odd families

[cowgirl]

i cant be the only one in the world to have a weird family, so this thread is to tell about funny moments with our families.

once my sister and brother decided to jump odff the roof onto matresses. not a very smart idea.

[twyrch]

My grandfather took my Dad, my uncle Jerry and their cousin Rob fishing in the Ozarks back in the early 60's.

Rob decided to try to pick up women with a fake Australian Accent. He called himself Syndey Robert Lambert I. My Uncle Jerry was Sydney Robert Lambert II and my dad was Sydney Robert Lambert III.

They spent the whole day pretending to be Australian to pick up chicks.

Those of you from TB.... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it.

[Elassa]

Nope, no it doesn't.

We live where a silo used to stand, so every year these field mice come around. One day, my dad was in the dining room and this mouse ran across the kitchen floor, stopped halfway and kept running. It did this for a while, so my dad decided to kill it. He gathered up a bunch of dirty clothes and his bebe gun. He made a gilly for himself out of the pile of clothes and lay in the dining room floor until the mouse ran across again. It was in a mad dash when he shot it. He sniped the mouse. It turned out that it was pregnant. I came home and there was this faint red streak on the kitchen floor.

I inherited a lot from my dad.

[dinadan]

Well, this is one of those things from my childhood that should probably have traumatized me, but instead I just find humorous:

On day, dad came in from work, and we were sitting down to eat dinner. My sister was little, and it was before my brother was born, so that puts me being somewhere between 4-7. Anyway, dad says something about the pot roast being over done. Mom, who had had a bad day, just reached over and stabbed him in the hand with the fork and said "Well, you're overdone too," then took his plate and tossed it's contents in the disposal.

[twyrch]

dinadan said:

Well, this is one of those things from my childhood that should probably have traumatized me, but instead I just find humorous:

On day, dad came in from work, and we were sitting down to eat dinner. My sister was little, and it was before my brother was born, so that puts me being somewhere between 4-7. Anyway, dad says something about the pot roast being over done. Mom, who had had a bad day, just reached over and stabbed him in the hand with the fork and said "Well, you're overdone too," then took his plate and tossed it's contents in the disposal.

OUCH!!! OMG! That was painful just reading it....

[CynanMachae]

OMG, I dont have the time now, but my family rocks... I'll post some stories for sure... ;D

[Elassa]

My dad and I were sitting at the table one day and my older sister walked in. My dad looked up and screamed, "Amanda, look an elephant!" She spun in circles until she realized that there was no elephant.

You remember those commercials for Leiv's low rise jeans? The ones with the singing belly button? Well we were in the store and this girl was raving about how she wanted those jeans. My dad just lifted up his shirt and moved his belly button to make it sing and started singing "I'm Coming Out."

[Inkling]

My Dad used to think it was funny to run into parked cars and then limp away as if he'd been hit....this worked especially well when the drivers hadn't left their cars yet...

[pink3elephant]

okay when i was little my family used to dress up in different costumes and do wrestling, sometimes even sumo wrestling. The pictures are hilarious!

[dinadan]

twyrch said:

OUCH!!! OMG! That was painful just reading it....

Hah--if you think that's painful, I won't even tell about the time mom got her finger caught in the MixMaster....

[twyrch]

dinadan said:

Hah--if you think that's painful, I won't even tell about the time mom got her finger caught in the MixMaster....

OW! My wife's grandfather cut the tendon going to his thumb in three places last week while using his power saw. He had to get the tendon's reattached but it should be better soon we hope.

My Dad's cousin Rob, introduced himself to my grandmother for the first time as Wilber C. Snodgrass. We had prepared her for him though and she replied, "Oh, you must be Rob!" He was speechless. ;D

[Hinata]

So here's the question. . .embarrassing stories about me or embarrassing stories about my family. . .because I have both!

[twyrch]

Hinata said:

So here's the question. . .embarrassing stories about me or embarrassing stories about my family. . .because I have both!

*bounces*

Ooooo!!!! Both!!! I wanna hear both!!!! ;D

[Hinata]

First self embarrassing story (I have many of these. . .my parents LOVE to tell them. . .): When I was like 3 or 4, I was at the library with my parents and my father had just finished reading me a book. I decided I want another story read to me, so I took it to my mother and asked her to read it to me. She was busy and so she told me to have my father read it to me. I, being a wise and literal child. . .having only seen my father read the newspaper, declared in as LOUD of a voice as I could "But Daddy can't read!"

First family embarrassing story: My older brother is not very. . .wise when it comes to common sense. . .he's very lacking. . . but the lacking is mostly displayed when I point out his story of his apartment. See, he got married in February of last year (2004) and he moved into his apartment in January. Since my family and his fiance's family were still planning the wedding, my brother invited them down to the apartment to discuss the plans. He spent all day cleaning up his apartment but he noticed a horrible smell and decided to light a candle to cover the smell. When my parents arrived at the house, the identified the smell. . .natural gas. ..amazing the rocket scientist didn't blow himself and the apartment complex up.

[CynanMachae]

My family/friends and I dressed up for LotR...

Q: is this for immediate families only?