Acts of ridiculous laziness....

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AIBU to want to hear other stories of laziness?
Has Facebook actually made people more lazy?

My children (both in their twenties) have been known to send me Facebook messages when they're at home, asking me to put the oven on so that they can cook once it's heated up, or if I just happen to be making myself a bacon sandwich can they have one too? I live in a tiny 3 bed semi, so it's not as though it would be difficult to come downstairs, or call down to ask me. Having said that, many years ago, my sister and I found out that if we dialled 6 from the upstairs phone and then hung up, then the phone would ring. My parents would answer it, and we could then pick up the upstairs extension and ask for a drink, or whatever it was we wanted :)

I did however roll my eyes at myself the other week, when I sent a Facebook message to one niece (15 miles away at my parents house) to phone her sister (not online on Facebook, and I couldn't find my phone) to ask her whether she wanted some cheesy chips as I was making some. Her sister, my eldest niece, was upstairs in my house at the time...
She came downstairs, holding her phone, with a confused look on her face.... "Did you actually message [sister] to phone me about chips???"

Yes, I said. I'm making cheesy chips, do you want some?

Please tell me that I'm not the only lazy person that does this sort of thing? Please share your lazy tales :)

Can't think of any I was hoping for some late night funny reading though while waiting for DS to sleep so hoping others have some

when I was in halls at university I used to ask the guy in the room next door to me if he wanted a cup of tea via msn every afternoon rather than get up and knock on his door about 5 metres away.

Not especially funny but pretty lazy I guess. And kind of vintage now (msn messenger that is).

I'm ashamed to say that when my mum used to ask me to empty the tumble dryer (in the garage), I used to walk out there and just turn it back on and tell her it was still wet....Everytime.

Oh I have one!!! My sister, when told to
Tidy up, put the unwashed dishes in the broken dishwasher! After about a month my mum could smell something funny in the kitchen - not envy...sick

She was severely bollocked for that one I think

I will quite often ring DP when I am in bed demanding in diva like fashion asking him to bring a drink on his next journey upstairs. We have voda friends and family, so I use my mobile.

My 2 best friends and I would have loooong 3-way conversations on MSN, even though we lived in the same house that had been converted into 3 flats!

There was a bit on The Simpsons where Homer opened the dishwasher to find it full of clean dishes that he CBA emptying.
So he threw ketchup and grated cheese on them, told his wife he'd "loaded the dishwasher for her" and switched it on.

Tell me someone has done this IRL

nothing to do with facebook but i threw away all my washing up the other day because i couldnt be bothered to do the dishes

Oh and once... This will probably out me but oh well. My sister nicked my mums scarf to use on a night out. She threw up on it and just hid it in the wash basket hoping mum would be none the wiser (it was dry clean only) mum saw it and thought she must have put it there by accident, took it out and put it on to show me!

I was stood at the bottom of the stairs as she walked down and said 'why is this wet?' then realised, screamed, and threw it across the room.

I was in stitches, my step dad kept
Telling me it's not funny. I text my sister, she didn't come home that night

When we lived in a 3 story town house we quite often texted each other to put the kettle on if we were upstairs, I thought it was quite clever myself rather than lazy!

My brother's laziness is notorious. Mum suggested he get a dog to help him exercise. So he did - two of them - who he adored.
But exercise??? Ha! He used to drive them to the park, open the doors for them, then whistle for them when it was time to go home

I have a tendency to put things in draws or cupboards just to make the house look tidy. Eg if friends are coming over all post goes in the kitchen draw where it stays until we can't close the draw anymore and I finally go through it and clean clothes get put at the bottom of my wardrobe. I've also been known to just clean the bathroom sink and draw the shower curtain so the bath is hidden.

I have texted my teenage boys to tell them to go to bed when I've already gone to bed early to read - too cosy and sleepy to get up to do it.

I have been known to have a grocery delivery turn up (because I am too lazy to go to the shop myself) and then, with lots of lovely fresh food in the house, order a takeaway (online naturally, as I am too lazy to actually speak to someone) because I cannot be bothered to cook any of the nice fresh food that just turned up.

I watch cricket at my local village club. One evening it fell upon me to pick out all the fucking boundary flags. Well bollocks to that. I put my 7 year old DS in the front seat and drove around the outfield, stopping at ever flag so she could pluck it out and chuck it in the car.

It gave me a tremendous sense of well-being.

I will think of many more - I am extremely lazy! :(

I'm not sure if I should confess that I have FB messages dh asking him to make me a coffee - while I am sat in the same room

Am I the only one that sits in bed and writes "more coffee and two poached eggs" on word and then press print, so that the wireless printer(in the kitchen) spits out my demands,

I also skype family members in the house, saves shouting,

Once when I knew my husband was on his way home, and I also knew he would be stopping at the local garage,he was in my car and I never fill it up, I FB messaged a friend of my sons who I knew would be working in the garage,

when husband entered the garage there was a pile of goodies on the counter which the serving teen bagged and handed to DH, before DH could ask, teen turned his lap top round, and DH read my list.

I used to drive to the post box that was about ten yards from my old house. And walk to the shop in pjs.

Some days I've filled the sink with water to wash up about ten times then it goes cold due to not doing it

I have taken a few clean things from the dishwasher but not emptied it properly, then filled up the spaces with more dirty stuff and switched it back on, just couldn't be arsed to empty the whole thing

Lazy dog story - does this count? My df took the dog for a last walk one rainy dark night. DF trudged all the way round the wet garden for the dog's late night wee and when he came back to the door, dripping, he found the dog standing there, nice and dry, waiting patiently for DF to finish this nonsense and get to bed.

quoteunquote You are a genius. I salute you.

Used to spend hours chatting to my housemates on FB in our student house. We'd also put all our bin bags in the 'overflow' wheelie bin over the road cos it was closer than taking them out to the back yard.

My next door neighbour and I text each other to see if the other fancies a cig and then we stand in the garden talking. We could lean over the fence or walk and knock but too much effort.

If I'm going to hers ill text and say put kettle on. I arrive before the text oes most if the time

Picnic - I do that too!

Also loathe doing laundry - putting a load on is one thing, but actually being arsed to hang it out...

DH is a bit anal about this - I quite frequently have to stick the machine on a second spin cycle when I hear the car pull up so he thinks it's just finishing and hasn't been sat in the machine waiting to go out all day .

I have a crap drawer too, in the living room - all small items that are lurking jut get swept into it if I know someone is coming round.

I also rope my mum in to come and give the house a once over for me once or twice a month - she is so much better at it than me!

I had a pet mouse in Uni that sadly died, asked bf (now DH) to take him and the cage away for me.

Cue end of term and DH avoiding block mates as they were all slapped with a fine during their kitchen inspection, he cba to deal with it so bunged mouse and cage at the very back of a cupboard and left it there yuk!