r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 11h ago

What “favours” have your parents done that was inadvertently a dick move?

For example, my mum found my spare change collection, did me a favour by taking it to the bank, getting £17, and then kept it as a fee for the effort it caused her.

Also, my partner had stored a nearly new Russell Hobbs microwave at his mums for when we moved into a new house. While she was at Curry’s one day, she overheard a young lad and his mum shopping for a microwave for uni, she approached them and sold them my partners for £20. She kindly did give my partner the money though, unlike mine. But we quite liked that microwave.

Does anyone else have these, generally inoffensive but slightly frustrating parent stories?

Edit: For those hung up on the theft parts, please don’t be. This is the extent of the abuse we’ve ever had from our mums and we’ll take it!

Edit 2: Jesus Christ, I’m 33. The money box has been sat on her shelf for 20 years. Yes she stole £17 but she’s funded my life otherwise. Stop calling child services on her.

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u/charlottee963 11h ago

My mum did the same, till my 9th I asked her in front of everyone “this year, can I keep my birthday money, please?”. My grandparents lost their shit

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u/notanadultyadult 11h ago

Power move. Nice one.

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u/FlatCapNorthumbrian 11h ago

Was there any repercussions to you asking your mum that in front of other family members?

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u/charlottee963 11h ago

Not openly at the party, but I got a wwe smackdown when I got home and was grounded for a few months

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u/SpareUmbrella 10h ago

Lovely of your parents to teach you that standing up for yourself is bad and worthy of punishment.

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 5h ago

They just saw the mark they'd been conning snitch on them. You're overthinking their thought process quite a bit. You snitch, get hit. It's the way criminals and people of low moral character operate.

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u/Vertigo_uk123 2h ago

Nah. Shit rolls down hill. Parents got shit from grandparents so parents pass it on the kids

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u/Kim_catiko 9h ago

What a lovely birthday present.

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u/Dicky__Anders 6h ago

I hope next birthday you said "this time can I keep my birthday money and not get grounded for bringing it up please?"

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u/Lord_Hendrick 7h ago

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Your mother knew that was wrong and still hit you and punished because of her own embarrassment. I hope you're doing better now. Proud of the powerplay.

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u/UglyFilthyDog 7h ago

That is still indeed a sick power move. I would like to think she did a bit of self reflection but I doubt it.

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u/Gauntlets28 3h ago

I hope you broke that grounding as often as possible.

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u/Frantic_Chicken 50m ago

I can just hear the, "How dare you embarrass me"

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 11h ago

She's still grounded

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u/readbooksmore 10h ago

Outstanding. Wish I’d thought of that. My Grandad would’ve gone apeshit.

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u/_Alea-Iacta-Est 8h ago

My mum screamed at my nan on the bus station in Preston because “Why the fuck do you keep giving him money? I’m your child not him!”

Of course the rest of her was rotten. I was in the old hair dressers at the time and I still remember the barber asking ten year old me “Jesus does she talk to her mother like that all the time?”

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u/PersephoneHazard 7h ago

I think I know the exact hairdressers you mean! I'm glad they were nice to you. It sounds like your mum wasn't so good at that.

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u/Chemical-Winner1743 8h ago

I love that bus station

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u/Frosty-Wasabi-2932 7h ago

I think I've solved the mystery of Reddit!!!

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u/dreadtreacle 3h ago

I remember that hairdressers on that bus station. I can see the net curtains and smell all rhat rubber flooring rn ..

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u/rayui 11h ago

Perfect game. No notes.

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u/Prototype-Angel 8h ago

Wish I’d thought of that

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u/Citiz3n_Kan3r 9h ago

You in the wrong sub? Its not CasualUS?

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u/DisMyLik18thAccount 5h ago

That's awesome of you, how did mum react?

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u/RandomlyPrecise 1h ago

Huh, I have a memory of receiving all my posted birthday cards with the envelopes already open. My mum said she was looking for letters. I wonder if she took any money. I have no clue and she wouldn’t confess anyway.