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Acts of ridiculous laziness....

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pinktransit · 20/08/2012 22:33

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... Blush
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 :)

OP posts:
Binkyridesagain · 22/08/2012 09:04

DH and I ripped out a 1950's tiled fireplace, we where knackered, neither if us could be bothered to bag it and bin it, so we took up a floorboard and shoved it all into the hole.

qo · 22/08/2012 09:13

I skype my son when he's upstairs

busyboysmum · 22/08/2012 09:19

Not my story but my lazy lazy brother - one he confessed to years later when we were out drinking one night.

At our house we had ourn caravan on our driveway, he used to get up for college (so he was about 18) my mum would give him his packed lunch and say bye, he'd leave the house, get into the caravan and go back to sleep. My mum would go to work unaware. His mate up the road would come and get into the other bed and go to sleep. They would wake at lunchtime and share their packed lunches then go for another sleep making sure that they were out before my mum or dad got back from work (I was at Uni)

No-one was ever aware that this was going on, the lazy pair!

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