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😂😂😂

Dh’s grandpa, into his mid 90s, used to boil his eggs in the kettle and use the same water to make his morning tea.

When I first arrived on the scene as the first serious girlfriend of this generation, Dh and MIL had to do a lot of scrambling around for fresh water because he apparently kept trying to make me coffee with 2 day old boiled egg water. Apparently, the kettle makes quite a nice boiled egg, so I’m told.

Are these the teenagers you all want to leave at home for a week and let travel alone? This is why people ask 😂

Oh bore off. This thread is ace. We all do silly things from time to time.

I don't know how they survive outside the house without a parent.

One of my SD15's masterstrokes recently was building an "obstacle course" for my 4 yo out of furniture piled up on top of each other and then encouraging her to "complete the challenge". I thought they were watching a movie together. I walked in just in time to catch DD who was about to fall from a tower of assorted objects onto an upside-down chair.

Well done you

My 19 year old son did a year at catering college and worked at a carvery...I texted today asking him to get the veg on for the roast dinner cos I was at a hospital appointment and it was running late ( the meat was already done). I got home to find him still peeling the spuds but the Swede and carrot (only about 1 Carrott between 5 of us) was already boiled! So no it's not just your son

My two daughters are nothing like the teens on this thread, thank God. They have been raised earlier than anticipated due to my health collapsing when they were 7 and four, to cook, operate a washing machine and iron, and other such things. My eldest, when on her residential trip age ten was the only one who was able to put her duvet in the cover and brought all her dirty clothes back in it's designated bag and not mixed in with the clean ones. My friends were extremely envious of that. They can also paint and decorate, assemble furniture, and know basic car maintenance before they started to drive. Most of this has been due to necessity due to my health, but neither feel hard done by as we've still had fun and they are largely prepared for adult life

When I was 15 I was pretty smart, and had a good understanding of general science/safety/home ec, but I still tried to wash up an electric whisk in hot soapy water whilst it was still plugged in. I didn't get a lucky escape and ended up in quite a serious condition in hospital.

17 years later I'm a fully functioning adult!

I'm sure in a few years I'll have my own stories about DD to add, she's only 11 but bless sometimes she is a away with the fairies 😁

Reminds me of the time I wondered what would happen to a bit of toilet roll if I held it above my lit candle. Burnt my fingers and signed my carpet. Luckily I learnt not to do THAT again.

I remember the time my sister tried to microwave a frozen family sized pie. And the time she boiled some sausages, the proceeded to place the boiling hot pan on the plastic draining board which subsequently melted of course. I don't think I've ever seen my mum so mad.

That had me crying with laughter! 😂😂

I used to eat raw bacon as a kid, when it was shopping day and nothing left. Pretty gross when I think about it, as parma ham etc was not a thing in my area of the UK in the 80’s. I was just hungry and that was all that was left!

Friends daughter rang her to ask how do I lock the door. Her Mother said - turn the key that's in the lock. The daughter replied, that's why I called you - I wasn't sure which way. Mother, did you not just give it try? There are only two options!

Oh I do hope my kids grow up without any common sense too. I’ll be crying with laughter! Crying!

Ah so many of these have had me in stitches!
I can’t think of any of my own right now but I’m absolutely certain my teens have had some proper brain fart moments.
No one can know EVERYTHING, and some things like ‘no metal in the microwave’ don’t always ring true. You can use it in ours for example and although I’m sure I’ve said to the dc before that you can’t use it in all microwaves I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if they forgot if they went elsewhere.

When I was sixteen my mum asked me to put the cream sofa covers in the wash while she was out. A bright pink cushion cover from my bedroom was sitting on top of them in the basket ... I'm sure you can guess. I've never lived it down.

I just want to add that some of my Mum's carers, grown adults, put cheese on her teacakes before putting in the toaster! When a note was left about that they used to microwave the cheese on top to melt it. Very much better still than leaving the grill on, shutting the grill door, and going. So not just teenagers.
My own 18 year old teen flooded the kitchen, through light fittings, as they forgot the bath was running, and when I came in from work to find the 15 year old teen holding a bucket under the light just hoped I wouldn't notice and then complained I wouldn't let them turn the electric back on to finish their hair! Car keys locked in the car - twice in a week. Most of the above. They all seem to function in flood free zones now though!

DS 12 was getting his stuff ready for his cookery lesson the next day and decided to eat a whole raw chilli pepper. It made him so thirsty that he downed so much water that he threw up! Asked him what he was doing - experimenting! Better than drink or drugs I guess…

To be fair, I was petrified of calling people until my 30s and I'm an 80s baby, I still hate it now but I have a grown up job so I have no choice anymore 😂

My oldest done this as well 😂😂 genuinely words fail me with her and her common sense at times!

You can try and provide all the instructions and life lessons possible but teens will still do daft things. I'm not sure whether it is a lack of application of the information they have been provided with or just a belief that now they are heading for adulthood they know better.

I thought I was inadequate in not knowing how to work a washing machine (it was a special, precious thing that no imbecile child was to be permitted to see working) when I bought my first one, was mightily confused as to how a mop did anything other than spread dirt around the floor (because there wasn't one at home) and hadn't got a clue how to work a shower because I'd only ever seen one at somebody else's house and I thought they'd laugh at me if I asked how it worked.

It was nothing compared to the ex, who when he saw I'd taken the food out, wrapped it to keep it cold - all worked out by myself - and switched the three month old (and at £199, very expensive to me on £57 a week) fridge freezer off to defrost the big lump of ice that used to be the freezer compartment, declared that I was wasting time, he knew what to do - and promptly jammed the point of a kitchen knife into the metal.

I asked my 16yo to nip to the grocers for some fresh coriander as I’d forgotten it. I explained about coriander and warned him it looked like parsley. I texted him “coriander”, sent him a picture and said ask someone if unsure.

He came back with a veritable bouquet of PARSLEY. Said it looked about right so thought it’d do.

But I was the 14 year old who practiced a gymnastics move in the park that I wasn’t confident with/competent at. Hard summer ground and falling mid flip meant a dislocated elbow and my poor grandpa having to drive 20 minutes to collect me whilst I tried not to vomit/faint from the pain. Learned a big lesson with that one.

My ds is just 18, and can do normal things like washing and cooking basic stuff.
However, we live in the countryside and drive everywhere, so when faced with taking a train on his own for the first time, he used the train app for info rather than the platform screens. The app told him his train was one minute late, so when a train arrived at the platform at the same time his train should have been due, he stood there, watched the doors open and close, and only after the train left did he realise he’d missed it.
We have not let him forget this, and it gets brought up at every opportunity 😆

I'm sorry about your health, but your children have become your carers. There is support now for children who are careers.That's not the normal teen experience

I remember DB putting potatoes on the stove to boil but failing to add water to the pan.