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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When my DD was 19 I had a pan of bubbling hot sugar to use for toffee apples as I turned around my DD was just about to put her finger in for a taste 😲 I shouted Noooooooo ! Absolutely scared the crap out of the dog .Thank god she stopped dead. I don't even want to imagine the outcome. She still does pretty much the same stupid things now she just has no common sense .

Phoned 999 to say that she’d been kidnapped. This was because we were away for the weekend and I wouldn’t allow her to call her boyfriend’s father at 2am to drive 100 miles to collect her as she was missing her boyfriend.

Also had a phone call at work from the same boyfriend’s father to inform me that he was sorry but he couldn’t allow her to move in. Apparently Id thrown her out and told her to move in with them. This came as news to both me and the poor boyfriend who was frankly terrified of her.

I also have the power to find things from a distance!! Husband has multiple ‘tiles’ to find keys/wallet and I offered to get ds one for uni, he declined.
He did WhatsApp me to tell me he’d left his student card in his room and couldn’t get in to the uni building for his lecture - I had to tell him to ask someone - fellow student or security person, to let him in! Amazingly he managed this, then told me the guard told him his flies were undone 😆
And this is an A* student doing a tough science-based degree. And he is v capable of cooking a meal, clearing up, hoovering, can do his laundry etc but had obviously never mopped a floor - one thing I forgot to teach him (see above post).

Haha, love the boiling noodles in a kettle. I did this age 14 and I'm a GP now. There is hope...

what the hell is this supposed to mean?

I need someone to tell me how to RUN AWAY??? Teens are ........hair pulling!

My daughter was at work, apprentice hairdresser.
They they are suddenly robbed. Boss was threatened with a blood filled syringe.
Apprentce daughter rushes to the phone and dials - 911 …. No answer
Bright spark there, we are in Aus, our emergency number is 000
Too much American tv

@laveritable - they are also funny and kind and affectionate and fantastic company a lot of the time, so don't despair too much!

Has it occurred to you that many, if not most, of these stories are from older posters whose kids are adults now therefore these events happened years ago when things were different.

This thread is giving me hope.

My son lost his coat at school. He took it off and left it somewhere. I asked him to look in the lost property cupboard at school.

He came a reported back that he could not see it. I told him to look again.

He came back and said his friend Ollie had found it in the cupboard straight away. I asked him how Ollie had found it quickly. He said "oh, he turned the light on so it wasn't dark anymore."

This sums him up.

Not idiotic but worthy of mention when my ex husband walked out leaving me to deal with serious surgery to cope with alone DS came back from uni specifically to take care of me and cook and clean.
Then he paid for some guys to come and pack up my house so I could move as the house had to be sold.
I literally do not know how I would have managed without him.

I don't have a teenager yet, but these are from when I was younger:

• wanted to make boil in the bag rice. Opened the bag and poured uncooked rice into saucepan of water. Asked my mum why it hadn't cooked properly.
• Was allowed to pack my own suitcase for a family holiday ( I was 10/11 for this one). Went to France for the New Year. Didn't pack a coat, or any long sleeved tops. Did pack 15 pairs of pants for a 3 day trip.
• Went on a school trip to Germany. When packing to come home, the zip on my suitcase broke. Called my Mum to ask what to do. She suggested putting everything in a bin bag and then keeping it all together with my luggage straps. I put the whole suitcase in a bin bag with luggage straps around it and took it to the airport like that. She had meant the contents of the bag, not the whole thing 😂had to spend an extra 30 minutes at the airport explaining to the baggage claim people that yes, I had checked it in like that.

Few years ago now, DS probably 14, wants a door bar (where you lift yourself up on the doorframe bar for exercise). He selects one, when we open after Christmas I said we can’t use this as renting and needs drilling in, I’ll exchange it. Can’t we use blutack was his response? Coming from the kid who got 9x9’s and 3 x A*’s. Book smart I call him, world smart he is not!!

The OP, who was the one who referred to a paper application form, posted in the present tense.

😂

My DD is very independent and can cook, fill in forms and manage herself. She lacks some common sense though. So she tried to hammer in a nail with an aerosol can with predictable results. She is fiercely independent so will not ask for advice with anything. I have now I think got her to at least google things before doing them.

In high stress situation this sort of forgetting is quite common. I’ll never forget hearing about passengers who were delayed evacuating in the Manchester airport disaster because they couldn’t remember how to undo their seatbelts and spent a long time looking for a catch at the side, like a car seatbelt.

My cousin moved out to go to uni. Calls his mum from his student flat to ask, “I’ve got all my dirty clothes in the washing machine. How do I get the water in?”

This is absolutely brilliant!

In a cafe with the dses. Ds1 looks at the menu then turns to the waitress and asks, “What’s in the beef sandwich, please?” The waitress looked a bit taken aback and replied, “Err - beef!” He actually wanted to know if the beef sandwich also had salad or horseradish in it, but had a bit of a brain fart.

seriously??? you are the absolute life of the party.

Similar, My son then aged 8 ran through the house with lit newspaper because that's how they did it on the olympics.😫

DNiece "hilariously" decided to cremate the dead (from natural causes) hamster on the BBQ. It was what he wanted apparently.

My DD used to love toasting crumpets in the toaster but for some reason always felt that the crumpets needed rotating whilst cooking, which she would do by sticking a knife into the crumpet and turning it whilst the toaster was on.

Idk how many times I'd told her not to do this (clue - a lot) before the inevitable happened and she accidentally touched the live element with the knife. The toaster blew up, the downstairs circuit shorted and she got one of the biggest frights of her life. My very matter of fact response of, "Well, I did tell you many times not to do that and now you understand why" apparently made it All My Fault.

(She's a lovely adult now, who is able to use a toaster safely!)

Mine left her phone at home. Bus pass in the case. Spent the day trying and failing to remember my phone number, writing different versions on her hand so she could use a co-workers phone to phone me (I was working and couldn't have helped). Failed to think that she could borrow £2 from a co-worker. Pretended to be French so the bus driver eventually let her on without paying 🤣

My husband likes to quote "The child's an idiot. Parents are probably idiots too)