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😄

In my early days of having a job, after a good few years as a student in the days of grants and housing allowance, I'm afraid that I asked my parents why they had wasted so much money having me privately educated when the same money could have bought me a flat outright.

I once had to ask my brothers why I hated Marvel films.

I remembered that our collective hive mind hated them but forgot why.

Before we were married , my future FIL=to-be drove a hundred miles to my flat on his day off ( I've completely forgotten why, but it was him doing some favour to me, either delivering or collecting something). He was a very shy serious man. He arrived about lunch time and gently suggested I might offer him some lunch before he drove back.. I replied " Sorry, I can't cook. At all. " He said he would be perfectly happy with a boiled egg. So even though I didn't know the recipe, I boiled an egg. It was harder than a bullet. He ate half then gave up. Then his mouth twitched, he said "You were right, you can't cook" and suddenly we were friends in stitches, laughing together. He was a lovely man.

My mother, when I called her to tell him exH and I had decided to split up… she asked “have you thought this through Cat?”

No mum, I just thought it would be something fun to do today

I ask daft questions all the time but your post made me think of one in particular. I was on my year abroad from uni, living it up in Tenerife and had to go searching for a pay phone to call home just to ask how you make chicken stew.

DS (26) as we walked down to the remote beach ; Mum have you got my swimming trunks?

[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]
Not so ignorant that they’re wrong, though.

I wasn’t quite an adult as I was 16, but I remember leaving school for sixth form college, going out to get the bus and running home in a panic because the number 93 ‘was going the wrong way’. I’d assumed you’d get one bus service in one direction and a different one in the opposite direction - it never occurred to me that you could get the 93 in both directions.

My mother laughed and laughed at this, but to be fair to me, if she hadn’t babied me and had let me actually go on a bus before I was 16 instead of insisting on driving me everywhere, I would have known. I do wonder how many people laughing at their children’s ignorance actually enabled it.

My Ddog was sick on my bed a week ago during the night, I'm late 30's and I'm usually pretty self reliant and capable.

I texted my best friend to ask how to clean the bed think I was just tired and in a state of icky surprise.

I also didn't know how to boil an egg till my 20's. Got instructions from a cook book ha ha!

My parents were too involved when I was younger and I never learned to do anything for myself until I moved out. It took me quite a while to catch up to my peers in terms of knowing how to cook, clean etc. I loved my parents and think it came from a place of love but with hindsight I wish they'd made me take on more responsibility at home because real life was quite the shock!

I get asked everything and called work mum at work and mum by my friends

My friend rang me hysterical with a cut. From shaving her legs and asked me how to stop it bleeding

At work...
"Work Mum? I don't like this soup"
Me "ok..."
"Shall I put it in the bin or down the sink?"

My brother phoned my parents at 5am - “How do you defrost bacon?” It wasn’t even for breakfast, it was to eat that night!

@2bazookas

Before we were married , my future FIL=to-be drove a hundred miles to my flat on his day off ( I've completely forgotten why, but it was him doing some favour to me, either delivering or collecting something). He was a very shy serious man. He arrived about lunch time and gently suggested I might offer him some lunch before he drove back.. I replied " Sorry, I can't cook. At all. " He said he would be perfectly happy with a boiled egg. So even though I didn't know the recipe, I boiled an egg. It was harder than a bullet. He ate half then gave up. Then his mouth twitched, he said "You were right, you can't cook" and suddenly we were friends in stitches, laughing together. He was a lovely man.

This is adorable.

When my older son got married my younger son asked if the wife would be his aunt… he was 20 at the time!

When my daughter received her first council tax bill. She had no idea that she had to pay for services.

@thebear1

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.

I never time it. If oven cooking I allow up to an hour. Usually I start them in the microwave (3 mind or so) and then cook in the oven with a skewer through the middle.

@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 😂

To be fair, lots of the pumpkin picking places do buy in their pumpkins

What his name was.

Me and his dad married shortly after he was born. He has an unusual middle name that can be a surname. Those two facts lead him to some bizarre conclusions.

Apparently he'd been out in the world driving and working and thought his middle name was his real surname and his surname was a choice rather than his legal name.

When he had to fill out a DBS (we'd done his passport and driving licence when he was young) he panicked and rang me to ask.

Alexdgr8. I had often put potatoes in the oven at my parents' request. And taken them out when asked. I could put the oven on the the required temperature. But never had I clocked how long they had to cook for.

I have had a really bad weekend and these have honestly made me feel so much better