Real scene from my household just now

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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.

That won't stop the bathtub from overflowing if the rate of the drip/flow is high enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the mistake was doing the laundry for her.

My friend told me a similar story. I said this and she sighed. Parents know but they can't seem to stop.

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

+1 My DS is a freakin slob! He's been banned from eating anywhere except a table and I can't count the times I've had to tell him to empty his dish in the trash before putting it in the sink and to empty the drain catch in the trash after he loads the dishwasher. Yet, every single time it's his turn to load the dishwasher, he complains loudly about food still in dishes and the disgusting drain catch. He DEMANDS to know who did it! Dude! It was probably YOU!

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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

Should have sad "you're right!" and thrown it all on the floor so she could rehash. Spoiled brat.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop doing her laundry. Now.

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

Huh? OP literally said she cleaned it. How is it any different than anywhere else you'd set clean laundry?

Nope.

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Way to many enraged psychos here. OP and her daughter seem to get along pretty well.

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Anonymous wrote:Way to many enraged psychos here. OP and her daughter seem to get along pretty well.

Nope.

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In my DD’s senior year, I did a number of things I said I’d “never” do. Your daughter JUST graduated and is presumably leaving for college in the fall. Emotions are over the top for both of you. Give her a hug because you can. Let her know she hurt your feelings. And consider this the last time you’ll ever do her laundry.

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I’d cut her some slack. There’s a lot going on right now.

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

Not Op, but I can easily see this happening. One towel for body, one for hair, washcloth and hand towels for face skincare. When they basically throw their damp towels on the bed and start the next day with fresh replacements- the loads pile up. Also, in my experience, probably a good 60% of clothing is only dirty because it is wrinkled on the floor and in close proximity to actual dirty clothes. My daughter frequently tried on half of her closet and then flung the rejected pieces around the room with reckless abandon. All of that mix would eventually come down in large white trash bags and she would wash and then leave in the dryer to wrinkle.

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I dont understand why you did her laundry to begin with.

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What do y'all do on your kitchen counter that makes it gross? I cook in my kitchen so I expressly make my counter not-gross.

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I do not understand this post at all

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand this post at all

Kids graduate and leave. Parents try to hold it together and do what they can before the fledgling leaves the nest. Emotions are high all around. Feelings get hurt. Kids easing the pain by pushing loved ones away. Classic. Did you not have a childhood?

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She knows something about that countertop. Maybe she and her BF had sex on that counter last night.