Do you have a funny story about your relatives?

Question

My great grandpa, Robert had a long handlebar mustasche that curled up on the ends. He was so proud of it but my great grandma Laura didn't like it. She kept after him to trim it shorter.
One evening Pa fell asleep in his chair by the woodstove and Ma got the idea of lighting a scrap of firewood and singeing the end of his mustasche and he would then have to trim it.
When she lit it, the wax or lotion Pa used to keep the hair in place acted like a propellant and zoom it took off the whole half of his mustasche. He jumped up of course and felt what she had done. Pa quietly walked into their room and shaved the rest off. But the funny thing was that they never spoke about it for the rest of their lives. He didn't get mad and I think he probably thought it was funny too. They were married for close to 85 years.

my pleasure GailleO. I love to think of things I've long ago forgotten only to burst in tears again with laughter. I loved your story and the fact that it got lots worse before it got better!

Answer 1

Yes, I do have one, of many I will share. It is about my Mom who loved to do pranks and such! She was a fun loving woman who got pretty inventive.

One evening, my brother was lying up in his bed watching TV. Now, Momma had told him to get his bath and he was trying to ignore her. So, being the "prankster"....she crept around the house and had a dark blanket covering her head and shoulders.

Obviously, she was squatting beneath his window! She reached up and scratched the screen window...down her hand went! She waited a little and scratched the screen again. Now, by this time, my brother was on his feet and was yelling..."who's out there?" ....LOL! She jumped up and moaned eerily. My brother went air born and she lost it with laughter!

She came in the front door and she was red faced from the laughter! My brother was red faced because she scared him half to death! LOL!!

Well, we all were laughing and noticed red lights flashing, from the street behind us! My Dad, was a minister, he walked over there to see if he could be of some assistance. While there, he learned that there had been a "Peeping Tom" who had been glaring into a bathroom window, at a woman. That was why all the police lights as they knew he was in the neighborhood and they were looking for him!

Knowing what my Mom had done to my brother, my Dad came back laughing, hysterically! He told my Mom that she had to have been outside my brother's window, after the police had been called. At this point, my Mom was no longer laughing but, my Dad and we children were rolling at the thought, of her being arrested for Peeping! ROFLOL!! She even took offense that my Dad had not said anything about her being outside with, "A CRIMINAL!"!!! Oh geesh!

Thanks for asking this questions! It has been a joy to share just one of the many memories of those who are now, in the presence, of the Lord!

Answer 2

Curious, maybe not funny -

In 1955 we traveled to France with my military Dad and took along my maternal grandmother who was then in her late 60's...We lived in the top floor of a duplex home in a small village outside of LaRochelle - our landlords lived below with their small son.

My Irish grandmother would hang out the wash my Mom had done on the clotheslines in the back yard everyday. She and Mme. Gobin would meet up at the clothesline and gab for what seemed eons!

Now mind you - my grandmother spoke only English! - Mme. Gobin spoke only French! yet they chatted back and forth merrily each day!

My mom would say "Mama, how do you know what she says, you don't speak French "[after Mama would tell her something Mme Gobin had allegedly said]

mama would always reply - "Just HUSH, Alice, what do YOU know! "

Answer 3

I have a story..it might sound a little dysfunctional but kids will be kids I guess. Anyway, my nephew, I'll call Jay was out of high school, the summer after graduation 1086. and someone had a party and they were all drinking and playing quarters and my nephew got so drunk he passed out. While he was passed out his buddy's decided to shave off one of his eyebrows and paint his finger nails. He woke up and was really mad and no one would admit who did it but he had a pretty good idea. So he went and shaved off the other eye brow and wore a hat to cover them for a while. Then they had another party only this time he stayed on top of things and his best friend passed out and he shaved off one of his eye brows and so his friend took it in stride, having been the culprit. He and shaved off the other eye brow too..I mean what else can you do they tried to draw them in but it look gay and they weren't so they shaved. The funny thing was they had to come down to where I was going to college and move me to a new location, and both of them wanted to hit on college girls but both were wearing similar caps so that you couldn't see their eye brows and neither of them had much luck that weekend meeting girls. It was pretty funny as they looked ridiculous!

Answer 4

My aunt Ida(she was my favorite)came to visit.We took her to Natural bridge.She was from Ga. and was a heavy woman.At the top you went through a narrow part and she got stuck.The adults were pushing her and pulling her.She was there for at least 2 hours.The fire dept. showed up.They poured grease all over her and it still took another hour to get her out.Just thinking about it I can hear her screaming with her southern draw.Thanks it's been a while since I've thought of that,I miss her very much.

Answer 5

my grandma and her sisters were always playing tricks on each other; for some reason, one time, they paid some guys to put my great aunt's piano up on her roof where she couldn't miss it as she pulled into the driveway. it was her pride and joy!
they also waited until another aunt was very tipsy at a halloween party, and tied helium balloons with scary faces to her caddy bumper for the ride home. she nearly had a stroke. I think my relatives may have been a little odd, but they were all my heroes.

Answer 6

Many years ago when my daughter came home from colledge,she was 16, There had been a bad storm that day, she came out with the statement, "did you see that lamb lightening"....we all looked at each other trying to figure out what she meant....she said you know..."lamb lightening", well, the penny droped, and I said, Oh, you mean "sheet lightening"....but she thought it was Sheep lightening, but came out with "Lamb" we all cracked up with laughing , but she felt so stupid and embarrassed.....shes 39 now but we still have her on about "lamb lightening" even now.....this don't sound so funny written down, I suppose it's one of those you have to have been there stories to see the funny side

Answer 7

So this one is for real, I kid you not. My great-grandma was full blood Shoshone indian, my grandpa was a German railroad worker that put in the first railroad. So when her kids were born, there was this one that wanted no part of being a "savage indian". So she goes to the doctor and tells him to drain out all that "indian blood". He explained to her that it couldn't be done and she about went nuts. I think she already was.

Answer 8

My friend was raised by a single dad. When she got her first period, he went out and bought TONS of pads and tampons. Probably so he wouldn't have to get more any time soon. I mean, there were packs and packs all over her room. It was so funny.

Answer 9

I was 9 and had been helping Grandma pick beans in the garden, it was so hot and grandma always wore a dress, we went back in the kitchen to cool down a bit after we dumped our beans she sat on a chair and I sat on the floor, I looked across the room at grandma and she didn't have any undies on--my eyes got big and she turned red and pushed her dress down. So funny, she was so religeous. good ol Virginia days.

Answer 10

For my grandmothers birthday we bought her a bird feeder for her to hang in her garden. She was delighted with the gift and then read the tag. It said "perch feeder", she looked out her window and said "its beautiful but I don't know if we have any perch around here" well obviously the tag didn't mean a breed of bird it meant that there were little perches for the bird to sit on while feeding. One of us had to gently break the news to her. To this day my grandma still forbids us from talking about it in front of her but we secretly joke around about it.