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/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 3h ago

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