What's daftest thing you've seen a family member do?

shopaholicz

Years ago, when my grandma was still alive. We were walking back from the shops when her neighbour came outside and asked us in for coffee and biscuits saying she'd seen us going and had waited for us to come back. My grandma said she.'d got her own coffee and biscuits at home and walked away angry. i never understood why! haha

What have you seen someone do that you didn't understand?

DKLS

A relative who was in full on hunter gatherer mode, he had meat, successfully hunted from the supermarket, and was trying to take ownership other the other ingredient required: Fire!

The charcoal was being reluctant to glow, so off he went to the garage, and came back with assorted bottles.
The first bottle was tipped onto the coals, and there was a !!!!!! noise, a big plume of smoke, and my relative hopping around the garden patting his face and arms.

Despite this first attempt the flames wouldn't cook a cocktail sausage, so he resorted to the second bottle. This time he announced he wouldn't be beaten and based on HSE advice from the females gathered he decided to rig up an extension to his arm using a long fruit picker, he gingerly poured the liquid, the resulting flames shot Skyward and must have been seen for miles, what followed next has become family legend.

Flying Embers then set light his shed, the neighbours shed, the hedge, two trees, and finally a telegraph pole. Concerned neighbours appeared, people we had never seen before came to marvel at the site of multiple fires, the fire brigade appeared, doused everything then proceeded to give my relative a good telling off.

Twas the best family BBQ ever, even though we all ate chinese takeaway.
Sadly under orders from his wife, its gas BBQs from now on.

Although he did say it wasn't all bad as bench vice he had that was stuck solid, freed itself in the heat!

swingaloo

Someone I know fell flat on his face outside the Chinese Takeaway and was clutching 2 bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale at the time.

He stood up, proudly announcing to anyone who would listen and holding one bottle aloft in each hand, 'Look, I didn't break them'

Of course he was missing his 2 front teeth and had blood dripping down his chin but that didn't seem to matter at all!

System

After the death of my Father my Mother decided she wanted to become more mobile so she booked a test ride on a scooter.

Despite me having reservations she said and i quote "it cant be that hard, it must be a bit like riding a bike".

We got her to the dealership where a brand new Honda Melody in bright green was waiting for her to demo.

She got on it, hadnt quite got the hang of it and smacked full pelt into the dealerships' lovely new wooden fence and smashed the front end of the scooter up before ending on her backside on the floor.

She had letters for years from the owner of the dealership trying to get her to pay for the fence and damage to the bike.

choccyface2006

My dad left my mum after 44 happy years of marriage for an older woman who already has 4 ex husbands and many ex live in lovers. He has virtually abandoned his 4 children and 8 grandchildren who thought the world of him so that certainly classes as the daftest thing I can think of.

Sorry

shopaholicz

oooh........ definitely daft

Brickwall

I went out one day, my daughter was in the house, she was going in the shower so asked me to lock the door. Later on I got a desperate text from her saying she couldn't find the key to get out, I told her to go out of the back door and through the neighbours side gate. About twenty minutes later I got an even more desperate text saying they are couldn't get the neighbours gate open, she's been throwing herself at the gate, it won't budge, she wailed, what am I going to do? I can't get out!

I was sitting on the bus at the time, I've no idea what people thought when I burst out laughing, I sent a text back saying, trying pulling the gate!

trolleyrun

My uncle set fire to my grandparents' barn so he could claim the insurance money - to spend it on booze.

My father told me to "have a nice life" nearly two decades ago.