- Yikes, this dad is savage.
- Dad, live your life. You do you.
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- (FBE) So today, we're gonna be reading
some pretty awkward parent text messages.
- Ooh, the cringey ones. This could be some innuendos,
could be parents not knowing how to text.
- Sometimes my mom is very cringe when it
comes to texting. It's just like, what are you doing?
- My dad used to travel a lot, so he would always send me
selfies in different locations and multiple selfies a day
and I'm like, "Dad, that's not how you take a selfie."
- I feel like I don't really text my parents.
All these text conversations I'm like, how did these happen?
- Usually, I don't text my parents. I usually just call them,
'cause texting for them is very slow,
so I wonder how this is gonna be.
- I'm scared for these people. Hopefully, everything was okay
after these awkward text messages.
- Mom. "Your great aunt just
passed away, lol." "Why is that funny?"
"It's not funny, David. What do you mean?"
"Mom, lol means laughing out loud."
- "Oh my goodness. I sent that to everyone.
I thought it meant lots of love.
I have to call everyone back. Oh God."
Aw, that's so horrible. That's the worst.
- That's why parents, they should stay away from texting
and just keep it simple. Don't do any abbreviations.
- That's not too awkward. I mean, you could take it
as lots of love.
- My friends were just having this debate if lol means
laughing out loud or lots of love.
Personally, it has to be lol, especially with caps,
lol is laughing out loud.
- Moms are so innocent. We need to protect them
from this world, this cruel world.
- "Dad, I got my girlfriend pregnant."
"What!?"
- "Nah, I'm just kidding. I just failed my bio exam."
"Oh thank God."
- That's smart. Doing one thing and then
saying something else that's also somewhat bad,
but not as bad as the first thing,
it's like, "Ah, it's okay."
- That's a good way to kinda cheat the system.
- Why is he just okay with that? I would still be questioning.
Are you sure about the pregnancy thing?
- Poor dad. Probably got so stressed out
over one little text message.
- "I got an A in chem." "WTF, well done."
"Mom, what do you think WTF means?"
- "Well that's fantastic." Yeah.
All these would work.
- I can just picture some tiny little lady on her phone
being so proud of herself and her child and it's just like,
oh no, no, no, no.
- That was pretty mom behavior.
- See how pure and innocent they are.
- How do parents find the abbreviations?
Where do they look?
- "Hey honey, how was your day?"
"Good, I'm having the best weed of my life."
- "Oh, me too. Where did you get yours from?"
"No, no, no. I meant week."
- "Wait, what, dad?" "Let's not tell mom about
this conversation." So he just found out
that his dad is a pothead. Wow.
- Dad, live your life. You do you.
- Hey, I mean if you're feeling it, at least you got a dad
that could do it with you, so it's some father son time,
I guess.
- I don't think I'd ever have these kind of conversations
with my parents, in person or through texts.
- "Hey sorry, I missed your call, what's up?"
"Hold on one second. I am [bleep] your brother in bed."
"Ew mom, what the [bleep]?"
- "Oh sorry, I meant tucking. This darn phone."
- Dot, dot, dot. Yeah that would be
my response, the dot, dot. That's weird.
- Is the F and the T that close?
- Doesn't auto correct correct to what you
usually text, so it's like are they texting that
on a daily basis?
- That's one that you might want to double check
before you send it. That could be a real scary
two minutes of someone else's life.
- "Hey, what's up?" "Gas prices."
True.
- "Lol dad, I meant like what are you doing?"
"Your mom." "I want to move out."
- Oh my God, that's so awkward.
This can't be his dad.
- That's the dad trying that's trying to be cool and trendy
and it's just like, "Dad, can you stop?"
- I love how this dad is so immature.
This is something you would expect from a twelve year old.
You would not expect this from your dad.
- This is very twelve year old who happens to not have aged
since being a father. I'd rather have this over
text than in person.
- Smiley face. "Have a Hershey kiss."
"Mom, that is poop." "What, that looks like Hershey's.
I don't have my glasses."
- It could be a chocolate chip. It doesn't have to be [bleep].
It can be whatever you want it to be.
- I mean, if you're far away and you're not used to it,
sure, that could look like a Hershey's Kiss.
- She's definitely old. I bet you she just got
her iPhone, too. That's why she's like,
"Aw, these are all these cute emojis."
- That's so funny. That's something my parents
would do. They use emojis all the time.
- Honestly, I feel like that was a text sent to me.
That's honestly something that my mom would send me.
That's really good.
- "You're bringing the hermaphrodite, right?"
"Uh." "Damn, Heineken."
- What? This is really confusing.
- Okay yeah, I'd be like, huh?
- Autocorrect is wild.
- It's all these autocorrect ones and then it's always
such obscure words.
- How does hermaphrodite be Heineken?
Are you kidding me? Sure, it starts with H,
but I don't really see how it goes from that to that.
- "Hey honey, how's the science fair?"
"Pretty good actually. Abbey got first for
her erupting vagina." Oh, oh my God.
- "Vagina equals volcano. Stupid auto correct."
- "I got nervous for a second there, honey.
Abbey is almost eight." Poor Abbey.
- At least this person caught themselves
- The mom should not have said anything.
She should just have been okay.
- I appreciate this family dynamic.
I really do. This is comedy gold.
They need their own TV show at this point.
- "Hey son. Do you need anything
from the store while I'm here?" "Yeah, can you pick me up
some condoms? I have a date tonight."
"Son." "Yeah, dad?"
"You realize that you can't get your hand pregnant."
Roasted. Yikes, this dad is savage.
- Sometimes these dad jokes work better over text
than in person or at least it's less uncomfortable over text.
- I didn't want to know that.
- Oh God, wow. That's real weird.
- Why are you texting your kid that?
- Would some dads really do that?
That's so awkward.
- I can imagine all the stress and anxiety going to either
the child or the parents too, 'cause they're probably like,
"What do you mean?"
- If I were to receive something like this, I would just
assume they typed something wrong. I wouldn't think,
oh my gosh, this is what they're actually saying.
- I've had some bad autocorrects, but some of these,
they were a little extreme. I do not want to be
in the shoes of any of these people.
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