To think my parents are batshit

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My parents don't own drinking glasses and never have.
Every single drink from tea/coffee to water or wine is served in a mug.
When I was growing up it seemed normal but when I moved out at 17 (I'm in my 30s now) I realised how odd it was.
I've now gone the other way and own far too many glasses for every occasion.

AIBU to think that my parents must be psychopaths?? 😂😂

Does anyone else's parents/family have odd quirks like this?

Most if not all households I ever lived in/worked for had a teatowel for drying crockery and a (tea)towel for drying hands.

What about dinner on Christmas Day, do they sit with mugs of lemonade or wine or whatever?

Sparkling wine tastes lovely from a mug!

I can’t drink anything out of a mug (those thick cups), I’ve always hated them nothing tastes right. For tea and coffee I usually use china cups but lately have been using those thermal tumbler type glasses (I got from Lidl). I really like those.

@NaughtyBoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown I just love the idea of a drunk ramble!! Genius idea

It's forms of disguise 😊

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@IcakethereforeIam quite like these for tea or coffee

My mum never drinks water. Even in a heat wave she’ll sit with a brew and complain about being hot.

She also has no pictures up on her walls. She owns her house so not a dick head landlord issue. No pictures, no art or paintings anywhere. Just plan magnolia walls throughout. Why?! 😂

A friend of mine's Mum claims you don't need to grease pie dishes/cake tins etc because the fat in the ingredients is sufficient prevent things sticking.

It was only after leaving home that she realised the rest of the world didn't always lose half their baked goods to the sides of a pan.

Cold drinks from a mug is dirty
YANBU

Thank you @Dymaxion they're pretty but height to width ratio is all wrong for me.

I have a huge selection of every kind of glass, but I moved house over a year ago and due to the renovations I haven’t been able to unpack them. For 15 months, I have lived with three of everything, including plates, mugs water glasses and wine glasses. G&T or wine or fizz - whatever - it goes into the wine glass. If I have had more than three guests, I have either bought paper ones or advised them to bring their own - I have found this strangely liberating, and now I’m coming to the end of the renovation and starting to unpack things I think I might downsize the glasses collection dramatically.

They’re missing out. Certain drinks taste supreme in the right glass.

I have some tea glasses, from north africa. They're beautiful, but don't have handles, just like super sized shot glasses really. For mint tea. I think it does taste different (nicer) from a glass.

I like to drink wine from a stemless glass. They're actually chocolate mousse pots I got in France and wrapped up in my suitcase to bring home! 😂

I think it may be generational, in that my older relatives seem to drink nothing but tea or coffee. I didn't drink hot drinks at all until I was about 30, and if I want a drink it's because I'm thirsty. It's completely bemusing to be offered an inch of water in a glass the size of an egg cup that's only ever used for fresh orange justice at Christmas, or whatever. But they seem equally bemused that I want to drink water and not tea! 🤷‍♂️

I realise I haven’t really said what I’m trying to say there…. Which is that your parents manage just fine without glasses and really don’t care and clearly their friends have got along just fine with that for the last 30 odd years so I’d just go with it…. But it is true, it’s very odd. If you are visiting and enjoy your drinks more from a decent piece of hand cut crystal (as my late husband did) then just take it with you.

We also had brandy glasses for brandy only, whisky tumblers and sherry glasses. Tea served in tea cups, mugs were permitted for coffee only. God forbid red wine would appear in a white wine glass. Matching side plates, those teeny dessert forks, fish knives, steak knives, sugar bowl and milk jug sets etc etc. Life was very complicated!!

I'm very tempted to drink wine out of DH's massive Sports Direct mug thus evening now... 😁

I always drink cold water from a mug. I particularly like a tin mug.

PS…. I don’t think I would object if they served me with a mug of champagne. On the rare occasions I have any new champagne left over and going flat I do mix it with Guinness and have a black velvet and I do yserve that in a mug type tankard.

Do you have any research to say is a neurodivergent thing or do you just like throwing it around when the topic being discussed not the mn norm?

fwiw my neurotypical parents never bothered with glasses when I was growing up. My grandparents did so it wasn’t learned it was just their way.

I think this is a Very Fine Idea.

Oh that reminds me when I hosted lunch for book club last year and I got a pursed lip from an attendee because I used red wine glasses for white wine. She also got annoyed about something else which I cannot recall. (At least it was not the Hungry caterpiller sippy cup).

She did not even read the book (my choice) because she said it was not the sort of book she enjoyed reading.... I mean- what is the fucking point of book club except to read books you would not choose?!

oh @TrishTrix this sounds so like my household as a bride in the 80s. Everything i have is now hugely downsized but back then I even had grape scissors! These were produced for dinner parties and caused much hilarity when my DS and DIL saw them….. now I live in a very small house with only one table and we have kitchen suppers….. I enjoyed both ends of the spectrum….. I did like all of that tablesetting et cetera back then, but it’s just out of date and out of sync with the times now.

My mum and siblings never have a drink with a meal, they always have it after, I find that odd tbh.

We were once being shown round a chateau by an elderly aristocrat. He was drinking his wine from a mug but that may have been an attempt to keep the beverage secret.