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Posted 3/5/2012 8:32 AM (GMT -5)
 

I thought it would be good to start a thread about funny things that have happened in our lives...things that still make us laugh whenever we think about them.  I have a story that keeps making me laugh nearly 43 years later!  I hope it makes you laugh, too.

 

It was the day before I was to be married.  My rehearsal dinner was going to be that evening and I had long hair so I got up early and washed my hair and set it in curlers.  This was before hair blowers were around.  Around noon my mother came to my fiance and me and asked if we could go to the airport to pick up my Aunt Blanche because she was running behind in all that she had to do.  We agreed.  My hair was still wet and in curlers so I put this net-type thing that was covered with feathers over my curlers so you couldn't see the curlers and we headed out the door.  (Actually, this feather net thingy was popular back then...1969.   shakehead  ) 

 

The airport was about an hour away so we left right away.  We got there about 20 minutes before Aunt Blanche's flight was due.  I took this opportunity to tell my future husband about her.  She always carried a hat box with her because the ashes of Uncle Perley, her late husband, were in the hatbox!   shocked   I didn't want him to grab it off her lap.  Well, the flight was three hours late and I was getting quite nervous because my hair was still soaking wet because the feathers don't allow air to circulate.  When the flight came in, Aunt Blanche was in a wheelchair with her hatbox on her lap.  We ran through the airport with her, got her and Uncle Perley settled in the front seat of the car, I piled into the back seat and we took off.  We had to drive through Dayton, Ohio to get back home and rush hour had now started.  We finally got nearly through Dayton when we had a flat tire!

 

My fiance and I got out of the car but had Aunt Blanche and the hatbox stay in the car.  I stood on a median while my fiance was jacking up the car.  All of a sudden, Aunt Blanche said quite loudly, "Oh my goodness!"  I went over to the door and she was bouncing up and down because the car was being jacked up.  I said, "What's wrong, Aunt Blanche?"  She said, "We forgot to get my luggage!"   tongue   We were in such a rush that we didn't even think about getting her luggage!

 

After the tire was replaced, we had to go back through rush hour traffic back to the airport, get her luggage and go through Dayton a fourth time to get back home.  By then I knew my hair would never be dry so I rolled the window down and stuck my head out the window to help dry it a little.  My fiance was racing down the highway with my head out the window and feathers being blown off the netting and wafting down on the highway.  I'm sure I made a few people laugh that afternoon.   turn   

 

We did make it to the rehearsal dinner on time but I did look like a drenched rat!  LOL

 

I know each of you have a favorite funny thing that has happened to you in  your life so share it so we all can have a laugh!

Sherrine 

Posted 3/5/2012 11:51 AM (GMT -5)
Sherrine...how funny! I remember the days before blow dryers...took hours to get ready:)

Many of my crazy "funny" stories are connected with hospital stays or visits to the docs.

I was scheduled to have a spinal tap and these technicians were measuring my head and adjusting a metal cage-like device to my head. I asked what that had to do with getting a spinal tap...they both looked at eachother and realized it was a ooops moment. They had the wrong patient. I often wonder what procedure they were preparing me for. Thank goodness, I ask questions a lot. This happened just 10 years ago in a large metro hospital.

Over thirty years ago, I had my gallbladder removed. I had a semi- private room. I awoke and noticed my arm was the size off my upper thigh. I was heavily sedated at the time. My roomate told me that I'd probably needed to have my arm amputated. I started to yell help, and a nurse came in. My IV fluids were not going into my vein...just under my skin. They had to pack my arm in ice and eventually the swelling went down.

Another time, getting ready for work one morning, I started my period. I used a tampon and the plastic applicator got lost inside me. Despite my efforts, couldn't get it out. I had to make a stop at the ER...told the admitting nurse what had happened and waited patiently in a cubicle. A doctor came in with my chart and asked what the foreign object was that I had inside me....I could not stop laughing.

Laughter is such a good thing...if you look hard enough you can find humor in just about anything :)

hugs, Robin
Posted 3/5/2012 12:34 PM (GMT -5)
Wow - great stories! I can see why they're making you laugh even after all these years. Sherrine, I would have been a teenager in 1969 - why can't I picture that feather thing? (I never did have a good visual memory, and tend not to notice what's around me, but that I should remember!) I hope it wasn't a family heirloom, since it ended up on the highway! Yikes, talk about stress.

Robin, I've had that happen to me, too! I got it out before too long, but it was a helpless feeling. Tell me, did the doctor laugh too? (He should have!)

All I can think of off the top of my head is one my that my mother told me. (Sad, huh? But I'll think of more later!) She had recently given birth to my brother, and was in the hospital, very sick from having a goiter removed. She had a high fever and everything had that feel of unreality. An older woman (nurse?) came into the room with a paper cup full of pills, and dropped them all over the floor.

Instead of going to get new ones, she said, "Oh dear, now what did we have? There was a blue one....and a yellow one....I think there was a pink one, too...don't worry, dear, we'll find them." My mom felt utterly helpless and out of it, but still knew that this was not a good situation! She managed to call for someone else, and it all worked out somehow. But this one's always stuck with me.

Debbie
Posted 3/5/2012 1:13 PM (GMT -5)
Oh...you guys crack me up!

I went to a conference with the hubby in Washington DC...this was about 15 years ago.  One morning I decided to walk to Arlington Cemetary which I could see from the hotel window.  I bundled up as it was in December and headed for the cemetary.  The gate to get in was all the way around the other side so I took a short cut...I jumped over the rock fence and fell about 15 ft to the ground, Owie...but thought I could get out of the gate when I was done looking around.  I was done and went to the gate...it was padlocked shut.  There was no one around...the place was locked up for a reason, I guess.  After about an hour of trying to escape I took off my fibro faux whale blubber parka...threw it over the rock wall and shimmied up a drainage pipe.  I still can't believe I was able to do that but it's amazing what fear and adrenaline can do!  I looked like I had been mud wrestling by the time I gimped back to the hotel.

It was well worth it.. God Bless our soldiers who die for us every day.

huggies

Donna

Posted 3/5/2012 8:34 PM (GMT -5)
heres one thats funny now not so funny and a little gross back then.when my oldest daughter was born(she's 26 and my first child) they prepped me to have her. On a contraction I felt a gush and my husband then started screaming nurse nurse shes bleeding alot a gush of blood.Nurse comes in and looks and says its not all blood sir.Omy goodness did that embarass me and freak me out at the same time.It's alittle funny now though first time teenage parents we knew absolutely nothing
Posted 3/5/2012 11:11 PM (GMT -5)
Sherrine great Idea,

These are to funny

My grandson who is 3 and never sleeps ,Spends the night with me, I hear him walking around so I think better go get him before he gets into something its about 3 in the morning
I bring into bed with me and we are laying there,He gets real close to me and whispers in my ear
NANA I think there is something creepy in the room with us (((( Still laughing now)))
I said why do you think that shawn
Well dont you hear hear it and he Starts making this growl and grumble sound,
I crack up LOLOL I tell him No shawn its not creepy its pops snoring
((hugs))
Renee
Posted 3/5/2012 11:12 PM (GMT -5)
Here's one. about 18 years ago we went on vacation with family. My husband, brother in law, sister and I were sitting on the beach with an big umbrella. A big wind came and blew the umbrella down the beach. My husbands says calmly,"Lee you gonna get that." The umbrella is tumbling down the beach with my my brother in law chasing it. It was so funny to watch. Then the umbrella came to a rest on top of the cutest little korean family with I guess an elderly grandmom and granddad and others. Lee picks the umbrella off the family and they are sitting their calmly, smiling and nodding but not moving. I guess you have to be there to see how funny it was but here my brother in law is trying to apologize and they can't understand what he is saying. They were not angry nor did they scramble to try to get out from under the umbrella. We laugh about that still today.
Posted 3/6/2012 8:59 AM (GMT -5)
These are funny!  I can't imagine being trapped in Arlington National Cemetery but I do know all about snoring spouses and chasing umbrella's down the beach.  The Korean family shows you the difference in our cultures, too!  I just bet they were smiling and nodding.  LOL

 

I also understand near mistakes at the hospital.  I had had a miscarriage and was on a gurney in line for a D&C.  I was given the shot that relaxes you and then two guys come up and one says to the other, "This is the C-section, isn't it?"  and the other guy said, "Yes"!  Thank God I was still awake and corrected them!

 

Others, put on your thinking caps.  We all have crazy things that have happened to us that make us laugh!  This thread sure beats thinking about pain all of the time.

 

Sherrine

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