Anyone got any family anecdotes?

[Ayashi]

Anyone got any family anecdotes? (I think that is the right word, isn't it?)

My great aunt Myrtle, who died not that long ago, used to in her old age walk across busy roads waving her walking stick in the air in the assumption that speeding cars would stop for her. Funnily enough, they obviously all did 

My favourites are probably my grandparents, Victor and Olive. There was a joke about a garden thrush (you know, the noisy ones with the speckled tummies). My grandfather and a group of his mates I think renamed it "The Olive Bird" because it incessantly goes "Vic!Vic!Vic!Vic!Vic!"   

The other one was when they were baby-sitting either my brother or cousins... Victor got the baby monitor and put the receiver in their bedroom. Grandma went to bed and Grandfather sat in another room going "Olllliiiiiiiiiveeeee.... OOOLLLLLIIIIIVVVEEEEE....." I think he got in trouble for that 

[wildtech]

My grandfather and grandmother both belonged to the same tennis club before they were married - it may be where they met.  However my grandfathers mixed doubles partner was another member.  On his wedding night he apparently called out for his tennis partner in his sleep    Wonder if he ever lived that down

[kiwihalfpint]

My cousin was visiting and wanted to go to the corner shop, so he took my older sister in the pram ...... but he forgot that there was a side road on the corner which was on a slope .... forgot to put the brake on .... and the pram and baby went sailing down.... came out of shop  and  managed to catch both  half way down.... 

[Ayashi]

You've just reminded me... When my mum was a baby, my grandma went to the shops, parked the buggy outside (where some other mums buggies were evidently), got what it was she wanted, came out and wheeled the wrong baby home 

[wildtech]

Those two stories remind me of another one concerning me.  Shortly after I was born my mother was going shopping and in the car with her were my older sister and her friend.  My mother heard them having a whispered argument in the back and eventually intervened and asked them what the argument was about.  My sister replied "Annie says we forgot the baby".  Yes I had been left at home on the kitchen table in the carrycot!

[Jean McGurn]

I can remember in the late 1940's/early 1950's when people used to save their vegetable peelings for the local farm to feed to the pigs. Children used to go from house to house collecting.

I well remember one day when they called at our house, mother told them she hadn't any spare as we kept them for our tea. Was I embarrassed when the little blighters started chanting that I ate pig's swill 

Jean

[Mumsie2131]

My mother told me my grandmother used to say 'I'll comb my hair and then they will think I've washed my face'  I luv that one.  Another one of hers was when some piece of pottery was broken 'It's good for trade'

For me coming out of the house one day for my youngest son who I had been left in his pram at the front of the house, and finding him no longer there - PANIC - only to see my eldest son - then aged about 5 - coming round the corner pushing the pram, he had come home from school for his lunch and decided to take little brother for a walk !!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildtech]

I can remember in the late 1940's/early 1950's when people used to save their vegetable peelings for the local farm to feed to the pigs. Children used to go from house to house collecting.

My grandfather used to collect the waste as pig's swill from Lyons Tea Rooms in London for his farm.  The waiting staff were non-too-careful clearing the plates and all the families cutlery was Lyons Tea Room.  My father had his set for many many years.

[Lydart]

The one about taking the wrong baby home reminds me of the time (when I was in Kenya) when I parked my VW Beetle in the club car park; did my shopping; took it back to the car park, got in my car and drove five miles home ... to be greeted by my OH with 'Whose car is that ?' ...

... I slung the shopping out, and drove rapidly back to the club; the place from which I had 'stolen' the car had another in it, so I had to park 50 yards away from where I had taken the wrong car. 

Never did find out who the car belonged to ... but I'd love to have watched them searching for it !

Of course, I was heavily pregnant at the time, so use that as an excuse ...