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To be in shock four hour later

490 replies

Rhinosaurus · 01/05/2012 11:17

This morning, my son - the 15 year old

........ who cannot get out of bed.
........who misses two school buses a week because he gets out of bed at 0750 (bus leaves at 0800).
........who sits on the sofa and stuffs food wrappers down the side rather than walk across the room to the bin.
.........who goes to put something in the dishwasher, but when he sees it is full of clean stuff having just finished its cycle, stacks plates and cups up on the worktop waiting for someone else to empty it.
.........who puts clean clothes in the laundry basket rather than fold them up and put them away.

was downstairs in the kitchen today, dressed in school uniform, at 0730, emptying the dishwasher with a cup of tea made for me on the table.....
ConfusedShockConfusedShockConfusedShockConfusedShock

Is he on drugs?

Is there a major unreasonable request coming up, requiring girding of the loins......

Help!

OP posts:
Rhinosaurus · 01/05/2012 21:32

Small reprieve...
A text has just arrived to the living room from the bedroom asking if I've washed his skinny chinos yet.

Is Kevin creeping back??

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Frazzledredhead · 01/05/2012 21:33

Aaaaaahhhhhh I have 3 boys under age 8 and reading this thread have just had a vision of my future!!!! Chocolate needed NOWGrin

LoonyRationalist · 01/05/2012 21:33

I too am seriously worried. Don't let him lull you into a false sense if security, stay in high alert ;)

coffeeinbed · 01/05/2012 21:35

Frazzled, there's usually no chocolate left where teenage boys scavenge.
Enjoy it now.

kaylouise2184 · 01/05/2012 21:38

I'm with you frazzeled eeek

Rhinosaurus · 01/05/2012 21:40

I text back I had washed them.

He texts again...... Thank you - (WTF!!!!!!!!) i want them for cinema tomorrow (he often goes to Orange Wednesday)

An apology and an unasked for explanation, this is worse than I thought :(

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Rhinosaurus · 01/05/2012 21:40

I text back I had washed them.

He texts again...... Thank you - (WTF!!!!!!!!) i want them for cinema tomorrow (he often goes to Orange Wednesday)

An apology and an unasked for explanation, this is worse than I thought :(

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Frazzledredhead · 01/05/2012 21:40

Don't worry I've resorted to the secret stash of Freddo'sGrin

Rhinosaurus · 01/05/2012 21:42

Bloody hell I'm even seeing double now with the stress, is 2145 to late to open wine if I've got 9am start 70 miles drive away.... One glass maybe, medicinal of course. Where's the sherry when you need it Dot Cotton stylee

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DumSpiroSpero · 01/05/2012 21:42

I'm definitely going for girlfriend - with the possibility that he wants to go on holiday/festival with her in the near future.

Mama1980 · 01/05/2012 21:45

Also leaning towards girlfriend but this is seriously creepy....

PingPongPom · 01/05/2012 21:48

I think he might have found Jesus! My brother went through a similar transformation at age 17.

Be Afraid.

edam · 01/05/2012 21:53

Ping - I'm claiming the prize if he has. Suggested the Moonies or Mormons way back up the thread and the latter is a Christian sect, isn't it? (No idea re. the Moonies, they've gone a bit quiet since the 1980s.)

Moln · 01/05/2012 22:02

does Jesus make people clean things and make cups for tea?

He's welcome around here if he does!

Seriously though OP it's a stressful situation you find yourself in. I hope you get to the bttom of it soon so the sense of panic subsides for you

Moln · 01/05/2012 22:04

i thought the moonies live on the moon (or somewhere there abouts) and were white oblongs. No?

edam · 01/05/2012 22:04

He does if you are traditional, female and Catholic - generations of Mrs Doyles have kept the men who run the church going. Less likely to be the case for a teenage boy, admittedly...

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 01/05/2012 22:05

Ooh Ooh I've just thought of another one

If its not a festival / girlfriend/ baby

He wants to or has already go something pierced!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 01/05/2012 22:06

already got

edam · 01/05/2012 22:06
but I meant these people with the mass weddings
BellaVita · 01/05/2012 22:09

I love this thread Grin... Am so glad I am not alone... Soiled tissues... Undies inside trousers on the floor...

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 01/05/2012 22:09

edam I think its pretty easy to mix them up

Do the moonies have a Soup Dragon?

IAmBooyhoo · 01/05/2012 22:10
Grin

this is hilarious!!

my guess? he'll go straight back to normal tomorrow and you'll be asking him what the hell today was about and he'll insist he hasn't a clue what you're talking about and that you're crazy and "as if" he'd ever hoover his room. Grin

can't wait to find out what it's all about though.

Northernlurker · 01/05/2012 22:22

I'm hooked! I agree the unasked for explanation is highly concerning.

edam · 01/05/2012 22:27

The moonies probably worship a soup dragon. Only their one is, I suspect, considerably less charming...

MadamFolly · 01/05/2012 22:35

I give it two more days. Enjoy the suspense OP :o