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Funny/cringey things your elderly parents say/do

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  • #32
    Menas
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    My mum would get in an argument in a confession box. She is one of those auld wans who just gets more and more negative with age.
    Pity as she used to have a great sense of humour.


  • #33
    Banjoxed
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    Visiting my father in hospital, mother in tow.

    "That's a lovely man over there. Go over and talk to him"

    "Don't be odd. Go over and talk to him"

    All said by my mother in a stage whisper so she can be heard what a nice and considerate woman she is.


  • #34
    DoozerT6
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    "Now, how would I Google that?..."


  • #35
    Ande1975
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    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    "Now, how would I Google that?..."

    How do I get into the internet?


  • #36
    Banjoxed
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    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    My mum would get in an argument in a confession box. She is one of those auld wans who just gets more and more negative with age.
    Pity as she used to have a great sense of humour.

    Mine is the queen of Passive Aggressive.


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  • #37
    Ruu
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    whitewave wrote: »
    My mother got her first smartphone recently (which she insists on calling an Iphone) and sent me a message saying "first selfie!"...and nothing else.

    Are we related? :) My Mam has a Samsung Galaxy and always calls it her I-phone (my younger brother corrects her every time!) I was home over the holidays and she was showing me pictures from a wedding. "There's Jonathan there, he was going around taking selfies!"

    She is a little loud in restaurants. When our food is served she comes out with things like "Jaysus, not very big portion is it?" "Does this not come with anything else?" "You wouldn't want to be hungry, they must have went into the yard to kill the chicken" to the poor server. :/


  • #38
    Lisha
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    On seeing a headline about same sex marriage a while back my mother pointed to the headline and said 'sure I suppose why not? Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?'

    I declined to ask what my dad had done to annoy her.


  • #39
    Ande1975
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    Thought of another one.
    Sorry but I have to keep these tales somewhere.
    ( We nearly lost my Dad a few months before Christmas )

    A few years ago I took my parents out for dinner for my mum's birthday. The restaurant gave us sherry. Then another sherry, then wine with the meal.

    We went into a nearby hotel for a nightcap. Mum wanted to use the bathroom so we got the order in while she was gone.

    Next thing I see my mum all red faced with a young man with his arm around her.

    She had walked into the men's toilet. Mum starting ranting that they should have written MEN on the door instead of the symbol. She was twisted but argued that the sign was the problem and that she wasn't drunk.

    I called my sister to tell her it was so funny.


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