Things you should not do...

Frogletina

Do not put eggs on to boil and then go shopping - and then do not be surprised when you return to find firemen in your kitchen as your neighbour saw smoke through the window (not me, my daughter, at her house)

Do not put rubbish outside your apartment door to take down to the bin later, while wearing no shoes, and forget that the door usually slams shut. Especially when your neighbour, who has a spare key, is not in.

Do not try to lock an apartment door from the inside with a mortice lock key just to check that it works. It did work, it locked the door but didn't unlock it. Three flights up and no other exit, I had to wait for a friend to arrive so that I could throw the key down to her. Fortunately the key opened the door from outside the apartment but I've never attempted to use it since.

frogletina

wannalot

Do not look up at a bird flying directly overhead. Especially a seagull.

Bennifred

Do NOT put a hot tray full of roast potatoes down on a plastic chopping tray so that you can pinch one before dinner and then put the whole lot back into the hot oven. If you do, do not be surprised when your mother freak out that there is some white cloudy stuff dripping all over the very expensive beef joint. Do not be surprised when your mother (me!) shouts at you.

atolaas

Do not walk back from Mr T's with a rucksack full of shopping and assume that the zip won't come undone. It will! Only when a lettuce fell out of my bag did I realise that it was open. Worse still...my wallet was missing :eek:!!! Queue a frantic dash back up the road to find the aforementioned wallet. Luckily for me, my postie had been on his rounds. He'd found the wallet and popped it in his cart to hand in when he'd finished his round. Everything was still in it!! I think the poor man is still getting over being repeatedly crushed to death/hugged by me

CathA

Do not use jargon with elderly parents!!

My dad decided to take computer lessons after my brother offered him his old computer. Later my brother gave him his old printer, with instructions to plug in the cables, put the cd in and follow the instructions. No problem, you'd think?

My mother phoned me after my dad had spent hours fiddling about, clicking this, that and the other, and swearing at the computer, the printer and anything else in sight. Mum asked me to come round as dad was not having much luck connecting the printer,but remembering the hideous time I'd had trying to show him how to send an e mail (don't ask!!) I wasn't keen so I tried to help via the phone.

Mum was sat in the hall on the phone (no cordless phones in their house!) and she was shouting questions to my dad and passing the answers on to me. I went through a few things-printer turned on? CD inserted the right way? Does the CD run? Then came the best bit. I asked - Is the printer on the desktop? Reply from my mother - no, it's in the window.
I had to put the phone down!!

sillyvixen

CathA wrote: »

Do not use jargon with elderly parents!!

My dad decided to take computer lessons after my brother offered him his old computer. Later my brother gave him his old printer, with instructions to plug in the cables, put the cd in and follow the instructions. No problem, you'd think?

My mother phoned me after my dad had spent hours fiddling about, clicking this, that and the other, and swearing at the computer, the printer and anything else in sight. Mum asked me to come round as dad was not having much luck connecting the printer,but remembering the hideous time I'd had trying to show him how to send an e mail (don't ask!!) I wasn't keen so I tried to help via the phone.

Mum was sat in the hall on the phone (no cordless phones in their house!) and she was shouting questions to my dad and passing the answers on to me. I went through a few things-printer turned on? CD inserted the right way? Does the CD run? Then came the best bit. I asked - Is the printer on the desktop? Reply from my mother - no, it's in the window.
I had to put the phone down!!

dont try and get elderly parents computer literate full stop!! i now deal with my parents email account by phoning them reading out their emails before responding as told.. i have become their secretary (unpaid) as they cant get to grips with it, but thought an email account would be a good thing at the time.

bagby

How funny is this thread!

bagby

Always check the floor before hoovering. Me rushing as per usual, thought could Hoover around daughters new expensive hair extensions which were delicately placed on the floor because that is where they are kept! The hair was immediately sucked up causing sparks before I managed to turn off the Hoover. End result me giving a hair cut to the extensions and striking matches to get rid of awful stench before she was due home fifteen minutes later. She never found out but all my friends laughed about it at the time.

GreyQueen

Do not bleat pitifully at your workplace that a computer program has malfunctioned when all that's wrong is Butterfingers has acidentally tapped the Num Lock key and turned it off (me, yesterday).:o

Do not connect your first ever washing machine to the undersink plumbing at your new flat and call the supplier of said washer in high dudgeon when it shuts down on its inaugaral wash because it can't pump out. Because you didn't cut the end off the spur to which you attached the outlet pipe and thus it was trying to pump out through plastic, which you realise shortly after you called for an engineer.

Had to ring them back 10 mins later (minus dudgeon) apologise profusely.:o

calleyw

GreyQueen wrote: »

:oBecause you didn't cut the end off the spur to which you attached the outlet pipe and thus it was trying to pump out through plastic, which you realise shortly after you called for an engineer.

Also don't take a load of sopping wet washing to your mums to spin as the machine would not pump out.

Q me huffing and puffing pulling the damn machine to look at it and cursing I would need a new one.

Then brain wave. I had new sink and plumbing put in. My plank of brother left the blanking plate in the bit that attaches under the sink!!!!

Lets say there was a few choice words said that day LOL!!!!

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Yours

Calley