 21/12/2024 22:53

My mum once sent me a postcard to ask if I'd seen her WhatsApp messages. That I'd answered

BigAnne · 21/12/2024 22:55

ShortyShorts · 21/12/2024 22:35

My elderly dad rings me up to tell me he got my text! 🤦‍♀️🤭

He probably just wants to hear your voice. I remember hearing an elderly man on the radio saying his adult children text him and that he wished they phoned as he lived alone and could sometimes go for days without human contact. This was a few years ago but it's one of those things that has stayed with me.

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:56

MiniFig · 21/12/2024 22:53

My mum once sent me a postcard to ask if I'd seen her WhatsApp messages. That I'd answered

Was she on holiday?

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PollyCreo · 21/12/2024 22:56

My mum sends me photos that my brother's sent her. I'm like 'I know Mum, he's already posted them on Facebook'. She then gets all righteous and huffy and declares she's 'come off Facebook' because she doesn't want everyone to 'know her business' 😂

Usernamen · 21/12/2024 22:56

Moan. Judge others. Express horrendously bigoted opinions willy nilly.

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rosemole · 21/12/2024 22:59

@BigAnne 💔 texts are crap really. No real connection. Tech is bad enough for younger generations so for them it really must be frustrating.

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Lizzbear · 21/12/2024 23:00

Love this!
My mum always updates me on various cousins who I haven’t seen for years, what they’re having for tea and I often forget something important I wanted to tell her because dad interrupts her by asking what time teas ready!
They also buy my sister and I the same thing every year for Christmas. A leather handbag from T K Maxx, even though we say we definitely don't need another handbag this year.
My son gets a new dressing gown every single year and asks how he can wear 16 dressing gowns 😂
But we love them.

CoastalCalm · 21/12/2024 23:02

Mum always reads aloud the menu when we take her out for a meal - she got into the habit of doing it when dad was still alive as he never had his readers but DH and I have no such issues

coldcallerbaiter · 21/12/2024 23:05

My dm will say her tablet is not working every time there is an update, plus she is speaking to me on it so it cannot be broken. She just has to press agree. There is some variation of this every few weeks, eg. The Wi-Fi is not working, you are speaking to me on it right now though dm. I do not think she knows what the Wi-Fi does.