I locked my son in the garden.

[eragon]

I have four kids, 3 are legal adults.
I got up early for work one morning and noticed the patio door was unlocked. I thought that one of the older kids 21yrs had been smoking in garden or using our little log cabin late at night and forgot to lock door.
I locked the door and went to work.

had to turn down volume of phone for work and missed 8 calls.
turns out son was in shed and 21yr old son needed to get ready for work. he also needed to respond to an urgent call of nature.

eldest son 23 yrs was in bed, but didnt respond to bashing on windows, phone calls or throwing of rabbit poo on window < we have a pet rabbit> but older son doenst wake up when in deep sleep. needs at least 3 alarm clocks to wake him up.

neighbour helped in the end.

however son says that as he was very very late for work I am at fault for him nearly loosing his job.
AIBU in saying it was all his own fault for not getting in to his own bed at reasonable time?

Well, if they're windswept and skinny, they probably need fish fingers for fuel. Do they at least offer to make you a sandwich? I'm staying out of the condiment debate.

I go food shopping quite a lot I ask my sons and their friends to help unload the car. The ones that offer to make me a cup of tea can stay for the night.

ONCE one of sons friends gave me a box of chocolates.

This is a completely surreal and hilarious thread! We have gone from a shed-incarceration crisis to the vicissitudes of having bearded offspring to (foul) recipes for fish finger sandwiches in rapid and astonishing succession! What a pity I have to go to bed...

Will look again tomorrow morning when no doubt the discussion will have moved on to quilt-making or the grape harvest in New England.

Your lads sound fab.

Don't feel too bad. I went out last Sunday and locked the back door forgetting DH was pottering in the garden.

Luckily he had the front door key on him and neighbour let him through their garden to get round - he still wasn't impressed mind you!

I have a son who is bearded/not bearded depending on his mood.

Sometimes I fail to recognise him.

OP, is that your sons music? it's good!!

My Ds is 16 and cannot wait to get a full beard! I mean... WHY?! just why??
Must remember the carrier bag tip though; that is goood!

As a drum and bass nut and the wife of a producer (who is now sporting a hideous beard - shall suggest a carrier bag as opposed to sink and transfer to loo method which leaves me scared to use en suite) I would like to hear some of baseball cap wearing hungover looking son 2s music. Thank you

My DS is 16 and thinks he has to shave like its really growing that much. I will def remember the bag on the ears.

Now going to bed humming "dont leave your bottles on the shelf....gathering dust" hmmmmhmmmm...love it.

I would so buy that song!

Marking place so I can hear the music tomorrow

Ditto, Silver!

I love the carrier bag on ears idea too. it could solve the hair everywhere problem (I have 5 hairy menfolk - dh and 4 sons - though 2 sons live elsewhere most of the time now).

I once locked ds4 in the garden. it was cold and dark and he was out there for a good hour. Nobody noticed he was missing. He was 4YO ana very quiet little chap. He was rescued by his eldest bro who heard a wee voice saying 'Will somebody let me back in please' as he passed the back door. We were about to eat dinner so I'd like to think we'd all have noticed we were one down then. Gah, the guilt, the guilt.

Lol op and others re fish finger sandwitches etc

if they wear baseball type hats they are friends of 2nd son, or if look tired and hung over.

if they have beards and seem a bit windswept and skinny they are eldest sons friends. They like real coffee rather than instant.

3rd son is around he is 18. but he has new girlfriend. so he is busy. very busy.

Haha - eragon are you actually ME? You have just described my family to a tee.

My eldest (22) is the serious beardy one with arty, muso friends.

My 19 yo's friends all have ASBOs are let's just say less serious and less arty and more, um……. anyway, onto DS3, he is only 15 atm and is also very very busy, mostly in the shower.

My DH has a rather superior beard so I shall ask him to use a Waitrose bag.

My house, garage, shed and summer house are overrun with instruments (various) and both DSs have left home.

Never marry a musician.

sigh Do you not know, OP, that everything is your fault? (Fellow mother of "legal adults")
I'm nicking the tesco bag idea for Dh and legal adult 1 (the beardy fuckers)

I keep seeing beards everywhere I go today. I wonder if it's like seeing pregnant women everywhere when you're upduffed. Except I don't have a beard. How long do you reckon the trendy beard phenomenon will last?

In my experience 40 years.

AIBU to hope that one day daughters will grow full Mumfords so I can be a cool mum and pop a Topshop bag around their ears?

Love this thread :)

What about 4th child?! I need to know of elusive 4th child's facial hair/music taste/friendship group??

I have a ds and 2 dss. The highlights of my memories are 1) discovering the Yorkshire pudding that had been used as an ashtray for weeks and 2) the day the cleaner found a pot plant behind their curtains and put it on a doily on the landing windowsill. Yes that's right a pot plant . All are now in their forties and happily married, parents with professional careers. They were 17,19 and 20 when we had our adventures. The two girls were less blatant in their misdemeanours. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it.
Op your family sounds wonderful.

I really like the music, OP.

This is weirdly surreal, for a while I thought you were actually my mother.. Although I only have one db who has a stupid beard, and plays.. Different music!

feel my mothers pain!!
At least your sons music can be described as beautiful? Which it really is!!