Tell me about your teenager's stupid behaviour

[TeenagedTwit]

16yo
Wants a job. Apparently.
Weirdly, a job hasn't fluttered into his bedroom and landed on his lap so he is most perplexed.

Picked up an application form for him from a local supermarket.
Encourage him to get a pen (no easy feat) and sit down to complete application.

20 seconds later... "What's my name?"

And that was just the beginning. I swear a 4yo would make a better employee. I fear for our future.

Note from MNHQ - we've edited the title as we had a few reports about one of the terms used there. We're sure there was no intention to offend but it was clearly upsetting a few people and we didn't want the issue to derail the thread

Reading this is bringing back many memories for me when my three were teenagers.

A couple of days ago my 24 year old daughter asked me if Christmas was always on the 25th. I had no words 😁

This thread has cheered me up. Have a 17 year old DS, who needs some teeth out and braces. Spend a year on a waiting list and finally get the phone call to see the orthodontist, DS decides he can’t be bothered to go now. Cannot give a reason, shrugs his shoulders, no amount of pleading or reasoning worked.

Also relate to fact he thinks everything will miraculously land in his lap. Books a driving theory test and tells me it’s on a Friday, I book time off work to take him (no buses) day before he just drops in conversation it’s Monday, he got the day wrong, and was genuinely surprised when I told him I wouldn’t be taking him.

He has to be shamed into showering g and cleaning his clothes too… asked him if he would like anything for Christmas and he said ‘a belt’ trousers only been falling down for 5 years.

My 17 year old shot himself in the leg 'to see if it would hurt'.With a bb gun admittedly .
Yes it did!

I mean, it's like 5... in the whole world 😂😂😂

Sent my daughter then aged 15 to hang the washing on the line. I forgot to say 'Use clothes pegs'. Five minutes later it had all fallen in the mud and had to be washed again!

🙄

And it isn't just teenagers. Met a neighbour (in his 50s) in town, whose wife had died some weeks previously. Said he had to come into town to buy a new laundry basket as the other one was full!

I once spent hours making chicken stock, poured it into a sieve over the sink to strain, but forgot to put a saucepan under. My husband thought it was hilarious.

Oh God...just had a flashback to when I was a teen and decided to test the theory I'd heard that if you threw something to someone suddenly they obviously MUST catch it.

Threw a bottle of white spirit to my sister. Who dropped it (obviously!)....melted a hole through the carpet AND the bitumen type floor underneath.

Asked me if he could make chicken “from ingredients”. Yes, actual chicken.

Technically you can - the ingredients are 1 cock and 1 hen. Takes a while to cook, though.

Or there's the (very) slow cooker version. That starts with 1 vat of primordial soup, but chefs disagree about whether it's best cooked in shallow tidal pools or a deep sea thermal vent.

DS aged 16 had done two whole terms of European history 1870-1940, asked me if Queen Victoria had ever met Adolf Hitler.

How awful for you at the time. It sounds as though you were actually detained under section 5(2), so I would class that as you having been 'sectioned.' I am so sad that happened to you. Sounds like you've been able to put in perspective and move on from it, but stories like yours are not unheard of.

History teachers will tell you that Adolf Hitler was present at most historical events although for a short time that changed to Saddam Hussein.

A young teacher, probably mid 20s, invited people around because he'd had lots on invitations from them . He proudly told them he'd made garlic bread, this turned out to be 2 slices of Mother's Pride with cloves of garlic placed between, peeled but not even sliced!

Well, Hitler was born in 1889 and QV died in 1901, so it was theoretically possible I suppose, though unlikely.

I’ll admit to being an ignoramus… why is kerb a verb in the sentence ‘run the car into the kerb’? Isn’t ‘run’ the verb and ‘kerb’ still a noun? What am I missing?

When we were about 15 my friend cut into the palm of her hand with a pair of scissors as we were sitting chatting one day- also to see if it would hurt apparently.

DS, would have been 13 maybe, was downstairs doing his breakfast before school. It was my day off so I hadn’t got out of bed yet. Suddenly the smoke alarm went off and DS was at the bottom of the stairs shouting something incomprehensible in a right panic. I jumped out of bed, threw my dressing gown and coat on, jammed my feet into my shoes, grabbed my phone and legged it downstairs expecting to have to call the fire brigade… To find DS shouting and flapping a teatowel at the smoke alarm. He burnt his poptarts, which was my fault apparently because I’d turned the toaster up and not told him. We laugh about it now but it frit me half to death.

I blame the internet and computer games. I was against allowing my older children when they were in primary school from having tablets etc but all of the others did I was told. Wouldn't have mattered as they would have got one at some point. Although the internet is good for some things educationally etc I think it's so addictive for many teens and their real social skills are missing. I also really fear for this generation. I'm currently going through it with my 16 year old can't even get a conversation going all I hear is like the scene from Kevin and Perry eh meh but why it's not fair.. he currently hates me for making him go to school every day. I feel I have lost my son in a way I just hope he realises I put my foot down because I love him.

Omg that's hilarious 😂

Yes it is, but now my boy has reached 16 he's the opposite flooding the bathroom literally and I can't get him out of there lol my gas bill is extortionate. 😭

Nice post. Thanks for your contribution.

13yo nephew going out just last week:
Me 'wait, you need a coat, its freezing'
Him 'no, I'm fine. I've got socks on' accompanied by an eye roll as though I'm the idiot
He did eventually explain no one wears a coat but his feet will be warm so he was pretty sure the effects would be the same as wearing one.

Same kid also recently asked me if he could catch toothache from his friend and if chicken we eat is the same thing as the chickens at the farm

Saying that, as a teen his mum (my dsis) would regularly make toast, add butter then pop it back in the toaster for a while to melt the butter.
She also believed Scotland was near Norway and you need passport to go there (we are in the Uk) until she was definitely old enough to know better.

She is also the cause of an often told warning story about the dangers of not leaving the cooker on after putting bacon under the grill, going to do her hair and setting the cooker on fire.

You aren’t moaning in private to your mum or your friend, though.
You’re bragging about it on the internet.
And you’re being impolite, too, telling someone to “shush.”
Batting a thousand.

Oh shush ye bore