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.

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I once watched in disbelief (one of those awful moments when you just can't get there fast enough) as one of my pupils let go of both of the rings in a PE apparatus lesson. He was hanging upside down, holding the two rings, and apparently decided that the next good move would be a handstand, but he let go of both rings at once.
Amazingly, he did not suffer any skeletal damage, or even a bad headache, but as you can imagine he gave me a terrible fright.

Middle dd, aged 18 and in her second week at uni. Bright girl. Calls me to ask which program to wash her black clothes on, because the washing machine has a setting for whites and a setting for colours, but there’s no setting for black.
Five years on and it still makes me giggle.

This infuriates me when both my kids and their dad does this, I’ll say to him “do you want a sandwich or a burger for lunch?” He will answer “yes!” 🤦‍♀️

Brilliant thread! I have the opposite. Teenagers with shed loads of common sense but not academic high flyers (they have severe sen). I can see myself in a few of the 'i wonder what would happen if I did...'

Mine climbed on the flat roof of the local cinema to share a joint with friends. Forgetting flat roof was overlooked by the large windows of the police station.

Not so long ago I was reading a thread about how it was perfectly acceptable to leave a mid teen on their own for a night 🤣😅😂

I’ve got another one (all of mine are regrettably me in my mid-twenties, but they fit under the heading of moronic behaviour). I once managed to make instant coffee and lemsip in the same mug. It was the worst thing I’ve ever tasted. Utterly vile. Drank it though because I didn’t have any more lemsip.

Do parents not teach their kids anything anymore?

Or maybe the parents are as daft too?

crikeymikeydoyoulikey · Today 10:17

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I went to Newcastle for a weekend hens' night years ago. No-one could understand me. I'm Scottish

Really? I only have problems with the broadest Weegie accents. I lived in Aberdeen for a few years and had it after a week.

I was 8 and made lemsip with hot chocolate as I did not like the lemsip taste... was bloody awful.

When my second baby was born I was going up to the library with her in her pram when I realised that every time I went to the library I walked the long way round in the one way system, as if I were driving. I must have done that four times before I realised!

Every time I've read a post like this all can hear in my head is the song 'Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way'.

Was just in B&Q there - awful day here - and realised my son was walking down the first aisle of the store still holding the umbrella over his head. Christ what is wrong with teenagers at times?

It’s so hard to be humble, when you get better looking each day.
My parents could fill this thread about me alone, I ironed a shirt ON me and burnt my neck with the iron. (And it wasn’t the first time I did it either)

lol @3luckystars I can totally understand the first time but how do you manage this twice! I’m always doing stupid things once but am also very much a “once bitten, twice shy” person.

Oh goodness I’ve thought of another I did.

Balanced a 10kg box of CDs on my basketless bicycle’s handlebars and attempted to cycle down one of the busiest roads in the city. Nobody try it because it is fucking terrifying and horribly dangerous, but it feels like the steering has been disconnected somehow and you’re sort of trying to bob along while cars rush past you. Miracle I survived to be honest.

I also (as a very slight, undernourished woman) decided to swim on a surfing beach where the safety flags were six feet apart - I’m barely exaggerating here. I then proceeded to survive several failed attempts to actually get into the water before a lifeguard told me the secret (dive under the wave). Unfortunately getting out proved even more difficult -wave carries you to shore and then sucks you back under and out. I eventually gave up and it took six lifeguards to get me out 😳I don’t even know what that emoji is but it’s supposed to be blushing in shame. Meanwhile my sister was taking sexy bikini photos with the remaining two lifeguards. Eight lifeguards for barely two metres of safe swimming space should have been a clue.

No, I ironed the shirt while wearing it a few times, but only burnt myself once, I didn’t do it again after that!!

In my defence, I used to wear a shirt under a jumper to work or ‘shumper’ as it is now called, so only the collars were visible. No need to iron the whole shirt so I would put a towel under the collar part and iron those.

It worked well until I touched the iron off my neck and left a stripe on it, it didn’t hurt initially and it thought I got away with it, then the pain.

I went to the pharmacy and said I burnt it with an iron and she said ‘a curling iron ‘ and I said an actual iron.

Honestly, my parents could really fill a thread like this, I was such an idiot and still am sometimes.

We were in Yorkshire and there was a news item on the national news from Northumberland, we could hardly understand a word but the Germans staying with us understood perfectly.

Hot off the press:
Me: On your way to the bus can you just check whether the bin's been emptied?
DS: How will I know?

How to explain that stuff in bin = not emptied and empty bin = emptied w/o sounding incredulous that I am having to explain this!

Me: open the lid, look inside.

I've opened the window when I've seen DC outside and said "check if the bin is empty". He looks inside without my having to tell him (proud parenting moment!), closes it and walks past.
"Is it empty?"
"Yes"
"Why didn't you bring it in?"
Huffs "Oh I didn't know I needed to do that as well!"

Keep at it! The signs that a fully functioning adult are strong!

Caught my 17 year old on the ring door bell at 3.30am sneaking out the house taking his brothers door key with him - as he lost his own- which has his brothers locker key on it which he needs today. Had a text message from him this morning saying sorry I fell asleep at gf's house... he came home last night and was caught leaving in the early hours so not sure why he thinks I'm there stupid to believe him 🤦🏻‍♀️

DS (16) asked me the other day whether we had the ingredients for cheese.

"There's milk in the fridge, but it may take a while" :D

I haven't done this but after my pets ripped up my ironing board cover, I thought a yoga mat would make a perfect temporary replacement.

It did not.