What is your story? Lighthearted thread!

jason1231972

Great thread.

Kind of diverting a bit, but I remember thinking I had one item, and it turning out to be another. Two occasions, both as a child...

1) Was at the school summer fair playing Tombola. It was nearing the end of the day and the prizes were really slim pickings by this point. I won, and picked what appeared to be the best prize of a very bad bunch. It was a 'crystal' (probably faux crystal) vase. Cylindrical in shape, about 15cm tall and about 10cm in diameter. It was naff, but I though great, my mum will like it. Even picked some flowers on the way home for her to put in it! Got it home, and it was actually a bloody lampshade! It had no bottom, so it wasn't a vase at all, just a hollow cylinder of glass/crystal, open at both ends, and served no purpose whatsoever.

2) As a child, I was obsessed with permanent marker pens, and was also a bit of a small-time kleptomaniac. I found a black marker pen in the toilets one day and thought great, I'll pop this in my bag (steal it) and take it home. Not being allowed marker pens at home, I hid it in the bottom of my wardrobe and forgot all about it. Several months later my mum confronted me, "Jason, why the hell have you got a toilet roll holder in your wardrobe?". Turns out it wasn't a marker pen at all, it was one of these springy things :rotfl:

(I've always needed eyeglasses, but refused to wear them as a child!!)

Millie2008_2

OH got drunk once and bought me a horse (as you do). Thankfully it was a horse I'd had my eye on and 8 years later, me, him and the horse are very happy together ( so to speak).....

meer53

I went to a solicitors appointment to start off my divorce, found myself with a Rolex on the way home. (Used his money of course !)

Becles

Just remembered another one when I was a teenager. We were going on holiday to France by car and we always had a big bag of sweets for the journey. My Mam had forgotten to buy them and on her way out to work she said to me "I've left a five pound note on the dining table. Can you pop down Sainsburys and get two pounds of pick and mix?"

So off I went to Sainsburys and came back with the sweets and left the few pence change on the table.

Mam came home and went crackers at me for overspending and buying way too many sweets. Turns out she meant buy £2 worth of sweets but I'd bought two pounds in weight and spent nearly all of the fiver :rotfl:

peaceandfreedom

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I couldn't face doing the ironing once, so I went and bought myself a double bed!

Ha ha, that is extreme ironing avoidance! :rotfl:

Norma_Desmond

A couple of years ago I went to the neighbouring farm to buy some eggs and potatoes - and came home with a lifesize ships figurehead with great big boobs.

DH liked her (naturally) and she still hangs on our dining room wall.

cfkp1509

My OH went out to work one day, returned home with a 4 month old kitten!. He had overheard a conversation about the kitten and how if she wasn't re-homed soon the owner was going to put her out on the street. Being the big softy that he is, he rescued her. Our naughty tortie is a complete daddies princess, follows him everywhere.

I_wanna_live_for_free

My bf (age 10) was sent to the shop to get loo rolls which his mum wrote on a list for him as he was scatty.

He returned home with 100 bread rolls and a message from the bakers to place an order next time... :rotfl:

beautiful_ravens

These stories are great
I think everytime I go out to get 'one thing' I come back with '20 other things' !

picnic

love these stories...

whilst on honeymoon in a very small caravan that only had a small cooker 2 ringed hob and grill. sent my new hubby to the shop on site for something for lunch (told him just but anything... leant not to do that again) he came back with a large FROZEN chicken!!! still dont know how he expected me to cook it.... bless him.. 24yrs on he's not allowed to go shopping alone.