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

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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😄

20 year old son rang me when I was doing a night shift asking how to make a hot chocolate . I told him heat up the milk then stir in the hot chocolate . He put the milk in the kettle and boiled it , completely ruining the kettle .

My husband thought that you squeezed bees to get the honey out and that the big fluffy bumblebees were so big because they were full of honey. 🐝

My husband thought they'd started selling Wensleydale cheese in the supermarket after the success of Wallace and Gromit...!

I rang my mum from uni once to ask her the difference between metonym and metaphor, because I knew she'd be able to explain it really well!
She is useless for any sort of practical advice though 😂

Which way up a non slip bath mat goes. She was 23 at the time.

Every year on shrove Tuesday I call my mum and ask how to make pancakes. For many years it was a genuine question but for the last decade I do it mostly because she'd miss if I didn't!

@doodlejump1980 Ahahah omg, imagine! Squishing fat, pissed-off bees to get the honey out.

The bee one omg 😆
DDs friend was doing her work experience in a hairdressers and had to ask a customer if she wanted a tea, customer said yes black please. Her friend phoned DD and asked how you made black tea black tea. She didn't realise her mums was white because there was milk in it.

I’m 35, my husband had to explain to me the other day that conkers come out of these big green rindy things that look like limes.
I was an inner city kid and very bookish, never played with conkers as a child so I genuinely had no idea what the weird limey looking thing was when my husband and toddler proudly brought it home

@Caliexpidocioussuper

To be fair, boiling an egg is a skill. Yes, anyone can chuck an egg in some water and boil it, but to make the perfect not snotty yet runny yolk egg takes years of experience!

I have a magic formula. For a dippy egg, boil a pan of water, gently lower egg into it. Boil for one minute with lid off pan then cover the pan and turn heat off. Leave for five minutes sat in water whilst you make your soldiers then when beeper goes after five minutes it’s perfect. Works every time.

In a supermarket with a BOGOF deal on tinned tomatoes, my DM asked which one was free as she wanted to swap it for some baked beans.

When I was at university I got my period in the middle of the night and the next day rung my mum to ask how to get blood out of my sheets, giving no detail as to why I wanted to know. She very calmly told me and then said 'why, sweetie, have you hurt yourself?', I said no and she said, after a very brief pause 'who did you hurt, then'! I think she was about to offer to help me cover up a murder...!

@TwoBlueFish ds1 (19) asked me the same thing.. I’d swapped from supermarket to delivery in glass bottles.. he walked through to front room with the milk bottle and said “well how are you meant to open this then?”

My DD called me from uni to ask me what to do about the water company who had cut off the 'hot' water supply to her student house. Apparently it was being piped in from the road and not heated by the boiler.

@DysmalRadius I had to look up the lyrics to Nellie the other day to sing to DD! I think I'll ask my mum too, see if she remembers, she used to sing it to me in bed

re sense of smell, my 40 year old has never had one. I used to have to smell her before she left the house incase of too much perfume. She now has FOUR cats and her flat stinks.

i was talking to a woman in a shop once (gosh. such news)

the woman's 19 year old daughter rang her and asked her mum how to use the landline phone. she was cross that she couldn't get through to anyone on it - she didn't realise you had to listen for the dialling tone.

The question about the Channel Tunnel is a really sensible one and the people who laugh at those who ask it are the ignorant ones. Building an underwater tunnel is an amazing feat of engineering and if it is not done to the highest standards, then there is the risk that the pressure of water will fracture the walls. Here's an article about the complexities involved: www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-do-you-build-a-tunnel-underwater

Me and mum were sitting in the garden a few years ago and she said ‘shut the door it’s cold out here’ she will never live it down

How do you make a hot water bottle? my daughter who is a grown up!

@Lobster5 she sounds like she was an amazing mum.

DD asked me why supermarkets bothered describing grapes as “seedless”. She thought this was redundant and pointless. I had to explain to her that grapes in days of yore had seeds in them. And actually you can still buy those it’s just that I had obviously created an artificial seedless grape utopia for her while she was growing up.

I know owls are nocturnal and this was broad daylight.

Evidently not. Only some owls are nocturnal.

I once asked "what's the dog called in Scooby Doo?" I blame it on the menopause 😂

Not as exciting....my DD regularly rings me to ask how to make rice.

Living on my own for the first time I rang my parents to ask how long to cook a baked potato for.
I was 32
My dad laughed a lot before he could tell me