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TeenagedTwit · 2023-12-06T04:30:17+00:00

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***

swimsong · 07/12/2023 18:00

BobDylansMasterpiece · 07/12/2023 11:55

@Myfabby and @Wiccan

I have never claimed to be perfect, but obviously struck a nerve.

You've definitely got on a few.

BeastOfBODMAS · 07/12/2023 18:02

I grew up in Devon and my brother used to travel one stop on the train to school.
My mother would get regular calls from Aberdeen to say which train they were sending his PE kit back on and when to meet it at the station.

VeronicaSawyer89 · 07/12/2023 18:04

berksandbeyond · 07/12/2023 12:23

Some of these are depressing. My 5 year sounds more self sufficient than half of these teenagers - she would know to write her name and how to call 999 for example! I know it’s lighthearted but I would genuinely be embarrassed if my child was so sheltered. I used to work at a university and threads like this explain a lot about some of the ‘children’ that used to arrive that barely knew how to wipe their own backsides!

Bless. Come back in 10 years luv, I guarantee you won't be half as smug.

swimsong · 07/12/2023 18:07

Noglitterallowed · 07/12/2023 12:06

Not my kids as they are quite young but I remember only a couple of years ago (I’m 36) having a full on debate with my dad as for some reason I was convinced ducks had 4 legs! For some insane reason I just never realised they only had 2! I even went as far as googling it to prove him wrong 🤦‍♀️

On holiday with a friend and her 15yr old daughter, she asked if we'd be able to see the other moon. Swore blind that her teacher had told her the earth had two - and would not accept that we even could possibly be right that there is only one.

VeronicaSawyer89 · 07/12/2023 18:10

Lemonyyy · 07/12/2023 13:03

My 13 year old cannot, for the life of her, dress for the weather. Literally whatever we are doing, she will come down in the wrong trousers and go "hold on....I need to change...." into some other entirely inappropriate trousers. She tried to go climbing in black velvet high waisted shorts (think Christmas party wear) this week, despite the fact that the climbing centre is fucking freezing and they'd come back covered in chalk. I have started calling her Wallace.

She also likes to carry everything she is cooking with around the kitchen. So if she is making toast, then needs to get a knife to butter toast, she will take the toast with her to the cutlery drawer. Then she will take the toast and knife to the fridge for butter and jam. I caught her walking round the kitchen with a full saucepan of hot soup in pursuit of a wooden spoon and just shouted "WHY?"

I was known as a teenager for being a bit of a fire hazard. I cooked a pizza on my parents carving board, which melted dramatically in the oven. We all do it and come out the other end eventually!

I was like this. At 14 I went hiking to the top of Snowdonia in platform heels!😂

DungareesAndTrombones · 07/12/2023 18:13

Love this thread 😂

One of mine once put milk IN the kettle to make hot chocolate?! Also got smashed on booze in the middle of the afternoon and had to go to A&E in an ambulance.

Noglitterallowed · 07/12/2023 18:43

swimsong · 07/12/2023 18:07

On holiday with a friend and her 15yr old daughter, she asked if we'd be able to see the other moon. Swore blind that her teacher had told her the earth had two - and would not accept that we even could possibly be right that there is only one.

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Brilliant!!! After I looked at pics I realised my mistake but Christ why had I never considered they only had 2!!

Fluffybunniesandkittens · 07/12/2023 19:10

Almondmum · 06/12/2023 09:41

My son likes to answer either/or question with a yes or no.

So for example we text to ask 'are you finishing school early today or staying all day?'. He'll reply 'no'.

Very helpful.

I don't think that men ever grow out of this, I know pensioners that still do it 🤣

housethatbuiltme · 07/12/2023 19:27

VeronicaSawyer89 · 07/12/2023 18:10

I was like this. At 14 I went hiking to the top of Snowdonia in platform heels!😂

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I went to Alton towers, peak of summer, hottest day of the year (like 35 degrees)... wearing a head to toe full coverage black leather motorcross outfit.

I didn't get sunburned like everyone else so there was some logical thought... yeay

I did suffer heat stroke, dehydration and more unexpectedly... my skin fused to the leather and 'peeled' me when I tried to take it off.

LylaLee · 07/12/2023 19:31

housethatbuiltme · 07/12/2023 19:27

I went to Alton towers, peak of summer, hottest day of the year (like 35 degrees)... wearing a head to toe full coverage black leather motorcross outfit.

I didn't get sunburned like everyone else so there was some logical thought... yeay

I did suffer heat stroke, dehydration and more unexpectedly... my skin fused to the leather and 'peeled' me when I tried to take it off.

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You must have been... aromatic too.

housethatbuiltme · 07/12/2023 19:37

LylaLee · 07/12/2023 19:31

You must have been... aromatic too.

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I don't think the smell from the sweat could escape because I was sealed water tight like a dolphins butt hole... thats how I 'fused'.

It was like when a body is found in a river a the skin sticks and slides off when it touches something.

I basically steamed myself.

x2boys · 07/12/2023 19:45

Catza · 06/12/2023 08:34

I once worked with someone who told their daughter off for not helping with cleaning. The daughter (16) got upset and rang her friend. Friend helpfully suggested she rings an ambulance and says mum is crazy. Ambulance came out and as the woman was in some shock and distress over the situation, they “processed her” as having MH crisis and took her to the hospital. Psychiatry liaison assessed her and the moron put in her records “doesn’t have insight into her condition”, discharged her home with home crisis team support. Visiting nurses at the very first visit could clearly see she had no MH condition but the service psychiatrist wouldn’t discharge her because of the “no insight” comment. It took a week to reason with him that she couldn’t possibly have an insight into a condition she doesn’t have.

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The ambulance service have no.authority to take someone to hospital regardless if wether they believe they are having a mental health criss
I used to be a mental health nurse
Its only the police who can detain someone so they believe someone to e suffering wit a mental illness/ crisis in a public place and they have o place hem on a section 136 of the mental health sct.

swimsong · 07/12/2023 20:02

Fluffybunniesandkittens · 07/12/2023 19:10

I don't think that men ever grow out of this, I know pensioners that still do it 🤣

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Not helped by it being a long standing trope on reddit. Doesn't have to be the person being asked the either/or question - first person that sees it jumps in with a yes or a no.

coldcallerbaiter · 07/12/2023 20:11

Ds cooked his first meal at uni and it gave him diarrhoea

Lochness1975 · 07/12/2023 20:19

Summer holidays. Ds was about 14 at the time, I asked him to hang the washing on the line. Came home to the washing all over our garden and next door. Ds replies ‘but you didn’t tell me to use pegs’ 🤦‍♀️

Wiccan · 07/12/2023 20:21

x2boys · 07/12/2023 19:45

The ambulance service have no.authority to take someone to hospital regardless if wether they believe they are having a mental health criss
I used to be a mental health nurse
Its only the police who can detain someone so they believe someone to e suffering wit a mental illness/ crisis in a public place and they have o place hem on a section 136 of the mental health sct.

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Yeah, so we've heard 🙄

PMTsickandtiredofyourshit · 07/12/2023 20:30

25 years ago I put my PE kit in the microwave to dry it before school. It set on fire and I had to get it out, throw water on it and obviously just ran to catch the bus without caring that I’d just thrown wet burnt T shirt and shorts on the kitchen floor in a puddle.

When my dad got home from work I was in my bedroom and I remember hearing him shouting “What the fuck has happened down here?!” and I shouted at him for being so angry.

God, I really do deserve everything coming to me when DD hits her teens.

Sharontheodopolodous · 07/12/2023 21:00

Just remembered the time I asked dd to put the next load (towels) in the washing machine while I nipped out

I was all piled up,ready to go in and she knew how to work the washer

I told her to use a capful of the white vinegar that was on top of the washer as I don't like fabric conditioner used on towels

I even wrote it all down and headed off out

Came back to find shed done everything I asked her to do-only she'd used malt vinegar (that was in the back of a cupboard) and not the white vinegar I'd left on the top,in plain sight

My beautiful towels-ruined and one dd saying 'I don't know what happened...'

Pigsinpainauchocolat · 07/12/2023 21:40

@DreamTheMoors and how exactly is it so terrible on an ANONYMOUS forum? Nobody is saying oh my son Oliver from 53 Acacia Avenue set fire to the sofa are they?

Is your Mum proud of you being such an uptight, dull little poker?

Sn1859 · 07/12/2023 21:48

berksandbeyond · 07/12/2023 12:23

Some of these are depressing. My 5 year sounds more self sufficient than half of these teenagers - she would know to write her name and how to call 999 for example! I know it’s lighthearted but I would genuinely be embarrassed if my child was so sheltered. I used to work at a university and threads like this explain a lot about some of the ‘children’ that used to arrive that barely knew how to wipe their own backsides!

I work in a school, you’ll be very surprised how much of this I hear every day. Most kids are smart, just not in that moment. Hell the stuff I come out with at the age of 38 😭😭 I just don’t think before I open my mouth. I’ve raised 2 teenagers and I’ve looked after a whole house and yet I will still admit I’m just as bad. I think everyone does it every so often. As for calling 999. I called them once in an emergency and forgot what I was calling for as I was in such a panic. It could happen to anyone.

Catza · 07/12/2023 22:03

x2boys · 07/12/2023 19:45

The ambulance service have no.authority to take someone to hospital regardless if wether they believe they are having a mental health criss
I used to be a mental health nurse
Its only the police who can detain someone so they believe someone to e suffering wit a mental illness/ crisis in a public place and they have o place hem on a section 136 of the mental health sct.

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Where do you see me saying she was detained?
You guys are relentless… want to call me a liar, please go ahead and do so. No need to invent details I haven’t supplied. Not relevant to this thread anyway. Have you got anything meaningful to contribute about moronic teenage behaviour?

BreakfastAtMilliways · 07/12/2023 22:34

pickledandpuzzled · 07/12/2023 16:01

It really does. I think when they grow the neurones take a while to catch up.

My 6yr was an absolute delight. He was so organised and tidy minded. He never lost anything, and always knew when PE was. <sigh> those were the days.

@PGmicstand to be fair they are ‘either returning or checking out’ books.
Are you returning or checking out? Yes? Queue here.
Are you returning or checking out? No I’m waiting for the computer. Queue there.

Is that an exclusive OR or an inclusive OR?

BreakfastAtMilliways · 07/12/2023 22:39

One other brain fart moment from my own teenage years: when I got made a prefect and we were able to spend breaks in the (dilapidated) prefects’ room with our own tea and coffee, I brought a small jam jar of milk from home. My brain failed to compute that this milk would rapidly turn into cheese if not refrigerated. 🤦‍♀️

Fluffybunniesandkittens · 07/12/2023 22:46

Whatdoyouwantforxmas · 07/12/2023 06:43

This is the kind of thing we all do tho, how many of us have made stock & carefully drained the end product down the sink saving the bones and veg scraps?!
bless them tho, I have a had a teen in my clinic look at their mum for the answer when I asked if they had any pain! They had looked at their mum for every other answer too. They’re just a bit shy & don’t know the norms.

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@Whatdoyouwantforxmas I am glad that you said that about them being shy. My ds is like this, looks at me to answer for him at the drs etc. I worry that people will think that I must be an over bearing mum that doesn't let her child speak for himself, when the reality is that he lost his confidence when he was young because nobody could understand what he said and had to keep repeating himself and had to have speech therapy. He is very quite and shy and still mumbles.

BrightGreenMoonBuggy · 07/12/2023 23:00

I took my 16 year old son for afternoon tea for the first time and he poured the milk into the tea pot as if it were a giant cup. Then he had to pour the milky tea from the spout. I blame myself for never having shown him a teapot. We’ve agreed never to mention it to anyone else.