Card Swiped & Things you forgot to tell them

Well thank goodness he knows now. My 27 year old son called me 2 nights ago to help him write out his rent check again. He lives all the way across the country from me. I reminded him he needs his W2 so I can do his taxes and he was like, "where is it?"  Bless his sweet heart.

I remember taking a paycheck to a bank to deposit it and at the last second thinking "I don't bank with this bank. Will they know where to deposit this?" and called my mom and she was like "where did I go wrong?"

This video expresses it perfectly: Things we still ask our moms

My youngest dd is 22 and last year she became pen pals with a friend who stills lives across the street (dd now lives across the country) and she called me to help her address the envelope. Not just because she didn't know their street address but because she didn't know what went where on the envelope.

I didn't realize that isn't taught in elementary school anymore. I remember having a template and having daily practice, of course I also remember being taught cursive.

Where Twist Ties come from.

DS wanted to know where to find twist ties at the grocery store. His silence when I asked what he had been doing with all of the twist ties from his bread and buns was hilarious.

Around here, that’s where our plastic tabs come from and not twist ties.  😁   Pre COVID, you could actually find pretty gold twist ties at the self serve bakery display of our grocery store. 

My recently turned 18 year old had a sudden moment of terror when she thought she might now be on her own without further parental guidance. That hasn’t happened to her older sister, obviously, so I don’t know where she got an idea like that.

No, honey, I’ll still be here to tell you how the bank works and how to wash your delicates. And address an envelope, and write a check. Among many other things. Parenting doesn’t end when they’re legal adults!

I did not learn addressing envelopes in school. I was taught by my parents when they taught me how to write thank you’d. 

I was watching the episode of Friends where Chandler is moving in with Monica and out of the apartment with Joey. He is explaining the bills. It cracked me up because I remember teaching my kids ALL about bills. Repeatedly. When they purchased their own homes (neither one rented) it was like they didn't remember a thing. I think sometimes we did teach them, but until it matters to them, it doesn't matter.

bwahahaha!!  you mean, where are they in the store to BUY them?!? That is HILARIOUS!!!  I have a hoard of twist ties and rubber bands in a junk drawer, but that's because I'm old enough that my grandparents lived thru the Depression and she was the queen of hoarding stuff like that. Heck, I've even been known to wash and re-use a plastic zipper bag, lol!

My mom worked in a bank, so I think I absorbed some of that stuff from her through osmosis.   OTOH, I grew up in a small town and never ever rode a city bus till about 10 years ago when we went to Hawaii on vacation. (I didn't know how to buy the ticket, where to go when we got on, etc. lol)   That was something my mom couldn't tell me how to do, either, though-- because there ISN'T any public transportation where I grew up.

ETA:  one thing I *do* remember learning in middle school math class was how to keep score in bowling.  Maybe because we were going to do an after-school bowling activity?  I don't know...  I've only ever bowled once in my life, though, so it wasn't exactly useful information. 

a lot of my phone calls to my mom (she's 80, and I'm almost 52) start out with, "I have a cooking question for you..." Yeah, I know I could look it up on the internet, but it's easier to call Mom.

Don’t feel bad. I’m 67, and I had to ask my 91yo mom a cooking question last week.

When my son was trying to choose a college, he decided on a major university in our city that had a great program in his major. His second choice was about 2 hours away. He said, "Let's be honest, you and dad can't have me going off to school and not be here to take care of your electronic questions and fixes." Ha, he was right and it gave me another 4 years to prepare him for being on his own. Had he left after high school (like most kids do), he would have been lacking in quite a few skills. I also took those years to get my poop in group and learn how to troubleshoot my own electronics issues.

Same! I didn't know how big to cut a rutabaga for beef stew. DD wanted it in there "because that is how grandma makes it".

My MIL didn't know she could use the branch of her bank near her winter home, just like the branch here. The first time she traveled to Arizona after my FIL died, she carried $5,000 in cash in her purse! I almost had a stroke when she told me what she had done.