My "Brilliant" Teen...stories (for fun)

[Anonymous]

My teen has been DL in the backyard.

The other day her computer was acting up and I called Apple Care and handed the phone over to her. After some trouble-shooting for a while, I overheard the following exchange:

DC: Yes, well, do you think the problem might be that I put it in the freezer? Sometimes I leave it outside and it gets in the sun, and I have found that putting it in the freezer really helps.

Apple Care: You put it in the freezer? (long period of silence). I'm not sure that putting it in the freezer is a good idea.

DC: Ok maybe that's not a good strategy?

AC: (silence) Well, the freezer is probably not good for it...

DC: But the fridge; how about that? That's worked in the past

AC: I think...I think probably neither the fridge nor the freezer is going to be good for your computer...I think you should not put it in either the fridge or the freezer.

This went on for a while. Putting my incredibility and fury aside, I was thinking, wow, this Apple Care lady has been really careful to not make my idiot DC feel like an idiot. And this phone conversation will probably end up in some training session for how to handle moronic customers with grace

ok it's your turn! Let's hear it

[Anonymous]

A story from when I was a teen back in 2009. My friend ran the microwave while it was empty for 15 minutes as a timer, because she didn't know how to set the kitchen timer on the oven while baking cookies. She's lucky she didn't start a fire!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A story from when I was a teen back in 2009. My friend ran the microwave while it was empty for 15 minutes as a timer, because she didn't know how to set the kitchen timer on the oven while baking cookies. She's lucky she didn't start a fire!

Oh my god my husband did this when we were in graduate school! Did start a fire. I guess I’m the dummy for marrying him anyway. (He handled it with grace- throwing it flaming into the snowy yard)

[Anonymous]

DD made one of those mac-n-cheese cups in the microwave but forgot to put in the water. It caught on fire, and our house smelled like burnt pasta for days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD made one of those mac-n-cheese cups in the microwave but forgot to put in the water. It caught on fire, and our house smelled like burnt pasta for days.

I accidentally did this in college...the smell was horrid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD made one of those mac-n-cheese cups in the microwave but forgot to put in the water. It caught on fire, and our house smelled like burnt pasta for days.

How did you put out the fire?

[Anonymous]

I don't have a story yet, but am still laughing about the first one. That Apple Care person must have shared it with everyone!

[Anonymous]

My sister made us Mac n cheese when we were in high school. She couldn’t remember if it was pasta or rice that had to absorb all the water.

She guessed wrong. Pasta should not absorb all the water. It was awful. I still remember the mush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD made one of those mac-n-cheese cups in the microwave but forgot to put in the water. It caught on fire, and our house smelled like burnt pasta for days.

I accidentally did this in college...the smell was horrid!

Ok, I did something similar last month. It was the middle of the night, I was up way late catching up on work, and tried to make a Mac & cheese cup by the stove light without my glasses. Misjudged the “fill to here” line, and scorched the heck out of it. Didn’t smell all that bad, fortunately, but it melted the cup and poured starchy water all over the microwave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sister made us Mac n cheese when we were in high school. She couldn’t remember if it was pasta or rice that had to absorb all the water.

She guessed wrong. Pasta should not absorb all the water. It was awful. I still remember the mush.

Huh? Hahahah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A story from when I was a teen back in 2009. My friend ran the microwave while it was empty for 15 minutes as a timer, because she didn't know how to set the kitchen timer on the oven while baking cookies. She's lucky she didn't start a fire!

Oh my god my husband did this when we were in graduate school! Did start a fire. I guess I’m the dummy for marrying him anyway. (He handled it with grace- throwing it flaming into the snowy yard)

Wait what? I didn't know this and I am way older. I have run microwave for a few minutes by mistake instead of timer..

[Anonymous]

My college roommate ran out of dishwasher detergent, and thought it would be OK to substitute regular Dawn dish soap.

You wouldn't believe the lake of soap suds that filled the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My college roommate ran out of dishwasher detergent, and thought it would be OK to substitute regular Dawn dish soap.

You wouldn't believe the lake of soap suds that filled the kitchen.

Pretty common if they haven't been used to running it before.. also fun fact I didn't know they had a food trap. Several years later I was shopping for a new dw and one of the models came with automatic self cleaner

[Anonymous]

My son washed his chromebook with his laundry by mistake. When I questioned him how the chrome book got into the washing machine in the first place, he stated it was “in his laundry basket”. 🤯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My college roommate ran out of dishwasher detergent, and thought it would be OK to substitute regular Dawn dish soap.

You wouldn't believe the lake of soap suds that filled the kitchen.

My roommate observed me doing laundry one day and we had the following dialogue:

Roomie: You pour the detergent right in? Why didn't you put it in the dispenser?

Me: What? This machine doesn't have a dispenser.

Roomie: Yes it does, right there! *points to tube with hole in the center*

Me: That's. . .not a detergent dispenser. That's the agitator.

Roomie: Oh. I wondered why the detergent powder seemed to get closer to the top every time I put it in. Have I just been rinsing my clothes all semester?

Me: Yes. And the agitator is now full of powder.

Said roommate also couldn't use a mop or oven mitts or plunge a toilet and was unaware that already-cooked popcorn could not be reheated in a saucepan without causing a fire. And thawed raw chicken in Ziploc bags and reused them without washing them. I'm surprised she didn't die.