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If teenagers were on AIBU

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drinkswineoutofamug · 08/10/2017 09:11

My mums a right biddy. Right I can roll my school skirt up 3 times to get it short. Maxine says it’s well good and Darren says I have nice legs. But OMG my biddy mum says she can see my breakfast when I bend over! I mean OMG! Really! Says I’m not going out the house like that. She’s so old . She’s 35 and knows nothing about being a teenager. She still used a tin can and string to talk to her old biddy mates. Aibu?

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LonginesPrime · 08/10/2017 13:28

JackieMac77 Ikr, the grandma trick is the best! My bitch mother is still not talking to Grandma, so I can keep telling Grandma that I can't get hold of mum and need money and Grandma has to keep giving it to me as she can't check with mum and feels sorry for me!

NamasteTheFuckAwayFromMe That happened to me too - literally ages ago I wrote 'Taylor Swift' and 'One Direction' around posters of them on my bedroom wall, before they got covered with vampire posters. My mum went to paint the walls a few months ago and went absolutely ballistic at me as the house is rented (which is entirely her decision - I would've just bought a house 'cause then you can do what you want to it, obviously, so it's her own stupid fault anyway).

Then, mum started painting the walls and when they had dried, the red sharpie still showed through, as if it was written on top of the paint. So the fussy cow made a big deal about the fact she had to scrape the paint off and replaster a section of the wall, and had another massive go at me. I was like WTAF? I can't predict the future can I? I didn't know One Direction were going to split up, did I? And even if I did, it wasn't my fault they (ironically) went their separate ways was it? Irony is literally the only thing I remember from GCSE English lessons, and that's the only reason why. She was like blaming me for it! Plus, Taylor Swift's new song isn't even that lame, so I don't even know why my mum is so bothered.

hopingforhappiness · 08/10/2017 13:33

So my parents keep, like, saying I should like, revise for me exams?
But they don’t, like, count because they are just, like, mocks?
I might, like, do a bit for the real, like, GCSEs next year?
But, like, I don’t need them anyway because, like, I’m going to be, like, famous?
I have, like, no specific talent but, like, I can post some YouTube vids and companies will, like, just give me, like, massive hauls of stuff?
Then I can, like, go on Love Island and be, like, even more famous?

(Why do teens make every sentence sound like a question?)

NamasteTheFuckAwayFromMe · 08/10/2017 13:36

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OnTheSherry · 08/10/2017 13:41

So I told Mum to get me some new Converse by Monday and to definitely make sure they were, like, the latest edition and not those sad all-white ones she wears with her mum-jeans. So, anyway, yeah...she shows me the 'lovely new running shoes' she got me this morning (running shoes? Hello?!) and they are NOT EVEN CONVERSE. They're from this sad shop where mum buys her mum boots called Next. Next. Sounds so Tragic, right? I literally CANNOT trust her to buy me anything. GOD.

SaucyJack · 08/10/2017 13:45

AIBU to think my Mum should chillax about Dan swearing? And she says he's better looking than Phil. She doesn't even ship Phan.

She just doesn't get how like Oh Em Gee they are.

Willow2017 · 08/10/2017 13:49

My ridiculous mum asked me to go to the shop yesterday to get us a treat. WTAF? I was BUSY. I was lying on my bed playing Skyrim. I was doing a quest ffs. She knows that that's far more important than real life shit.
She obviously hasn't learned as she is telling me to get all the washing she has ironed and put it away. Ffs it's all my school clothes and I don't go back for a week I can easily dump it on my desk and leave it there until next Sunday and if all my other stuff is put on top of it it's easier to pick it up instead of going to all the trouble of opening drawers isn't It? But no, she says if I don't put it away she will surgically remove my phone from my hand for 2 days! How bloody unreasonable can she get?

LondonNanny90 · 08/10/2017 15:27

YABU - no teenagers are called Darren or Maxine these days 😂 It's 2017 not 1992 (lighthearted!)

MardAsSnails · 08/10/2017 15:38

Who is BU? Mum told me to sort my own breakfast out before school, so I did, and I got out of he house in time to catch the bus. Now she gives me shit for doing it?

yeah so what if what I ate was half a chocolate cake? If she doesn't care enough to make my breakfast, I'm gonna eat what I want.

No I'm not unreasonable!! The cake was there. She said to feed myself. So I ate cake. Yeah I did this two days in a row. So what? Make my toast then, woman!!!

actual me when I was 14. This still gets brought up from time to time

drinkswineoutofamug · 08/10/2017 15:58

london how did you know I was a teenager in 1992😂
Then were the days

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ssd · 08/10/2017 16:03

I suppose it depends on the age of the teenager

13/14 - AIBU to think mum shouldn't complain when I dont get dressed at the weekend and just game?

18/19- AIBU to worry about getting a job and whether I'll ever own a home?

WhatHaveIFound · 08/10/2017 16:03

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Harvestmoonsobig · 08/10/2017 16:11

surely a Classic?

tigerdriverII · 08/10/2017 16:18

My mum is like totally embarrassing. Yesterday we were at a football match and Ben was there with his dad. And the cow actually went and waved at them, I begged her not to but she laughed in my face and told ME to LIGHTEN UP!!! I don’t know how I can face him at school tomorrow after that TOTAL HUMILIATION.

chubley · 08/10/2017 17:14

My mum won't give me £50 a week, it's so sham. I mean, like, I'm 15 now so I need it to chill out with mates and get a takeaway every day but she says I can eat the food at home. They chat shit all the time. They wanna know where I'm going and who I'm with, I'm only going to the park, innit.

blueskyinmarch · 08/10/2017 17:20

Well yah, we went to Sainsbos but, yah they didn't have the right pesto, so yah we went to Waitrose and yah we got it there and, yah we got some nice gin. Then we went to the arts library and put in a few hours, yah, and Charlotte and Lucy came round. It was a blast.

( I can't be the only one with a private school educated, uni student teen?)

UtahGirl12 · 08/10/2017 17:32

OMG, my bitch of a mum has no idea just how important it is that I actually have, like, my phone, attached to me, like all the time. She even expects me to put it down when I am eating, like, duh, I can hold it in one hand and my fork in the other. Simples. all she has to do is cut it up for me first, like, innit. You wouldn't think that would cause her to sound off, but it did, like, again! How else am I am going to know like, how many likes, I have? My facebook photo is banging, I've got my cropped top on and am sucking it all it, like, big time, while pushing out the girls so they look ahmayzing! Loads better than that slag Jodie, she was practically naked. At least I kept my bra on, didn't I? You'd think that would make the old bitch happy, but she's just wel jel cos hers are sagging down to her knees. I've had about 74 replies so far, all saying things like "you look gawg doll" and "well hawt" so, like I have to reply to every one, even if it's a simple, like, "thanks babe, no you the stunna, not me". I think I really like nailed it in this one, it's one of my best yet; brows on fleek, trout pout lip lined in a different colour to really emphasis my lips, and the girls on display. So, why can't the old cow see I need to respond to my fans, like INSTANTLY! Omg, like, she wants me to be polite! AIBU????

eyebrowsonfleek · 08/10/2017 17:33

Ds1
My mum insists that I eat my meals in the kitchen with the rest of the family. I think that I should be allowed to eat in my room while I listen to Spotify and game then leave the dishes up there until I’m ready to bring them down. AIBU?

Dd
My mum is always asking me embarrassing questions like what I’m listening to on Spotify or what I want for Christmas. Shouldn’t she know that my music is too cool for her and I want cash. Durrr

Ds2
My mum is always telling me to get on with my homework before I game. AIBU YOutube and PS4 are more important?

MyOtherHusbandIsTomHardy · 08/10/2017 17:43

AIBU She told Me to wear a coat when I complained I was cold walking to school 😒 as if -

Bluelonerose · 08/10/2017 17:54

Omg like my mom is the biggest bitch she is in the middle of washing up and made me bring bowls down from my room coz we'd run out and she wanted to get them washed.

Could she not see me facetiming grace about what Emily told Bex who said that Tom p and Izzy saw on fb about gemmas eyebrows!!
Is she trying to ruin my social life?? Just coz shes old and never been cool.

PlausibleSuit · 08/10/2017 18:01

This shouldn't be called AIBU, it should be EIUEM (Everyone Is Unreasonable Except Me).

nokidshere · 08/10/2017 18:05

Yes mum I'll be careful; Yes mum I'll watch out for hazards; Yes mum I won't drink & drive; Yes mum I'll call when I get there; No mum I won't get distracted; No mum I won't use my phone; Honestly mum I know what you are saying, I've been driving for 2 days now - stop worrying I'll be fine HmmHmm

Llamacorn · 08/10/2017 18:10

If anything, this thread has taught me how lucky I am to have such a wondeful 15yr old dd!! She's nothing like this yet

Nannyplumssillyoldelf · 08/10/2017 19:11

I love this thread.

bevelino · 08/10/2017 19:20

This thread has kept me entertained all day,