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😂😂😂

Actually your son is spot on.
This is exactly how you’re supposed to reheat pizza.

I wonder how many silly things they've done that they've just not told you about

My ds did this too. The kettle was ruined.

It’s not only teenagers! On holiday with my highly educated, very smart DH. I’d put some washing on in the hotel laundry, but was going to the gym, so asked him to get it out and hang it up. Returned to find that yes, he had hung up the washing, but it wasn’t ours 🤦‍♀️ He had hung up items including men’s swimming shorts which were not his own and a bra that would have feasibly fit my head in each cup 🤷‍♀️

I suppose I must be lucky, because I have autistic teens I always give very specific instruction when asking them to do things, cuts down on mistakes massively. Not sure if they'd work it out in their own. It also means they're very good at asking if they don't know how to do something.

This thread is so funny!

my brother when a teen…brought casserole he’d made in cooking class at school home in the casserole dish in his backpack!

At home, made a bacon sandwich without cooking the bacon and boiled potatoes without water…don’t think the cooking classes helped him!

This weekend my MIL made me a cup of coffee but forgot to put the coffee in. So gave me a cup of boiling water.

Everyone sometimes gets momentary lapses - doesn't matter how well you think you've trained your teenager.

Holds up hand sheepishly to the milk in the kettle. I was visiting a relative in a snowy area and I could not work out how to put the stovetop on ( there was probably a switch somewhere). ME - bright idea boil the milk in the kettle as you can't use a saucepan. I may have left it a touch long. It did not go well. We should all make a pact to teach our children not to boil milk in the kettle.

I also admit to almost killing my mother with a heart attack when I was about 12yo and we were on a train station and she seemed to be speaking really loudly. She probably wasn't.
So I whispered in her ear "Mum, stop making such a glasses of yourself"
Well she had to go and sit on a bench she was laughing so hard she could barely breathe. . And I came first in English that year!!

My six-year-old found the oil spray and decided to spray the kitchen. I walked through the kitchen and slipped, cracking two vertebrae’s. I think it scared them - never did anything that stupid after!

In my defence I thought spectacles and glasses were interchangeable.

Was just about to post the same. My 10 year old wouldn’t have but by the time he turned 16 he would!!!

I asked then 16yo DS to change his bedding. He took the divert units over, pillows and fitted sheet off, put them on the floor and dragged them to the landing. Then looked at the replacement fitted sheet, pillowcases and duvet cover that I’d left out for him and asked where the duvet and pillows were to go inside them. Tina put that he thought that pillows and duvets were washed fortnightly too.

Hahaha there's still time , i wouldn't talk big if I were you 🤣

What's that saying ? You don't know what you don't know?

I've tried to teach DS to not do dumb shit but he'd have no idea how to make a pot noodle or a lemsip as he's never had either or seen me do them

Since he was teeny tiny we've don't the 'don't touch hot stuff thing' didn't stop him putting his hands on the electric heater last week (thank god they don't get too hot it was only a small burn) he even said 'don't know what possessed me' but we all do dumb shit it's how we learn

I don't agree it's generational either, no boy/man can do less shit than my DH, father and grandfather could when they left home as they'd never had to touch a cooker/washer etc

I had a friend at uni who was as gormless as these teenagers. I do wonder if she ever grew out of it.

"by 18 I was half way across the world."

Did you travel there on your high horse?

🤣🤣

OP I had to laugh at the Japanese bin!

We asked a teen babysitter to do our son some toast. She chopped a new loaf in half and cut a slice from and middle!

My dm is very intelligent.
When she retired from her professional career she decided to get a pt job in a supermarket staff canteen.
The canteen manager asked dm to make sandwiches, half brown, half white.
Dm literally used 1 brown and 1 white slice of bread for each sandwich.
She was 60 years old!
I had more common sense as a teen than my dm ever had.

My 14 yo went to put a metal bowl in microwave as nobody told him so how was he supposed to know.

Well this is the thing, the reason so many of these funny stories are "obvious" things teenagers got wrong is... they're so obvious to adults that no one thought to actively say "you can't put metal in a microwave". My parents did actively equip me with a lot of life skills but I'm sure they never told me that one.

Also sometimes you think that they know because they watch you - my daughter has been around me doing the laundry since she was about 3 - but the first time she used a washing machine - I had to take her through it step by step.

And yes sometimes you think that because someone is around you they're watching you but that's not necessarily the case. My mother was also surprised when she needed to show me how to use a washing machine because I'd watched her do it so many times. I was like... I was in the room but I wasn't watching you or paying much attention!

I really want an update on this one when you get the map. Her mind will be blown.

My son stuck his thumb on the end if the cigarette lighter in our old car because it didn't look hot...
My daughter tried to make ready brek in the microwave but didn't put any milk in it. The ready burnt, turned the inside of the microwave permanently yellow, and stank the house out for days!

Due to lack of confidence, I had this problem in my first job in 2000 so it's not a new thing. Plus phones were just used to play snake in those days...

Ah, feck off with that simplistic nonsense. Nothing to do with TikTok or instant messaging.

I’m 60, managed a dept. of more than 100 staff before retiring and I still hate making phone calls to people I don’t know.

I also had real phone anxiety when I first started working and I still hate talking on the phone. Solved that by getting a job where I didn't need to talk to anyone on the phone. Problem was solved further by the world becoming 99% digital which is what I call good progress. The hundred years or so where something as unnaturally intrusive as the telephone was commonplace will be seen as an aberration, rightly.

Wish I’d said that !! 😁