Things your parents do

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

What else?

Yes! The forgetting the important stuff is so true because the focus is all on the minutiae. You could have had a really important breakthrough in a counselling session but it wouldn't get a second's consideration because the weather's turned and it's raining this has never happened to me of course

No we write postcards to each other a lot

🤣🤣🤣

^^ But yes true it's probably because he wants to hear your voice and get that connection.

Yeah bless him he does just want to hear my voice, although he's 93 and quite deaf so I do more listening than talking ♥❤

My mum calls me accidentally about once a week. Whenever I get a phonecall from her now I let it ring for little bit before I answer. 9/10 times she will hang up after a couple of rings and I will then get a text a few seconds later saying 'sorry, did it again!'.

She also likes to answer my texts on her smartwatch using the suggested replies. Love it when I sent her a long message updating her on a recent health concern of mine, or some important issue regarding the dc, only to get a reply back saying 'Sure!' 🤔.

PIL tell us about Judy down the roads daughters, brothers, wife’s health problems but ‘forget’ to tell us things about family members that we should really know.

Similar to others, my mother will text me to tell me she has sent me a WhatsApp message. 😂

my grandma told my dad i haven't messaged her in years....hes updated her phone and all my text messages and whats app are there,still not had one back.

My mum still only has half a head on a screen on FaceTime. I joked this week that she needed to learn how to do this as technology isn’t going anywhere…

My parents in law won’t go anywhere without the other one. They don’t seem to like each other much so you’d think they’d like some time ok their own with us.

My Dad is 93 , pretty deaf and neatly blind. We speak every day - his listening skills need improving as whatever I say he just carries on talking without acknowledging any of my answer

Love him

My parents used to do this, it was the highlight of my day. The time it took for my mum to replace the cordless phone back into the base unit on the table beside her seemed like an eternity, and I'd be glued to the conversation that followed, where she told my dad all of what I'd said, and what she thought about it, and of course getting the bulk of it totally wrong.

I'd give anything for one more of those moments.

My mother was a dreadful listener, so when she lost some of her hearing it was even worse, as there was no knowing whether she'd not listened as always, or hadn't heard it to begin with.

That's nothing compared to when the woman nextdoor but one to my parents got herself a boyfriend the second her husband went into a care home. To this day I am still lost as to how exactly I gave my mother the idea that I desired to know all that she continually and in minute detail conveyed to me.

So she's not the person being odd and strange here at all

That’s where our fish and chips were so bad we had to throw them away”.

I'm dying 😂😂😂😂😂

That's answering your text in a nice human way

My 88 year old neighbour has evenings where she sits down with her mobile phone, opens up facebook, and then spends the next three hours watching TV while tapping the "X" on the profile of everyone that pops up in the "people you may know" list, because she doesn't know most of them (this is despite me telling her repeatdly that the list is only limited by the millions of people on facebook and that for eveyone she deleted, another is added), and then when one pops up that she does know, I get a call (from her house phone) asking me how facebook knows that she knows that person.

My dad used to ring and asked if we'd got a text if it was that he'd not had a reply within the first 90 seconds.

I pay one cent a minute to call my mum via "Calleire". See if you can sign up, or find a similar plan.

Throw away the card/bottom lid from the box of chocolates so 'it'll be a surprise' what flavour anyone gets. There's a time and place for surprises, but not when I risk biting into a strawberry cream or fudge instead of coconut or something crunchy.
edit: As an adult who now has her own chocolate boxes, I take immense satisfaction in lengthily examining the ‘menu’ and picking just the ones I like.

Also completely understandable. Texting is not for everyone and definitely not an older generation thing

My dad thinks he’s told me things “because I put on the WhatsApp”

Yes, Dad, you did. But to the WhatsApp with my brother, or my auntie, but not in the WhatsApp that I’m in.

If you tell Uncle Pete by WhatsApp, I still don’t know.

I think ant heart it’s that he hasn’t really twigged that I don’t know things unless he tells me. Mum died 6 years ago. I knew about everything when she was alive because she and I talked and she told me. Now that she isn’t here to do that, I don’t have magic information osmosis about his hospital appointments, family news, things he needs me to do.

Surprised that you could play Fortnite with anyone in the world, online

When I ring my mum she rushes to my dad so we can have a three way convo. If I ring my dad my mum pops up in the background and worms her way into the convo. I find it so annoying. It's like she views herself and my dad one person. I hate it.

Also when I visit she insists we all call my brother and have a group phone call.