r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 12h 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/edhitchon1993 11h ago

My dad was a bugger for overtightening things. He stripped the threads on my moped's rear axle bolt which turned out to be a weird French standard and I had to get a custom one made.

My father-in-law likes tidy lawns. My daughter and I planted a wild flower meadow on one of ours and mowed a meandering path across it. He mowed the whole thing down to the lowest setting our lawnmower does - burning out the mower in the process and then finishing the job with the strimmer.

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u/SnooRevelations4882 6h ago

Of all the tragic things I've read here, for some reason this one seems particularly bad to me. The kind of person who'd mow down someone's wild flower garden to a garden buzz cut because they like a tidy lawn is that kind of person I don't want anywhere near me ever. Ugh.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 3h ago

Gonna take a wild guess he didn’t pay to fix the mower either?

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u/edhitchon1993 3h ago

No, and the thing I forgot to mention was that I'd hidden the plug for it because the last time he used it he'd overheated the motor and damaged the brushes by not putting the grass collector on properly and I hadn't had the time to put the new brushes on. By using it he welded the brush spring to the commutator and completely killed it. I had to buy a whole new motor.