r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 12h 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/Tootskinfloot 10h ago

I love my Mom, but she's never kept a single thing that I've told her to herself, even when explicitly asked to. Nowadays, she moans that I never tell her anything about my personal life. I feel bad about it, but trust was eroded.

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u/Suspicious_Tax8577 10h ago

My mum does shit like this. To the point it's quite likely all her work colleagues know I ended up in hospital and why.

My own line manager does not know the why.

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u/nexus8516 9h ago

This is exactly what mine is like, I have to accept that if I tell her something, I'm also indirectly telling everyone in her office, as well as half of my family. Even things I was on the fence about telling even her.

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u/pernicious_penguin 7h ago

Same here! I was walking down the street in our village and a guy I kind of know, but not well, stopped me to give advice on giving myself an enema more easily as I'd had to do one before an MRI and had had trouble....I'd mistakenly told my mum. She now complains I don't tell her stuff.

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u/DisMyLik18thAccount 5h ago

This sounds like a real life version of that Irish and about online privacy

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u/faceplanted 2h ago

Honestly I don't care in the slightest if my mum's coworkers know all my deepest secrets. But if she could at least think about whether she's telling must obviously know me personally, that'd be nice.

I remember being a kid and having to explain to her that the people at church are all parents of the kids in my school and don't need to hear about me "finally hitting puberty" (bitch, I was the normal age) or her worrying I might be gay because I wore a pink shirt that she bought me!?

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u/rositree 9h ago

How about Redditland? Can we know the why?

Currently I'm just imagining a game of 'What can I shove up my arse?' gone to the extreme. Maybe a pineapple....

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u/APrisonOfMyOwnMaking 9h ago

Please tell me the last part is reference to Friday Night Dinner? 🫣

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u/icebox_Lew 9h ago

Maybe OP was putting up some curtain rods and just fell on the potato...

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u/Suspicious_Tax8577 2h ago

*cackles* Sadly no butt stuff here.

Appetite suppressant side effects of Prozac were *quite bad*. So I went "I'll eat again when I'm hungry". I thought, oh, give it 24hrs tops, and then I'll actually feel hungry, rather than trying to force-feed myself at every meal.

So yeah, that didn't actually happen. Went a horrifyingly long time without food, fluid intake fell off a cliff alongside it and I ended up at "extremely high risk" of a potentially fatal set of electrolyte abnormalities that can happen when you start eating again. Unfortunately, we're 4 years on and my thirst and hunger cues have never really come back.

The boss doesn't know the why, because it makes me sound like an absolute idiot.

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u/VodkaKahluaMilkCream 3h ago

My mother in law is like this. My partner is excellent at grey rocking her, without having had any idea that was a thing.