That I cannot be considered the responsible adult anymore?

[PaperDoIIs]

At home and at work, I'm considered a /the responsible adult. Sometimes the only responsible adult.

That can't be allowed anymore since I've been trying for the past few weeks to sync a fitbit and swearing,stressing,melting down,buying extra chargers , spending hours and hours resetting settings,turning devices on and off etc. and continuous moaning about the bastarding thing and conspiracy theories about not working because Apple wants us to buy apple watches and so on. The real issue?

It was a fucking Fitbit Charge 5, and I kept trying to pair a Fitbit charge 6(which obviously didn't exist in the house).4 weeks, 4 bloody weeks! Once I tried to pair the charge 5, it took 5 mins from start to finish. Like the teens say, I can't even....

So AIBU to turn in my responsible adult title and require constant supervision from now on?

Yanbu. Adulting is best left to the experts - teenagers!

YABU unreasonable for wanting to turn in your responsible adult badge for this reason, if you don’t want to be a responsible adult anymore you shouldn’t justify why, just throw it out whilst screeching lalalalalalala!

You’ve made me chuckle though, thank you - it’s exactly the sort of thing I’d do 😂

I always laugh to myself at playgrounds/children's attractions when it says 'all children must be accompanied by a responsible adult' and I think oh no, is that me?!

I cannot adult either. I once sent a long email of complaint to a major air fryer brand about how useless their product was. How absolutely infuriating their stupid cardboard filter was. How annoying it was to have to clean the cardboard filter in soapy water and then how outrageous it was that the only way to dry the cardboard filter was to put it in the oven to get it properly dry.
Reader...the cardboard 'filter' was the manufacturers packaging. I hadn't removed the actual packaging. I still cringe to this day about that.

This made me laugh out loud, it’s definitely something I’d do! Hats off to you for giving it 4 weeks - I’d have had a meltdown after 2 hours!

That’s a teen scouting badge OP, what you need is a smug adolescent to deal w it

I could never get mine to work either, so I bought an Apple Watch

@gaggiagirl this really made me laugh as well. I would’ve loved to see your lightbulb moment when you opened that email response!

😂but you know, somewhere in cardboard filter HQ they have it pinned to the wall where it raises a regular smile

That is a top example of mid life crazy.. I aspire

On Wednesday I emailed a company to ask where the item I ordered a week ago was. The lovely customer service advisor had to reply explaining I'd opted for "relaxed" delivery 😳

A few years ago I had a similar moment. Sent electric reading to gas company. Massive meltdown at the bill,significant increase, what is wrong, thinking neighbours were stealing or something,several emails and asking for help etc. Until a customer service person through text, asked for details about the actual meter and then I got a prompt reply with " that is aN electric meter, we supply your gas. Your gas is with x , we are y. Please send us a reading of your GAS meter and we'll adjust your bill."

So much worse as someone somewhere actually knows my name and my stupidity on this one.

Adulting is hard. I realised this morning that I'm 10 days late paying nursery fees because I've been to busy to fill out my calender reminders of bills, so will have to accept a late fee when I call them on Monday, I also accidentally hit a colleague in the face with a loaf of bread this week.

Give yourself a break, we all do silly things, life is stressful.

It literally took all of 5 minutes once I selected the proper frikking watch.

Oh and I only realised as I decided to message the seller and the description showed charge 5, otherwise I'd still be trying.

You accidentally hit a colleague in the ACTUAL face with a loaf of bread?? I’m sorry I must know more about this happened because I’m laughing my head off just thinking about it

That made me proper laugh thank you but how did you hit a colleague in the face with a loaf of bread?

I once wrote to a make up company to complain that their eyeliner didn’t work because when I was twisting the end it didn’t extend (like a lipstick). The response was “I have posted a pencil sharpener to you”, it arrived in the post the next day 🤦‍♀️

I phoned the shower manufacturer demanding they attend the house to deal with their monstrously expensive malfunctioning shower. They told me a call out was expensive and it would be payable even if no fault was found. "Oh don't you worry, you'll find a fucking great fault on this thing" I told them.
They came. I had been berating Aqualisa when I had a Mira shower.

Turned out very expensive.

I once complained to Amazon that a gift card I had was faulty. Turns out I hadn’t opened it correctly to access the correct code.

How I manage the entire Admin team for a large Accountancy firm I’ll never know.

@Flangeosaurus @ToHellBackAndBeyond I was throwing a loaf of bread into a bin that's behind a bit of equipment we use at work (bakery), she popped up from behind the equipment at exactly the moment I threw the loaf and it hit her in the face. Thankfully it was just an M&S white 400g so nice and soft and not one of the heavier ones but it still shocked her. I obviously apologized profusely and we laughed about it. Not the first time unfortunately, if it happens again people will start thinking I'm deliberately aiming at them

We had to ask a solicitor to sign a document with a 'wet' signature, i.e., they had to sign their name, not type it, as it was for a legal document.

We had a lovely reply stating that they had now signed with 'wet' ink but that the ink would be dry by the time it reached us and they couldn't find any ink that stayed wetter for any longer. Bless them! Brain the size of a planet...sigh. 🙄😁

Their reply is still pinned to the office wall and still raises a chuckle. 😂

@anicecuppateaandayummyshortbreadbiscuit that makes me feel so much better about myself.

Thank you all. Good to know we are all human and we all occasionally cock up

I once broke the lights on my car. I had owned it for years and forgot while out in the winter light, evening coming in and weather worsening. Absolutely terrifying as I totally freaked out and tried to make it home from a long journey in time to be able to call the AA there.

I had forgotten the lights were on the stalk by the driving wheel instead of being a dial setting. That was a car I had had at least a decade previously.

AA man laughed so hard.

I often wish there was an adultier adult around.

Knowing my dc only have me to rely on for any sense/advice/decisions is pretty scary 🤣

OH managed to adult even less today , so our poor kid is fucked.

@gaggiagirl that is absolutely fantastic! The realisation when they responded must have been excruciating though.

@JennyForeigner i did that. After a works do at night, I got in the car and the headlights wouldn’t go on. Despite the car never having had automatic headlights, us never having owned a car with automatic headlights, I was convinced that it did and was now broken. Rang my husband who reminded me of the dial on the side. Oh the shame.