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 was an adult in my late twenties with two children when I thought it would be a good idea to make a "snowstorm" by turning the hairdryer on the polystyrene the toddlers had had fin breaking up.

It did create a good snowstorm... which I was finding for weeks afterwards. It was everywhere.

And it's even worse now that google has that AI function that scrapes the internet for any response and amalgamates it into one response.

I have teased my brother over this for YEARS...

Mum had gone out and left him home to cook his own dinner. She'd peeled the potatoes and left them in a pan on the stove (yes, yes, she DID pander to him, how did you guess?) and told him to make mash; boil the potatoes then turn them off and mash them.

He brought them to the boil, turned them off and tried to mash rock hard raw potato. He 'didn't realise' you had to boil them until they were soft...

So far I've got nearly sixty years of teasing out of it, and I shall be continuing.

My Son in law , not a teenager but a 24year old, went to boil the electric kettle and the switch had broken so it wouldn't turn on so he thought he would boil it up on the gas hob !!!

My ds, 13.

He was feeling hungry so exploring the cupboards for something yummy. He didn't fancy normal bread but saw a packet of baguettes, so made himself a sandwich with one of them. Except they're the part baked ones.... and he just ate it and thought it tasted not quite as nice as when I make them.

I always remember when my brother was a teen, my mum telling me he was running late to a night out, had got ready and looked in the mirror, realising his shirt was creased.

To ‘save time’ he had decided to iron it WHILST he was wearing it by attempting to lift it away from his skin and pat the iron onto the fabric.

He obviously burnt himself, missed the night out and spent it in a and e - no major damage thankfully but I can just picture my Mum’s face when retelling the story 😂

Case in point- peri me spent hours making stock from chicken carcass and veggies. I was super smug about how great it was going to be. Went to strain it but didn't put a bowl underneath so strained all the stock straight down the plughole like I was draining pasta and was left with a sieve full of bones and overcooked veggies.

I feel that I may never complain about my teen again.
They tick the boxes for untidy and mess-blindness but I was out yesterday and on my way home got a message to say they were cooking some dinner.
Got in to a home-made meal.
I'd not asked or prompted other than saying before I went out that maybe they could do themselves some pasta.

Admittedly the kitchen looked as though a tornado had been through it and there was food dropped on the cooker but all the pots and pans were used properly, and the oven was used and turned off safely.

We have two machines, one in the kitchen and one in the shed. My 18 year old daughter FaceTimed one day when I was away asking how to wash her jeans. Whilst on FaceTime she started to go outside with the jeans. When I asked her why she didn’t use the kitchen machine she said she didn’t know we even had a machine in the kitchen! Honestly it’s been there her whole 18 year!

These stories are very funny but I find the lack of common sense and logical thinking surprising. I never had my daughter doing chores, but she would observe and ask questions. Always sensible. It does seem these young people think domestic tasks must be easy because they are mostly done by women. Also applies to men.

It’s a real shame we can’t just have a funny enjoyable thread where we all entertain each other with a bit of lighthearted moaning. Join in with your own tale of woe or just read and enjoy, why make a smug self satisfied comment like this? Not meaning to pick on you in particular, there’s plenty of others on here too. I just don’t understand why people do it.

The judgey pants on this thread need to remember that a lot of modern day tech was discovered/invented by accident.

Either because something went wrong or because somebody thought "I wonder if......"

Well my MIL did this! Helpfully put clothing to dry over the radiators and it hadn't been washed yet

I moved out age 16/17 and bought my first home age 18......

I still once tried to boil an egg in a cup of water in the microwave. I can confirm.... DONT TRY IT!

I have a friend with a son who decides to use the microwave last week,caused a fire, but he has severe learning disabilities and autism..glad you're all enjoying hilarity, hopefully all concerned have actually learned by their "mistakes" before they burn the house down,kill or injure, your insurance policy refused to pay. I would give them a stint in the casualty department, where I worked for 5 years.

Very funny thread! I should makes notes of all of these so I know what to teach my primary-aged kids. It's hard to know what they don't know and you might not think to teach them something that seems so obvious to you, so I get how these happen!

Haha! I would recommend just getting rid of your toaster when the kids reach about 13. Teens + toasters are not a good mix 😂.

DD thought each address had its own post code. This came about because of my frustration when, even asking for the house number or name I was supposed to pick her up from. She kept insisting I didn't need it as I had the post code.

I'm not sure what point you're making other than this particular son who may or may not be a child requires more supervision?

We all know fires can break out, floods can happen - this isn't about that.

That's okay. There is always one like you. Sadly.

And you aren't discussing. You are pontificating.

No sense of basic hygiene.

Ironing board is for clean clothes; draining board is for clean crockery etc.

Dirty shoes do not belong on either.

65 year-old DH still acts like a teenager !

All these microwave stories but this is my actual grown up husband!!!

He refuses to admit the microwave had been on fire (popcorn left too long) even though the house smelled like a BBQ and the wall was singed!

He just isn’t able to use his eyes or nose to judge anything, he will follow the cooking instructions to the absolute letter even if flames are coming out of the oven, or the chicken is still pink.

I've done this!

My DS is very , very clever. Excellent qualifications, high powered, well paid job. When he was in his 20s he didn't understand why there were no ripe tomatoes or peppers growing in our London garden in December.

To be fair, I was probably equally dumb at his age, just about different things. You live, you learn.

I'm still confused though about teens buttering toast before putting it in the toaster to "save time" - how does it save time doing it before rather than after? 🤔