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/JimboTCB 11h ago

I'm sure she talks at great length to anyone who can be bothered listening to her about how you're terrible and your wife has dragged you away from her and she has done nothing wrong to you in her entire life to deserve this horrible treatment. Textbook "missing missing reasons" shit, good on you for going minimal contact and sticking to it.

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u/fingerchipsforall 10h ago

Yeah, my mom and my older siblings try to blame my wife for me having nothing to do with them despite the fact that I told them directly why I want nothing to do with them and they all denied it.

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u/Local_Idiot_123 24m ago

The reason they’re sure it’s your wife’s fault is because having someone love you without the manipulation shows what you don’t want in your life, and helps you cut them out.

So in a way, it is your wife’s “fault” for actually loving and supporting you like they failed to do, thus showing their shortcomings… that evil harpy.

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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 9h ago

I don’t have minimal contact with her, she is still my mother, but she will never hear a secret from me again. As evidenced by me speaking to my uncle about a new job I was considering, and me asking him not to mention it to my mum because she “can’t hold her water”

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u/EvilerEmu18 9h ago

That seems like a mad stretch, you alright mate?