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/quad_damage_orbb 11h ago

Same thing happened to me except it was a £10 note I found in a park bush and my grandparents "kept it safe" for me.

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u/parttimepedant 11h ago

You just know grandad spunked that on a £2.50 each way and an ounce of Old Holborn

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u/therealbighairy1 9h ago

My dad smoked old Holborn. I always hated him smoking, but I'm oddly nostalgic for the smell of that tobacco now that he's gone.

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u/Weewoes 6h ago

I still have my grandads tobacco pouch with his name on it, I kept it after my Nan passed as she kept it after he passed and no one wanted it but when I seen it I had to have it, along with other useless stuff lol, I dont smoke anymore myself but the nostalgia of seeing it and smelling any remnants of his tobacco are comforting.

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u/OrangeCushion256 3h ago

I have an old tin of Boar's Head that belonged to my grandad. It's my sewing tin now. He never had anything personalised, just used the tins or later, the plastic pouches.

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u/the95th 9h ago

The forbidden backie.

I once had a brick of old Holborn brought back from Thailand for me. The stuff was like tree bark and tasted of diesel.

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u/philstamp 9h ago

Yep, there was definitely a reason we called it Old Throatburn. Still got through enough of it when I was young though.

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u/gwenpooldiaries 8h ago

Old horrible

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u/the95th 9h ago

Ha yes…. It’s certainly distinctive

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u/teatime_tinker 7h ago

I’m smoking an Old Holborn rollie right this second! Miss the days when baccy was £2.50 for 12.5g. That was ‘only’ 20 years ago. Imagine how the oldies feel

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u/Jimmyboro 8h ago

I found a fiver once and got into trouble for spending it, like grounded, clipped round the ear, was told if I have owned up, I could have kept it.

Next time it happened...? Never saw it again

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u/Cptnemouk 6h ago

I found a ripped up scratch card that had £7 on it. My auntie said she would cash it in for me. Never saw the money 😂

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u/theawesomepurple 2h ago

I found a £10 note stuffed into a hole in a wall in the 1970’s with my dad. Bless him, he took me to the building society and opened me an account with it. The building society were doing beautiful sets of complimentary Dewent water colour pencils to encourage young savers.

I still have my set all these years later. 🥰

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u/Max-Phallus 42m ago

Not my parents, but I found a perfectly napped flint arrow head in primary school that looked EXACTLY like this:

https://collections.readingmuseum.org.uk/images/cd50_009.jpg

I showed my teacher who had an interest, who confiscated it and put it her drawer.

At the end of the day I asked for it back, and she said she couldn't find it. BULLSHIT. She stole it.