Things your parents do

[rosemole]

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

What else?

My dad has a memory like a sieve unless you ask him to direct you from Blackpool to London using no motorways and then he can tell you every turn and road you should be on

He responds to every text with a thumbs up whether it's
"On my way"
"I'm emigrating and changing my name"

He can also talk to anyone (customer facing job for 40 years) and last time he was late arriving, I found him in my neighbours house doing DIY and drinking a beer

Oh and I've had to have words that if it's bad news I would prefer a call as opposed to a text at 8am to tell me my younger cousin has died
Mostly so I don't randomly start crying at work!

Ahh I know, of course it is ♥❤

But I tend to quickly text because I'm not available to chat at that time.

Still, he's 93 so I know I'm very lucky to have him to chat to.

Agreed, I was lucky enough my Dad lived into his 90s

My mum used to tell me off for not answering the phone when we called. She'd get really cross when I said I'd had no calls from her. Turns out she was using the TV remote.
Then if she did ring she was always surprised I knew it was her.
I'd love a phone call from her now (even on the remote).

I pause to think when speaking and DM buts in trying to fill it in or offers what she thinks is going to happen.

blooming infuriating because when she starts doing this I completely lose my train of thought and actually can’t remember whatever it was I was trying to say.

Mine thinks that her fb feed is the one that I get so she will say "did you see that thing on fb" . She also thinks we are the same age. Although she generally doesn't know where she finishes and I start #emotionalincest.

My Mum died last year but before she got unwell and could get out and about her and Sdad used to sit in bedon Monday morning with a cuppa and decide what they were going to do that week and at what time.
They couldn't deviate from The Plan AT ALL.
I suggested popping round once on a Thursday to be told that they had planned to go to the supermarket at 12 on Thursday so it would have to be before or after, I suggested they go at 10am or 2pm to be greeted with shocked silence.
DMum couldn't watch DD for me for an hour once because that was the time and day she was "going to buy her Christmas wrapping paper", it had been decided 2 days ago on the Monday and was immoveable.

My DF talks incessantly about his health. Usually concerning his bowels and usually at the dinner table...

He makes a special point to come round or call after every doctor's appointment or blood test to give me the results in great detail. And then that information is repeated for the next few weeks until the next test or appointment and the cycle begins again.

Funny thing is he used to complain non stop about my DGM talking about her health.

My mum communicates by email. Even stuff that should be a phone fall. My sister and I think it's hilarious. The amount of 'stuff' the bring when they come to stay is ridiculous. I would willingly provide it. It takes over my entire house. And it's all in different bags.

Mine do this!!

MIL likes to speculate about things that she can't possibly know ... I saw my neighbour Ted yesterday and he was limping, he'd probably slipped down his front door step as it's a bit high, then again maybe he's still suffering from an old sports injury, he looks like he probably played football when he was young.

My mum describes ordering something online as "sending for" it, presumably from the days when you'd see an advert for something in the newspaper and send a cheque or postal order with a letter saying what you wanted.

She's also very suspicious of scams and once refused to take delivery of something that she'd ordered because she was worried it was a scam. Then when she realised that afterwards, complained to the company she'd ordered from for sending it without telling her!

Take an age to explain something and also tell the same story multiple times as if you've never been told before.

I can say "you've already told me", but they still plough on.

My mum does that. Makes up scenarios about people as if she has information she possibly couldn't know.

I am probably one of these parents. Would love to know what my kids say about me.

My mum never dealt with paperwork when my dad was alive. That was his job.
Now, whenever she gets a letter or email relating to the online food shop (that I do for her), utilities etc., she will call or WhatsApp me to say, "I've had this letter ..." and will launch into reading it out word for word, from start to finish, without any pauses, including all T&Cs! It's usually obvious straight away that they are unimportant but there's no stopping her until she reeled off every single one of those damned T&Cs!

Other times, she will try to show me a letter via WhatsApp, but as she hasn't a clue whereabouts on her tablet the camera actually is, I usually get to see the ceiling, the floor, the walls - everything but the letter.

Now I'm old(er) and long retired, I have fewer people to chat to and less exciting things going on in my life so I expect I'm guilty of a lot of the above. Sometimes a couple of days go by when I don't talk to anybody so, if my daughter calls me (instead of texting), then I expect my chat is very inconsequential. I will take it all on board and practice being Mrs Zippy - I wish my mum was still around to chatter away about nothing.

Give me a blow by blow rundown of everything they need to get from the supermarket.

Have terrible internet connection so that when calls or FaceTime cut out we eventually get a text saying ‘Stepdad says that will be your internet, ours is expensive’.
Buying THE SAME new t shirts and footwear from the same shop every three months for ‘the holibobs’.
But I wouldn’t have them any other way.

My mum and I will say goodbye at the end of a phone call and just as I hang up I can hear her begin another sentence, but it's too late because I've already but the action of hanging up in motion.

My mother sits on the sofa watching TV all day (excepting a 20 minute dog walk) and then tells my 17yo son how 'unhealthy' it is for him to have a lie-in until early afternoon, before he then goes for a 3 hour walk with friends.

She also gets weirdly passive-aggressively pissed off if I am not watching what total shit she has on TV so cannot contribute to 'conversation' about The Chase for the fifth time that day.

They watch the neighbors and hate anyone parking outside their house.

Oh me too

The idea of being able to chat rubbish to my mum again, makes me cry

My Mum used to do this! 😀 She would say ‘you know “Jean” from down the road has had an operation (or something) I had never met Jean from down the road!!!

Also she used to shout into her mobile phone - she didn’t trust the connection!

I miss her ❤️❤️