Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

[Srepmum1984]

I am growing more and more gobsmacked with my teenagers common sense and I wanted to hear some other funny stories.

This week alone, son has toasted bread with butter already on it because he couldn't be bothered to wait and it smelt like the house was on fire.

Was feeling ill, so made him a Lemsip. He poured it (literally) straight into his mouth then screeched he didn't realise it was hot. He watched me make it from the kettle.

Today he is working with me over his college half term in the office for some extra cash. Blew his nose, then proceeded to try and open my free standing air conditioner fin part as he thought ' I had a fancy Japanese bin'

Please tell me I am not alone😂😂😂

My daughter put a bowl of cold food in the microwave but left the fork in it. It tripped the electrics but then threw a cup of water over the microwave because she thought it would blow up

My teens have zero problem solving skills.

I called my daughter last week to ask her to pop my casserole dish in the oven to preheat.

Phone call 15 seconds later: ~with hints of indignation~ "it doesn't fit in the oven!". Now, it very much DOES fit in the oven. I try to explain to her that it does, Definitely. 100%. Well, you'd think I was telling her the sky was pink with how determined she was that I'm wrong and there's NO WAY it could possibly fit.

I get home and she hasn't thought to try adjusting one of the racks in the oven, to make room for the lid of the dish. "How am I supposed to know?!"
Oh, I dunno, how about putting an iota of thought into it before phoning me enraged for setting such an impossible challenge?

When I finish ironing I call out from the kitchen "the iron's hot, don't lick it!" Which is tongue in cheek... but also sorta not 😅

One of mine put milk IN the kettle to make hot chocolate? The house smelled of burnt milk for days 😡

Also left their key on the outside of the back door one or ten times.

Also also I've just cleaned the toaster and the crumb collecting things were very full of butter so I suspect one of them has been putting already buttered bread in there so @Srepmum1984 you are not alone!

My 19 year old son needed his black socks washing for football. He managed to completely ignore all the other black items of washing right in front of the machine and put a full wash on for one pair of socks.

He apparently 'didn't realise they needed washing' when I pointed out the pile of washing he had moved out of the way to the open the door. Maybe he thinks that's just where I store stuff now...

My son wanted to know what fire smelled like.
Ended up with a blister on his nose.

My 18 year old son doesn’t have an ounce of common sense.
One morning I came down to find the front door left wide open. He hadn’t shut it after coming home late. I honestly thought we had been burgled.

Last week he tried to use the steam oven to microwave his meal. He couldn’t understand why it was cold but ate it anyway. He has never noticed the microwave in the corner of the kitchen despite it being there for a year.

My teen is blind (with a little bit of functional sight). Her specialist glasses are her lifeline to the world. So far this year (and we are only in February), she has broken three frames, because she takes them off and puts them right next to her bed, where she exits said bed every morning. She forgets and stands on them.

When I was at uni

1. Student set fire to the microwave for putting a tin of ravioli in to heat up
2. Student evacuated a 14 floor tower block- for cooking his sausages (polystyrene tray and all) under the grill and fell asleep
3. Student I lived with wondered why his frozen pizza smelled- he cooked it in the cardboard box, in the clingfilm....
4. Student became ill- didn't realise raw chicken needed cooking

At this point I was glad mum had made me cook for the family at least once a week since the age of 11- as no one else seemed to know how to cook or bake- I traded this commodity for less cleaning duties- or for lifts to places I wanted to go... This was in 2007- and completely gobsmacked me!!

My dd thought she was being helpful by putting a load of washing on the line that was in the washing machine. Only trouble, it hadn't been washed......🤣

My DD 18 was doing the laundry with only fabric softener when queried about whether she had put wash powder in the drum she looked confused. Turns out she'd just been adding fabric softener in the drawer and turning it on. My fault apparently for not explaining about detergent.

Asked mine this evening to get his karate gi and put it in the washing machine. He managed this but didn't take it off the coat hanger 🙄just so he wouldn't have to hang it up again when it came out 🤦‍♀️

I went to see what the awful smell from our kitchen was yesterday. Found the 21yo about to make a quesadilla with the frying pan sitting on the highest setting on the hob with the oil smoking like crazy.

When I said it was way too hot and they were going to either burn their food or cause a fire I got a very dismissive "it's fine, I know what I'm doing" in response.

How was there commonsense rating before they became teenagers?

This thread is ace!

At uni someone asked me if the pasta sauce was self-thickening because he'd been stirring it in with the pasta for ages and it was still like soup. He hadn't drained the water out.

Also someone followed the instructions for making an omelette which started 'take 3 eggs, place them in a mixing bowl, add salt' blah blah but didn't specifically reference cracking the eggs/removing the shell...

I wish I could remember more.

But then I can also remember being the teen with no common sense/impulse control. Once I opened the car door on the motorway because there was a spider. I turned out fine! Perfectly functioning adult :D

Stay strong everyone.

My 20 year old started eating raw streaky bacon, I said what are you doing you need to cook that "oh, do you?" not sure if she thought it was some type of parm ham or something itlalian.

My daughter (Jewish, raised Orthodox from birth) was talking to her (Muslim) friend. No idea of the context or how they got on to the topic but I walked in to hear ‘Islamic jihad? Is that different to Jewish jihad?’

(She still has no idea what she’d confused herself with and believe it or not she’s very politically minded/engaged so me and her friend will not be letting it go for a LONG time)

My DS doing national 5 home economics and chemistry .....I don't know how to boil an egg 🙄

Many years ago when I was 19... my new flatmate cooked something in the pan and immediately poured the hot oil into a black plastic bin bag. Then complained that there was something wrong with the plastic bag. I get people lack common sense but surely at 19 she heard about MELTING!!!

Haha I was just about to post that mine had done this milk in the kettle for hot chocolate
I couldn't be cross as he had gone out and purchased me a new kettle for when I arrived home 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m sorry but a lot of these are just odd. Eating raw bacon, putting milk in a kettle, thinking you fry eggs with a shell on?

Either dreadful parenting or not very bright. My 10 yr old wouldn’t do any of this.

I have to admit that I did the milk in the kettle thing in a hotel last year. If you catch it just as it boils you don't ruin the kettle. Just give it a good rinse out and it's fine. Lovely cup of hot chocolate. It is several decades since I was in my teens.

DD's flat share utility bills were very high, none of the girls could work out why. DD suggested that as they had all been having more baths and showers, that might be the cause.
They laughed at her because baths and showers use water not electricity or gas. She asked them how they thought the water got hot; they still refused to believe it had anything to do with energy use.

Trust me your 10 year old will at some point do something completely stupid 🤣

there's no "apparently" about it...