Life parents r/AskUK

Somebody asked about the stupidest things parents do and the answers will having you rolling your eyes very hard in agreement

13.

‘Instead of pausing the TV when she needs to do something, my mum will instead leave it playing and then rewind it back to the spot she was at.’
Viazon

14.

‘She’s not my parent but my aunt and she regularly forgets her passwords. Every time she forgets her FB password she has to setup a new account and to setup a new FB account she has to get a new iPad. I dread to think how much money she spends on Apple every year.’
WigglesFT

15.

‘We got back from a holiday, and noticed our electricity meter was higher than it should be. So she made us look at all the sockets, to see if any electricity had ‘leaked’ out. Presumably looking for little puddles. This only happened once, but she still maintains that we’d have been able to ‘see’ where the electricity would have leaked whenever it comes up.’
kirkmerrington

16.

‘My FIL ctrl-clicks every link online so he doesn’t lose his original tab. I once watched him rack up over 50 tabs in 15 minutes.’
Glozboy

17.

‘He reads everything out loud. Every sign he sees, every advert or billboard, every magazine cover. Drives me insane.’
Saw_Boss

18.

‘My Dad, late 70s, has recently got his first smart phone. He is oblivious to the etiquette for using them in company, so we regularly get YouTube on full volume during a nice family cuppa and chat. It’s quite funny, really.’
LuDdErS68

19.

‘One of my mum’s cousins refuses to turn right in the car. She’ll go twelve miles out of her way just to do it with left turns only.’
mordhoshogh

20.

‘My mum won’t pause live TV because ‘it’s unfair to everyone else watching’.’
Aggravating-Rope-294

21.

‘Keeps his mobile turned off, unless he wants to make a call or send a text. Then immediately turns it off again, so you can’t reply.’
hookbeak

22.

‘My diabetic mother in law ordering meringue for dessert in a restaurant and complaining about the dust of icing sugar on the plate and all that extra sugar. ON THE PLATE. WITH MERINGUE.’

23.

‘If taking a flight at 8pm, you better believe my dad is leaving the house at 11am to get to the airport that is a 20 minute drive away. Then he arrives and is utterly astounded that check-in isn’t open. Every. Single. Time.’
wizzzadora

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