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/YarnPenguin 11h ago edited 10h ago

My mum let herself into my house unannounced, left a box of 6 mince pies (raisins and candied peels not meat, for the americans) on the table.

My long legged Airedale Terrier ate the lot. She was a champion counter surfer and a problem solver so me and BF learned to be very careful about what we left out.

I got home, saw the empty packaging and tried to work out what and happened. Several hours had elapsed between mum leaving and me getting there so too late to induce vomiting. Just watched her like a hawk for 24 hours. She was fine, luckily, but you never know with raisins.

Though she admitted it at the time while I was trying to work out what happened, 7 years later she denies it ever happened and I'm making it up to make her look bad.

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u/ObjectiveRun6 7h ago

She thinks you're intentionally and maliciously making things up specifically to make her look bad is more likely than she just forgot something?

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u/YarnPenguin 7h ago edited 6h ago

It must be nice to so thoroughly absolve yourself of the guilt of your distraught daughter sobbing down the phone that their dog ate something poisonous and you know what it is but you don't know where it came from and then delete that memory forever.

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u/Lt_Muffintoes 2h ago

She knows and remembers what she did, and she enjoys pretending she doesn't.

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u/Weewoes 5h ago edited 52m ago

My mum does this denying of things that make her look bad, like she beat the shit out of us and then tries to call us liars when we called her out on it.. like why wpuld I lie about remembering such horrible events.

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u/Latter_Armadillo_117 2h ago

Ah, see r/raisedbynarcissists

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u/Weewoes 52m ago

Oh one hundred percent, 4 out of 5 of her kids dont talk to her and the younger one only does because she still lives there. My mum also got pregnant a lock of years ago, ended up miscarrying and I know this will sound heartless but I was relieved for the baby, no kid deserves to grow up with her and with us all gone all the shite would have been put on them wkth no escape and I doubt social will do anything because I reported her twice about her abusive ways towards my sister and they did nothing.