Shocking texts/calls from your Uni age kids

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I'll kick off with:

"What temperature should I wash my sheets and towels at?"

He'd been there 9 months.

Really? Wow. In my uni the cleaners hoovered and emptied the bins. Laundry and bedding were our own jobs.

We got one sheet every week, although 2 were provided so we assumed we were supposed to rotate them. As I had a duvet I had a clean sheet every week. DCs just got their communal kitchens cleaned (presumably around the unwashed pans & plates).

I once googled something and got conflicting answers so ended up asking on Facebook

(And don't get me started on Google maps - it's happy to suggest I could walk across a busy A road but once told me there was no route to somewhere which was through the park, turn right cross over and keep walking)

Vacuumed up a MOUSE?!

Love that one! Although I will assume (hope) that the operator lady wasn’t busy! A friend works for 999 service and they get similar calls today, but they most definitely are busy and are very much unimpressed.

So it would be the correct setting for washing towels then? (If you had this on your machine)

Eco normally takes longer as it tends to use a lower temperature and less agitation so uses less power but allows the clothes to be gently swished in warm soapy water for longer. Hopefully giving a similar result.

I use either the eco or the quick wash setting.

I've done that, but to be fair, they had dessicated sufficientl that it was just bones and fur.

No, I still don't move the sofa to vacuum beneath it very often.

However, growing up in a farmhouse with cats, I am very capable of disposing of recently dead prey, and the vacuuming woukd only be done after the carcass had been binned and the carpet sprayed with carpet cleaner.

When he was 16, DS rang my wife to ask her how to stop water draining out of the kitchen sink!

This was a phone call at 7am. Answered the phone by saying hello. Her response was mum ive just shit myself. Good morning to you too my beautiful first born! She then asked how to wash the sheet. I said you dont girl that needs to go in the bin! Poor thing had the flu!

My dh’s cousin was in a shared flat that had a dishwasher for some reason, he poured washing up liquid all over the plates etc and turned it on. He then called his auntie (dh’s mum who lived in the same town) in a blind panic as there were soapy suds coming out all over the floor.

A phone box connection is a landline.

Celebrate , that they are calling you
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Or there'd been a discussion with other students and they trust your opinion on the matter!

Yes but you had to queue and pay for it. My mother had us cooking simple dinners aged 12 or so and using the washing machine. I would never have rung her about cooking or washing.

May have told this one before.

"Mum there's a badger on the path what should I do?" Go round the badger, I suggested.

"Mum my fishfinger wasn't properly defrosted should I be worried?" I think you'll be fine I said (she was)

My washing machine (inherited from previous apartment owner) has 72 different wash cycles and 30+ drying cycles!!! Who the hell needs that many??? I use 2 wash cycles (one of those is a quick mix load wash) and one drying cycles which only use to finish off towels to make them "fluffy". I needed my petsittet to work out how to set the machine manually rather than through the app(not so many choices that way). I miss my simple machine which I left behind in my old house as it was fitted into a specific area and would have been a big cost to remove 😕.

Same!

Do you realise how expensive smoked salmon is mum!!! Yes dear that’s why we only have it at Christmas.

But the pp probably meant a landline in your accommodation.
In dd1’s first year hall there was a (landline) phone on each floor.

Mobile phones were only just starting to be a Thing. Only one girl in her first year hall had one, and for a few years afterwards she was still known as Susie Mobile.

They used a landline

My parents didn't have a phone.
In 1970 only 35% of homes had a landline.

A phone box connection is a landline

But the person you want to ring has to have a landline.

They don't even need Google though. It will tell you the temperature on the label. Its parental failure though. I had my boys doing their own washing from around 15/16. How to cook and use an iron. They both had cleaning chores from a young age. Parents should stop doing everything for their children. They're not helping them become independent self sufficient adults. It's part of a parents job!

Temperature might be on the label, but there are lots of different programmes that will wash at that temperature.

I got a call saying “mum, I’ve bought an avocado, what shall I do with it?”.
My friend’s son ordered a single pineapple from Amazon which was delivered to her home, and the same child, my son’s best friend, once delivered an onion bhaji to him through my letter box.
Mind you, last year when visiting my cousin who lives in a tiny French village six of us adults checked into the only little hotel in the village and dashed straight up to my cousin’s.
On returning at midnight we were locked out as not one of us had read the info sheet given to us with our keys which told us the code for the door 🙄