What cute, funny, or just plain odd things do your parents do?

[Eye and Monkey]

My mother has a thing going with Agent Mike.

My mother is probably as close as one can come to be a truly compassionate conservative. 70-something and a proper Southern lady.

I live out in the country, and the telephone lines frequently crackle while you're talking. A while back, I started telling my mother that it was John Ashcroft, listening in again. Her response - "John Ashcroft - plffflffpfpf!" (sound of a raspberry).

Then I explained Agent Mike to her. Now, when the phone crackles, she says "Hi! Agent Mike, plffflffpfpf!"

[PfNJ]

1. odd things my parents have done.....

voted republican, against their own interests, more than once.....

:mad:

[HEyHEY]

2. Mom - throws away everything

The woman doesn't have one sentimental bone in her body.

Dad - Makes Scalloped potatoes way too much.

[boobooday]

3. My mother too -- she doesn't keep anything!

And my Dad has always stripped to his underwear anytime he is at home. Nice, eh? Not a smoking-jacket kind of guy. It makes it interesting sometimes when the Jehovah's Witnesses come by.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Eye and Monkey]

5. So, Jehovah's Witnesses come by on Holy Underwear Day?

[TOhioLiberal]

11. holey Toledo!

literally....

[FleshCartoon]

8. I do the same.

And I've been called unsentimental before.

But what're you gonna do with thirty year old birthday cards?

[izzie]

19. Gee my father kept every thing.

We had an old 30's style womens coat that hung in the cellar for years. Some time in the 60's my mother finally trashed it and my father knew in a min. and was mad. We all loved it and really picked on him about it. He did say he went to far on keeping some things. When he died my mother slowly emptied one of the double garages he had and lived off selling the stuff for over as year. I loved the guy even if he would wake us in the morning with one of those old car horns that sort of played a tone. You sure got up fast. My mother was also an odd ball who ran around in western boots and slim western pants and a fur coat, in the 40's when women hardly wore slacks. This was in the NE so she was hardly a Western person but guess it went with her horses and fast cars.

[boobooday]

22. I actually know a guy who has a second house

To put all the stuff he can't throw away. But I think he is pathological. haha

[TOhioLiberal]

4. My mom...

...has a favorite story that she likes to embarrass me with. It seems that when I was 5 years old (a loooooooooog time ago) I gave my dad a worm that I had found and asked him to barbecue it because it would be 'scrumptious'

She tells this story to everybody at family gatherings (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc) even though everyone has heard it! :shrug:
Ah, family...what can ya do?

[Eye and Monkey]

6. "what can ya do?" - Embellish the story with a fanciful ending.

Pops put the worm on the grill, and it was scrumptious! So, now, Mom puts worms in the turkey stuffing - it's the secret family recipe. Everyone, dig in!

[TOhioLiberal]

10. I don't remember the ... ahem ... incident.

I have some doubts that it took place (not that I think shes lying, just misremembering)because I HATE worms, they are digusting and slimy.

[Eye and Monkey]

13. So? Make up something just barely believable.

[FleshCartoon]

7. You might not think this is cute or funny...

...and maybe I should've been creeped out by it, but my mother kept saying "incest" the other day when she was referring to "incense." She finally caught what she was saying, though, and laughed at herself.

My dad pronounces "dyslexia" "dice-lexia."

[burythehatchet]

9. Create sibling rivalries and foster comparisons between children

Not sure if that falls under funny or cute.

:)

[Eye and Monkey]

16. If it's funny, it's not funny-funny.

[m-jean03]

12. lol . . .

That's such a funny copycat, and a funny story about your mom, too. :-)

Hmm..well, there's my dad who's 61, who likes rap music and shopping at American Eagle. He is totally into what most would call the "youth culture", which I respect completely, because his enthusiasm is sincere and real, but what makes it so funny is that I *am* young, but am practically the opposite in musical tastes and clothes. . .

He's also really into having popular brand names all over his clothes. . . It's funny, he's always really hip to the latest fashions, he's been that way my whole life. Probably will be just as much so when he's 80... lol, parents! :shrug:

[Eye and Monkey]

14. Does your dad greet you with "word up, dog?"

Do you respond "wazzup, G?"

[m-jean03]

15. Sometimes, but I'm usually the one who initiates it

as a way of making fun of him.. lol. :-)

[Eye and Monkey]

17. Count your blessings. For Halloween, a friend's mother dressed-up as -

- dressed-up as "the scariest thing she could think of" - her son, my friend.

[m-jean03]

18. Oh, I just thank my stars he's not a rightwinger

He's a weird old hippie and I love him. :-)

[NJCher]

20. here's a wierd thing my mother does

She feeds stray cats but she won't feed them in her own yard. She buys cans of tuna and puts them out at the neighbor's yard. She sneaks over at night and does it.

She does have a cat but I guess one's enough for her.


Cher

[StaggerLee]

21. My mom

When she's trying to get the attention of one her kids specifically by name she will run through every name of every other kid FIRST before she gets the right one.

"Michael! Flora! Joshua... MARCOS!!"

:D