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.

@ about 3.30am (😳) had a call to ask if i could ID a bird singing at that time in the morn.
🤷‍♀️…. no I’m not a birdsong expert!, why did you ring me so early ?
oh is that the time? -well I knew you’d wake up, being such a light sleeper….
I suppose, at least it wasn’t a horrible emergency of some sort 😅.

DD sent a photo of a pile of pink knickers and t shirts. Me “did you mistakenly put them in the wash with something you shouldn’t? They used to be white “. Her “no I wanted them to be pink so I put them in with my red bedsheets so I didn’t have to buy fabric dye” 😆

This baffled me the first time I encountered a front-loading machine. We’d only had top loading ones at home and I’m not sure there was a locking mechanism for the lid.

It's lovely if you've got the kind of relationship where a kid can ask - think it'd be a sad state of affairs if a kid preferred to Google than converse!

One of my younger brothers asked if 45 minutes was long enough to boil eggs because most of the water was gone and he wasn’t sure if he should add more. 😂

This response shocked me the most! You must have a towel program… and a hand wash program… and what if you want just a quick rinse of something? You can’t only use one program surely?!?!! 🤭😉

Is broccoli expensive?

Is broccoli expensive?

When i went to uni my Mum made me a little booklet with all sorts if useful info. Deciphering washing instruction, numbers for local taxi companies, a few simple recipes etc.

Who buys my tinfoil?

How did students survive before mobile phones and Google?

When I was a student, you took your stuff to the launderette. (Or washed a pair of knickers and tights in the sink, if that was all you needed at the time.) If in doubt, I looked at the washing instructions on the label.

They used a landline.

Oh this is cute! Do you have it still?

To the Google of the time...Mum

DS's first term at uni. "What do I need to put on my shopping list for the supermarket?". I was completely flummoxed & said that it depended what he wanted to eat! I never really got to the bottom of what he was asking but he seemed to manage!

They used a landline.

No student digs I or any of my friends ever lived in had a landline. You had to go out to a phone box to make a call.

Same here. It’s never let me down.

😂😂
The most memorable phone calls weren't the many cooking related ones.
We're having a party and we've stuck egg boxes to the basement walls to dampen the noise. (Sleepless night worrying about fire).
I'm in hospital, they might need to operate. ( They didn't but it was another sleepless night.
When i went to uni my Mum made me a little booklet with all sorts if useful info.
Before uni I did cooking lessons and wrote a book like this. Everything from laundry to how to source the cheapest ingredients.

They’re trying to stay in contact with you.

So you could have used that then!

The answer to this is simple - you cook it in coconut oil so that it slips out really easily when you throw it all in the bin!

My children called rather than googled random questions and I think it was just a way of saying hi and keeping connected.

My exH thought the same when making Angel Delight and I found 8 bowls of strawberry milkshake in the fridge. He was 33.

Bought my 1st house 26 years ago and still phone my mum everytime I buy curtains. Can never remember if the sizing is per curtain or for the pair 🤔.

DC’s friend, telling me with huge consternation that they could not possibly use the oven in their (fairly grotty) house share as ‘something is wrong with it, it is extremely dangerous’ and they had called the landlord. On further enquiry :” it has actual flames coming out from the bottom”

Oh right: an old fashioned gas oven