A series of rather interesting events

[liamc2]

We all know our parents and families have stories to tell. Often they come up during evenings when guests and friends are over. Most of the time, in my families case, they are hilarious somethings or other that my dad got up to with his two brothers and two sisters.

For instance, my father and his younger brother got up one chilly Toowoomba morning to light the wood stove. They had seen their father, my grandfather, using this mysterious blue water to help light the fire(kerosene) Being young at the time, they used the whole containerfull.

Not surprisingly enough they lost their eyebrows and gave the stove pipe a rather thorough cleaning. Neighbours from around the area rushed over when they heard the roar and noticed the 5 foot flames exploding out of the chimney.


Just one of the things my father got up to. One more event involves firecrackers in chokos and throwing them into the chicken run. After that, my dad said, the chooks wouldn't look twice at a choko before running for cover.

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Not all stories have funny endings, many tell tale of some hardships my parents came across in their lives.

One such story involves my fathers first marriage.

My dad first married a wonderful young lady, or so my father thought. She had the strange idea in her mind that no matter what she did, my father will be always married to her. So, with that untrue thought in her mind she started running off and having affairs. One day my father found out from someone, and he told her that they were going to get a divorce.
So he left for work, and returned to find the house totally empty, void of anything and everything. The car gone. The bank and credit cards maxed out. Not to mention all these bills that she had not payed and used the money to buy expensive clothes. All in all 13 thousand dollars worth of debt.

As she had announced in the paper that she was no longer married to my father, somehow she had disowned the debt, taken all the furniture and whitegoods my father had purchased over the years, maxed out the credit cards, and left. Taking their son with her just to spite my father because she knew that that was the only thing that would truly hurt my father.

Cruel how some people are. .

But this story has a happy ending, my father, finding out that he had lost his job, yet another unfortunate event to top it off, moved in with his brother and his brother's wife. This is where he met my mother. He was smitten by her, and to be able to go on a date with her, sold his only suit to be able to afford it.

My mother also grew madly in love with him, and they got married. Also another story here, 3/4 of their wedding gifts were stolen by the guests.

16 or so years later from their wedding I'm here writing this up, sharing a part of our history. Every time I hear this story, my father always says, "These things happen, but all you can do is move on and laugh about it, better to be happy than to sit on the past and grow bitter"

Unlike the movies, we don't live in riches and wealth, but we do live happily ever after. Hardships come and go, but its family that matters.

I hope a bit of my heritage gives you a little happiness.

Share a bit of your past around

[wrist cutter]

Well, unfortunately, some people don't have family. OR they have a family that rejects them.

[Juu]

^_^ nice to hear your story Limac!
Here's a lil one about my uncle. He's one FUNNY guy, *sigh* yet my fav.
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It was a sunny, crisp day in march, My uncle had gone to a small park in napa. It was such a beutiful morning, so he wanted to find the place with the best scenery to sit and look at the lake. After a whole hour of circling the small lake, he found a perfect spot, nice lil bench, perfect shade, and the perfect view. He looked over the spot, although it was just a bench.... He looke over it about 20 times before he walked to a small fast-food chinese resturant, and got a hot soup to-go. He bought the soup, not realizing exactly how HOT it was. He went back to the bench, sat down, took a nice, relaxed sigh and leaned back to drink his soup... this soup bowl was HUGE, bigger than his head okay? HE LOOKED OVER IT ABOUT 20 TIMES!! BUT DURING THE 20 TIMES< HE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE BENCH DIDN'T HAVE A BACK TO IT!! He leaned back, but since there wasn't a back, he fell over, spilling the HOT soup, flat on this face, the bowl falling on his face, and him, laying on the ground, with HOT soup and noodles all over his face.

[Ravenstorture]

[color=darkgreen][font=gothic]Well, WristCutter I don't have much of a family (a broken mother at the most) and the parts of my family that didn't reject me I rejected, but I'm still the happiest person I know. So family isn't everything. Liam rocks though, so LAY OFF!!!!

[i] This is a friendly reminder from Liamc2's personal Thread Bodyguard.[/i]

No, seriously now, I believe that you will find happiness. And I am the last person people expect to hear saying something like that. But you come across as the kind of person I was, and so I find a personal connection with you. If you don't find your happiness however, you are perfectly welcome to come and hang out with me here in coastal Australia, and we will have a good old time. I promise!!!!

My scars have faded.

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[Guest cloricus]

Most parents go though hardships. It makes them better and have more skills for how they should view the world (Or some crap like that.)
The difference between Ravens family and mine is I have a farther (Raven I don't mean that in a bad way I just can't think of a good way to put it.) (And I guess my sister, AHEM!!!! *Cloricus looks at lilac, "do you despise me?"*)
But every one else in the rest of the family despise me or I despise them.

I have a few good stories but they might take awhile to type so I might add them later. :)

[Corey]

I got a good camping story that I had heard from my mom.

1) It was the last day of my mom and a bunch of her friends camping. My mom and her friends were about 20. So, it was the last night, and they still had a bunch of wood to burn. So some geinus in the site suggests that they use white gas to lite the fire. For those of you that don't know what white gas is, it's what they used before things like bottled propane. It's a liquid propane. So they get it lit with a little white gas. Then after a while they realize that if it continues at this rate they will be up all night burning the wood. By this time they were all quite buzzed. Someone puts out the fire and builds a seven foot tall wood stack over the fire pit. They poured about five cups of the white gas under the stack. Someone makes a small fuse, with white gas. The guy lights it and they run behind trees. A second later a huge ball of fire erupts from the pit. It blew the wood outward and almost lit the trees, fifty feet up, on fire.

See, I would have used gasoline or somehting.

[Empathy]

There's no such thing as a perfect family, mine's pretty good though, compared to some people's. Me and my dad argue abit, but we always make up for it...And everyone's got someone who cares about them. God...this post makes me sound SO naive, but....truthfully, I know how the world works...-_-

[Mike]

Well, my Dad told me that he and my Uncle used to wait around at parties until all the men with beards and such were asleep from all the booze. Then they would shave half of the beard or whatever facial hair they had off. lol...If you want more say so, I have tons of stories about my Dad and Uncles..lol

[Justin]

My dad broke his arm one time when we were catfish hunting(O_o) in South Georgia. He stuck his hand down into the water to grab the fish and his arm got caught in it's mouth. Needless to say, it thrashed around a bit, and as big as it was, it fractured my dad's arm.

There was one time when we went fishing(again, in South Georgia) and my grandpa got something on his line. He reeled it in, and it was a 2 ft. alligator.

-Justin

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]Justin, your fishing story reminds me of one of my own fishing stories. Last autumn, we went camping at Lake Sinclair, in Milledgeville Georgia, and I HATE fishing, but I was really bored, so I was throwing the line out and reeling it in VERY slow, but everytime something nibbled at it, I would jerk it by accident and it would escape every time. But ONE TIME it didn't and I just kept reeling and reeling but it just wouldn't come in. Finally, I just had to break the line. I got stuck on a log or something. And I swear I sat there for almost an hour trying to reel that thing in because I was going to be so proud of myself if I had caught a big fish because I hate fishing and I was THAT bored. Man, you can tell I live out in the country.

And I have some family stories, but I will share mine when I read some more of others.[/color][/size]

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Empathy [/i]
[B]There's no such thing as a perfect family[/B][/QUOTE]I [b]do[/b] have a perfect family. :whoops:


My dad used to do all sorts of weird things with my uncle Brian.... They really have to be told orally, though....you just can't get that hilarious effect through type.

And most of my other amusing stories have already been posted....many of them having to do with the stupidity of one history teacher....

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]My mom used to tell everyone a story about how my Uncle was asleep in the room beside hers and that all of a sudden she heard him scream "Help me I'm Faaaaaaallliiiiiiiiinnnnggggg...." with his voice dragging out and getting softer like he really was and then a big loud THUD as he hit the floor. They went in the check on him and he was dreaming the whole time. I always thought that one was pretty funny.[/color][/size]

[Mike]

Nobody asked me, so I'm taking on myself to give you another story.

My dad told me that he and his brothers used to drive around with a fake police light and pull people over then drive off, lol.

I thought that was funny at least...:p

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]Well my dad used to ride around with his arm hanging out the window like he was cool or something until one day it clipped a mailbox. I think he quickly lost that habit...[/color][/size]

[Sara]

::makes a face:: I did that when I was little, and had a big ol' fly smash into my hand.

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]LOL, that was always one of my fears about riding a 4-wheeler was that bugs would get in my teeth like it was the grill of a car or something...

And that reminds me...one time I went riding on my 4-wheeler and it was really dry outside and I was tired of my sister throwing dirt all in my face, so I put on some yellow lensed goggles, like the kind you swim in sort of, and when I got done riding I had big white goggle marks around a face full of dirt. It was funny...[/color][/size]

[Justin]

I [i]still[/i] do that...:shifty:

Me, my grandpa, my dad and some pastor(oh, good gravy) all went fishing one not-to-good-for-fishing day, when it decided to storm on us. We manuvered under a bridge in our boat, and kept right on fishing, with thunder, lightning, freezing rain leaking through the bridge, and gust of wind that seem like they were going to throw me out of the boat.

We sat there, like idiots, and every time a gust of wind would come, the pastor would say "Lord have mercy!" then he'd look down at his line, noticed he had a nibble, snatch the pole up and say "Thankee, Lord Jesus!"

We caught more fish that day than we ever have on any normal fishing trip...

-Justin

[Queen Asuka]

[color=crimson][size=1]You know, I wonder if that story is just completely coincidence or what...but it was very amusing to read.

Do you know how hard it is to think when it is after midnight and you SHOULD be asleep because you have church in the morning but you are WIRED! and you just ate OREOS and MILK?! I can't SLEEP! But that is SO off topic, now isn't it....

Anywho...when I was a baby I superglued my hand to the kitchen floor.. O.o;;[/color][/size]

[Guest Hikaru Ichijyo]

Alright time to share! My mom and I were waiting for the cable man to come fix the wretched box -__-! Well the cable man shows up six hours after he is suppose to come and my mom being the clean freak she is wants the house to smell good. Well turns out she sprayed the can of Pledge instead of the can of Air Freshner. When she goes to open the door she slips on the floor right infront of the cable guy not once but 4 times the cable guy makes the excuse that he has to reschedule thinking my mom is drunk or something! Its not till after the cable guy leaves that she realizes she sprayed the pledge instead. ;)

That was really sad but funny at the same time! :) :laugh: :rotflmao:

[James]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rick Hunter [/i]
[B]Alright time to share! My mom and I were waiting for the cable man to come fix the wretched box -__-! Well the cable man shows up six hours after he is suppose to come and my mom being the clean freak she is wants the house to smell good. Well turns out she sprayed the can of Pledge instead of the can of Air Freshner. When she goes to open the door she slips on the floor right infront of the cable guy not once but 4 times the cable guy makes the excuse that he has to reschedule thinking my mom is drunk or something! Its not till after the cable guy leaves that she realizes she sprayed the pledge instead. ;)

That was really sad but funny at the same time! :) :laugh: :rotflmao: [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=royalblue]whoa...that was...really good. lol

That would have been very funny to see. Ehehh.

Let me see...I can remember one really funny thing happening a few years ago. It still freaks me out even to this day.

My younger sister was walking infront of me down the stairs, talking to me at the same time.

I stopped at the landing and she kept going. And she kind of turned to talk to me and then tripped on the third last step.

She went head-over-heels and ended up sprawled out on the floor below.

At first I was really worried; I thought she had really hurt herself.

And then, suddenly...she sat up and burst out laughing! Her face was all red...she thought it was [i]hilarious[/i]. LOL

I'll never forget it...it was one of the funniest things I've EVER seen.

I helped her up...and she was still laughing...she laughed for about ten minutes straight. lol

Oh no..now I'm starting to laugh just thinking about it...

:laugh: :blush: [/color]

[Delian]

When we were much younger, my brother and I used to get up to a whole heap of trouble. Once when we were around 5 or 6 years old, we had a major fascination with fire. We used to always light stuff (paper, grass, etc) with a magnifying glass, then quickly stomp it out. Well, there was this one time we were lighting a grassy patch near some bushland in our village (just before we moved to Aust.) and it got real windy and the fire spread so quick that most of the village was involved in putting the bushfire out. We got in into so much trouble, but being at such a young age we weren't punished severely. We should have been though, because years later we almost caused another big fire, although this one was on the farm we used to live on and it was controllable. It did leave a huge black patch that took ages to fix.

I look back on it and it was pretty funny, but considering all the bushfires we have in Summer here in Sydney, we could have destroyed so much if any of those fires had gotten out of control.

[Empathy]

k...well...I got a another fishy story...you can take that both ways...no one believes us anyhow....My dad and I went fishing on a Father's Day, it was bright and sunny and so on. Eventually we made our way to the marsh and stopped fishing for a while, and just paddled around the marsh in our canoe. All of a sudden, I had this weird memory of a sesame street episode I had seen about 12 years ago. One of the characters was shouting "here fishy, fishy, fishy...." and catching a bunch of fish. Since I was almost half asleep, sunburned, and we hadn't caught a fish all day...(did I mention I was a little bit hyper to...) I sat there like an idiot, saying "here fishy, fishy, fishy..." not yelling it...but loud enough for my dad to think I was nuts(personally I think its a bit late for that)...but to my surprise...a fish jumped besid e our boat. So I kept it up...each time, a fish jumping alondside our boat. After about the fifth time, I yelled it out, really loudly, then I heard a splash, and my dad sceam and yell in shock, and then another splash, I turned around just in in time to see the tail of a cat fish slipping into the muddy water, and my dad sitting there, dripping wet and muddy....the fish had actually jumped into our boat, and my dad had been so surprised that he had shouted out and threw the fish back in the water.....and to this day, no one believes us...-_-;;;

[Shinobi]

Well this one isnt about fmaily, but it was so funny, my Maths teacher (well at teh time) Was Mrs Taylor, she is a cool teacher, lets you play with rubix cubes and stuff instead of doing maths...

Everyone: -_-

Shinobi: What its better tann maths!!!!!

Anwyay, we were all having a laugh ripping teh crap out of fellow class mates ( me and my mate Scott were doing it teh most) teh whole class was in fits, when Mrs Taylor (an old-ish woman, tahst fata nd round with grey-ish hair in an afro type style) Stood up to go look how people were doing with maths, she stood up will talking to my freind Scott, her foot clipped teh table leg and she flew flat on her face, rolled 3 times tehn jumped up brushing ehrself off at teh speed of light, no one laughed incase they got inot trouble or she was hurt but i couldnt resist i burst out laughing (teh loudest i ever have) and everyone turned to me in shock iw as rolling aroudn teh floor laughing for teh rest of teh perioid (half an hour nearly) and everyone said my face was purple with laughter.

Im starting to laugh visulising it again in my ehad :rotflmao:


Me and my dad always have a laugh but liek Cera said, it has to be told oraly :p



**Edit** I remembered one! I was going to a football game (soccer) and we were in the car, waiting to get inro the car park, my dad rolled down my brotehres window (electricly, he was in teh passangers seat) and my dad looked at me (in the back seat) and i shouted (ina voice like my big brotehrs) " OI YOU YA POLICEMAN YOUR A PRICK!" and teh police man turned round and saw my big brothers windo downa dn i pointed to my big brotehr, teh police man walked over but my dad just drove away :laugh: my big bro thaught he was gonna get into big tyrouble lol!

[James]

[color=royalblue]Heh, funny stuff.

Shinobi, please try to improve your post quality a little further (spelling, grammar, punctuation). :)[/color]

[Shinobi]

Yes, i know, sorry :( its just i was typing fast for i had to go do something, sorry :bawl:. Oops off topic!

Anyway i think this is a great thead :p realy funny stuff hear! and you get to learn about other people too! What more could you ask for? lol