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

Home Treatment Teams are actually about the only service you can get easily. They have a policy of non-refusal if the risk is high (which wasn't in this case but obviously hospital managed to present it as such). It's a lot trickier to get hospital admission (no beds even for those who are desperate) or community MH team (very high referral criteria threshold).
I feel for this woman though and sincerely hope she managed to get her medical records rectified and that her daughter learned the lesson.

One night my dd went down for drink and saw a black thing on the lino. For reasons she can't explain herself she licked it...
It was a dried out slug the dog must have brought in.. People my dd was nearly 30 years old... So all of you hoping for the miracle that is maturity... It isn't guaranteed to actually mature your dc...

I was doing 6th form college applications with DS recently. On the parent/carer contact details, he had the good sense and memory to put my name and phone number in but stumbled on the relationship question. I had to prompt him "I'm your Mother"
We have two food waste bins in our kitchen, one large one and a smaller one by the kettle for tea bags/coffee grounds etc. I asked him to take out the food waste last night and he only emptied the big one. I reminded him to do the other one..."what other one? Do we have two bins? I'd never seen that there!". It's been on the kitchen counter for years!

Friends 15 and 12 year old were ‘play fighting’ with kitchen knives while she was out a the grocery store.
15 year old slashed 12 year olds arm - one trip to A&E ( the one where friend works at 😫) and stitches and it was alright.

idiots.

My teen filling out job application: What's 'print in block letters' mean? 🙄

Can play an instrument orchestral grade 8, but can’t fathom buttering a slice of bread without tearing it into bits. 🤷‍♀️

My 40 year old degree-educated colleague didn't know that 'print' on a form means 'write without joining the letters together'. He probably still doesn't know what 'block letters' are.

Don't despair my daughter has provided me with the ultimate answer for this one....

When they do this ' it means OBVIOUSLY the one that they are saying yes or no to and THEY KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN'

Mine wears crocs outside whatever the weather, pissing down rain or subzero temperatures. He says he can’t be bothered to put his other shoes on and that he’s fine.

he also mumbles, and when I ask him to repeat himself because I didn’t hear him he mumbles again at the same volume, then when I ask him to repeat himself because I didn’t hear him again, he mumbles again at the same volume. He’ll then get stroppy when I point out that if I didn’t hear him mumble at that volume the first time, I’m not going to hear it the second or third time either.

16 year old me in my first job as Office Junior. I wondered how painful it would be if you stapled your own finger, so tried it. Turns out it hurts quite a lot.....this as in my first week on the job.

Yawn. Funny stories only here please.

A teen of my acquaintance needed to dispose of something confidential so rather than use the family shredder, he put it in a plastic bowl, set it on top of the wooden garden table by the back door and ... set fire to it. Luckily there was a watering can nearby!

Oxfail just killed me!

Most of these are hilarious, but must say I’d be absolutely bloody livid with any teen who wilfully wasted ambulance/NHS/police time, because they were having a strop. Serious sanctions would follow!

My eldest daughter is an adult now but when she was about 14 she and a couple of friends decided to host a field party. In the middle of winter. Each child told their parents they were staying over a friends house. They stayed out freezing, nobody else was daft enough to go to said field party and at about midnight they decided they were too cold to stay out but didn't want to risk phoning parents to pick up as they'd told parents they were safely elsewhere.

My daughter phoned her uncle who came to get them, took them all to his house gave them hot drinks and blankets and let them sleep on the floor/sofas.

He and my daughter didn't tell me until years later!

Hilarious thread! My preschoolers are already showing some signs of 'whatthefuckery' so I think their teenage years won't surprise me too much having read what some of you are having to tolerate!

I also was told of a form that a colleague received, and where it said 'print' (for their full name) someone had used a pen to do a pretty good impression of their name in Courier New, around 12 pt.

🤔well you raised them and if they don't even know their name..well some serious questions you should be asking yourself surely. Even if you said that tongue and cheek the rest is still questionable isn't it. I'd be embarrassed if I had raised someone who is so incompetent.

I had a new joiner who asked me if they had to come and work everyday, they actually believed they got time off like school holidays. Unbelievable! They had parents who worked full time so wtaf. I don't even find that moronic behaviour funny, I'm embarrassed for them and think how bad must your parents be that you don't even have basic life knowledge

My Dad’s answer to what I can eat as a teenage plea turned into a shit sandwich he got so bored of me asking. 🤣

Not knowing how to cook and clean can hardly by categorised as 'not funny'. I didn't really know how to cook savoury dinners until university, the down side was that I became very thin the upside was that I learnt to cook and like cleaning it isn't that hard.

"I wanted to see what happened when I set this paper alight".

In his bedroom, sitting at his desk.

Goodness, lighten up.

Do you think it may be a generational thing with the expectation of holidays. My DS and his friends and all my friends teenagers a similar age and older (late teens early 20s), think, maybe naively but maybe not that you shouldn't be exploited by an employer.

My 19 year old at uni recently called to ask me how to use a mop 😆
then was confused about what type of water to use as he’s used cold from the tap!

Sad to say that it lingers on after the teenage years. I've just got back from a 5 day trip to Europe for a competition with DC 21. They came home with a packed suitcase the day before we left. I thought to check they had enough concert clothes and all their music but mistakenly thought that the basics of packing a suitcase had been covered after boarding school and 2 years at college. On arrival they had to dash off so I unpacked and discovered that they had not packed any underwear/socks/t shirts. 🤔

I don't think LumiB's apprentice joiner was referring to annual leave.

My DS is exactly the same with saying and doing really daft things. There are so many I can't remember them all but there was one occasion, I asked him to fill the kettle..........DS: With what? 🙄but then he gets the kettle, (it's one that is cordless) and he, rather than hold it by the handle to fill up at the tap, he stands it IN the sink (that has a bit of water in the bottom) and proceeds to try and then place it back on its base and switch it on (with water having got into the connection)

He was in his first year at Uni (2020) and got Covid whilst in Halls. We facetimed him to discover this; he didn't tell us and whilst we were facetiming him, he was attempting to eat a bowl of cereal....DS: "This milk tastes funny" and proceeds to pick up some milk on the spoon and I watch it fall IN CLUMPS back into the bowl. Me: Son, that milk has gone off; it's gone lumpy! DS; has it? What does gone off milk look like then? Me; LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE BOWL!! He clearly couldn't taste that the milk had gone off cos of Covid but honestly? He didn't stop and think before 'pouring' out chunks of milk into his bowl of cereal!? 😂

8 grade 9 GCSE's and 3 A* A-levels and on course for a 1st in engineering

How can someone, so bright, have absolutely no bloody common sense at all?! It's a wonder he's alive tbh!