Biggest facepalm moment you had with your parents.

[Use_Imagination_here]

So when I was 12 i tried to convince my mother to get me halo ce as a birthday present. It took 2 weeks but i finally convinced her to do it. But somehow she had a friend I didn't know about who played video games and convinced her it was to violent. Her brilliant solution? Without telling me, purchase mortal kombat 2 instead. To this day I have absolutely no idea how she came to that decision.

So tell me escapists, what's the biggest facepalm moment you had with your parents.

 

[Zac Smith]

When i started my new job, i wanted to ride my bike into work, and this is exactly how the conversation with my mum went

Me: I'm going to get the bike out the shed and ride to work
Mum: Nah get the bus it'll be quicker
Me: I'd rather ride, it saves money and I could do with the exercise
Mum: No, I said get the bus
Me: But I don't want to get the bus!
Mum: Get the bus Zac, don't be so bloody lazy!

 

[Emperor Platypus]

My mother frequently messes up my name with my lil brother, dad, the family pets (the family pets are two FEMALE dogs). I have to facepalm more times than I care to count.

 

[Emperor Platypus]

Damn double post..... does this count as a facepalm moment?

 

[FalloutJack]

I can't tell my folks anything. They'll only screw it up for me somehow. I'm gonna say the biggest is about computers. My folks are bloody morons. I'm not even a computer expert myself and I have to facepalm because the simplest concepts will fly over their heads. I can only wonder how my brother feels, being the right and proper techno-geek of the family. Then again, he gets incredible DUH moments as well.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

Whenever my mom calls my dog when she means to call my name.
Also, my dad thinks lol stands for lot of laughs. Ugh.

 

[Bags159]

I used the word "level" instead of "years" at a fancy restaurant before. Thankfully I don't think any of my family members noticed.

It was something like "after seventy-five levels you would think they wouldn't care".

 

[electric_warrior]

Not me, but a friend of my mum.

She asked her 16 year old son if his foreskin retracted fully when erect.

Just so hideous, so hideous on so many levels.

I'm glad my mum never asked anything quite so facepalmy of me.

 

[Pappytech]

Mom: My mom couldn't figure out how to turn on the Wii. So, she started g-mail chatting me in order to figure it out.

Dad: So, after studying for an algebra 2 test, I felt like I was prepared. My mom, however, thought I should study some more. When I told her I was ready, she got mad and sent me to my room. She then sent my dad to tell me to study. I got fed up with it, and said I'd go study. My dad freaked out, told me "That's not the point" and grounded me.

My parents are usually great with most things in life, but they have their moments...

 

[Norendithas]

Let me see.. I would have to say the biggest facepalm with my parents would have had to have been when my mom came home from the groceries store with a surprise for me which turned out to be that she bought Stepbrothers. My dad and I had seen it of course, but she hadn't. So, she really wanted to watch it. It was rather awkward because she stayed for the whole thing...

 

[Scarim Coral]

One time my mum told my dad to sigh his name for this form and he ask whose names he writes it in. Epic facepalm right there!

 

[Shock and Awe]

Anytime my mother tries to talk about Foreign Policy. She has absolutely zero clue what she is trying to talk about.

 

[FirsstormGojkilp]

This usually amounts to my mum not fully grasping text speech, such as lol meaning 'lots of love' and taking several months to figure out that the finger L I kept making to her meant loser as opposed to love The crowning moment though was when I texted her while I was at college and put 'don't tb' as I didn't want my phone to go off in a lesson, and she then replied saying 'what does tb mean?'

She also has problems remembering really obvious things when drunk, and trouble remembering that she couldn't remember them the next morning..

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

The only thing I can think of this bunch of conversations I had with my dad:

(Convo Version 1.0)
Dad: *most times when he's walk in on me playing anything even REMOTELY fantastical, or with ANY form of combat (even mario, has you jumping on stuff)* Aren't there ANY games about normal non-violent people at all?

(And for a while I had no real answer...until...)

Me: ...Yes there is. There's a whole series. It's called Harvest Moon. You just farm and stuff and-

Dad: Yeah, but I bet no one really plays it!

Me: Actually, there are a lot of fans. Including me!

Dad: ....yeah, but most games aren't like that at all!

Me: *sigh*...
---
*years later*
(Convo Version 1.5)

Dad: *sometimes when he'd walk in on me playing anything even REMOTELY violent or fantastical* You know what kind of game they should make? One where you're just a normal super nice guy, doing nice things, and getting more and more liked until he becomes the pope or something.

(And again, for a while I had no real answer...until one time he pulled that argument out and I said

Me: ...Actually...There's a game KINDA a bit like that...Though not exactly the same framework as you're suggesting.

Dad: ...Say what?

Me: It's called Okami. You play the sun goddess of Japan, in the form of a wolf (my dad snorted with disbelief at this. He doesn't seem to have much imagination), and while the main goal of the game is to eliminate all the monsters that are consuming Japan, you get stronger only by performing acts of kindness to your subjects. Like blooming trees, putting offerings in front of shrines, helping people with their daily troubles, an-

Dad: Yeah but I bet no one bought that.

Me: ...Well it didn't do well at first, but it got enough fan support that they made a remake, and it sold well enough for them to make a sequel. It's actually considered one of the great classics of gaming!

Dad: ...Yeah well..it's still not quite what I was suggesting!
---

That's pretty much it. Aside from the fact that he finds anything fantastical or even remotely violent pointless and silly, he's a totally amazing dad.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

My sister and I spent a roadtrip from Vancouver to Saskatoon talking about her Final Fantasy IV continuity and how she's going to make a comic about it some day. We did talk about other things but it usually got back onto that topic and she continued her narrative.

When my Mom asked what we did on the way back and I told her, she said "You can't talk about games that long! There's nothing to them but pressing buttons."

Not joking.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Once, my Mom put a teaspoon of washing up liquid in her mouth... thinking it was syrup... yyyyyeah...

As for my old man, he's not the facepalm sort, but once when we dropped him off, while he was walking away, waving, he turned and went face first into a lamp post. Cliched, yes, but quite true... and thoroughly amusing.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Anytime my mother tries to talk about Foreign Policy. She has absolutely zero clue what she is trying to talk about.

...Track Palin, is that you?

 

[Colour Scientist]

This usually amounts to my mum not fully grasping text speech, such as lol meaning 'lots of love' and taking several months to figure out that the finger L I kept making to her meant loser as opposed to love The crowning moment though was when I texted her while I was at college and put 'don't tb' as I didn't want my phone to go off in a lesson, and she then replied saying 'what does tb mean?'

My mom's the same and I love those messages, they really brighten my day. She had this phone a few years ago and she never quite figured out the button layout so there was a "+" between each word so+her+messages+looked+like+this.

OT: I suppose whenever I go home my Mom will use my laptop and always manages to do something bad to it, I swear, she just looks at technology and it breaks.

I could probably have a whole list of things from when I was younger but none spring to mind.