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.

That I don’t know. You would have to contact the manufacturer. My washing machine is not a UK one so it might be different.

DS eating a bowl of something while on facetime to me...I asked him what it was as it looked like cereal with cottage cheese! It's cereal mum but the milk has come out a bit lumpy...as he chomped another mouthful! 🙈 🤮 then discovered he couldn't taste that the milk had gone off cos he had early stages of covid!

I’m 1 of 4 siblings but my brother is the only one of us who was brainy enough for uni. Though we are all rather self sufficient growing up in a single parent family. But a lad he share digs with couldn’t make a cup of tea. Mummy had always done it for him to focus on his studies. He also tried to boil an egg in the electric kettle. My brother had to show him how to do everyday tasks.

When my brother lived down south he and his flatmate from another country missed the last train to our mums on Christmas eve. This was back in the early 90’s. All they had to eat in the flat was 2 tins of beans and a crate of beer. 😂😂😂

Haha that made me giggle

Is it safe to use a washing machine without fabric conditioner

should I keep pesto in a cupboard or the fridge

just checking that my bedroom is still unchanged (get this one every few weeks)

how do I clean a laptop screen

I think it’s lovely that they ask parents for advice , staying in contact etc

I blame the parents

A few years ago a young woman called Laura Nuttall died of brain cancer and her mother wrote a book about Laura's experiences. She mentioned when Laura first went to university she phoned her mum to say she was having trouble getting a jar lid off, and her mum told her to knock it on its side and it would break the seal. Laura was silent as she took in the idea that her mum knew something she didn't :)

But I didn't know that either! I used an implement to open recalcitrant jars before I read that! Now I just do a gentle knock on the floor and then they open!

I just used to get texts from my son about admin things like paying his deposit for his second year flat. No, he couldn't phone the landlord and do it, could I do it please. Like a mug I did (though to be fair it was easier to use my card).

I was about to join this thread to be a massive fun sponge and stop everyone saying mean things about young people learning their way, and then I read the comments 😆😆

I’ve lost my front door key!
I’d only given it to him the day before, and he hadn’t even left the house!

We were in an apartment abroad with our son recently and went to bed about 10. Woke the next morning to a series of texts

“I sprayed the cockroach spray in my bedroom”
”it smells funny”
“I read the back of the can and I’m worried I’m going to die now as it’s really toxic”
”look, I know you are both asleep, but I am not joking, I think this might kill me”
”when you wake up in the morning please will you check I’m not dead if I skip breakfast”
”right, I’m not taking the chance, I’m going to sleep in the bath”
”I can still smell it from the bath, is that normal?”
”I just wanted you guys to know I’m still alive incase this worries you when you wake
up”
”oh! There’s a dead fly in here so it’s definitely working, I’m still not dead though so that’s good news!”

He's incredibly clever but zero common sense bless him!

I'm guessing, getting wrinkles out instead of ironing. Not for washing towels!

As a student I called my dad once to say help, we've smashed a lava lamp on the floor what do we do?

My logic? My stepmum read take a break magazine and would know!

The answer? Fairy liquid.

My 20 year old called my work (a school so not allowed mobiles on person), told the receptionist it was urgent, asked her to get me to phone him ASAP. So I called him immediately: "I can't find my passport."

He wasn't going on holiday and had no desperate need for it. Just wanted to know if I'd seen it. 🤯

I'm a bit concerned by the baby cycle. I always washed mine in a bath.

Mum... I've dropped my keys down a hole in the floorboards... at 3am in the morning (not quite sure how I was supposed to provide assistance as he was 300 miles away)

Not uni but when dh and myself were in Spain on hols, ds rang at 11pm to ask what to do after cutting himself opening a tin of beans! Gave him first aid advice but had to ask dd to go round and check he hadn't bled to death!

“I’m gonna need some more of that truffle powder” - a text from DS. It still
makes me chuckle when I think about

Maybe I'm just boring, I'd read the care label.

All ours did/do.

Some Samsung models have a Hygiene Steam cycle.

”Hygiene Steam is a specialized washing machine cycle that releases hot steam upwards from the bottom of the drum to deeply saturate your laundry. It eliminates up to 99.9% of harmful bacteria and inactivates common allergens like pollen, dust mites, and pet hair without requiring pre-treatment.”

We use ours for towels, bedding, pet bedding etc, anything that needs an extra deep clean or to get rid of dust mites.

Is this my train? From a platform. Before face time or WhatsApp video calling.

Someone in my halls once tried to heat a pot noodle (fairly new at the time) by putting the pot in a saucepan without putting water in the pan. That was a 3am fire alarm I could have done without.

Same college but three weeks into our first year two of us spent ages trying to persuade the lad in the room opposite that he shouldn't lug his big bag of dirty laundry with him on his visit to see his girlfriend at a different university an hour away by train. When he came back with the dirty laundry and no girlfriend we took him to the laundry room 30 secs from our room and taught him to use the washing machine. We may have said 'I told you so' a few times. To his credit he did learn from this.

From DS1 when he first moved into his flat at 18:

"Mum! Have you seen the price of fresh orange juice?!!"

Yes. Yes, I have. Which is why I've been telling you to drink water if you're that thirsty.

Absolutely! My 18 year old had been at Uni 2 months when I got a phone call at 10:30 at night just as I was coming out of the theatre. He had never phoned me in his life and I could feel my heart thumping in my chest’. I answer the phone to the words ’Mum. I’ve got some really bad news’. Immediately I think he’s in hospital, been arrested or kicked out of Uni’. He then tells me that he’d been doing some washing, there’d been a power cut and the washing machine had stopped mid cycle and he couldn’t get his washing out’! I clarify that this is the ‘really bad news’. It is. I point out it really isn’t but if he sends me the details of his washing machine I’ll sort it when I get home.

When I get home I start googling and find a YouTube video which solves his problem. I then wonder why it is me, his 50 year old mother, doing the googling when he is the one who has never known a world without the internet and generally has a smart phone glued to his hand!?