My friends and I were chatting tonight about things our parents have experienced and we found out some pretty cool stuff, then got really depressed that our parents experienced so much more than us when they were our age.
I'm just interested to see if any of you guys have stories like the ones I heard tonight.
My own parents:
My dad was escaped an abduction when he was 6 years old. It was planned. They knew his name and how to lure him.
My mum and dad (when they were first dating), came across a severed head of a blonde human while they were driving from Bathurst (NSW, Australia) to Lithgow. They stopped the car and looked at it, at first just checking that it was indeed a mannequins head as first thought, but when they realised it was seriously human (dried blood on her face, fleshy bits hanging out, clearly real.. she was very pretty too they said.. they took off and went and told the police. The police thought it was a joke and didn't go check it out. They went back the next morning and it was gone.
Why are you disappointed that nobody has ever tried to kidnap you and/or that you've never found the severed head of a murder victim? fuck that IMO.
You know what's funny, that the head was gone in the morning, is that someone was probably watching them look at the head the entire time.
Oh, or your parents are bullshitting you
Some random 30 year old guy sat next to me on the train today and we talked about dubstep.
I'll never forget that moment <3
When my dad was in college, his uncle recruited him into the family business, where he worked in a factory and eventually rose up the ranks to the point where he is now assistant director or something like that
Which is to say my father never finished college and is a successful man
My father has been through alot.
He was a UNIVAC/IBM programmer during the 1950s
He was in the UN from 1964 till this day. He was in Somalia 1966 in Mogadishu. He said the airport was just a little wooden shack with people sitting and chewing beetles. My father has seen Eva Perón in Argentina. He was in Vietnam during the war. Not as a soldier though, strictly UN. I can tell you tons if you want.
I have this book about Canadian UFO stories, and I remember reading one letter from a couple that was driving on a highway at like midnight and had a very bright odd flying object following their car very closely the entire night. A while later I remember my dad telling me of how his aunt told him the exact same story verbatim when he was younger. Must've been their letter in that book, but holy hell that's cool.
Wait lol that's not my parents bye
My Grandfather grew pot with my Uncle on his roof.
Depends on your age, but for most peoples' parents, consider that for almost their entire life they knew Russia as the Soviet Union.
It seems ordinary or unremarkable to most people, but it fascinates me, especially when I read about the Cold War and think how many people I know that were alive during significant events.
The Cultural Revolution
mhmmm
relocation/re-education and that stuff, stuff like making reflector gunsights for MiG-15s and nearly getting their skull cut in 2 in the factories.
they don't talk about it much though
My grandfather told president LBJ that the astronaut of one of the Apollo missions was [puking his guts out] when they retrieved his rocket pod thing in the Atlantic, in the 60s. :v:
Well, my parents both grew up in the Soviet Union. My grandma almost got killed when they bombed Tallinn (capital city of Estonia). My other grandma also survived the bombing, but then got sent to the Gulags (Soviet concentration camps) and then died of a "heart attack" with a bullet hole in her head. :(
That is the story they keep on saying, "No one was killed just a few million people died randomly of a heart attack at the same time."
My father went from a small-town farm boy to making 150k or so a year through nothing but hard work and an associate's degree in Business. My mother on the other hand was contacted by a government intelligence group (never said which one, or if she did I couldn't remember) who wanted to use her as a translator.
In the neighborhood my mom grew up, a girl disappeared and was never found. About 20 years after that there one of the people down the street turned out to be a serial killer and apparently killed the girl (I forgot the details). It started when the killer's wife went to the police about abuse or something.
Oh, and my grandma grew up in Hawaii. Their house was just above Pearl Harbor during the attack. A dud bomb fell just across the street from their house too. My great grandfather on that side was a shrimp fisherman and had his fishing boat taken away (they were Japanese). They got through the war by renting out the downstairs to Chinese gamblers.
My dad was at a house party in LA where Motley Crew was partying at.
My mom met Jodie Foster as a waitress near Laguna Beach.
Growing up in California you meet a lot of celebrities before they got big.
Sex
my dad told me how he was in his friends house during a thunderstorm and a lightning bolt hit the house and ripped a huge hole in the roof
my dad fell off his garage roof once
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I think this thread is really just for the OP to brag about his story
My dad was in New York once where he accidentally bumped into Christopher Walken.
My dad was gonna to go an XTC concert but they cancelled because the singer had a cold.
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Do grandparents count? Because my grandpa once threw a guy through a window in a bar. He's Irish btw.
My mother killed a pig with a kitchen knife then promptly cooked him whole. My culture is very tribal ,but damn was that pig delicious.
[QUOTE=loco;32443212]My mother killed a pig with a kitchen knife then promptly cooked him whole. My culture is very tribal ,but damn was that pig delicious.[/QUOTE]
Huh which culture
My dad captured a snake with his friends and ate it.
He said it was the nice-ist thing he's ever tasted and said it was like Fish but better.
My uncle, when he received a letter for bad conduct at school and had to hand it out to his parents, waited after school for the teacher to come out, and then put the letter on the ground and pissed over it while the teacher was watching..
She was so embarassed / angry that she never told his parents.
And, my dad was in the kitchen about to wash his hands, when a lightning bolt hit the house and a bright electricity flash came out of the tap. He was so scared he didn't use the kitchen water tap for ages...
In WWII when my grandmother was about 15 years old some Nazis entered her parents' house and demanded food and wine. Her father tried to explain that he can't afford to do so because he had a big family to feed but they insisted and pointed a gun at him. My grandmother screamed and got in between him and the gun. The Nazis left.
During the second world war my father was a 6 year old and lived in a house in the italian countryside. A few bombs hit the house but never exploded. One got caught in the wire of the chicken fence. One fell and got stuck in the middle of the kitched table while everyone was having dinner.
My dad got kicked out of two separate colleges consecutively. Not for academic probation, but for partying too hard. Once, they threw a party in Birmingham Southern's main hall and he body slammed the trophy case.
Apparently at age 13 my mom had to go live on her own in an apartment across from her school.
My dad's favorite movie when he was my age was Heavy Metal. I think that's pretty rad
Also, my mom grew up in the ghetto without a father and is making somewhere around 100k to this day :v:
My dad went hunting, he was going over an iced lake and fell through.
When he came home he was wet, our dog had dragged him out of the water.
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