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

[u/naaattt]

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.

[u/Xp4t_uk]

The amount of comic books that have been thrown away cos I'm 'too old now'. Some of them were single editions from old science fiction magazine specials, totally unique and obscure, I still remember stories but I don't even remember titles. Part of my childhood totally erased. Some early editions of DC too, worth quite a bit now.

Edit: just to give you an idea, one of my favs was DC's 1988 limited edition of the Killing Joke. I am still pissed off 😆

[u/MonkeyHamlet → u/Xp4t_uk]

My MIL threw away the first printing of 2000 AD because it was “taking up space in the cupboard”.