How easy is it to wind up your mum? That's not a 'your mum' joke, I'm genuinely asking the question.
My mum is a 62-year-old Cypriot woman so I can tell her almost anything and she'll fly off the handle. One time I told her that I identify as English as a wind up and she sat me down and lectured me for 45 minutes about our lovely little island of Cyprus and how proud I should be to be from it.
When you consider I was born and raised in London, you know, that's completely stupid. But it gave my dad a chuckle so I guess it was worth it.
Anyway, one lad who understands how to wind up his mum is 17-year-old Ben Thomson who decided to tell his mum he had got his girlfriend pregnant.
There's 45-minute lectures about Cyprus and then there's this...
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What had actually happened was Ben's girlfriend's dad was having a kid and they'd had their 12-week scan.
"I thought it would be a good idea to tell my mum the baby was my girlfriend's. She doesn't always react like this but this time I think she was tipped over the edge," he told us.
"It ended when I got home and I was called into a room and she tried to have the most serious talk ever about places I could start working to pay for the baby.
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"When it got too serious I had to tell her it was a prank."
They've barely spoken since.
Ouch.
Words by George Pavlou
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