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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think a 17 year old boy doing an Easter egg hunt is a little bit weird?

185 replies

glorymorning · 05/04/2015 16:59

I know the boy, he does not have SN.

There are photos of him on FB doing an Easter egg hunt this morning. Seems a little weird to me ... and like he should have grown out of this by now...

OP posts:

frankie001 · 05/04/2015 21:49

I'm still wondering if DN found the egg I his in the rice cooker, and loaf of bread.

scandip · 05/04/2015 22:00

You're a barrel of laughs aren't you op?

GlitzAndGigglesx · 05/04/2015 22:17

I remember my friends dad doing one for us when we were around 10/11 and the bastard took the time to paint each foil brown and green and hide them in the bushes. He sat with a sandwich and howled with laughter at us struggling. This was after telling us they were all hid in the house!

NotallTravellersarebad · 05/04/2015 22:20

Why is it odd? yabu.

pourmeanotherglass · 05/04/2015 22:29

I still do a trail with clues for my 10 and 12 year olds. And ever since DD 1 realised it was me and not the bunny that did the trail, she has done one foe me as well. Last night, she hid all the clues around 1:30 am, after she got up to go to the loo. Its just a bit of fun, why not?

kali110 · 05/04/2015 22:39

Funniest thread iv seen in ages!!
Love it when posters can't take opinions!

iklboo · 05/04/2015 22:57

Kali - of course they can take opinions. As long as it's their own or corresponds to it .

clam · 05/04/2015 23:06

Our friend does an Easter egg hunt every year for his kids and nieces and nephews, ranging in age from 6 to 30! It looks a right laugh - they're all fiercely competitive particularly the 6 year old and are elbowing each other out of the way and sabotaging/cheating left, right and centre.

SylvaniansKeepGettingHoovered · 05/04/2015 23:08

A corker of a flounce!

AnnieMoor · 05/04/2015 23:12

I am not someone that shares the minutiae of our lives on FB but my dh did an Easter egg hunt for our 16 and 12 year olds.

It's a family tradition and the clues were hilarious and overly complicated (the 12 year old's were in French, just to annoy him).

It gave us all a real laugh this morning and long may it continue.

kali110 · 05/04/2015 23:37

Iklboo, ofcourse, my mistake

Patsyandeddie · 06/04/2015 00:17

FFS you need to get a sense of humour, I'm the wrong side of 40 and have had a great day Easter egg hunting!!

DianeLockhart · 06/04/2015 00:36

It's fine and not that weird.

I've just seen a video on Instagram of taylor swift enthusiastically doing Easter egg hunt with her brother and she's 25!

ResurrectAndEatShitChoc · 06/04/2015 00:41

I asked mum for an egg hunt this year. She told me if I lay the fuckers myself I can go ahead.

I'm going to try get all 7 of us siblings together for a hunt next year. We are all competitive especially the 5&3 year old.

I take on the other brothers (all 3) because I'm the smallest and I need to proof myself

Geography999 · 06/04/2015 06:20

I teach 17 year old boys in an all boys school. They are definitely just kids in big bodies. They will do anything for food and also still respond with delight when I put smelly stickers in their books! It's hard being 17 and usually a great relief for them to just be kids, so try not to judge him.

HellKitty · 06/04/2015 06:26

My 17 yr old was ill recently and wanted his apple cut up like I used to when he was small. They're just bigger, hairier versions of little boys.

Inkanta · 06/04/2015 06:28

There's no age limit - when you're having fun

my2centsis · 06/04/2015 06:43

Agree with everyone else. You sound unhinged with your snarky replies

TheRealAmandaClarke · 06/04/2015 07:17

Yabu. It is not weird.

FishWithABicycle · 06/04/2015 07:23

The OP's flounce got deleted before I could read it - was there any substance to it other than that anyone who doesn't agree with her is a %£#&%*@?

If hunting for eggs is the available mechanism for getting chocolate, then it is impossible to be too old.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 06/04/2015 07:24

I cba reading the whole thread. However, if I had heard 17 year old near-adult had done an Easter hunt, by themselves, not to entertain kids, I'd think it was odd. I guess I have no sense if 'super fun'. Obviously I'm a bit dead inside, if I had seen it, I'd probably eye rolled and gotten on with my day.

Latara · 06/04/2015 07:27

At 17 I wouldn't have gone on an Easter egg hunt - but then I was too busy trying to be a mini adult and failing my Alevels.

But each to their own really, whatever age they are.

DartmoorDoughnut · 06/04/2015 07:29

I do one every time I go to my parents for Easter I am 32

Eigg · 06/04/2015 07:32

Fish that about covers it.

merrymouse · 06/04/2015 07:42

Yes, scavenger hunts, treasure hunts and pointless fun are completely unsuitable for sixth formers and students!

They hate chocolate and messing around. All far too busy studying and being sophisticated.

Better to invite somebody who is 43 to your egg hunt. Lindt is a good brand, but prob best to throw in a few creme eggs too.

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