Funny Stories...Have Any?

[Henro]

Here is mine.

Years ago, my wife who is Japanese, brought her father who was 86 at the time, and suffered from dementia, back with her for a 6 month visit with us.

All neighbors here are fine. The one closest to us mentioned to me about six times, when I was looking at the property, and saw him in his yard, that "everyone is nice here, and will help you out, but we do not believe in visiting". Actually said this maybe six times in a five minute conversation.

So we bought the property. But remembered his words. Probably 20 years had passed before my wife's dad appeared here. I was working so not home during the day. We always kept our distance and I only said hello in the spring before the leaves came out and in the fall after they fell off. My wife never met them at that point, or later either.

My wife let her dad walk around on his own. At the time the traffic was not bad.

So anyway, I come home and apparently her dad went up on the neighbors side porch. Remember this is the guy that does not believe in visiting. Her dad says, that is an interesting coffee shop next door. You sit down and they bring you coffee before you order! He doesn't speak any English. I am sure he knew how to say thank you though. I laugh every time I remember this.

So the neighbors are good people. Even if they do not believe in visiting. After over 40 years my wife never met them though...the guy passed away last year. We only learned after seeing the driveway full of cars... I never met the mother or sister that lived with the guy. Looks like the sister is the only one living there now...but only see that from a distance and do not know really.

 

[Henro]

I know this thread has not drawn any interest, but I happened to think of another personal story that I find amusing.

My wife is Japanese, and sometime after we came back to the States, we were at a family get together, I think actually at my uncle Don's home. Uncle Don became a favorite of my wife over the years.

So being the person she is, talking with uncle Don she asks him if he had ever been to Japan.

Hi reply: Well, I haven't been TOO Japan, but I have been OVER Japan...

He was the navigator on a Bomber during WWII...not sure how many times he was over Japan...but my wife felt like he was her uncle, rather than mine...

 

[fried1765]

I know this thread has not drawn any interest, but I happened to think of another personal story that I find amusing.

My wife is Japanese, and sometime after we came back to the States, we were at a family get together, I think actually at my uncle Don's home. Uncle Don became a favorite of my wife over the years.

So being the person she is, talking with uncle Don she asks him if he had ever been to Japan.

Hi reply: Well, I haven't been TOO Japan, but I have been OVER Japan...

He was the navigator on a Bomber during WWII...not sure how many times he was over Japan...but my wife felt like he was her uncle, rather than mine...

I was assigned to a USN squadron in Japan (Atsugi) in the late sixties.
I later spent much time in Japan, as a pilot for Northwest Airlines.
I have two Japanese friends, though at 81, I will likely never go to Japan again.
Do you have other weird neighbors?

 

[Henro]

Do you have other weird neighbors?

NO, but I think they may!

Thanks for a good laugh!

 

[RCW]

Wait, wait, wait....

I've got one....

There is this guy from near Pittsburgh.....his name is Henro...

Just poking fun....

 

[ctfjr]

Speaking of Japanese people. . .
Several years ago my wife and I were returning from a vacation and had a long stopover in Atlanta. One of my sons, who lived there, had just become engaged to a Japanese girl whom we had never met. So we made arrangements to meet at the airport and have lunch with them.
All was good. I asked her what she was doing now as she had just graduated Georgia Tech. She said she was looking for a job but in the interim she was working at a Japanese Cultural Center.
Without missing a beat I looked her and asked, "You guys aren't planning on attacking us again, are you?"
Fortunately my son had prepared her for my sense of humor.

 

[Daren Todd]

Back when Gypsy was a pup (6 months old) we got her a toy duck with the squeaker from hell. She absolutely loved it.

Well one night she decided to climb up in bed with us. She brought the squeaky to bed with her.

I happened to be sleeping on my side. Well she laid this duck down next to me.

I rolled over and onto said duck. I let out the squeak from hell, right in my ear Scared the daylights out of me!!! I launched out of bed. Hit the floor.

At the time we also had a mini dachshund and a jack Russell terrier. Bot up on the bed. Well they went into (Kill Squeaky) mode. 3 dogs on the bed, fighting over the squeaker in the middle of the night.

 

[bmblank]

Once upon a time, back in high school... It's a small school; my graduating class was 47 strong. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't unpopular, either. I was just there.
Being the class clown that I was, I started wearing a white lab coat in my chemistry class. Where I got that lab coat, who knows. Pretty silly, but what the hell.
Anyhoo, one day in my chemistry class I noticed a dryer sheet stuck to the inside of my lab coat. I guess it did feel a little clingy that day, but whatever. My lab mate and I are standing there and I pull this dryer sheet out of my coat and stretch it out.
Wait a minute... That's not a dryer sheet... That's my mom's underwear!
All in all, the elapsed time of exposure of my mom's underwear was probably less than 3 seconds. The only other person who witnessed it, as far as I know, was my lab mate, a not at all unattractive girl. She understood, I had my embarrassment, we had a good hardy laugh.






FAST FORWARD TO GRADUATION DAY................


So, there I was, sitting in the gym, everybody's parents, grandparents, siblings, loosely related cousins, at our backs. Bored out of my mind. You see, being a small school, the principal liked to say a little something about every student.
Why does a graduation for 47 students need to take 2 hours? Same answer as what you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros - elephino...
You get where this is going. The incident that lasted no more than 3 seconds, between 2 people, at that point got broadcast to everybody AND their parents! Including MY parents!
I'm told my mom's cheeks went flush with embarrassment. I'm sure MY cheeks went flush with embarrassment. I shot a nasty glance over to my chem teacher. His cheeks flush. Not with embarrassment, but with laughter. He motions that he had nothing to do with the story. I don't believe him. I can't imagine it was Jess who relayed the story.

To this day, I still don't know who to blame for ruining my life. (I most definitely say that in jest.) All I know is that was more than 20 years ago, and I still remember it very well. I'm sure most people don't remember the story. But I'm sure some do.

 

[Bmyers]

Well a few years ago we were at the NRA convention and I was busy looking at one firearm to the next (big old kid in a candy shop). My wife was with me and it was crowded, so I would grab her hand when I went to move from booth to booth so we didn't get separated.

I was telling her which ones I liked and what I wanted to look at and was just going from booth to booth. Finally I decided I was hungry, I grabbed her hand and started walking and turned to ask her what she wanted and it wasn't my wife. I quickly apologized and she was just laughing and so was my wife. Apparently for the last three booths I had been dragging this lady along with me from booth to booth.

Her and my wife got a great laugh out of it as I was embarrassed, but in the end no harm no foul and the lady said it was nice to be wanted, even if it was only for a little while.