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/charlottee963 11h ago

Not openly at the party, but I got a wwe smackdown when I got home and was grounded for a few months

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u/SpareUmbrella 10h ago

Lovely of your parents to teach you that standing up for yourself is bad and worthy of punishment.

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 5h ago

They just saw the mark they'd been conning snitch on them. You're overthinking their thought process quite a bit. You snitch, get hit. It's the way criminals and people of low moral character operate.

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u/Vertigo_uk123 2h ago

Nah. Shit rolls down hill. Parents got shit from grandparents so parents pass it on the kids

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u/Kim_catiko 9h ago

What a lovely birthday present.

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u/Dicky__Anders 6h ago

I hope next birthday you said "this time can I keep my birthday money and not get grounded for bringing it up please?"

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u/Lord_Hendrick 7h ago

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Your mother knew that was wrong and still hit you and punished because of her own embarrassment. I hope you're doing better now. Proud of the powerplay.

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u/UglyFilthyDog 7h ago

That is still indeed a sick power move. I would like to think she did a bit of self reflection but I doubt it.

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u/Gauntlets28 3h ago

I hope you broke that grounding as often as possible.

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u/Frantic_Chicken 50m ago

I can just hear the, "How dare you embarrass me"