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To wander round in bra and pants with wet hair?

339 replies

Scissor · 20/08/2019 10:20

Of course I'll drop all the towels I've been using on the floor and leave a half eaten bowl of coagulating cereal next to the sink. Having great fun staying at my daughter's first proper flat and she has a fab sense of humour. What else could I do?

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whitebowls · 21/08/2019 12:08

Fake tan on the carpet and sheets and towels.
Never straighten up the sofa and throws you've been lolling about on.
Leave an expensive candle burning all night so it creates a fire hazard and uses all her lovely new Diptique candle.
Finish the milk and put the container back in the fridge. Same with ice cream and yogurt.

Bozlem80 · 21/08/2019 17:34

Eat crisps & above the empty packets down the sofa
Put the lights on in the day
Eat something really nice & then shove the empty packet back
Make a meal & leave the plate, cutlery & cup on the living room floor
Spill water on floor then make out you don’t know how it got there
Put a clean towel on the bathroom floor to step onto when come out of the bath/shower
Chuck all clothes on the floor
Don’t wipe feet & trudge it through the house/flat

Mummyto2munchkins · 21/08/2019 17:46

Slam the door after you leave, then ring her as soon as your home and DEMAND she brings you the clothes & hair bobbles/clips that you've left RIGHT NOW. (Also make sure you tell her there's more than one thing left and tell her she has to keep looking for it)

Harls1969 · 21/08/2019 18:02

Empty everything out of the wardrobe and throw it on the floor. Add the contents of every drawer and cupboard. Then throw rubbish on top. Add all of the bowls/glasses/spoons. With any luck, you won't be able to see the floor or bed by now and you'll have to enter and leave by squeezing through the door because it won't open more than a few inches. Oh and if anyone asks if your room is tidy, you must say 'nearly' 😳 (I'm sure it's not just my daughter - who is 21, coming up for 22 - who does this?)

JustAVoidReally · 21/08/2019 18:02

Go vegan overnight and heave when she eats meat, or point out that she’s eating chicken period when she’s having an egg mayo sandwich.

Bonus points if, once she has got lots of nice vegan meals sorted, you refuse to eat almost all of them and constantly complain about how horrid it all is.

Extra bonus points if she returns from the shops one day, bags full of extra things to make your new diet more entertaining for your royal highness, to find you eating a poorly constructed bacon sandwich, having dirtied 80% of the utensils in the house to achieve it, and you have a massive meltdown at her for questioning this.

dragonslair · 21/08/2019 18:10

Not for this week, but for the future: wait till she goes on an important business trip for a presentation that she's been preparing for six months. It needs to be when she's in Rome or somewhere like that. At the point where she is receiving congratulations and champagne after the event, phone and shout "We've run out of cornflakes!" At the time, you will be channelling the persona of an otherwise sane 18 year old. If you would rather channel a 13 year old, try waiting until she is on a train ideally somewhere near Edinburgh and then demand to know where your football socks are. It is of course essential that her father actually be at home on both these occasions.

PenguinsRabbits · 21/08/2019 18:18

Take 3 hours in the shower of the only bathroom singing at the top of your voice then shout at people for hurrying you up when they try to get you out.

Change your outfit at least 3 times a day and just throw the old ones on the floor along with any rubbish.

Refuse to sleep before 4am and go loudly around putting microwave on at 2am and kettle on for your pot noodle. Try to wake up as many people in the place as possible then tell them they clearly don't care about you as they object to holding a conversation at 2am.

nowayhose · 21/08/2019 18:24

Leave all dirty clothes spread around on the floor

Cook some bacon, leaving spattered grease on hob

Use ALL the bread, but leave one heel in pack but do not seal it

Move her tweezers

Use her best perfume and leave it under the bed (by the wall)

Brush your teeth at the mirror, leaving spatters all over it

move everything round in the wardrobe when looking for something

Leave bath/ shower with soap scum and grease rim

Leave shower setting at cold

Leave ALL recycling on kitchen counter (it's in transit, but never reaches the recycling bin)

Leave soap with weird streaks and hairs stuck to it

leave ONE lonely bit of toilet paper on the roll (and no refill within reach)

Leave crumbs and butter globs all over every kitchen surface

Finish the cereal, but leave the box in the cupboard

Leave your wet towels hidden till the smell helps her locate them

Take lots of selfies (with the dirty, messy flat in view) to send her

CleanAndPaidFor · 21/08/2019 18:26

Love this thread. Put the heating up to max. Open all the windows. Go out.

ethelfleda · 21/08/2019 18:27

Can you get retribution for the toddler years??
If so, please sit in one spot screaming and screaming and screaming for no bloody reason.

4cats2kids · 21/08/2019 18:30

Put some soggy towels in the laundry basket, pile some clothes on top and don’t say a word until there’s a lovely musty aroma in the property.

StellaBoo · 21/08/2019 18:30

Jump on the bed!!!

ThistleTits · 21/08/2019 18:40

Invite all your friends round, eat all her food, drink her booze (fill empties with water), just let them put their make up all over the sofa, dye their hair in the kitchen and use the towels as make up remover pads, stay up talking loudly on phones and try to run up a £500 bill on the land line.
This is a bit extreme but you could wait until she is away for the weekend and invite every single person you know to a party at hers. Allow everyone to bring as many friends as the like and let them all do whatever they like.
Have fun lol Grin

Jux · 21/08/2019 18:41

Stuff a bra down the side of the sofa.
Clear a table and start doing a jigsaw on it, but don't finish it.
'Get around' to doing everything she asks, or rather, don't.
Forget to put packaging and other rubbish in the bin - you'll get around to it.....

Actually, dd's an angel and we're very lucky. The only thing of those she really does is the bra thing!

She absolutely does not do the bra thing.
she does the bra thing

PenguinsRabbits · 21/08/2019 18:42

Dye your perfectly nice long blonde hair green at the top and purple at the bottom getting as much hairdye as you can on the carpet. Leave all boxes in there. Take as long as you can - needs at least 3 hour long sessions. Then photograph yourself send to all your friends saying you look terrible. Then repeat next week. Claim your are not a slave or child carer when asked to remove your rubbish and that no-one else's parents have ever asked them to do this. Have phone with you at all times whilst doing this.

feelingfree17 · 21/08/2019 18:44

Create floordrobe! - at least two layers deep
Spray fake tan in the bathroom, ensuring you have a good covering as well as every other surface, including the loo seat!

NippySweetie16 · 21/08/2019 18:54

Promise you have your mobile and are contactable then go out till the early hours. With a dead/out of credit phone in your bag!

BigSandyBalls2015 · 21/08/2019 18:58

Spend three hours soaking in the bath with her expensive bath foam and candles .... topping up with hot water as needed .... shout every 30 min or so asking for a top up with her lovely new gin ...

tolerable · 21/08/2019 18:59

bring a few mates round,especially if shes having an early night or says shes going to watch something on tv.refill all her alchohol with lookalike cold tea,watery ribena fluids.

mummmy2017 · 21/08/2019 18:59

Tell her you have nothing to wear...
Can she take you shopping

BigSandyBalls2015 · 21/08/2019 19:01

Throw a strop when she refuses to lend you her debit card for a night in the pub with her mates .... don’t forget to scream “everyone else’s parents do it”

Everhopeful1 · 21/08/2019 19:02

answer 'dunno' to the next 3 questions she asks you, whilst playing on your phone....

isittooearlyforgin · 21/08/2019 19:04

@TheInebriati demand a puppy that you will never walk or pick up its poo

Shadow1234 · 21/08/2019 19:04

When you go to the toilet take your mobile phone and stay in there for at least 30 minutes. Then when you are done, shout out that there's no toilet roll in there. When you are not heard, get straight on the mobile and send a text to say 'Got no toilet roll, need one now'

tolerable · 21/08/2019 19:05

order loads of stuff from amazon,demand she bees in for the delivery slot(even if you are)leave paper wrrap,bubble wrap and empty boxes.strewn around.say your just gonna move them.then dont. argue about politics,religion ,employment as tho you are an absolute guru of understanding with a fantastic wealth of real life experience and youre talking to a mentally challenged sock puppet.agree to disagree.but keep bringing it back up. get drunk,cry,ask if your adopted.