Real scene from my household just now

[Anonymous]

OMG I so relate. My college freshman is home and there are so many times when I have offered to do something for her and she says “OK.” No, my dear, say “thank you,” goddamnit!

Also she took a bath upstairs right before we left to go away for the weekend, and not only did she forget to pull the plug, she left the faucet dripping a tiny bit. If I hadn’t noticed before we left we would have come back on Sunday to a several hundred thousand dollar problem with the entire bathroom sitting in the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

I think the mistake was doing the laundry for her.

[Anonymous]

LOL.

That sounds on brand for teen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG I so relate. My college freshman is home and there are so many times when I have offered to do something for her and she says “OK.” No, my dear, say “thank you,” goddamnit!

Also she took a bath upstairs right before we left to go away for the weekend, and not only did she forget to pull the plug, she left the faucet dripping a tiny bit. If I hadn’t noticed before we left we would have come back on Sunday to a several hundred thousand dollar problem with the entire bathroom sitting in the kitchen.

drama queen much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop doing her laundry. Now.

I do agree that the kitchen island is a weird and potentially gross place to put laundry.

Meh. I don't normally, but things are out of control. It's a one-time thing.

You're a good dad and she's a classic teenager (or she's being one at the moment).

If only she'd stopped before the "but"!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think my household of 3 people could get a backlog of 8 loads of laundry if we tried. Maybe once one counted in bed and bath linens.

we don't have enough clothes for 8 loads. We do clothing laundry every 4 days. If I wait 7 days, they would start running out of clean shorts and tshirts to wear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG I so relate. My college freshman is home and there are so many times when I have offered to do something for her and she says “OK.” No, my dear, say “thank you,” goddamnit!

Also she took a bath upstairs right before we left to go away for the weekend, and not only did she forget to pull the plug, she left the faucet dripping a tiny bit. If I hadn’t noticed before we left we would have come back on Sunday to a several hundred thousand dollar problem with the entire bathroom sitting in the kitchen.

drama queen much?

? no, that's not being a drama queen. For all you know, the bathtub could've been pretty full, and the drip pretty big = flooding in the bathroom = damaged wood and $$$ on fixing it.

[Anonymous]

She owns 7-8 laundry loads worth of clothes??!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG I so relate. My college freshman is home and there are so many times when I have offered to do something for her and she says “OK.” No, my dear, say “thank you,” goddamnit!

Also she took a bath upstairs right before we left to go away for the weekend, and not only did she forget to pull the plug, she left the faucet dripping a tiny bit. If I hadn’t noticed before we left we would have come back on Sunday to a several hundred thousand dollar problem with the entire bathroom sitting in the kitchen.

drama queen much?

? no, that's not being a drama queen. For all you know, the bathtub could've been pretty full, and the drip pretty big = flooding in the bathroom = damaged wood and $$$ on fixing it.

Bathtubs have overflow drains so just…no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG I so relate. My college freshman is home and there are so many times when I have offered to do something for her and she says “OK.” No, my dear, say “thank you,” goddamnit!

Also she took a bath upstairs right before we left to go away for the weekend, and not only did she forget to pull the plug, she left the faucet dripping a tiny bit. If I hadn’t noticed before we left we would have come back on Sunday to a several hundred thousand dollar problem with the entire bathroom sitting in the kitchen.

drama queen much?

? no, that's not being a drama queen. For all you know, the bathtub could've been pretty full, and the drip pretty big = flooding in the bathroom = damaged wood and $$$ on fixing it.

Bathtubs have overflow drains so just…no.

Stop ruining the pearl-clutching, drama queen narrative. Spoilsport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Scene setting: DD graduates from HS. She's been overwhelmed in recent weeks with finals, etc. and got WAY behind on laundry. We're talking like seven or eight loads. She finally got working on picking up her room (the clothes were strewn everywhere -- you couldn't see the floor). Since she was making an effort, I took pity and decided to help (since I know she will soon ask me for money to buy clothes for college and my position is I'm not giving you anything until you go through what you already have and decide what to keep/what to donate, etc).

Anyway, this scene just played out:

(DD walks in from garage, where she was just back from running a graduation-related errand. She looks disdainfully at the piles of folded clothing I've arranged on the kitchen island, which I cleaned previously.)

DD:

Dad, I appreciate you doing my laundry, but can you NOT put it on the disgusting counter?

(DD proceeds to walk to sink and drink directly from the faucet.)

AND SCENE

Throw them back on the floor and walk all over them. <scene>

[Anonymous]

If your kid has enough clothes for 7 or 8 loads of laundry it's not surprising they're a snob. My kids have 2, maybe 3.

[Anonymous]

Sir, that would have been the last day I lifted a finger to do that little girl a favor! I would have gone off on her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She owns 7-8 laundry loads worth of clothes??!?

Maybe they have a small wash machine. I never knew ours was so tiny until we replaced it last year. Our new washer can fit so much more, like 4x the amount easily.

To OP, thanks for sharing. I tried to help out my daughter with laundry and was told I ruined several pieces of her clothes. I’m still not sure how or what I did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha glad I’m not the only one with a snarky teen selectively obsessed with cleanliness.

Love that description. Selectively obsessed is such a good description for the teen years. My teen complains about her siblings leaving their things all over the living room, but sees no issue with leaving her backpack in the middle of the kitchen floor with her schoolwork strewn about.