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 remember way, way back when. My brother was a teen (18/19) and he stuck a bottle of pop into the freezer so it would be cold when he took it to work the next day. Back then, pop was only in glass bottles and it makes a lot of noise when it blows up in the freezer. And he was an honor high school and college student.

Even us grown-ups do dumb stuff once in a while. My Dad tried to loosen the bolts on the toilet with a sledgehammer. One bathroom for everyone. Oh what fun, when, as a teen, we caravaned up to the gas station every couple hours to use the restroom. The poor man, God love him, did not get along with toilets, and we lost more than a few in the years growing up.

I took Home-Ec as a teen. Once, I could hardly wait to make cinnamon rolls for my family because they were so good. Really should have been a tad bit more careful copying the recipe. The difference between 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 Tablespoon of salt is HUGE! t=teaspoon T=tablespoon.

In the 90s, my younger bro dropped and smashed a jar of Branston pickle and then hoovered it up. Dad was wondering why the vacuum cleaner smelled ‘spicy’ and then blew up. To be absolutely fair, if you’d never vacuumed the carpet, then why would you know not to vacuum pickle? We laugh about it to this day!

my teen daughter at the time put her full hand on the hotplate to see if it was hot, resulting in very painful blisters

My DS - now in his 20s, so really should have more common sense - told me recently about a brilliant tip he’d discovered. Apparently, if you toast your bread the night before and stick in the microwave for a minute in the morning, it saves time. I pointed out that he could possibly cut out the middle man by putting his bread straight in the toaster in the morning as it would also take around a minute, it would be fresher and he could do it the same time as he put the kettle on for his cup of tea!

What is it with toasters that somehow make young people lose all rationale?

I was the ultimate teenager with lots of brains and no common sense. I recognise my teenage self in a lot of these stories

I put a takeaway cheese burger in the oven to keep warm. Didn't take it out of the yellow polystyrene box. Late 40s. I'm not even adding a defence 😕

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Got a love a chancer 🤦‍♀️😂

I left home at 18. Had a flat, paid all my bills, full time job. A very well functioning adult. However..... I was trying to teach myself to cook. My parents never cooked anything that wasn't frozen. I decided it would be roast potatoes. I read to heat the oil before adding the potatoes. My donbass heated the oil in a baking tray on the hob and it over heated and the smoke in my studio flat would make you pass out. Luckily I had huge sash windows and I got it off of the hob. Stupidity put cold water on it making the smoke 100 times worse and black all up the wall!

To.make it worse my older bf (now my dh) was coming round and I was so embarrassed I was trying to clear the smoke and then had to wash down the walls. Stank of smoke for ages. People walking past where laughing at me trying ti waft smoke out the window. I was ground level studio flat on a main road.

Anyways, sorted all. If arrived a couple of hours later. No food and it still smelt. I blames the smell on a neighbour.....

I'm an excellent cook now! 🤣

My 40ish husband hoovered up brick dust with our brand new Miele hoover.

It wasn't ruined but it's filthy inside, even washing and scrubbing doesn't seem to get all the crud off.

So it's not just the kids who are daft

A neighbours daughter asked me to put some large rollers in her long hair, which I did. I said go home and dry it then come back and I'll finish it off for you. An hour later she came back, hair still wet, she hadn't used hair dryer as she thought it would melt the rollers.
Offered to hoover for me (upright hoover) didn't press foot button to release handle and was trying to hoover with handle locked upright. 🤦

I wasn't feeling well so asked my 14 year old to make the gravy to go with the dinner I'd prepared. Told him how to do it plus he'd seen me do it lots of times (just Bisto gravy granules). Anyway got into bed and left them to eat. A few mins later hear them all moaning about the gravy. Turns out he'd added the entire tub of gravy granules, he thought one full container was needed for each time 😆🙈. The gravy was like cement, no idea how he'd mixed it!

Missing the point of the thread entirely, I know, but the ‘what three words’ app essentially does this too — globally. It’s great!

That's horrific, that poor man. Our switchboard had been installed the day before so it was the latest and greatest but the electrician forgot a bit. We never got so much as an apology either!

Teenage me + a minibus full of friends set off on a camping trip from the south coast, back in the olden days before smartphones. We got as far as Birmingham before we realised the driver had no idea where he was going. I had to phone my parents to ask how to get to Wales. They were incredulous ("turn left!") but got out their trusty A-Z to locate us and give us directions to Snowdonia. Where we also got lost coming down the mountain

That's because your 10 year old isn't a teenager, duh.

When my son went to uni there was hirlmin his boom who would cook full Sunday lunch twice a month. She charged everyone and made a canny little profit! Everyone happy all round!

These are making me laugh! I thought I'd done a pretty good job of teaching dd life skills before sending her off to uni, but got a text from her on day 2 "I'm trying to get a bus, but they keep not stopping." I guess I forgot to tell her to put her arm out!
I do still get texts from both my girls at uni of the "how long will I cook this for?" Or "can I eat this (green) potato?)
And just watched teenage ds make pasta tonight with hot water from the tap (because apparently boiling the kettle is a huge effort..)

But sometimes you have to learn by experimenting! Teenage me at uni managed to start a fire and a flood at the same time- went out shopping and brought back steak pie and ice cream. Put pie in oven, went to put ice cream in freezer, discovered it completely iced over. Spent next hour trying to defrost it (a fish slice and a cheese grater were employed, I believe) When I came in from air I realised kitchen was full of smoke, steak pie on fire! Threw it out of the window in a panic, went around opening windows etc, slipped in massive pool of water from half defrosted freezer and landed on the cheese grater!
I promise, I am generally quite competent these days!

So why were you still reading??! Obviously still entertaining you otherwise you’d moved on your negativity to another thread!

why do some people just enjoy sucking the joy out of light hearted threads?!

There was a comment upthread that one of these posters had got ‘halfway across the world’ on her high horse !!

ConnieHeart, I used to work for a big insurance company, they aren't keen on paying out, and if they do you can rest assured they will increase the premiums big time.

Dd is 19 now but when she was about 16 I came downstairs to a strange smell and she was cooking instant noodles in the microwave with no water added?! I asked why she had not thought to read instructions and she just shrugged her shoulders 🙄

I blame the parents.

I’m 36 and hate phoning anyone lol if I could text the dr for an appointment I would 😂 but it is a good idea for the younger generations who haven’t grown up using the phone for calling people

I can totally see my almost 12 year old heading the same way, she's quite competent but she already complains "but you never told me that!" whenever she does something without thinking it through. Cannot wait to see what she'll be up to in the next few years!
I was going to but a new toaster soon, but after reading this thread I think I'll wait until the old one has been put out of its misery first! 😂

My DD (now in her 20s) thought the hoover had a volume dial. She absolutely could not accept that it's actual function was to increase/decrease the suction, and used to wonder plaintively why I insisted on "hoovering at full volume" 🤣

Obviously she would turn it down to its lowest setting when she hoovered, and then not understand there was still cat hair everywhere