Are you brave enough?

[binny]

To share one of those " family stories" that your family always tells about you?


I have several, none are truly embarrassing thankfully

One is the story of me making a little clay thing in Kindergarten we squished a piece of clay in our palms and the painted it. When I came home with it my mom said " Its lovely, tell me about it" ( mom is so diplomatic) I said " Mom Dont be silly! Its a HANDY"


she displays that thing to this day


DH called the police one day ( back in the 70's keep that in mind) and said " My Mommy hit me" The officer said " Where did she hit you and how many times" dh said ( he was about 5) "on my bum, once" the officer said " Good you probably deserved it"


disclaimer I know that would never happen today and please dont let it become a spanking debate this is supposed to be a silly thread. Thanks

 

[Saffron]

Awww! Both of those stories are adorable binny!

One my family won't let me live down is when I invited my friends to a birthday party I wasn't having. I was in second grade. I told the kids what time to come and everything. My parents had to make a made dash to the bakery for a cake and ice cream. LOL!!

 

[nativetxn]

LOL, love silly stories

There was once a really large photograph of me that hung in my grandmother's living room. I was about 3 I think. Apparently they decided the photograph should be moved to another location because I would bring anyone who dared to come to the door into the room, point at the photograph and ask, "Arsen't I precious?"

I must have heard similar comments like that somewhere

 

[Sonya]

My dad loves to tell this one.

he travelled for a living and used to call home collect to check in. I answered once, I was about 4, and when the operator asked if I would accept a collect call from him I asked mom if we would accept a collect call from dad! The operator told my dad he really must be popular at home!

 

[JohnTBap]

One Christmas, I unwrapped and then RE-wrapped all of my presents. Oh yeah, she could tell. She then announced to everyone at the gift opening what I had done.

I SOooooooooo deserved WORSE.

 

[TLHB70]

My mom always tells this story.

One morning when I was 3 years old I walked into the bathroom as Mom was putting on her makeup; she was doing her eyeliner at the time. I asked her, "What are you doing Mommy? Writing ABCs on your face?" Mom said that she knew then that I was going to be a teacher!

 

[Disney845]

My grandmother was a fan of John Jakes. She had all of his books. One day she was working on a cross word puzzle and there was an easy one she thought I might know the answer to. The answer was "the Rebels and the ______" I immediately said "the B*st*rds." Everyone thought this was very funny, and as I explain that it was a title of a book on grandma's shelf, they laughed even more. The real answer was obviously the "Yankees."


I was still young enough that I didn't understand what feminine hygiene products were used for. I was watching TV when a commercial for Tampons came on. It was promoting a new type of tampon that could be worn overnight for up to 8 hours. I turned to my mother and said...." But what if you sleep more than 8 hours?"

 

[crazyme5kids]

Let's see there are so many................. One is about the time my friend and I decided to make pancakes. I don't know how old we were, I think ,maybe 6 or 7. It wasn't enough that we made pancakes, but we had to make purple pancakes. It wasn't enough that we made purple pancakes, but we needed to make lots and lots of pancakes. My friends mother came downstairs to find pancakes piled everywhere! They were hanging off and over the counters. She called my mother to come look. We also had large paper grocery bags filled with the rejects. To this day they claim it was like walking into a Salvidor Dali painting.
Then there was the time we made bright robin egg blue scrambled eggs..........

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Sure I'll dish one out. Now it is kinda frightful BUT...

I went to nursery school at 4yso. It was across the highway from our apartment. One day we were outside marching around the building and I walked home. Yes I crossed the highway. Needless to say mom never put me back there again.

 

[MerryPoppins]

My mom once sent my brother down the street on his bike to pick up a box of nice napkins for Thanksgiving as we were expecting guests. He brought back a box of feminine napkins. When she could stop laughing, she asked why he had chosen them. He replied that they said feminine, so he thought they might be pretty. We'll never let him live that one down. Mom started using cloth napkins for nice occassions after that, if I remember correctly.

One spring, right after Easter (I was about 2), I was in the back yard with my mother while she worked in the flower bed. We lived in an neighborhood where there were lots of wild rabbits. One had gone under our chain link fence and left a tuft of fur. Mom drew my attention to it and suggested it might have been the Easter bunny. I put my hands on my hips and said, "Well son of a *****!" My mom almost died. I got that one from my dad.