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 :)

I always need the loo when I see the Tesco delivery driver pull up with our groceries so DH has to sort it out.

I use a dirty sock to 'dust' the stairs/banister on my way down to the washing machine with the dirty laundry. And I use my sleeve to dust the TV and mantlepiece.

I accidently on purpose forget to take meat out of the freezer in the morning for dinner so we have to get a takeaway.

I volunteer at my children's school. My DH thinks it's so I don't have a gap on my CV when I decide to go back to work (teaching assistant) but it's really so I don't have to do the housework

shamed

My Mum and myself once text a family friend to "come over quick!" because we couldn't reach the remote.

We would often as kids shout down the stairs that "there was an emergency" so Mum would come running up, we wanted the light off ... If that didn't work my eldest sister had a great line in emotional blackmail to make my other sister do it, was along the lines of "if you don't do it Mum will spend so much on leccy we'll be poor and homeless and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT"

As a an elder teen we would drive to McDonalds drive through, eat the food in the car park then drive to the bins so we didn't have to leave the car.

So, so many laziness induced schemes were thought up around here

Oh an I regularly re wash clothes I cba to transfer to the dryer and when we had a dishwasher i always did a "Homer" and just stuck it back on to do when I cba to empty it.

I actually already posted this today, but it fits in here too. My DS made me a cup of tea a few days ago - it was lukewarm - why ? - he got bored waiting for the kettle to boil !!

i do a homer, also i never peg out washing as it is easier to use tumble dryer

We used to live in an old house with such a ridiculous layout that if I was in my room and wanted, say, my brother in his room, I would have to go through two rooms, up a set of stairs, through two more rooms, up another set of stairs, across the landing, down a corridor and into his room.

We had an internal phone line installed.

I had a long poking device, a la Joey from Friends when I was in my mid teens.

It was a pool cue but I could reach the TV, sound system and light switch with it from my chair in the living room. I could also hook a half full mug onto it, and allow it to slowly and carefully slide down the cue and to my waiting hand. Good times.

hugandrol, are you me?

When I left home, my sugar was kept in a tupperware box in a cupboard.

I couldn't be arsed opening the cupboard then taking the lid off the box every time I wanted a cup of tea, so I just stopped taking sugar!

I bought a huge pack of value paper plates for my daughter's birthday party back in April because they were cheaper than the small packets (??). We used them for weeks afterwards to save on washing up.

I do a 30-mile round trip to the nearest out-of-town Mothercare instead of going to the one in my town centre's indoor shopping centre. I tell myself that I do this because the out-of-town one is bigger and so more likely to have what I need but it's actually because I can park right outside the big one rather than drag DS on the ten minute walk from the carpark to the indoor one.

I text DP to come upstairs and put the light out when I have been reading in bed and cba getting up to do it myself

I am so lazy at times, its shameful, infact the reason I opened this thread is because i thought i could get some good tips from you lot on how to extend my lazyness...so thankyou :)

You've all made me feel so much better about myself :D

And I've learned lots of new things too....

What inventive people we are. (love sending a document to the printer - that is utter genius!)

Sometimes I e-mail DH at work to ask him where something is when I can't be bothered to look for it myself.

I pretend to be technologically challenged to avoid having to deal with all manner of annoying, fiddly, tedious chores involving mod-cons.

I haven't been to an actual shop for almost three years. Everything except groceries is purchased online.

nb I'm not actually a lazy person ( I run 40K a week, cook everything from scratch, hike miles with my dogs) I just have "blind spots" when it comes to certain chores ...)

It's not a laziness thing but DP sends random documents to the printer in his parent's house to freak them all out, his DB's and Dsis live there too and they don't realise the printer has remote access and an email address to send stuff too.

I text DH to reset the router (upstairs in his games room office) rather than walk up the stairs and do it myself...

I also wave my hands in the general direction of the remote whatever object I want, and whine until it is placed into my hands.... this only works when someone else is nearer that I can bribe with snacks.

Whenever I have finished eating, I just hand my plate to whoever is next to me on the sofa, rather than sit more upright and put it somewhere safe myself

Haha Toughasoldboots I can strip a bed and remake it without getting up off my wheely chair And I don't even have pregnancy as an excuse

A friend of mine called me on her mobile and asked me to open my front door. She was sitting in her car at the end of my (short) drive, as she cba to get out and ring the bell!!

If I go on a night out like a party or works do I sit there all night & expect people to come over & talk to me. I don't even bother going to the bar.

In work I find somewhere to 'hide' like the back of an office, switch off the lights and play on my phone.

If I need attention (tea) and am in bed, I call the dogs, tie a sock round their collar and then tell them the name of the person I need. they are very good at knowing who's who.

This thread makes me sad.

I ring my DH from other parts of the house. He's insulated it so well he can't hear me screaming for him call.

Saw a couple at uni msning each other. They were sitting back to back at the library computers.

DH will open his laptop to look at the junk mail online, rather than cross the room to pick up the hard copy.