What Weird Things Has Your Family Done To Try And Help?
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Parents who sabotage their kids' educations frost me. >:(
Mine was. I was not encouraged to pursue good grades and later a good job. Just pass and makes friends they said because I would get married and not have to work! This frists me as well as a ton of other things. I became a comedian. I was born to be funny but tried too hard to be normal like getting married. I hated it. Anyway thanks for your post because I need to be reminded I didnt make that one up. Felt it but didnt have a name for it. Ok I shut my mouth now.
Some of these stories reminds me of the quote: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". And the story of the father sending his kid to a bad school pissed me off 😠
I used to get the reverse of the Google CV story. I work in finance doing quantitative analysis. My family used to think "Oh you can help your cousin get a job at a bank." What like as a quant? With what education? IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT!
they only understand the "finance" part
My grandma always tried to come up with career ideas for me. One time she told me "I know what you could be! One of those people that make the mascot costumes for sports games!" Thanks grandma, but professional furry is not a title I ever want to have.
~Annaliese P, Professional Furry, 2021
my mom recently took my car to a garage and paid for a new battery with the expectation that I would pay her back. Like, I get that I cried about how difficult everyone was making the situation (she had to chew out our insurance before I got a tow truck. I was sitting outside my work for 4-5 hours.) but "don't spend my money without telling me" shouldn't be as hot a take as my family is treating it.
25:48 My dad totally would've ended up like this if he hadn't met my stepmom. He was so immature and childish, my mom couldn't handle it and divorced him. She had me and my sister, she didn't need a child like man in her life also. He met my soon to be stepmom shortly after. I am thankful he married her. She kept him grounded and responsible and somehow puts up with him, even to this day. If it wasn't for her, my dad probably wouldn't have even acknowledged us much. My stepmom was always more interested in our academics and lives more than he was. Not everyone can say they had a cool stepmom, glad I can say that I do. :)
When I was 16 and supposed to be learning how to drive (hadn’t started yet) my mom asked me to “hold the wheel steady” when she was driving on this one lane mountain road. To this day I do not know what she was thinking or why she thought she needed to text right then instead of pulling the car over, but anyway, I am a person who takes things very literally so when she said “hold it steady” I took that as “don’t try and drive for me and hold the wheel straight.” So anyway we come up to a turn in the road and I try to get her attention but she’s too engrossed in her phone to pay attention to me. Eventually I shout at her to get her attention when we’re about to go off the damn road and she freaks out and starts yelling at me while slamming on the brakes.
To this day (10+ years later) she doesn’t like to let me drive and always tells people that I “don’t like to turn.”
It was obviously your mom's fault for taking her eyes off the road, ESPECIALLY ON A MOUNTAIN ROAD!
Tl.dr; Stupid people are twice as frustrating when they are related to you.
My mum will randomly come up to me and say, in a really excited voice “YOU CAN WORK HERE!! LOOK AT THE EMPLOYEE DISCOUNTS!!” Its just funny.
Had baby out of wedlock. My mother proceeded to send me not one, but TWO engagement style rings “to wear to lessen any judgement”. Boyfriend thought it was hilarious and crazy... I chose to risk the wrath of all these judgemental strangers from the olden days and not wear them anyway.
Some of these do sound like misguided attempts to help, others sound like straight up control freaks.
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6:47 Oatmeal and turkey sandwiches? I suppose with enough A-1 or Heinz 57 on it, such a sandwich might be edible.
Let me guess, you are from the usa? Often Americans talk about products by their name, instead of what it is. Especially weird, when it's an international audience like a YT Video
@@hansdietrich83 Both are brands of steak sauces, though Heinz 57 is pretty good on chicken and even some vegetables, like green beans, or even rice.
Both my parents think I need to have a car in order to be a productive member of society. No matter how many times I've explained to them why- for my immediate family and I- a car is just not even remotely practical, they just end the discussion with "well, you need a car" 😵💫😅
I took my new digital camera outside to photograph the dark clouds and rainbows after a massive rainstorm. Then my mom and oldest brother kept insisting I submit my (unoriginal and very generic) photos to newspapers and insisted I apply for a photography position. I had a single digital camera I bought ON SALE. My current phone takes better pictures than that! I don't think they realize that professional photographers have the absolute best of everything to get the photos taken properly, and have a massive portfolio of their work as opposed to just a few pictures after a rainy day...
tbf, with these rent and house prices, its not embarrassing live with your grandma anymore, its a strategy now.
18:45 I bought a super expensive Mandarin course to try to learn how to talk to my step mother. She took the first disc thinking she could somehow learn English off it. Then immediately lost it.
Did I forget to mention she was a head surgeon or something in the hospital department she worked in in China? Then mandatory retirement at 50 or whatever it is kicked in. oof. She had nothing to do but bother her one adult kid and their partner. So she after a bit of that she went on a foreign holiday and met my dad. I like her a lot but she's kray kray. Living through the cultural revolution will do that to you...
*Let her love her grandchild* and that's a big part of why I love reddit. Too sweet 😅
i'm having a laugh at the parent who wanted their kid to be a musician, but the kid went to medical school instead...ol' uno reverse
18:54 I find this hilarious as I tried to do pretty much the same thing, with Russian, but Duolingo. I picked the learning English for Russian speakers course because (at the time) there wasn't a learning Russian course.
My dad made me get into football because he thought it would get me friends. I at first was fine I guess joining turns out though everyone on the team was already people that bullied me so now they just had an excuse to ram into me as hard as they can without getting in trouble and the coaches also bullied me because I didn’t compare to my brother. He had a good idea but sadly it never got me any friends it actually made them belittle me more because I was bad at football
My mother thought it was a good idea to tell me that I should live in the house that my dad committed suicide in. His house was in Flint. This was years after the water crisis occurred. Neighborhood isn't that good as well. The problem is that she kept suggesting it for months. It really messed me up for a long while.
:( How awful. I'm so sorry for your loss and how it muck with your mental health. Why would your mother suggest that?? o_o Did anyone/you confront her about it? I mean no offense, but that's truly bizarre. I hope you're doing a lot and got help. Godspeed in your endeavors.
She told me that the bills and mortgage was all paid for.
I really hope the pickled red beet eggs guy got the recipe from his granny. When his granny dies they are probably going to become his favorite food, at least for a while.
I know I still crave my great grandma Neenee's fried chicken. Unfortunately she never shared her recipe with anyone😢
Whenever I pretty much stand next to a guy, or mention that I've been talking to one, no matter who it is, my mum tries to egg the guy into asking me out, even if they're not in my age range, and has even done it for guys who are already in relationships. I've always been the type of person to never want kids or marriage, and she was really upset and disappointed about it because she has the cliche fantasy of having grandkids, so she always meddles and tries to set me up with any random asshole in the hopes that something will happen and I'll suddenly change my mind and start shooting out babies left, right and centre. Once, we both became friends with someone we met while travelling, and as a musician, I wrote and recorded a song about that day, just because it was an awesome day and it was great to meet a nice person. She sent him a copy of the song without my permission and insisted that it was a love letter from me to him, and that we should get together. He was fucking married with a kid, and it weirded him out so much that whenever the three of us got together after that, he'd always give me a wide berth and treat me weirdly, thinking that I had some horrific crush on him, which I could never get him to stop believing. She always has to go there and cross the line. Mostly she just encourages my male friends to ask me out, even if they already have girlfriends, and then everything gets weird, but the married guy incident was awful and dragged on for years.
I'm getting triggered with how much I can relate.
My mom paid a moderately attractive girl to pretend to like my brother because he was feeling suicidal and mom thought a gf would help with that. The girl started to develop actual feelings for my brother and they’re getting married.
Edit: I stopped talking to my mom after that because she crossed a line there. She’s lucky things went well.
This happened in the old movie starring cher called the mask about her disfigured son who was dying. I'd do the same. The diff here is in the film cher hired a hooker.
But the girl is also an asshole! Use a depressed dude to get money....
most of these things would piss me off so much
Former Oklahoman here. Hey! That's not us, that's Arkansas that does that weird crap!!! LOL
This makes me glad my parents craziness is limited to just being conservative conspiracy theorists.
My dad thinks that I should pursue a career in something related to technology just because I’m able to help him with his iPad. Meanwhile I have to use google to figure out how alot of stuff on my computer works
4:18 this exactly. When I am visiting my parents and my mother does the laundry, things just seem to disappear and not return for days to weeks.
That's a weird way of spelling "how have your relatives meddled in your lives?"
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When my sister was 13 my dad asked her if she wanted ketchup with her dinner, she has never had or liked ketchup before and for some reason he thought that she did, that was 11 years ago. I only commented this because some of these stories remind me of this.
My mother would raid my room for stuff she can sell(read donate) to random people on Kijiji because she doesn’t want me to turn into hoarder like Grandma
That would make somone a hoarder, but the type who would hide their hoards from everyone else
My biological immediate family is ABSOLUTELY this obnoxious.
1. Calling the electric company behind my back and telling them I needed help when I did not
2. Sending me a machine to do my nails 💅 myself just because I pay to get my nails done.
I am not good at that nor do I want to.
I sent it right the heck back
3. Suggest jobs that I get that I am not even trained to do or they don't have in my state
9:25 WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? That is just...just...OH MY GOODNESS WHY????????????????????????????
I feel like that shouldn't be legal, it's absolutely disgusting
@@FBIAGENT725 "SECURITY! Get this nasty MF out of here!"
All I can say is bless FERPA for being there during my uni years. If only I could take it with me after graduation
You know, I'm starting to hear a different message from all of these... just, how easy were these peoples lives, that they think they can just say "I like computers" to google and expect a job?
Boomers.
7:05 sorry what did it say? “Minge-rapes” lmao.
The foreskin one reminded me of meet the fockers lmao
Just for fun this post reminded me of a comedian who said hed rather staple his foreskin to a moving train that be politically correct.
12:23 This sounds like one of those boomers who thinks that doctor, lawyer, CPA, or a CEO are the only real jobs, and everyone else is a bum.
as a jew that comment around 5:45 asking why ppl keep asking him if he's jewish had me cracking up
edit: the ppl at 6:50 have to be jewish, total jewish mom thing
Putting me into the special ed class in high school but they know it was a bad decision when I got picked on more for being in that class.
My mother doesn't do ANYTHING for/with me! So, maybe y'all are lucky?!!
I'm a nut and would have 47 shirts for my dogs 😂😂
@9:49 My friend once got a B on a paper so her teacher suggested she sell her horse so she could focus more on school.
@10:35 Once when I was little I said I like dark chocolate and my family took it to mean that I liked it more than milk chocolate even though that wasn’t true, so for the next fifteen years almost every time they gave me something chocolate it was dark.
I was slightly chuckling at some of these, but the last one... Some girls DO like math what the hell?!
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wouldnt stuffing a religious symbol into a toilet tank TECHNICALLY be blasphemy?
Only if you adhere to the faith of the symbol. Otherwise it is just arseholery.
gives a new meaning to holy water though
Yikes, some of these parents sound kind of controlling.
What does it mean to love a person, when you have literally zero capacity to see something from their perspective?
My MIL is obsessed with pouring condiments and the like directly onto the food, fries, tenders, anything you dip in something she will simply pour it all over. This is well and good if you like this but I Hate it and she won't stop! Once she went to do it and I pulled the plate away and said I didn't want it and she just went "Huh? No it's fine" and reached over and does it anyway like ???
Mine both insist I should become an artist and they known I've always been a comedian. They always show little e enthusiasm. They did a lot In my early years to sabotage nost of my life! Is it a wonder I choose laughter?
My mom bought me a box of condoms the day after I got my IUD placed because I lost my son a month prior.
And she knows my son was a product of rape.
My mother tried to instill some kind of morals into me suggesting I get religion. I told her the bible says I need to strike her any time she speaks to a man out of turn and if that's what she wanted to make me a stronger man of character, I would. She quickly back tracked.
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12:07 This is the worst thing boomers can do, is offer money advice to Millennials. My parents have always suggested that every time I need a new car, I should just pull money out of my 401(k) to buy it. I haven’t told them that doing that is why they have zero retirement saved up at all.
Don't ya love those "Not me but a friend" post. Yall got some weird friends ngl.
God love 'em, they mean well.
BTW as to the guy with the wing mom who everyone asked, is he Jewish?, I saw a video on youtube about how Asian moms apparently do this a lot. No, I don't know if the matches actually work out.
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amazing video
Why do I have a weird thought to get my family members a help button i blame it on the thumbnail
18:56 jesuster jpeg hunt
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