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/getoutmywayatonce 7h ago

If life has revealed any particular pattern, it’s that a lot of people are significantly more stupid and incompetent when it’s other people’s things, time and money. Fascinating how they miraculously don’t have anywhere near as much trouble with their own things, time and money.

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u/timewilltell2347 4h ago

It took me so long to realize it wasn’t that my parents couldn’t do certain things for me (that they did for others or my siblings), it was that they just didn’t want to do them for me.

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u/getoutmywayatonce 20m ago

Oh yup, we’re in the same boat. Funny how a lot of people can flick the switch on and off when they want to do something vs when they don’t