Anyone got any family anecdotes?

[kooky]

I remember my very 'proper' mother, who never left the house without her hair done, makeup on, and with matching gloves[we are talking early 60s here] had been cleaning our house before we left it to move to another one.
She had carefully packed a change of clothes, shoes, coat hand bag etc in a bag which she left near the front door.
When she had seen the removal van off she realised that they had taken her bag!
She was in her cleaning clothes and slippers, no coat and no money!
She had to get 2 buses to get to the new house. We did not have a car and my father was at work.
When I got to the new house after school, she was in a rage! She was mortified that she had been on 2 buses, carrying dustpan and brush etc. The worst thing was being in her slippers! She had had to borrow some bus fare from a neighbour.
I bet those removal men got an earful!
Kooky.
ps we were not allowed to mention it ever again!

[newby dee]

i loved reading all the stories,it reminded me of story about my grandfather...
tea bags had been purchased by my gran for the first time...
grandad shouts from the kitchen "dont go much on these new tea bag things ethel, takes ages to make a cuppa"
where he was then seen to be cutting the corners off the bags and measuring each on a spoon before tipping loose tea into the pot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!   bless

[joyce341]

This is a new one,just heard from my brother,my neice was feeling lonely after her daughter left home,so started helping with a charity,she recently went to Zanzibar and took some clothes for children as this was what was needed most,when she got to the place she was going and started handing out the clothes,a girl said she is a twin but her sisters at home,so gave two sets of clothes,she stayed with someone from the charity and at dinner,said you have a lot of twins here dont you,the host looked puzzled and said we have only had about four sets in ten years,when my niece said we have handed out clothes for about 80 sets,he laughed,sharp are,nt they he said.
joyce

[Bumper71]

This sounds like my grandfather.

[joyce341]

my funniest anecdote is,my two grandsons,five months apart by different daughters,they were about six,both their mothers exspecting second child,one told her sons where babies came from,the other said the baby came out of the belly button,they sat watching tv one day,and there was ceasearion operation on,the one who was told the baby came from the belly button turned round and said," see I told you they came from the belly button",how can you explain that one,LOL.
Joyce

[molly90]

Back in the sixties, we had a back scullery to our house where mum used to keep all her pots and pans.  After years of having to have a bath in front of the fire on a Friday night, Mum and Dad had a  'proper' bath fitted in the scullery.
One night my Bro came in from having a bath and remarked "That must be the only 'bathroom' where you can stand up in the bath and hit your head on the frying pan'.

This is a great thread.  I have not laughed so much for a long time.

Molly

[wendy47]

In the early 1970's, on a trip back from Germany where my husband was stationed, we were visiting my parents and sister. We had brought some food back with us as it was a surprise visit so they could see our daughter. My sister and I were sunbathing in our bikinis on our stomachs in the garden when we heard a shout of laughter. My father had taken a photo of us and had placed a loaf of bread at our feet called 'Bums'.  All you can see in the photo is the loaf and our bums.

Wendy

[Willow 4873]

My dad was standing in front of the fireplace at my Nan's the one day warming his backside when he suddenly vanished in a cloud of soot. A pigeon had died and fell down the chimney giving it a quick sweep on its way down

We spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up and dad had to borrow some of my grandads clothes to go home in (which as he was 6'1'' were way too short). My mum thought it was hilarious once she had got over the initial shock

My Grandad Hilton once go drunk and tried to climb up onto the back of the horse on the statue of Prince Albert in the town square (locally known as T' man on the 'oss) not a bad feat as the plinth is about 10 foot high and he was only 5'2''. He got arrested and fined for that one

Bit of useless information about horse and rider statues. If the horse has its front two feet off the ground the rider died in battle. If the horse has one foot off the ground the rider died at a later date of wounds sustained in battle and if it has all feet on the ground the rider died of other causes (Prince Albert died of Pneumonia)

When I was at school they had a wooden dolls houses house (I was about 5/6)

Running around one day I tripped and fell and my right little finger went down the dolls house chimney. Later in the day I found I couldn't bend my little finger and there was a dark mark along the edge of the nail but we just thought I had bruised it.

I still couldn't bend it a few days later so mum took me to the doctors. It turns out that the dark mark down my fingernail was a splinter that ran from the tip of my finger past the knuckle at the base. Luckily the doctor pulled it out without any problem but said that if I had forced the finger to bend I would have had to have had an operation to remove it

Willow x

[anniedwyer84]

I'm in a public library here shaking with laughter over all the stories that I have just read  . I remember being told a story of when my grandparents were meeting their now daughter-in-laws parents for the first time. My grandparents had brought a bottle of sherry or something for the afternoon but when the other couple arrived, the bottle of sherry had disappeared and couldn't be found. Only that evening, when grandad went to light the fire and opened up the coal box, there was the bottle of sherry..still laugh about it now.