Top things your teenager boys do that annoy you

[Pythianlegumes]

Just as the title says. I am writing a comedy about teenage boys, and a lot of the audience will be parents. I am aware of many of boy's shortcomings, but list your top ones in case I have left some out.

[shoddyandolder]

Mine is either stinky or can't get him out of the shower. Uses shower gel at an alarming rate. Leaves wet towel on floor EVERY DAY. Uses the laundry basket as 'storage' meaning I have to sniff everything before i wash it as some of it is suspiciously clean. Will wear wet things if he is determined to wear them.

[gettingeasier]

Hilarious and sooo true of my 15 yo DS , btw he falls into clean category.

Reading this have realised I have been falling for the "yes Mum" tactic thinking oh hes so easy going (as opposed to 12 yo DD) and not fully clocking its a placatory move !

Actually very good will say What can I eat Mum rather than tucking in regardless

Screaming at PS3, dirty clothes towels etc and " Mum I ma not trying to fight with you but if its my room then waht does it matter if its tidy ? Can you just explain, seriously"

To be soppy and not spoil the thread he came and sat with me watching the likes of Come Dine With Me and Strictly for the first 18 months after his Dad left and never made it feel like a chore or favour

[RelaxTheCacks]

14 yr old who is bigger than me and like FIFIBEBE he tells me I'm small, still cowers when I roar though Heh heh.
He wees on the loo seat.
Asks is his shirt washed 10 mins before he is due to leave.
uses the house as a home for his beweldered mates.

And all of the above too !

[kaylathecat]

I have two DSs aged 15 and 17.

They:

• Have long and loving conversations with the dogs, but just grunt at me.
  
• Put sweaty school shirts in the tumble drier rather than wash them (when there are no clean ones because I've said its time they learnt to do their own washing).
  
• Lose their reason to live if their headphones go missing.
  
• Wear their sports kit every day of the year.
  
• Don't know how to open the door to the dishwasher.
  
• Cover the kitchen in batter mix at midnight.
  
• Leave vague messages about where they need picking up from, late at night, when the battery on their mobile is about to die. eg "From the corner of the road that sticks out. I'll be on the wall."
  
• And all the above too.

[argghh]

Another key lost this weekend .... ho hum, fortunately key cutters soing a special deal so have stocked up!

[Mollers]

Have read nearly all of this thread I think we might all be sharing the same son....
Leaving shoes and bag immediately behind front door so it won't open and I have to knock to get into my own house
Phone always going to voicemail and then getting a text saying 'ring again'
Wet towels
Crusty bed tissues
Hands constantly down pants
Staying awake till late, refusing to get up and telling me to 'chill' when I start to lose it in the mornings
Inability to see things that are under his nose
Inability to flush toilet and pee into it instead of on the seat
Ability to spend his weekly money within a day and then skulk behind me saying 'everyone else is going to the cinema but I'm not bothered.....'
Inability to go up or down stairs quietly
Ability to eat all sweet things and crisps within an hour of me buying them
Getting changed 3 or 4 times a day and putting clothes into dirty wash
Lying about what time everyone else can stay out till

and that is just the start of my list..........but he is a gem and I wouldn't be without him

[Mollers]

Oh yeah, and the:

'have you seen my headphones/xbox controller/charger/gloves/neckwarmer/insert your own favourite'

and then 'well I definitely left it there so YOU must have moved it'

Grrrrr

[percysgirl]

Oh where do I start DS is 16 ..... deep breath .....

Odd socks
Blackberry glued to hand but never switched on when I ring (!)
Eats everything and I do mean everything
Doesn;t like what I cook but will eat same meal at his mates house
Winding DD (14) and DS (4) up .......... constantly
All secretive
Doesn't talk unless you can understand grunts
Has to be practically thrown into shower
Steals my hair gel/hairspray/moisturiser/etc when meeting a girl
Never introduced to said girl (s)
Never has homework .E.V.E.R.
Likes to leave a pair of trainers in every room in the house
Thinks my car was bought just as his personal taxi
Thinks I have a money tree growing in the garden (I wish )

But I love him and he loves me :o

[Libermonkey]

I never realised that's why the socks were crunchy

[MumorMug]

Brilliant, I am not alone! All of the above, although my DS isn't taller than me and I haven't encountered the 'crusty socks'........yet

One more for the list though....wipes bogeys behind radiator in the bedroom

[TotallyLaLa]

lolol!!! I find bogies on the wall above the bed! Nice

[SecondhandRose]

My friend says her kids have a 'floordrobe'.

My DS is nearly 17

Wet towels on the floor or bed
Rubbish on floor
Rubbish under or down sides of furniture ditto with dirty washing
Constant XBox
Apart from that he is lovely
Still gives cuddles, nearly 6ft 4" now with size 12 feet but skinny as a rake.

[OlympicEater]

Think my friend is having some teen ishoos this morning.

Her FB status reads "Olympic's friend will never understand teenagers. Minus 3 and won't wear a coat. Must be all that attitude that keeps them warm."

[can so relate] emoticon

[TotallyLaLa]

oh I am so going to use the "must be the attitude keeping you warm" comment to my 14 yo DD

Fabulous. Ta Olympic

[doinmummy]

i have DD 14. Nearly all of the above I can relate to.
Do your DS ask for a lift to town then half way there ask you to pick up their mate who lives in the opposite direction?
Brings friends round for a sleepover without asking. Cant say no as said friends parents have all arranged to go out because they've got a kid free evening!

[fredlin]

Most of the above only to be expected but did not anticipate long-term occupation of the moral high ground. Hard line disapproval of parents' drinking (weekends only may I add), failures in domestic provisioning - fridge/cupboards (box of cereal every two days and then, without warning, same brand despised and left to fester), less than immediate answers to questions and, tonight we were berated because neither of us was a classicist. Massive but unpublished list of 'banned phrases' that I must never utter. Everything I say met with heavy irony or, more often, silence and a look of contempt. Definitely detect a pretty masculine, forensic brain developing but am keeping cheerful nonetheless.

[TotallyLaLa]

Oh fredlin how funny they are. According to my DS, I am just plain embarrassing (although not so embarrassing as when I have been shopping and DS and it seems like 20 of his friends all fancy a snack!!)
Cereal problems I totally relate to .... I never knew kids could go off food so quickly :o

[Datun]

Oh, thank God. Everyone's teen is the same as mine. His ultimate saving grace is how he can endlessly (and generally unwittingly) amuse me for hours. For instance, on donning a sleeveless top and wondering whether I was a little too old for a strappy number, I made the mistake of asking for his sartorial advice (no daughters):
Me (critically surveying mirror): Do my arms look ok in this top?
Him (not looking up from texting): Huh?
Me: Do my arms look ok? Y'know, I don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb.
Him (still not looking): What does that mean?
Me: Y'know, mutton is old, lamb is young...
Him (head still down): No, you look fine. Mutton dressed as mutton with bad arms.

[bubby64]

Needs to be blackmailed to get them in shower, then you need the hot water to run out to get them out, wet towels dropped where ever they last stood, dirty clothes in piles on floor, often mixed with clean, ironed, folded clothes which they don't bother to put away. The overiding smell of lynx, eating all the crisps, biscuits, junk food available, then complaining they are hungry, offer them fruit or something healthy, and its as if you are offering them poison, slamming of doors, not listening or answering you because their ears are always plugged with earphones attached to phone, ipod or xbox, using 1/2 roll toilet paper on every visit, and then not flushing

[bubby64]

I think thats all for today.....
By the way, my 2 are still 12, so by the looks of the rest of this thread, things are not going to improve soon .......

[zaphod]

Thanks for this. I feel so much better about my teen boys now. Phew!

[Ilovewaleswhenitrains]

I'm glad I read this thread, my son is 14 and does the majority of the above. But he is still cuddly (even though a lot taller than me) .

[FiftyshadesofYoni]

Mine does everything listed but is so cheeky and full of banter for his old mumsy that he gets away with it

[marriedinwhiteagain]

Everything listed but for the provocative arguments he starts and won't back down.
Inability to get stuff ready the night before and the "where are my cricket whites" when we both need to have left the house five minutes earlier.

[Merguez]

uses all the hot water in a very long shower.

Stinks of Lynx.

Grunts.

watches TV while simultaneously playing a game or watching You Tube on his iPhone.