The days of asking your dad to drop you off around the corner from school may be well and truly behind us.
But parents still have a knack for being an embarrassment to grown-up children, as shown in a hilarious Twitter thread of gaffes posted in family WhatsApp chats.
One user was baffled when her mother posted an array of blurry images of her dog wearing a wig, while an alarmed woman revealed an ’emergency’ turned out to be pictures of her nephew throwing tupperware around the kitchen.
One red-faced woman revealed her father had posted a very awkward lesson about condoms.
Elsewhere another father posted a picture of the ‘beautiful flower vase’ he found in his daughter’s room, unaware it was in fact a water pipe, in a collection of hilarious posts.
Pesky parents! Rena Min, from Chicago, revealed her father had posted a very awkward lesson about condoms, in a collection of hilariously embarrassing family group Whatsapp snaps shared to Twitter
Madeline Sneed, from Ohio, was baffled when her mother posted an array of blurry images of her dog wearing a wig to the family Whatsapp chat, in an array of hilarious exchanges
When American Ash took to the group Whatsapp to query who had stolen her KitKat bar, she found one had been left out the next day with a note written ‘by the chocolate’ -claiming he had ‘escaped his wrapper the previous day’
Elsewhere Nikki from Massachusetts revealed her father posted a picture of the ‘beautiful flower vase’ he found in his daughter’s room, unaware it was in fact a water pipe, in a collection of hilarious posts
Meanwhile in another hilarious post to the family Whatasapp group exchange thread, Kevin from Ireland woke up to reveal he had sent his parents a half an hour audio clip of him sleeping- with his mother claiming he sounded like his dad
Katie Wessel, from Vancouver, revealed an ’emergency’ turned out to be pictures of her nephew throwing tupperware around the kitchen, in a collection of hilariously embarrassing family group Whatsapp snaps shared to Twitter
Meanwhile Katelynn from Utah and Eve Harris from Scotland revealed how their mothers lured them home early with conversations of dinner- but one admitted she was slightly confused as she hadn’t lived at home for three years
Emmalyn from Ohio admitted her family’s group chat existed purely for her dog, in a collection of hilariously embarrassing family group Whatsapp snaps shared to Twitter
Meanwhile when a sibling shared a snap of their incredible view, Santi Gonzalez from San Francisco replied with a picture of a toilet door- much to his mother’s bemusement
Kenna Shirer from California revealed their family group chat consisted of winding each other up, with his joke about a chef who ‘pasta way’ causing much alarm with his mother
Posting to the collection of weird family group chats, one user by the name of Mochi Ruu from Missouri revealed their frustration about not understanding what their Japanese family were talking about
Elsewhere one tweeter from Pakistan by the name of Wafa showed a snap of her mother getting jealous when their father posted a sentimental quote to the family Whatsapp group
Continuing the trend pets reigning supreme over family group chats, Garrett Delph from Virginia shared a snap his father had sent through of their dog snuggling with a stray cat
And in another important dining table update, a student named Hanalyn shared a snap of her mother’s new personalised ‘picture’ place mats created for their supper times