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😂😂😂

You are not alone! The lack of common sense my teenage son has is unbelievable. He used to be so sensible when he was little 😂

My DD complaining that the bills for her shared flat are high( all electric).I said I'm not surprised with 3 girls having long showers, she replied ' oh no, the shower is only the water rates' 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I said, 'well are you having cold showers' u could see the penny slowly dropping 😅

Everyone does stupid things sometimes to be fair. I did some remarkably dopey things while sleep deprived when kids were tiny (lost my keys as I’d packed them in the freezer with the shopping springs to mind)

Late teens…. Needed a specific pair of knickers for a night out, but the washing machine had only just finished…. Knickers in the microwave to dry Whilst pre drinking…. Forgotten about, microwave plate cracked and house nearly on fire!!

Hint… teenager was me 😅

Glad I am not the only one to have microwaved knickers @StuckHurtDone it works v well as long as theres nothing metallic and you don't forget/get distracted!! Socks also!

I had previously done it on recommendation of friends and it worked, so carried on but clearly put them on for way too long as needed to drink the optimum amount before the taxi arrived! This was 20 years ago and I’ve definitely not done it again!!

The chicken one is particularly shocking 🤣

A colleague and I went on a course a few years ago. Pissed and hungry in the hotel we made noodles in the kettle 🤦‍♀️.
Fortunately we managed to get it clean the following morning!

After reading all these I’ve come to the conclusion that my 17 year old son is a genius. My husband on the other hand….,,,

I love this, my youngest of three is almost 17 and they're all ND, their mistakes are hilarious 🤣

Well, aren't you the perfect parent? 🙄

17 year old daughter asked if we are going to the "Reading Festival", but she said it as "Reading a book, Reading". She asked if we could take her and her friends with a few books and would I buy her new headphones...so they could listen to their own choice of music from the festival while reading their books. They were all set to buy tickets. Should have let her carry on and asked for arrival photos, just for the look on their faces.

She and her siblings have also slathered bread in all sorts and popped it into the toaster. Toaster has gone to toaster heaven.

Oldest son couldn't understand why his stomach was hurting after scoffing 12 packets of cheap crisps. "Can't be the crisps. They were mini packets of corn crap, so the calories would have been negligent." ...right..OK then. What do I know! Greedy little b*stard.

Eldest found a photo of Disneyland Florida, we had photoshopped her into, as a baby, was an in-joke at the time. She took it to school as part of a project and told everyone she had been. It is clearly photoshopped- She was 16 when she did this. I have attached said photo. For 16 years she thought it was real 🤣.

Eldest daughter set microwave on fire with a baking potato.

That's exactly what happened to Rudolf 😂

My 17 Yr old (long before TikTok) asked if he could borrow my car. When I pointed out he couldn't drive, he confessed he'd told a girl he was eager to impress that he would collect her from a party. He said he'd thought of just taking the car but then decided he'd better ask and couldn't understand my negative attitude. After all he'd 'been sitting in the passenger seat for years. How hard could it be?'

My eldest (10) is pretty sensible on the whole and can do all sorts alone but doesn’t stop and think before doing at times. She’s already had a genius moment where she put a croissant in the microwave and set it to 10
minutes because that’s how long it takes to
warm up in the oven from oven being cold. Youngest had already told her only to do 30 seconds and then ran up to get me. Eldest said “how was I supposed to know” and 8 year old piped up “because the whole point of the microwave is heating things up fast so obviously it’s faster than the oven”
accompanied by some great eye rolling. This is normal for them. Some kids/teenagers & indeed some adults are much better at taking the knowledge they have and applying it to new situations than others. It’s a skill you can definitely learn but some people are just naturally good at it. It’s much easier to not make daft mistakes if you have that skill.

This just made me Google “what is brandy butter”. I also just thought it was brandy flavoured butter. Who knew??

Are we deevolving as I cooked from 10yo and never did any of that stuff? Anyone seen the film Idocracy? Are we headed there😮

Twin boys 14 …both had the same life experiences and seen the adults of the house functioning fully and taking time to explain how things work . One boy perfectly capable … the other is Captain Chaos ! Sprayed oil from a spray dispenser all over the kitchen because he thought it was water and “ he was hot ” to name just one of daily mishaps . Kids can process info so differently …so to all the smug posters enjoy your high horse and speaking down to people ! We love all our crazy kids and keep a sense of humour !

my teenager travelled the world solo and stayed in hostels alone yet when she came home put a hot pan on kitchen side and burnt a ring into the worktop.
youngest has asd and it takes forever for her to remember instructions so she is a slow burn.
my adult, high paid,extremely clever, late 30s brother had a baby with his very intelligent partner and they couldn’t understand why it was vomiting after every feed until we felt the bottle of pumped breast milk - straight from the fridge. They didn’t know it needed warming.

.. hot off the press...was head to hospital appointment with my ds after school. He has bus pass ,I'm behind him wait buy my ticket. He says."Can I have a return please" driver"where to?' Ds ...."here"...

Am not sure he's realised what was funny and we been and back,lol.
Also witnessed him put bread in toaster, tick tock tick...= Bread..reset 3 times before.thought to plug it in.
Having murdered full tub of Ben and Gerry s estimating 3 mins would soften to scoop out he created merry hell. Thought and logic from learned a lesson that day resulted in... solution based thinking (?!?) so put the (silver/metal) ice cream scoop in to heat instead.
It's funny now(and,he was pre-teen) but whatta bang ,big fright at time.

I highly recommend putting milk in the kettle.

When Ds was about 13 he came downstairs in a pair of joggers that were very short and looked like leggings. He'd got his 8 year old brothers joggers on. The most worrying thing is he probably would have gone out with them on if I hadn't said something!
Even now as a 20 year old when I tell him to take his laundry upstairs and put it away he asks "Is this t-shirt mine?"as he's picking up the hangers. Baffles me how he can wear his clothes and never notices what they look like!
This weekend Ds 13 was about to put on one of his older brothers hoodies. "Is this mine?" He asks. I'm like look at the size of it. Look in the label. Seems like history is repeating itself here🤦🏻‍♀️😅

DD at 13 decided to cook herself some pasta but didn't add any water then in her panic lifted the boiling hot pan and placed it on my vinyl table cloth, which left a perfect circle shaped hole in it.

DS (16 at the time, I think) was filling his fish tank with a hosepipe attached to the tap, but thought he would have time to eat his dinner while it was filling... needless to say, he forgot about it until water started pouring through the ceiling downstairs. I asked him why he didn't just turn it off while he came down (there was plenty of water for the fish to be ok for a while). Of course his logic was different from mine!

In my 30s- still can’t do rice!!