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Came home today to find my costing folks put the fireplace on. After I told them to use the central heating.
Except my carbon road bike on a turbo - the forks have changed colour and the hub rubbers are melted!
Agh!
It just seems to be mistake after mistake. I haven’t shouted but when I say anything after a mistake they become angry with me!
They are not homeless but every time I come to find some other stupid thing e.g. balanced an office chair on my CX bike and taken paint off it.
Thing is I can’t remember if they did things like this when I was young (and blamed me) or they are just getting old and I’m impatient/short fused?
I’m going to buy a puppy and tell my parents to go home!
What forks for a road bike... well that bike is now a permanent turbo trainer bike now...
Not a lot of sense to made there
I think I must be going senile because I have no idea what you're talking about!
Why would putting the fire on ruin your turbo trainer setup tyres and forks?
Typo.
Bike was in front of the fireplace.
High heat.
Forks grey instead of black on one side.
OP,
It's likely to get worse to be honest. Could be simply age related or something a little more serious.
I would also see if you can convince them to have an mot check up with the doctors as it were.
Your house or theirs ?
If the latter - have they been buying you Pickfords gift vouchers for Christmas/birthdays ?
My house, parents visiting. They would get offended if I told them to have a medical check up.
Oh well 5hit happens. Also worried that it could be something else...
Will see if insurance covers the bike - it’s onky a bike...
Just said no about lending my car!
you need to get better at putting your toys away 🙂
My dad is dead and my mum lives in Spain so I never see her. Think yourself lucky you have them 🤗
Ok point taken.
Will put toys away and appreciate them more and will buy bike and keep away from pets and parents.
Both my parents are bat shit crazy, it's natural to go barking mad as you get older they tell me.
They've the perfect excuse for a new bike - what's the problem? :).
What are hub rubbers?
What are "costing folks"?
What is a "road bike"? 😉 .
"What are hub rubbers?"
If his parents had figured that out he wouldn't exist
Edit: still can't get the bastard quotes to work!!
Im conflicted here. My parents, dad 82 and mum 79 mean an awful lot to me. Im adopted and was treated to the most loving and opportunity filled upbringing, however now they drive me crazy with casual racial slurs and crazy imperialist views.
I love them dearly but i struggle to find any joy in their company.....
You wanted them to use the CH, they put the fire on instead.
On a scale of them just doing what they want to omg- they have dementia, without further information/ details of more alarming incidents I'm putting this in the 'they prefer a for' category.
I also don't know what hub rubbers are...
Are hub rubbers the little loops (eg hairbands) people loop round their hubs to stop grime build up? They polish lightly as wheel rotates
My parents, dad 82 and mum 79 mean an awful lot to me. Im adopted and was treated to the most loving and opportunity filled upbringing, however now they drive me crazy with casual racial slurs and crazy imperialist views.
I'm informed all old people are like this.
Have you considered they are fine and just doing it out of spite. Were you a horrid child?
They've waited all this time and when you least expect it, wham, poo in the toaster.
#playthelonggame
I’m informed all old people are like this.
I was thinking about this earlier. When do people feel they're old enough to say: "I think we'll switch from the Guardian to the Express, Beryl."?
Everyone reaches a point where they are looking after their parents more than their parents are looking after them. It's a weird shift mentally, but speaking as someone who is going through it is also filled with much love and affection and it feels really good to be able to pay back all the work and sacrifice they have made for me over the many, many years!!! 🙂
I’m hiding in my study.
Knock knock... can you help me with this or that...
I don’t speak to my Mum as she’s so daft or it has to be about her.
My Dad is grumpy or we end up arguing unless he needs my help or screwed something up.
It is age and me turning into a grumpy old fart too.
Check stress levels and ride. Moving abroad one day and I wonder wtf will they destroy next.
I'm not sure if this counts as nuts or inspiring...
... Spoke do dad last night confirming he was safe back from 6 week trip around India, with jaunt to Sri Lanka, mainly alone on trains and buses, meeting friends and family for bits of it.
Just bear in mind he is 74, has serious heart condition (three heart episodes / heart attacks in last two years) and diabetes onset....
You only live once...
Makes my woes seem mild in comparison (not my parents as they are both dead, but the in-laws). Every time they help tidy up after a meal (they came round for Sunday dinner) they put my best kitchen knives in the dishwasher and every time I ask them not too. After a hectic meal (with young kids + red wine knocking around) I often forget to check. So yet again this morning I found three of my best knives happily washed in the dishwasher.
FFS