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😂😂😂

When I first moved to London I was the only girl in a houseful of men. One of them was about 30 and a doctor of physics (he has a list of patents as long as your arm and ones you would recognise too). He came home from work in a right state, his eyebrows gone, half his hair singed, no shoes because the rubber had melted, bandaged to fuck. He had been developing a polymer for vehicles, he had to do heat tests on them in situ. Think of an oven the size of your living room. After the test was done he walked into the gigantic oven after 20 minutes… his reasoning was the oven at home cooled after 20 minutes so the gigantic oven at 1000’s degree would be the same. He had a brain the size of a planet but couldn’t figure out how to fix a hoover bag or hang washing properly. He was adorable and his brain was literally so preoccupied with greater problems he had no common sense whatsoever. He couldn’t even blame being a teen.

@Sugepaper you might have to eat your words in three years or so!

Hormones do crazy things to people - just ask a woman going through menopause. Similar concept, except as a teen they're still forming those neuron pathways.

Similar to someone else, one of my boys put his banana bread in the oven at 220 degrees thinking it would just cook quicker.

Spoiler alert: one banana brick later, he learned that no it does not work that way!

Never had any of these problems.

Some of these are hilarious 😂
My teens are all fully capable. They can cook, clean, do laundry, all fine - until I leave the house! That's when the experiments start!
This weekend alone, I've had cheap plastic cookie cutters used as pancake moulds in a hot frying pan!
Dog has recently had surgery and is currently wearing a recovery suit. Like a cotton onesie. I asked dd18 to let dog out to toilet whilst I was out. She did let the dog out, the dog had a poo and a wee. Dd did not think to remove dogs recovery suit first!
Ds is now an adult, has travelled the world and has lived in his own apartment in Europe for 2 years. He phoned home at the weekend, saying that there had been a power cut there for nearly a week. My first question was to ask if he had paid his electricity bill. He hadn't! Despite paying his own bills for 2 years, he hadn't put two and two together and was spending his evenings by candlelight.
We have had plenty of toaster incidents. It amazes me what teenagers think you can cook in a toaster.
Plenty of metal in microwave incidents, despite being told umpteen times not to.
We have taught them all how to wash clothes etc, they have all laundered their own bedding since about age 14, yet one of them put their bedding in the tumble dryer with two laundry pods and left it. They had forgotten which machine was the washing machine despite using it regularly!

DS’s XGF has a masters degree in Quantum physics - but asked me how to cook plain rice.
I was actually more surprised that she even needed to ask when both of them are part of the generation that uses the internet to look up everything. Surely, someone on YouTube has made a video about boiling rice? 😀

Of dear! The posters desperate to point score over their perfect parenting clearly lack any insight into the obvious social cues all over this thread.

How embarrassing for them! 😂

When we were teens, my mother heard a small crash from the kitchen. My brother popped up a minute later to say jot to worry, he had dropped a tin of beans on his foot. My mother asked him if it had hurt.... so he went back to the kitchen and dropped the tin on his foot again to see if it was painful.

He also once ate his weetabix with a knife and fork without realising.

I work with young people and I'm always staggered at the complete lack of looking things up on the internet for answers/helpful information. They'll spend all day on their phones but wont think to use google for anything remotely beneficial.

There's a lot of people on this thread who seem to think when a teen says "I didn't know you weren't supposed to...." what they actually mean is "I was curious and thought I'd try it even though I knew it was a bad idea". Edit: or - they started one task, got distracted and ended up with a less than optimal outcome.

Being a teenager is the definition of letting your inside thoughts come out sometimes!

Out of interest, just did an advanced search on one of the super smug posters who is claiming perfect parenting on here. My god, they are a far superior human being to anyone else on the planet, and relentlessly negative about everything, dropping sarcastic and insulting remarks on numerous topics. I genuinely don't understand this phenomenon, what is the point? Is this person utterly miserable in RL? Are they like this with their friends and family? Staggering.

I'm 31 now, but when I was 18 and fresh to living on my own at uni, I had to ask if the juice needed pouring out of baked beans, because I wasn't sure if you prepared it the same way you do tuna.

I'm not stupid, I was at a Russel Group uni studying Genetics, but I was extremely mollycoddled and boy it showed 🤣

DH did that. I made him buy me a knew one.
(He's not a teenager)!

Don't tell me, on the thread where someone's child was ill and mum had only managed to get some crisps n tot he child gave a mini lecture on nutrition and bad diet?

My DD put a pack of dry noodles in the microwave with no liquid (luckily without the plastic wrapper!) - smelled like the house was on fire 😂

I showed my teenage daughter how to do the washing.
Sort clothes, put in machine, add detergent and turn on.

She was so confused that she asked me to explain again and she’d film me on her phone.

Didn't spot this one in particular, but it wouldn't surprise me!

erm... I was well into my 30s when i realised Madagascar was a place not just a cartoon 😳😂

These are very funny.

I don't have a teenager yet, but this morning my toddler pulled a box of Coco Pops out of the cupboard. Pulled out the bag and whilst I wasn't paying much attention smacked it between his hands, popping it like a balloon. An entire bag of Cocopops spewed out over the kitchen floor 😫

I believe I have some of your scenarios in my future.

On a train once, two students got on from the local university.

While chatting one of them said to the other "What do you think is the strongest English accent?"

The second thought for a while before saying "Hmmm... Scottish, definitely Scottish."

The first student just replied "Oh, yes, definitely!"

To be fair to your toddler, that does sound fun 😁, especially if you're not going to be the one cleaning it up!

Well no, this thread isn't about teens or adults actually causing house fires is it?

But would your 21 year old necessarily tell you if they'd put the pizza in the oven upside down or washed the toastie maker in the sink?

Yep, the need to prove their superiority is insecure and sad.

My DAD did this to me!

He was visiting me as I'd just had twins, so he was well into his 50s at this point! Asked if he could bring me a glass of squash - which we had a lot of as kids - and he poured me out a double-strength tropical squash neat and brought it to me.

Luckily it was only a tiny sip I had as it looked suspiciously concentrated even to my tired eyes!

Ds14 when asked to turn the chips halfway through cooking, turned the tray not the chips...