Crazy things people in your family have done. My dad was afraid of

[applegrove]

West Nile virus at the cottage because there are a lot of mosquitos there. So he bought some cooking oil and poured it into the swamp.

My mom used to save her stocking that had a run in one leg, cut that leg off and wait until she had another pair then wear them together.

I have a brother who is quite brilliant and charismatic. He walked around with tape holding his glasses together for a year at least.

My sister once was dipping her fingers into the cake batter when I was making a cake. We were teens. She'd then lick her fingers and then dip a new finger into the batter. I got so mad I poured the whole cake batter over her head. LOL!

I have a brother who hangs out at the local used industrial junk shop and brings home rusty iron things and places them in his garden. I call it rusty lawn art. When ever he gets extra money he heads straight to that store.

[siligut]

1. Your cake batter story made me think of one

My sister, could be such a pill, so I don't mind telling about how she used to wrap her head in toilet paper before going to bed, thinking this would keep her skin clean. No, I am not kidding and yes, she was serious.

[valerief]

3. Where did she sleep? In a mud puddle?

:rofl:

[siligut]

7. I know, that is why it is so funny

She was trying to prevent pimples, but wrapping your head in toilet paper isn't the answer.

[tigereye]

2. lots of people did the cut the leg off the pantyhose/stock

ing thing. I think they must have cost a lot more then!


My FIL was redoing the kitchen and during the holidays, there was no kitchen floor. It was wild. Usually my parents would have the oven go out, or the disposal wouldn't work or something, but the floor was always there! :rofl:

[valerief]

4. One night my father came home drunk (a common occurrence) and asked for his dinner.

My mother asked him if he wanted tuna fish, and he said yes. So she served him a plate of tuna cat food. And he ate it!

We kids loved that!

[applegrove]

5. LOL!

[RandomThoughts]

6. While in Nebraska or Kansas, living in my Toyota.

I would stop by public parks for showers, they had 3 dollar overnight parking.

I noticed all the signs about West Nile stuff, ignored them, went for a swim, great time spending hours thinking about books on the river banks while watching fish swim around, very few people were at the park.

Had a fever for a few days and a mosquito bite that swelled to the size of a walnut. But got over that, and went back to those parks a few times.

The parks were really peaceful and nice, sleeping in the car sucked, but :shrug: at least the park was nice :D

[muffin1]

8. I was one of the 'unpopular' girls in school,

so I was always trying to make myself prettier. One day I read that putting olive oil in one's hair made it shinier. My teen-aged brain thought if olive oil makes hair shinier, then Vaseline, which is thicker, would work even BETTER. Oh, dear. I put a ton of that crap in my hair and went to bed. The next morning I had to wash my hair about fifty times to get it all out. My hair was so dry and frizzy it looked like a brillo pad with a hard-on. :D

[Crystal Clarity]

9. When my sister and I were young, we used to take baths together

She used to have me in hysterics over her 'shampoo hair-doos'. One of my favorites was George Washington. She'd lather her hair up, then mold it into a George Washington (or whatever-like a beehive doo for ex).

I guess you kind of have to be a 4 year old to enjoy such moments but it was funny at the time! :rofl:

[madmom]

10. When I was in jr high, my mom and I were visiting with the neighbor lady and her daughter ( my

bestie at the time)We were setting at the kitchen table just talking as females are wont to do. My friend had her legs propped across the corner of the table with feet hanging over the other side, she was wearing shorts. Her mother kept telling her to get them down, but she kept ignoring her. There was a jar of peanut butter and a butter knife lying on the table from younger sibling. I took the knife and a big gob of peanut butter and swiped it all down her legs. After the chase scene and the hilarity that followed then the clean up, she didn't prop her feet/legs on the table any more.:evilgrin:

[Moondog]

11. I have an uncle

who has walked away from eleven (11) airplane crashes, unscathed. He's an ex SAC (USAF) and Air America pilot, who is now in his 90s and is still alive and well. I am named after him. He's nuts. I'd like to think I'm not.

My father once rented an island to some Cuban expats. Turns out they used it for practicing amphibious assaults. It made the papers. It was embarrassing.

And in my generation, well, I am the one everyone else talks about. And no, I won't tell you about any of that. I deny everything.

[Duppers]

12. none of these things are crazy

but I'm not quite sure about the cooking oil.

Applegrove, are you so spoiled that you mock the cost-saving and every-day familiar and normal behavior of most families in this country!

Are you the "baby" of the family? Do you shop at Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth? Flip your collar up much?

[applegrove]

13. Oh no. I've done the pantyhose trick quite often.