Funny family stories

by coffee_black 4 Replies latest jw friends

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    I think it's time for a good laugh. Care to share some funny stories that happened to you or someone in your family? I was thinking about my grandmother today......my dad's mother. Here's a story she never got tired of telling...

    My grandmother and a few of her friends went for a drive in the New England countryside in her Model T Ford. She had been in the U.S. for about 10 years by this time, but still had a very pronounced Swedish accent. (she never lost it)

    They had brought along a big bag of peanuts to snack on, and peanut shells were all over the place in the car. Eventually they had to stop at a gas station to use the rest room. They asked the attendant where the rest room was...but with the Swedish accent it apparently sounded like where is the wisk broom....plus he saw that there were peanut shells everywhere. He thought about it for a minute and said "Well ladies, it's here today, and gone tomorrow, but if you go around the side of the building there is an airpump and you can blow it all out".

    They got back in the car and sped out of there...horrified. They didn't figure it out until much later.

    Coffee

  • emy the infidel
    emy the infidel

    Very cute!

  • Outaservice
    Outaservice

    I had a 'worldly' cousin that was trying to build his own garage next to his house when two JW's dropped by out in service and to make conversation, asked him what he was tearing down! So much for feeling good about his carpenter work.

    Outaservice

  • erynw
    erynw

    The house I grew up in (with my birth parents, I was later adopted out of a foster home) used to be the on the local route of yard sales. Problem is, they weren't having a yard sale and eventually posted signs around the yard stating "This is not a yard sale. No Trespassers."

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    We were at an assembly at Yankee Stadium, and there were a ton of pigeons overhead. My grandfather had a bald spot and one pigeon used him for target practice...covered his whole bald spot and much more....

    The picture was taken at that assembly before the pigeon did it's damage. He's the one on the far right... my grandmother of the peanut story is next to him... I'm the little person, and the remaining couple are my paren

    Coffee

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