I’m 52 and you still ask me

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Went to visit my parents yesterday and dad asked if I wanted a coffee. I’ve never drunk coffee, I hate coffee, every time I go round and he offers I tell him I don’t like coffee but I’ll have a tea. He’s done it my whole life. AIBU to think it’s not that difficult to remember that your daughter has a cup of tea.
is there something that your parents ask all the time that you have told them repeatedly?
He doesn’t have dementia or anything like that.

What's the deal with these posters? I found it odd before dad died and find it even more odd now.

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@Wanttobefree2 mum still looks sadly disappointed when I don’t eat it…

@AndStand I hope my mum doesn’t see this thread and get ideas !
so far the cabbage is in plain sight.

Made me laugh too.

@StrandedStarfish next time you submit a picture, ask them to give your dad a shout out! Or put his name on it!

Sometimes at my Dad's they've made the vegetable I'm mildly allergic to along with dinner. When I leave it on my plate he always says 'oh, I forgot you don't like that do you'

It's been 26 years!

My mum is convinced I hate tomatoes. If she makes a salad she will pick the tomatoes out to serve me. Or leaves it out of a cheese sandwich.

I absolutely love tomatoes, always eaten them. No idea where it stems from and despite me taking her I do in fact like them, it just never registers.

In some defence of all these parents (and bearing in mind that obviously none of the lovely posters on here were ever picky/faddy eaters 😃)- sometimes it's hard to remember just what your children are/aren't eating this week (month, year etc).

For instance- ds1 is 27. I have fully taken on board that he no longer eats red meat, has a near-phobia of butter, dislikes cheese except mozzarella on pizza, and thinks 'perfectly cooked'=burnt to a cinder. But I cannot, for whatever reason, retain the knowledge that he now dislikes sweetcorn. He used to love sweetcorn. It was, for many years, the only vegetable he would willingly eat. So I still find myself , spoon hovering, saying "Just to confirm- you're still not eating sweetcorn, right?" while he patiently answers in the negative.

One day I'll remember. And that'll be the day he says he loves sweetcorn...

That’s a very good point, I was such a picky eater as a child and I’ll eat anything now and mum will often say ‘well you never ate that when you were younger ‘ that said, I’ve never liked coffee which she remembers, it’s just dad that forgets.

i can relate! My mum still wheels out desserts covered in nuts. I have never eaten nuts - I hate them! I would go out of my way to painfully pick out even smallest of nuts in food. And yet… here comes another cake with them in or on. I’m 50 next year… she won’t change and why should she really - it makes me laugh now.

And actually, I now remember the 80’s frozen roulades and cheesecakes sprinkled with nuts (and that I never ate) with a fond memory 😊

I have a nut allergy and my mum buys me Ferraro Roche every Christmas - for the last 25 years. ….and I always say I can’t eat the
. …perhaps she hates me?! 😂😂😂

Every Xmas my late mum would ask DH if he would like a mince pie. About the only thing he won't eat? Oh, and she would regularly put milk in my tea, despite me not drinking milk for 40 odd years. Never mind, "did you watch Strictly?". Never ever.

My preferred alcoholic drink is red wine. Always has been. Always will be.
Have known my in-laws for 27 years. They still offer me nasty cheap white wine, despite me telling them again... and again... I don't drink it. They even occasionally buy me a bottle for Christmas. I think they do it deliberately, as a joke, just between the two of them.

My mum 'forgets' I'm vegetarian but only so she can make snarky comments and make out like I'm missing out on something amazing. Bored of it now. I might become vegan just to annoy her.

Unrelated, but a funny memory of my dear dad. A few years ago he messaged me asking 'How's MrHarls' nob?' he (apparently) meant job, but we both found it hilarious and would often giggle about it.

One day he will no longer be there to ask you this……then you’ll give anything just to hear him ask you if you want coffee.

My Dad is the same! And argues with me and my Mum about it.
Typically will say 'We'll be down on your birthday love. Friday.'
Great Dad, but I'll be 42 on Thursday.
Best Dad ever though.
Great Grandad too.

My late mom was the same. Whenever she baked egg custard, she would always ask if i wanted some. Never liked it and don't like milk anyway. Never bothered me , Wish i could hear ask it now😪

I don't drink tea or coffee, literally have never had even one single cup of either in my life. My Granny passed away a couple of years ago when I was 37, and to her dying day she would offer me a cup of tea or coffee every time I was at her house - we always joked about it being just in case I'd changed my mind after all this time. It always made me smile and still does 🙂

Just relax. It’s something we’ll all do with age. Look for the good and just love your parent as they are. It sounds as if you’re loosing patience.
Mine would always ask if I was wearing a vest.

I’d find ways to include my parents in the day to day activities. They may not think they’re lonely but mine were.

‘Mum what was the cream you used for nappy rash - or what do you find the best field rising flour. - or what’s that lovely soap in your bathroom etc.
Just keep them involved in your home life.

They are your parents ya ain't gonna change them, my mother can't even spell my name right half the time, I just take the piss out the dottery auld bastard 🤣🤣

My husband does this but he has ADHD and often thinks of the closest word he can to whatever he means. Makes for some interesting conversations, trying to work out what he meant. My stepdad does too and he does the same. Not that I’m suggesting anyone else’s dad/mum/husband/wife does 😆 but at least I likely know the reason why mine does it. They forget all of the things, and quickly.

🤣🤣🤣 I love this!!!

Adore this thread. So many made me smile. I feel for the pp’s who have actual allergies though jeez lol 😆

Ferrerro Roche (?spelling). Don’t like them. Never have. Parents loved ‘em. House full of those clear plastic boxes they come in- ‘As they are so useful’ . Every time they were on a BOGOF, or birthdays, Christmas etc one box came to me. I constantly said I didn’t like them and each time they would say ‘since when!’ LIKE, ALWAYS! Lost both parents in last 3 years but this Christmas, MIL bought me a box - not as a joke. As a dutiful DIL I said thank you but now I am in a panic that I am doomed to get them every year .

That's so sweet!