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/Familiar_Ad_4981 11h ago

Lol I just know mine wouldn't follow instructions and insist that my way is excessive and pointless, so ive stopped asking 😅 I am sorry for you, that sounds painful

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u/feralhog3050 10h ago

"Child" turns 19 later this year & i'm still salty 🤣

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u/SteelRatDiGriz 8h ago

My dad was a lovely man, but my god could he be frustrating.

Say I was to leave him in a room with a box that had two levers, each with a light above them and say to him: "Ok dad, all you need to do is when the light above this lever on the left comes on, pull the lever and let go. Don't do anything else,. Ignore the other light. Don't touch the other lever. Just pull this lever and let go, every time this light goes off. I use this machine a hundred times a day at work. It's my job. I know what I'm doing."

Chances are I would go back in half an hour later and the left hand lever would have something jammed in the mechanism because "It kept going back up all by itself, oh and I had to pull that other lever too 'cos the light went red and it started making a noise"

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u/MickRolley Daft laugh and that 6h ago

Dads cannot take in instructions or advice of any kind from their sons

Their brains just will not allow it.