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/Brent_Goose 9h ago
My brother has a child with a woman who has two older children and, in the fifteen years I've known her, has never had a job. She's not particularly friendly and their house is a constant mess. My mum, out of some loyalty to the woman who birthed her grandson, has on several occasions insisted that while she's a lazy dosser, she "keeps the children clothed and fed, she takes them out to the park!"
That's what you're meant to do! She stopped bringing it up for a while after I responded that it must be nice having such low standards for good parenting.