My Millenial (Post your stories about some of the things your children have done that make your head shake)

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My Millenial (Post your stories about some of the things your children have done that make your head shake)

Let me start if off and tell as story about my daughter. One very hot summer day I come home to a pile of green garbage bags outside my house ready for the trash pickup which was in another week.

I asked her what was in the bags and she said she cleaned out the freezer and had thrown out everything that was beyond the best before date. She had thrown out and now spoiled all the meat we had in the freezer. :(

I tried to explain to her that once meat is frozen you have to be careful for freezer burn but other then that it lasts way beyond the best before date. She was not buying into it at all. I had to ban her from throwing anything out without showing me first. She is obsessed with best before dates but has difficulty to read the dates given the way they are formatted on most labels. She will have a box of crackers with a best before date in October and refuse to eat it because its about to be bad. However we are in September.

I love her to bits but omg millenials sure get obsessed about things without fully understanding them.

What can you tell us about your millenial or any child of yours? What have they done that you shake your head at??
 
a few years ago on the chicken farm I worked at. They asked a class of kids where eggs came from.. every single one said the grocery store.
 
My kid does not understand the concept of having to wait for anything.

We were at my mother inlaw’s house and she did not have Netflix, only regular cable tv. Trying to explain the concept of not being able to put on the exact show she felt like watching at that particular time coupled with trying to explain what these “breaks” in the show were (ie commercials) was a difficult endeavour.

Other things....

Waiting at the bank to get your money for the week or cashing your pay check..... daddy you don’t need money, just use your plastic card...

What is that noise daddy? What noise booger? That beep, beep, beep daddy. Oh that’s a busy signal on gramps phone... he still has a landline. Daddy... what does busy signal mean and what is a landline?

Ahhhhh fuck. Lol! But I can’t get mad.... she grew up in a time without any of these things and it’s hard to realize that sometimes.

Others?????

- Only receiving 3 tv channels, 4 if the wind was the right direction and you held onto the rabbit ears.

- using a small set of vice grips to turn the tv channel because the dial busted off

- rewinding..... anything lol! I still use “rewind it” lol

- the awesomeness of high speed dubbing for making mixed tapes. Uhhhh... fuck yeah!

- listening to the dial up connection catch on your first internet capable computer.... then waiting 8 minutes to download your first porn pic

Regardless I can’t really say shit....I honestly don’t even know what I’d do without google.... this kid asks me more shit I don’t know about than carter has pills.

And if you’re old enough to follow that reference, then you’re old enough to complain about shit and not be held accountable for being a whiner.... lol
 
Taureau said:
My Millenial (Post your stories about some of the things your children have done that make your head shake)

Let me start if off and tell as story about my daughter. One very hot summer day I come home to a pile of green garbage bags outside my house ready for the trash pickup which was in another week.

I asked her what was in the bags and she said she cleaned out the freezer and had thrown out everything that was beyond the best before date. She had thrown out and now spoiled all the meat we had in the freezer. :(

I tried to explain to her that once meat is frozen you have to be careful for freezer burn but other then that it lasts way beyond the best before date. She was not buying into it at all. I had to ban her from throwing anything out without showing me first. She is obsessed with best before dates but has difficulty to read the dates given the way they are formatted on most labels. She will have a box of crackers with a best before date in October and refuse to eat it because its about to be bad. However we are in September.

I love her to bits but omg millenials sure get obsessed about things without fully understanding them.

What can you tell us about your millenial or any child of yours? What have they done that you shake your head at??
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we eat freezer burnt meat at my house... It's fine to eat, just dried out and need to rehydrate it before cooking or during the cookiing process.
 
How about having to write his driving learners exam 7 times before he passed. He refused to study as "its all common sense and they were just being ridiculous." I ended up having to ask him "if he had any pride" ...he had no idea what i was taking about.
 
Oldguyjiujitsu said:
How about having to write his driving learners exam 7 times before he passed. He refused to study as "its all common sense and they were just being ridiculous." I ended up having to ask him "if he had any pride" ...he had no idea what i was taking about.
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Did he have to pay each time he wrote it?
 
Oldguyjiujitsu said:
How about having to write his driving learners exam 7 times before he passed. He refused to study as "its all common sense and they were just being ridiculous." I ended up having to ask him "if he had any pride" ...he had no idea what i was taking about.
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daughter did the same thing. it was muliple guess and they told her which ones she got wrong. so wrote the test over and over until she passed. I told her doing what she did may pass but will not help her when she is actually driving. I said you have to take the time to actually know the answers or you will never make it as a driver.
 
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Not my kid but new kid on the crew, 3 months out of high school. We were waiting for a big rural loop to be de energized to install a switching cubicle so we had a bit of time, I usually like to take opportunities like that to organize tidy up ect ect, I got sick of him standing there staring into space so I grabbed the floor broom told him to sweep out the truck and when hes done to clean the dash. Few minutes later I jumped into the truck and hes using the floor broom and sweeping the dash down???? I said what the fuck are you doing and he looked at me and had no clue what I was talking about, I had to explain to him to grab some rags take whatever cleaner we have and wipe the dash down properly.
 
Ok this isn't a Millenial thing but Treneth's post reminded me of this.
So me, my brother and a buddy of mine worked at my dads meat plant (had like 300 employees so it was big) anyhow we were on the clean up crew, washing the equipment walls, ect. Well the girl that cleaned the offices was on holidays so we were tasked to do it.
I finish up downstairs with the equipment and send them up to clean the offices, bathrooms and such,. Now remember that it was summer, my brother was 14, me and my buddy 16. We are the only people in the plant at this time because everyone goes home so we can clean, we worked from 5pm to 12 am.
So they motored and got done too fast, they are bragging to me how they came up with this great idea how to clean everything with the mop, so the coffee tables they mopped, the office desks they mopped, the toilets they mopped.

Well I asked them what they mopped first, and please don't tell me the toilets. Well the two of them walked away looking so deflated, didn't say a word, but man did I laugh because you knew they did the bathrooms first.
 
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