What's your parents' story?

[dolo amber]

I was reminded this evening of a classic moment in my family...not necessarily my folks' *story* as much as an incident...but I'd still like to hear those who have a good one. :)

The night my dad proposed to my step-mom, who was SO very innocent and naive...He pops the question, the tears flow etc...Then he takes her hand, and looks her dead in the eye and says: "Becky, now that you've agreed to be my wife, I have something I really have to tell you...


"I used to be a woman."

:evilgrin:

Ok, so she didn't think it was funny at the time, as evidenced by her turning ashen and running hysterically into the ladies room...but she's come to agree that was classic. :D

[eyesroll]

1. The one that keeps coming up is how my dad tried to check us into

a Montreal brothel. (Not really a "parent" story, but a family one.)

It was AAA recommended, so how could it possibly be bad? Sure, the scantily-clad women outside -- one even pressed her, um, assets against the car window -- could have been a tip-off. Who knows? Maybe they were just friendly?

Well, to make a long story short, my dad actually went into the hotel, came out fuming, and we sped off, but not before I noticed the theater next door. "Mommy? How come there are only men coming out of the all-girl revue?"

[dolo amber]

2. "And why are they

all walking funny?"

:D

[eyesroll]

3. "Mom! You told me that nice ladies don't wear a lot of makeup

but these ladies seemed very very nice!"

[HEyHEY]

4. My mother wanted to be a pilot until she almost killed my dad...

they were building the house and had rigged up a pulley system with the car to get the shingles up to the roof.
My mom was driving the car down the driving while pulling up shingles....a piece of the rope caught my Dad's toolbelt and began pulling him off the roof.
He kept yelling
"Barb, stop, Barb, stop"
At the edge of the roof, she stopped - she finally heard him.
Since then she's been scared of heights. Imagine how scared my dad must have been.
How did he repay her? Well, he put the mantel on the fireplace. Didn't secure it, didn't tell mom. She thought it was done and went and put her collection of hummels on it. Dad saw that and thought SHE had finished it and went to put a picture on the wall....using the mantel for support..... a big crash later the hummels were all destroyed.

[eyesroll]

5. Wow. You win.

The closest my parents came to killing each other was when my mom accidently put spaghetti down the garbage disposal, without realizing my dad was working on the drain pipe in the basement...

[HEyHEY]

6. I don't know....my parents never took the kids on vacation to a whorehouse

;-)

[eyesroll]

7. BUT IT WAS AAA APPROVED!

We did have backup plans (there were two hotels in every city on our itinerary).

[HEyHEY]

8. I hope they wrote AAA a letter after

The red district in Montreal is a pretty sleazy one, my friend once heard three gunshots and ran outside to discover a guy face-down on the pavement dead.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. Met in Germany...then met in Chicago,...

My ma met my dad, first, in Germany. She and friend where supposed to tell these young GIs that it was a Germans only place..the pub, but they got to taking.

My ma & dad become friends, esp since my ma had relatives in Chicago (my dads hometown).

My daid moved on, and eventually my ma moved to Chicago. She decided to look up my dad when coming to the Windy City....and one thing led to another....

[politicat]

10. I don't think they have any funny stories.

Which explains a lot, come to think of it.

If you want the weird, WTF were they thinking, how the hell did you survives, I'll share.

Pcat