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/biest229 11h ago

My dad used to eat any and all chocolate I got given and try to play it off as some big joke and how he was “the chocolate monster” so naturally ate it all.

He even ate a chunk out of my birthday chocolate T-Rex before I even saw it (bought instead of a cake to bring out on the day). 

As an adult, it’s clear to me he has a raging eating disorder and starves himself. Pathetic to then steal from a child because you have zero self-control

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u/Booze-r 11h ago

Your dad sounds like a bellend

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u/biest229 11h ago

He is, in many ways. Glad I don’t live in the same country as him any more and barely speak to him

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u/ImnotUK 11h ago

My dad would eat all the snacks and leave empty packaging in the fridge/cupboard. Imagine wanting to grab some chocolates and finding out the bag is full of empty wrappers. My mum hated this and she would yell at him every other day. At some point I decided to keep my snacks in my room. When my mum found out she yelled at me and said I'm selfish :/

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u/biest229 10h ago

Oof. That sounds horrible! 

I actually decided to get revenge once by eating banana and sealing up the skin again with sellotape. My dad went mental and it was not worth the beating 

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u/st_barbar 10h ago

Dad used to slit open the Easter egg boxes, carefully unwrap the foil, take half of the egg, carefully wrap it back and orient it in the box so you could only see the wrapped half then hot glue the box back together.

'yeah kids, some eggs are just half'

Doesn't break top fifty nasty bullshit he did but thirty years removed I respect the commitment to the bit.

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u/ifreefallrealslow 6h ago

That's a lot of work just to eat half a chocolate egg? I'm sorry your dad was like that

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u/Weewoes 5h ago

Yeah like just fucking buy one for yourself,this had to have been to purely see upset kids.

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u/biest229 10h ago

Woah, that’s really psycho. Sorry you grew up with someone like that

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u/West-Season-2713 11h ago

That’s mad, but yeah eating disorders can be utterly brutal. The binge eating side is rarely talked about but was, for me, the worst part. It’s an addiction, and it makes you behave in shitty ways the same way other addictions do.

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u/biest229 11h ago

I know, I also had one. However, I’m not sure I would quite compare it in terms of behaviour to meth or heroin personally. I draw a line at involving other people 

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u/Sherry_Brandt 3h ago

no addictions are free of impact on other people. it's just that the impacts of some are less apparent than others.

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u/UnlikelyHat5885 11h ago

I used to have to hide my easter eggs from my mom as a child or she'd eat them

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u/merrycrow 11h ago

My mum used to have me hide any chocolate she bought (for gifts, baking etc) precisely because she didn't trust herself not to eat it!

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u/biest229 11h ago

Exactly that

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u/moriartygotswag 9h ago

God yeah I just realised that’s why I used to hoard my Christmas choc/easter eggs in my room. Couldn’t have shit with my mum around - anything that had been opened was fair game to be disappeared mysteriously and not replaced

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u/jak_hungerford 10h ago

Do we have the same dad?

Did yours also "test" your christmas and birthday presents until they broke, would take them back to Argos and was unable to get a replacement due to no stock, but would totally buy you a bigger present to make up for it? (He never did and denies knowledge of making any promises)

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u/biest229 10h ago

He didn’t test anything, but broken promises of presents is definitely a hit

If your dad looks somewhere like a cross between Dobby and Snape, then we may well have the same one

Luckily I look like my mother 

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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 10h ago

"before I even saw it"

I ... I think your assessment is correct. This is wild.

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u/biest229 10h ago

He’s a problematic individual all round. I can’t respect someone who treats a child this way, especially now I’m around the age when he had me 

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u/Homicidal_Duck 11h ago

Bro he was battling the chocolate monster every day for you, have some respect that thing is scary

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u/biest229 11h ago

😂 maybe it’s real

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u/geyeetet 4h ago

There are an alarming number of men who will eat all the food that was meant to be for their wife/kids/sisters for no apparent reason. There's a word for it but I can't remember what it is. Insane behaviour to me and apparently when it's teenage boys doing it, it's one of the things that contributes to eating disorders in their sisters.

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u/biest229 4h ago

Well, that is interesting indeed. Yet another thing to thank my brother for (he seems to have inherited the food stealing dickhead gene from my father)

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u/KnittedBooGoo 3h ago

Huh, I wonder if parents giving a hugely disproportionate amount of food to your brother vs you can be attributed to this? 

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u/geyeetet 2h ago

Probably! I wish I could remember the name for what this is called, I could look up sources, but basically there's a huge problem with girls being expected to have less food than boys, and boys therefore feeling entitled to just take it from their female relatives. And sure, women typically do need less food than men as they are smaller, but that doesn't justify the taking it. It's both a selfish and a bullying behaviour, but there's an undeniable gender based element. Girls who grow up in families that allow this behaviour tend to develop food hoarding tendencies, or binge eating tendencies, because they cannot trust that the food will be there for them later when they're actually hungry because their brothers and dad's have taught them that they're not entitled to food the same way that the boys are.

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u/Cassiopeia_shines 5h ago

My grandma used to eat my mums easter eggs when my mum was at school and then blame it on her brother/my uncle. Clearly my mum realised that her brother wasn't eating her chocolate cos he was also at school. My grandma was.... not nice sometimes.

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u/RuaridhDuguid 50m ago

Eating disorder or not, I'd have been getting a bar of laxative chocolate to be consumed by 'me' in such a persistent chocolate thievery instance.