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 called my mum once to ask why the heating wouldn't work after I'd bled the radiator- didn't realise you're only meant to the let the air out and not all the water 😂

In work and we were talking about a baby that had been born premature, a colleague asked if his birthday was the due date or the day he was born, she never lived that down.

Also today I completely forgot how old I was, after 10 minutes trying to remember I had to work it out in excel

Speaking to my "work" mum about spray tans and she came out with it's vegan which means no harsh chemicals 🤣

DH didn't believe me that ligers are real. He thought it was a made up thing from the Napoleon dynamite movie.

How to cook rice, on the one time a month I cook it (I always over egg the portion sizes then eat it all and feel disgustingly bloated so avoid) every time, I always forget by the next time, her rice is always perfectas wel!

@SmartCar for years my actual mum thought vegan food, gluten free and lactose free we're all the same thing and interchangeable 🤷‍♀️

Early 20s - how can you tell when pasta is cooked? And how can you tell when frozen pizza is cooked? For the latter, I replied 'open the oven, does it look like what it does when it's on the plate?' 'I don't know I don't look at it when I eat it'.

I am happy to say, its my stepchild so I'm not taking all the credit for this degree of ineptitude.

[quote whatwasIgoingtosay]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[/quote]
Yes, but it's not a tunnel IN the water, it's in the ground under the water.

I have 2 adult DC who have now left home (maybe for good) and if I look back through Whatsapp I get at least one of these questions each per week.
The most regular is - Is Dad home? (not a ridiculous question in the theme of the thread, but why ask me directly, not try him or the group chat)
How long do I cook a jacket potato for - no indication of size or cooking method, and I guess Siri was having a day off!
Picture of a McDonalds - what shall I try
I am always being asked if X is still in their bedroom - how would I know I suppose you want me to stop what I am doing and go and look for it.

Some of the “pumpkin picking” places actually do just put cheap pumpkins on the ground in a field! It’s not really a traditional thing here like in the US; pumpkin picking as a Halloween thing didn’t exist here until recently, so some touristy places just stick some cheap ones in a field for toddlers to pick up photogenically 🤣

My brother (in his mid twenties at the time) rang my mum and asked how to cook carrots. She told him.

A couple of minutes later he rang back and asked her how to cook one carrot.

@HemlockStarglimmer

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

but had you never observed or helped with any cooking operations at age 31. or did you have staff. i can understand not having lived alone. but not how you got everyone else to do everything for you ? seriously ?

@Verybritishproblems98

I once asked if I could opt out of paying taxes after seeing my first pay check

Go self employed 🤷‍♂️ job done

I have to ask google every time what temperature and how long to cook a jacket potato for and I am 49 and have cooked many over the years. I just don't retain the details.

My DH and I are from very different parts of the world and I once asked him where peanuts come from. 27 years later he hasn’t stopped laughing. He brought it up with our late teenager and she wasn’t sure either. 😂

“Where do I buy stamps?”

At Christmas my very adult niece was standing in the kitchen, in front of the mixer. I gave her a pot of double cream and asked her to whip it for me. She asked how.

I had to ring my mum to ask how to get poop out of a carpet (a toddlers', not mine...)

He asked me why the washer was not working and saying it was “underloaded”.

He attached a photo of the drum with 4 socks in it 🤦🏻‍♀️

but had you never observed or helped with any cooking operations at age 31.
or did you have staff.
i can understand not having lived alone.
but not how you got everyone else to do everything for you ? seriously ?
My Mum didn't like anyone in the kitchen when she was cooking-before I married, the only cooking I did was in Domestic Science at school (back in the days when they actually taught cooking, not "food technology")

"Mum, how do you clean fake blood from the grouting in the shower?"

DH and I still chortle our heads off when we remember the time that DD1, in her first year at uiversity, called me on her way back from the pub to say "Mum, there's a badger on the path, what should I do?"

Walk around the badger? Just a thought? She was pretty pissed to be fair.

@TrulyPistoff

My DH and I are from very different parts of the world and I once asked him where peanuts come from. 27 years later he hasn’t stopped laughing. He brought it up with our late teenager and she wasn’t sure either. 😂

Ashamed to admit that I've just had to google this. I'm 37!

@Srettel

"Mum, how do you clean fake blood from the grouting in the shower?"

Been rehearsing for Psycho?

My ds20 when he got back from a driving lesson he sat down with a big sigh and said ' all we seem to do in these lessons is stay in the car '