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😂😂😂

I got my 17 yr old DS a new phone and for a year I couldn’t work out why he wasn’t responding quickly to texts etc. just assumed he was being a typical teenager🤷‍♀️. One day I needed to get hold of him quite urgently and when he got home I asked him why he didn’t respond. His answer was he could only pick them up on his old phone when he got home😵‍💫 - I then realised he hadn’t swapped the SIM card over and he didn’t realise he had to! He is currently studying computer science and AI at uni……..

I think @PyongyangKipperbang has hit the nail on the head. It's often seeking shortcuts that their old and outdated parents are too stupid to think of. My DS is very practical for a teen but still will always go for the lazy man's load.

Not quite at the level of some of these but my DS nearly killed my Mum this weekend by pouring her a big glass of neat lemon and elderflower cordial (the expensive glass bottled stuff, so practically syrup) without diluting it, and she chugged down a big mouthful as she was taking a tablet. The coughing and spluttering was quite something! (In his (slight) defense, he had been told to use the bottle in the fridge, and it was the only one in there; it was actually my DH who had unknowingly bought cordial rather than the fancy sparkling Schloer type drink he was sent out to buy)

Have a 15 year old and an 11month old

Went out for a meal with family last week and the big bsby took the little baby down to where he was sat, but hadn't made a space and little one swiped his plate and big one caught it between his legs full of coleslaw
He's wafting his free arm about mum help me om stuck...I went over and was like you havd a free hand you know and he was like I'm holding the baby so I can't, as I grab rhe plate and food, he grabs his drink and i just said I thought holding the baby was a 2 handed job. He was like it is that's why I have hold of him.... he couldn't realise he was literally using 1 arm to hold the baby and the other was not being used.

Oh go away

Please don't do this people. It could be very dangerous for the next person using the room if they have a milk allergy.

Ohhh I've got to agree with him! Oil needs to be hot hot hot for a nice quesadilla 😆. I would have opened a window though.

They will be running the the country in 20 years. It’s terrifying 😱🤣🤣

Just picking this up for a serious comment: do please ask, if you have a wooden/flammable switch cupboard/fuse box like this, to have it changed to metal. A few years ago my friend's entire house burnt down, and her husband was killed, due to exactly this type of fire. They are really dangerous.

Not mine , but 15 year old neighbour had her friends around and decided to make cheese on toast by laying the toaster on it's side with the cheese already on the bread .
It caught on fire and the fire brigade were called out !

My DGD has done this. So have i.😮

Did you mean to be so smug rude?

Exactly!

To be fair 40 years ago my mum gave me money to buy a stamp and post a letter.

I posted the letter and brought the stamp home.

Brilliant !!

There are, but I read an interesting article that explained the effects of the internet on young brains. Kids don’t need to develop problem solving skills any more, because they can find the answer to everything online. We had to work things out for ourselves because there was often no other quick fix. We retained info because we’d need it again in the future, we couldn’t just google it again. Similarly, youngsters will disregard written instructions because they’re so used to getting their information from videos.

This thread is ace, and has made me feel so much better about my own pair of dumbasses! 😃

Before half term, DS (16, Y11)needed a new bus pass. He bought a week long one on Monday. He forgot he'd done this and bought another one on Tuesday. He had an after school intervention on Wednesday, so I picked him up. He had an inset day on Friday.

So he paid £22 for 7 individual bus journeys, which would have cost £7.70 if he'd bought them individually. Unfortunately, his bus app is linked to my credit card.

The stories of milk in kettles has reminded me of a grown up I know, in her 50s at the time, who warmed up a bottle of mulled wine in her kettle.

Tea tasted interesting after that. 😆

30 years ago uni flatmate boiled an egg. He did exactly what his mum told him. Put egg in pan, cooked for 3 mins or whatever. Sadly, his mum had not told him to put water in the pan first. OMG it stank.

I think part of it now is bloody tik tok and you tube 'hacks'. There is apparently a short cut for everything so it's no wonder teens think they can bypass how it's normally done and come up with their own ingenious tricks to save time and effort. My dd isn't too bad but apparently their first Home Ec class was interesting with some interesting techniques for washing up etc. I pity the poor teachers.

None of this is new, I have a (well thumbed) copy of Delia how to cook - first published in 1998 - chapter one is how to boil an egg. It genuinely is smart teens whose brains aren’t fully formed and they do (as we all do sometimes) daft shit.
I don’t know whether to be slightly horrified or seriously impressed at the 9 year old up thread who can make a decent gin and tonic 😂

Many years ago I went away for a few days leaving late teen in charge of the house, the cat and a small pot of tiny tomatoes on the garden table that I was growing to look pretty and eventually eat .House and cat fine. Tomatoes dead. Why hadn’t teen watered them?

Because there was a hose pipe ban.

DD put a ready meal in the microwave for 40 mins because she followed the oven instructions instead of the microwave. Because she followed the oven instructions she had removed the film lid, luckily. Otherwise there would have been an explosion of molten pasta sauce at some point. She was left with a VERY dry dinner and told me not to buy that one again as it was horrible.

I asked my son to water our (house)plants while we were on holiday (he was in his 20s). We spoke a couple of times during my absence and he assured me that he was on top of this. I came home to find all my plants dead or close to death. Turned out he thought I meant the garden plants and had been doing it daily with the hosepipe.

I hadn’t asked him to do the garden because it was forecast to piss down constantly while we were away.

(Sorry for linking the Daily Mail) but the bit about not liking phoning because their generation is so used to instant messaging - is literally one of the quotes. It’s not simplistic nonsense at all.

Similarly, Evie, 17, said she 'hates' taking phone calls unless it is from a family member.
She added: 'But anyone else, I don't want them to call me because it feels quite formal, and that's not something I'm used to. It's unknown to our generation, we've grown up texting each other.'

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14258411/amp/College-offers-students-sessions-talk-phone-Gen-Z-anxiety-calls-causes-nausea-dizziness.html