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.

Ds 1st month in collage rang said couldnt get the hob to work noticced a Big red swich decided to try it. Never knew as ours is in a cuoboard 😀

My DS, how do I know which is the hot or cold tap?
My DD, there’s something wrong with the cheese you bought me it’s a big lump (not grated)

Does this means he has been sleeping on the same sheets for nine months?

If so l would tell him to put them in a black plastic with some discenfectant and throw them in the bin.

In this case I’m the guilty party. I remember phoning my mum when I was at uni asking “how do I clean a bathroom”. One of my flatmates also asked me how she would know when the water in a pan was boiling 😂

I moved out at 22 or 23, and I remember calling my mum, while I was at Asda, asking about what steak to buy! I’m 40 now, I’m sure I’ve had to ring not long ago to ask something 🤣🤣

My mum would have answered yes.

My dd once called me in a panic because she thought the drier was the washer in her dorms and put her laundry in the drier with detergent.

I make a Middle Eastern slow cooked egg recipe where you cook them low and slow for minimum 12 hours! But to be fair you do need to make sure you periodically top up the water 🤣

Oof... doesn't actually get your clothes clean too (they'll smell nice, thats not the same thing).

Washing at 30 does not kill bacteria and get things clean and most of the cleaning is as a result of the agitation of the clothes in the drum - the delicates program has much less agitation.

I don't recall calling Mother for anything except to find out why she hadn't put my allowance in my bank account or money on my lunch card (college, I was 16, not 18) - but a mate of mine did NOT understand that you cannot put frozen chips in the cupboard and expect them to still be good weeks later.

University in the 1990s, a shared phone between 5 buildings, no privacy in downstairs foyer. What we did was ask someone else, usually an older student. It worked lol 😆

😂😂😂 reply of the month.

Mine too in early 90s. It was only in my third year we got a proper phone (92/93!). How times have changed (not sure it’s good or bad we’re more available to them).

It's also a turning point where you hope they might actually start to realise they don't know everything

Not uni but, my daughter (then aged 32) took her car for petrol for the first time. She rang me to say "they don't sell petrol...only 4 star and diesel. What do I do?" I don't think she's progressed much (at 46) as she forgot to plug in her car last night and only had a 31 mile range when work is almost 45 miles away. Luckily her partners car was fully charged and they live closer to his work.

I called my granny (having tried parents first but they'd not answered) to ask what spirit that I might have was closest to vermouth for a recipe I was making. No clue now what on earth I can have been making!

Uni friend moved into a new flat. Could not get the washing machine to work. Finally a flat mate took pity and asked her to show him what she was doing. She was repeatedly pressing the off switch because “off for off we go” 🫪
Friend’s daughter arriving at uni in a UK capital city - in her native country - rang home to ask if was safe to drink the tap water. She was studying medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I have a WiFi one too with 1000s of settings. I have 2 that I use and I’ve named them normal one and quick one I have steam but I’m too scared to use it. Never had steam before and I’ve not suffered from any towel related problems!

And we wonder why young people struggle with life! Mine would get a very rude answer if they asked me some of the very daft questions on here!!

My uni age daughter was spending the summer Inter-railing around Europe with her boyfriend. One of her wisdom teeth was playing up so she sent me a photo of it and wanted me to take the photo to our dentist at home and ask them what she should do. Her bf was studying dentistry at the time…

My DSS is not uni aged yet, but, as a letting agent we have had a fair few calls that cover quite a few of these points, so I should be well prepared if he does head of to uni. We’ve all just got to keep him alive til then given he has hit the teenage years 🙈.

In the days If Google doesn't the ' Mum knows best' inference give you a nice warm glow, as well as a smile? .

My mum still reminds me that I rang her from uni to ask how to cook peas 😂And I somehow wanted them to help me get rid of a frog in my doorway 100 miles away (tbf it's still a massive phobia and I probably would have just left the house and never gone back if a housemate hadn't sorted it).
The towel issue though, I'm 48 and still see it up for discussion. Mum told me to do them at 60, everything else at 40. But then I would see how you NEED to wash everything at 30. It's a minefield. I don't blame them for asking as everyone may have a different answer from their mums (and AI).

A friend messaged saying I've washed my hair and put those plastic rollers in, it's still really wet and I need to go out in half hour. I said well use the hair dryer! Reply was, "are you sure? I thought it would melt the plastic rollers."
Same person also said I can't smell the fabric conditioner in my clothes at all, I asked how she had used it, washed by hand, rinsed, added fabric conditioner, then rinsed in cold water again 🤦

Would you not rinse fabric conditioner then? Surely your machine does ? You rinse off hair conditioner.

No, fabric conditioner goes in the final rinse, it's not rinsed out.

and stand on a plastic chair.