To ask what the most ridiculous thing your adult child has asked you?

[hibye123]

My mum was at my house today and whilst she was there I asked her how to boil an egg. I'm 22 so she wasn't impressed at all to say the very least😂 anyway it got me thinking about all the silly questions I've asked my mum over the years since I've been an adult.

So can I ask, what's the most ridiculous thing your adult child has asked you?!
I'm here for the laughs😄

I rang my mum to ask her where my breeches were. In my flat. She was in Italy. She found them. They were down the back of the chest of drawers. That was her party trick. She did it with my sister's passport too.

I asked her quite seriously who Mr Armitage was and why he had this sponsorship deal going on with toilets and couldn't he branch out into something less utilitarian. She didn't stop laughing for weeks.

I asked her where the cake she had said she would make for a friend's party was. She was in Italy again. I was standing in her kitchen, looking for the cake. She'd been gone for a fortnight, it was obviously in the freezer.

I asked her if I was poisoned by my plastic ladle as I'd melted it and then eaten the meal I was making. I got similarly concerned about toxic fumes when I went on holiday and left a plastic dustpan melting on the stove. She was always bring called to say "I'm sure you'll be fine".

We have to tell each other now. She's gone.

@RedPandaMama

I tell everyone this story because it makes me die laughing every time. At Christmas two years ago my 22 year old sister asked how polar bears build igloos to live in. When we told her they didn't, she genuinely didn't believe us until she had googled the subject extensively.

She GENUINELY thought polar bears are out in the Arctic building igloos to live in. No idea where she got that idea but I absolutely love it

@RedPandaMama

you missed a trick there.

'Well, first they have to go on a course....Ciy and Guilds??'

Lobster5, you wear breeches ?
are you a yodler ?

My sister asked Mum How do painkillers know you have a headache?
Mum replied straight faced and serious “you have to think about that hurts so the tiny robots know where to go.”
I just nodded.

Then mum and I fell about laughing.
How be my sister got to 22 without knowing I have no idea.

This post made me laugh because it reminded me of the day last year my 83 year old dad asked me how to fry an egg.

Love the polar bear story.

@Horst

I ask Alexa most silly questions these

Same with me, anything I'm not sure about I either YouTube and duckduckgo, it, and study the subject better

I occasionally have to ask my Mum how old I am, I always seem to be a year off.

My sister asked mum if Emma Watson plays Hermoine in the Harry Potter books as well as the films. She was 24 at the time.

You all need a [https://www.yuppiechef.com/spatula/kitchen-craft-colour-changing-egg-timer/ colour changing egg timer]]. I could never remember how long to boil a soft boiled egg for but now they are perfect every time.

You can buy them from Poundland or £7 from Lakeland.

The link didn't work first time.

I left my DS16 at home overnight with a friend. He rang me to ask how to open a bottle of milk!

Some of these have honestly killed me😂😂

@ImTakingTheEssence

Yeah I'm ashamed to say my my daughter went pumpkin picking last month with my mam, it's the first time she's been. I honestly thought the pumpkins where bought and placed in the field because it was fun for the kids to find, not that they actually grew there. It was an interesting conversation with my mam 😂

@ImTakingTheEssence omg I never knew this😂 tbf I've never been pumpkin picking but I never knew the pumpkins actually grew there😭 I thought the exact same as you. The shame lol!

When my brother held his nephew for the first time he asked "When do his eyes open?" 😂

We had to explain that he wasn't a kitten or puppy! 🐱 🐶 😂

I'm 53 and asked DD, 23, if narwhals were real, apparently they are.

When Dd was 22 , she phoned to ask how to post a letter. Apparently she had never done this before 🤔

The polar bears

Not me but DH. He was arguing with his mum about whether or not he is allergic to shellfish. She insisted he wasn’t and pointed out he eats prawn wontons without any ill effects when he has a Chinese takeaway. DH said, ‘But they’re made of chicken, they’re only called prawn wontons because of the shape.’

@Mypathtriedtokillme

My sister asked Mum How do painkillers know you have a headache? Mum replied straight faced and serious “you have to think about that hurts so the tiny robots know where to go.” I just nodded.

Then mum and I fell about laughing.
How be my sister got to 22 without knowing I have no idea.

Tbf I asked my fellow student nurse during our training ,in my defence I was doing mental health nursing !

My sister asked my mum why they buried Richard III in a car park

She was over 30 at the time

(A car park was excavated and they found his remains - it wasn’t some daft joke or something!)

When my daughter was at uni she sent me a message with a picture of her quilt cover (white background, coloured flowers) and asked me if she should wash it as a 'white' or a 'coloured'

Adult DD asked me how we heated baked beans before we had microwaves

DP sent a message in the family Whatsapp asking DS 17 to get the tea bags off the top shelf (I can't reach) and put them in the caddy.
DS "What's a caddy?"
I can't believe he's never heard us use that word before.

While I was heavily pregnant, my dog (old and incontinent) wee'd on the sofa. I rang my mum in tears having no idea how to deal with it.
I know it was pregnancy brain and hormones, but I went into a full on meltdown about dog wee on the sofa...
We laugh about it now and at the time my dad did say it was good practice for if I went into labour and dh wasn't home 😅

Not me but a friend's daughter rang home at about midnight during Freshers Week. "Mum, do I like cocktails?"

@Lilolily

Why the pressure of the water didn’t break the channel tunnel. I honestly thought it was like a water slide, through the ocean! 🤦‍♀️

I thought the same about tunnels, I asked my partner once he stopped laughing he phoned my dad to tell him and started laughing all over again. 🤦🏼‍♀️