Anyone got any family anecdotes?

[Ayashi]

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)

It's a nice piece of information, but unfortunately it was discredited on TV a few years back as being a myth. It's a good 'un though and widely believed.

I love these stories. I'm glad I started the thread and made a few people laugh

[briant]

In the early sixty,s,On a saturday night,my mates an i used to frequent a pub about half a mile from the local dance,Between the boozer and the dance were dimly light streets,
This night as we stopped to relieve ourselves, around the corner came a newly introduced panda car manned by a copper and 3 eager cadets so we were rounded up PDQ,

In those days a Sergant did the procecuting from a mobile witness box but this day nobody had locked it down, so when he went to stand on it,it moved, with him hoping across the court room,

We were fined 2/10/6 for urinating in public,and 10/6 for laughing in court,when my mate protested that the clerk had laughed as well,the magistrate upped it to 20 bob,
 
And it got reported in the local paper,oh the shame of it

[wendy47]

Another trick my father played was on my mother when I was about 4 or 5.

We were playing hide and seek and I had to hide so he hung me on the back of the door underneath his railway great coat and told me to be very quiet.  My mother searched everywhere until I made a noise. My father got such a telling off for leaving me hanging there.

Wendy

[Viktoria]

When I met my son coming out of Sunday School I asked him what was the story and what had they sung that Sunday?He said they had sung "The Monster Song". I was puzzled and out of curiosity asked the Sunday School teacher. She thought for a minute then burst out laughing. It seemed they had sung a hymn   "Christ who once amongst us as a child did dwell"- my son insisted it was "Christ who wants a monster as a child did dwell"
We had a circus day at school and all the staff were dressed up. I went as a clown and used a foaming hair colour to make my hair a violent orange and make it stick up in spikes at the same time. When I was all dressed up and ready   my husband ran me to school as usual  and then went on to his work . It was only at home time I realised I had to go home on the bus, It would be another two hours before hubby f inished work  and at least 45 mins before he could collect me. I was expecting a visitor I did not want to miss so there was nothing for it but the bus.O.ther staff members who often gave me lifts were on a course. So I got the bus---the funny thing was no-one really paid me any attention. The driver didn`t flick an eyelash!The sequel was I`d used two cans of spray foam and it lasted for 6 weeks!!! despite me washing it three times every morning!Viktoria

[kooky]

One thing that stays in my mind is how my father used to have little sayings and phrases that really annoyed my mother.

The best/worst one was that if my mother said "Do you want tea or coffee?"
My father always answered "Yes". 

Kooky

[wendy47]

When I was about 5, my Grandfather was a Railway Guard on the Great Western steam trains.

He would call into the Refreshment Room on Banbury station and buy me a Chocolate covered Swiss Mini Roll.
If he came home without one I knew he'd not been to Banbury and moan that he'd been to 'rotten old Coley'.

That obviously started my love of chocolate and cakes. 

Wendy

[Paul Caswell]

My mum told me a lovely one a few years ago.

When she was little, 10ish I'd guess, she was invited to attend a posh military 'do' with her father who was a Sgt. Major by then. So there was granddad, full military regalia, medals and all, chatting with General whoever, spots mum having unrolled a swiss roll and was licking the jam off the inside of it, of course also 'wearing' much of it too. The grin on her face when she told me the story was s delight to see. 

I can just imagine granddads reaction too. 

Paul

[wendy47]

There was obviously something about those little swiss rolls. They don't taste the same today.Mind you rationing finished in 1953 for sweets I believe.

wendy

[Willow 4873]

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)

It's a nice piece of information, but unfortunately it was discredited on TV a few years back as being a myth. It's a good 'un though and widely believed.

I love these stories. I'm glad I started the thread and made a few people laugh

Yeah but its fun spotting which ones are wrong 

Willow x