Shocking texts/calls from your Uni age kids

[seashaken]

I'll kick off with:

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

He'd been there 9 months.

Old saying - when all else fails read the instructions...

I have all sons. They could live again with the breath they waste asking me things they already know the answer to.
23, 19 & 18. (3yr old yet to start speaking so he is excluded from this)
Infuriating. They cope perfectly fine when i'm not there funnily enough. They know what to do so why they ask is a mystery.

What do togs mean on duvets, and what one do I need.

But not from a student. From my DH on trying to buy bedding (for his work flat) in his 40s. He had never lived alone.

I forgot about 111... I once text my mum to ask what I should do because I'd been out for a run tripped and injured my head

No reply. (She used to work nights) So went up to minor injuries which as I felt ok thought it was rather overkill

My mum called me and her words were "what did you do you clumsy cow?"

I am usually that clumsy...

Tbf dh did that at Butlins, only he called maintenance because the oven wasn't heating up. Chap came in and flicked the switch. It wasn't even the first time we'd been there by a long way, and he normally did all the cooking. The oven hadn't changed from previous years.
I may have reminded him every year since then to switch on the oven before calling maintenance. It's at least 10 years later...

I suppose the most "shocking" was dd whose accommodation block had been struck by lightning. It literally was shocking. She'd been working on her laptop, thankfully via an extension lead that was now exploded (holes in it and everything) and there was a fire in at least one of the kitchens. They were evacuated to the chapel for the rest of the night.
She likes a good drama, and that was a very good drama.

It is a controversial one. Do everything at 30 to save the planet or a minimum of 60 to hygienically clean them. If mums sheets and towels always turn out how you like them mum will give a better answer than Google.

Mum, ring me, it's urgent. 'Can i cook a gammon steak in the oven?'
I've failed, haven't I?😱

😂

This is what I was going to say! If everyone just googles everything, a lot of normal, everyday conversations and interactions will stop. I think that would be a real shame. I hope when mine are at uni they still ring to ask me stuff instead of just using google for everything.

? Had you never changed a light bulb before you left home?

Some of these are really puzzling to me.

We’ve come out the other end now. Unfamiliar cooking appliances on holiday and DH and I will live on bread, cheese and olives. Unless DS is with us, whereby he’ll google the instructions and cook a meal.

(TBF we do have our main meal out but DS is used to two ‘proper’ meals a day).

My halls of residence had a landline. We had to top it up with phone cards and it cost 1p a minute to make a call. Then when we moved into a shared house we had a normal landline. We used to go through the bill with a highlighter when it arrived to see how much everyone owed.
Anyone would think some people have different experiences to others!

Not a text/call, but my DD had a housemate who tried to boil some potatoes for himself but didn’t know that you had to put water in the saucepan. It didn’t end well.

Sorry to laugh at this, but I did ...!!!

If I’m away, DH still asks me how long it takes to cook broccoli.

I was in a first job and urgently needed to check something for a presentation for an event so not in the office - I called my Dad and without any context said ‘are there tigers in Africa?’ and then put the phone down after he’d answered!! This was when I had a shitty blackberry so no real internet search to speak of.

Wtf is steaming towels??

When I was that age I was making pancakes for the first time, and thought the amount of ingredients listed was per pancake...

My son asked me "Can you grill rice ?"

For all my mother's faults, I was quite capable of running a house by the time I was 18 - cooking, cleaning, laundry, first aid, bike maintenance. We'd been brought up doing it all.

I was amazed that one guy I shared with at uni didn't know how to boil an egg or heat a tin of beans.

Mind you, I was also amazed that people called Dynorod, rather than get their own draining rods out... (I grew up on a farm.)

I think i have the same machine & like you only use mixed load 😂

Mum my car has been hijacked with Bryson still on the back seat!

1 or 2! I love that - and can think of plenty of recipes DH would love to use that interpretation of 1/2 measure of the ingredients with.

@seashaken
My favourite was my son working out all by his liddle self that he would have to now buy himself loo roll
Son, I said, there's no such thing as the toilet paper fairy!

DS went to Newcastle University.
Me: 'Have you been to the coast yet?'
Him: 'Am I near the sea?'