• Interesting things your parents have experienced
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One of my dad's nipples got ripped in half by a dog when he was a kid. [editline]September 27, 2011[/editline] Sorry, that's the only interesting thing I can think of at the moment.
My dad had Loverboy (the band)at his house once. He was at a party and they we're playing on stage and so my dads female roommate eventually left but he stayed at the party a while longer and so once he left and got home they were all just chilling out and drinking at his house.
Childbirth. [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] Also my dad was the first man on the moon and my mom killed 3 women in prison with no arms.
My mum was waiting for an elevator at a hotel once, and when the doors opened David Bowie was standing inside, by himself. She walked in and he asked her which floor she was going to and pressed the button for her. She was freaking out because she likes David Bowie almost as much as I do (I would have fainted, I swear) and he smiled at her. Apparently he acted like a real gentleman :smile:
My mom didn't want to change her cool last name to my dad's boring last name, Smith. My dad was too lazy to do the opposite, so they just kept their original last names. Now people think my parents are divorced all the time. Is this interesting, or no?
My Mum has some shit boring looking job at a hospital at the moment but she used to work in Research and Development creating camouflage for the Australian army. You know the uniform that the Australian army wears now? The one with the love hearts and bunnies in the design? She didn't work on that, it looks terrible.
My grandmother was standing at a gas station with some of her friends. She wandered off just a few meters away to stand in the shade. As it was at time of war, a German soldier threw a grenade at the gas station. All of her friend were killed in the explosion except her. She doesn't talk about it as she witnessed her friends being ripped apart by an explosion.
My grandfather avoided being drafted into WW2 because one leg was two inches shorter than the other. He fell off a horse when he was 16 and broke his leg, which caused the broke to break off or something and become two inches shorter. He could have been drafted, but the doctor that had to evaluate him was the family doctor and didn't think he should abandon his family and his job. My dad avoided being drafted into the Vietnam war because he had asthma. :v:
My grand parents were driven out of their home in Palestine by Israeli soldiers, they were forced to move to jordan without a single dollar (a huge contrast to their wealthy life in Palestine). They now live in a 5 story house in one of the richest neighborhoods in Jordan
My grandpa had his lower body crushed by a shipping crate. He could walk after, but he couldn't drive a car. poor guy only died a few months ago, first thing that stopped working in his old age was his legs.
My dad has been as stoner since the age of 13 :v:
I have a friend, he's kind of quiet and a little creepy but hes cool and he told me his Mom and dad were sitting in a car and his uncle ended up getting into an argument with his dad and his uncle accidently blew his head off. He was trying to scare him by shooting over his head. His mom and older brother who was a bady at the time got covered in blood. He told me this totally 100% calm like is was nothing. [QUOTE=RobyYe;32484392]I really needed to make an account for this: Once, When he was about my age (14) he stole a WHOLE cash register because he couldn't get the money out of it. And my mom had weed at the age of 16. Oh and my dad once had a fight with someone and broke his: Nose, Jaw and arm. No fvcking joke.[/QUOTE] Oh wow. I'm glad you did. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight now from all the action
My dad was on blue peter when he was little, and had the regional record for bike brake speed or some shit like that (I'm not quite sure) [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] Can we broaden the scope for this? To people we know?
My Great x3 Grandfather was a General in the Army In the Mexican War and the Civil War, there is a county in Texas named after us. My Grandfather was in WWII and fought at D-day. My dad went to Woodstock. My Dad and grandfather have interesting stories, and I've only seen pictures of my great x 3 grandfather, but I bet he could tell some good ones.
[QUOTE=catface;32501109]My mum was waiting for an elevator at a hotel once, and when the doors opened David Bowie was standing inside, by himself. She walked in and he asked her which floor she was going to and pressed the button for her. She was freaking out because she likes David Bowie almost as much as I do (I would have fainted, I swear) and he smiled at her. Apparently he acted like a real gentleman :smile:[/QUOTE] You could almost say... ...he really made the grade. Sorry. My Dad was driving once, when he saw a car exactly the same as his on the other side of the road, with the same dent in the door. He looked up and saw a guy, who looked exactly like him. He's convinced it's aliens.
My mother cycled and hitch hiked all over Europe after she finished university. My dad took part in the poll tax riots in 1990 and has some cool photos from that day.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;32441572]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.[/QUOTE] Hardcore IBM is literally one of the best things this world has to offer. [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] Mine is a metal locker, its a process mainly used for cast iron locomotive engine parts that could never be fixed otherwise, and he's also worked for Birdair fixing up football stadiums. cast iron is impossible to weld unless you heat the metal up big time then weld, even then its still very hard and you must control your heat, so welding locomotive engine parts would [I]literally[/I] be impossible. [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=brandonsh;32504844]You could almost say... ...he really made the grade. Sorry. My Dad was driving once, when he saw a car exactly the same as his on the other side of the road, with the same dent in the door. He looked up and saw a guy, who looked exactly like him. He's convinced it's aliens.[/QUOTE] does he take any drugs?
my grandfathers best friend died right next to him on a boat in world war II, his head was blown right off (or so he says) by the Japanese ship. I'm sure some interesting things happened to my dad. I'll post later.
My dad ran away to France with his best friend for 6 months when they were 17, biking around, working on yachts and smoking a fuck load of weed.
My father has been to every continent in the world, [I]except[/I] North America. Because that makes any sense at all.
My friend claims his parents' first date was a boat trip, where a whole family dived underwater in the river and never resurfaced.
[QUOTE=Contag;32515850]My father has been to every continent in the world, [I]except[/I] North America. Because that makes any sense at all.[/QUOTE] That makes perfect sense I sometimes wish I was in any other continent than NA
My dad stole a brand new '61 mustang and left it in an underground parking structure when he was in college.
My dad experienced your mom.
[QUOTE=J!NX;32516619]That makes perfect sense I sometimes wish I was in any other continent than NA[/QUOTE] Except the part about being in Antarctica for years, and not spending a minute in NA.
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;32516940]My dad stole a brand new '61 mustang and left it in an underground parking structure when he was in college.[/QUOTE] they didnt make mustangs in 1961
[QUOTE=Impreza;32518561]they didnt make mustangs in 1961[/QUOTE] his father is full of lies
My father was working as a firefighter when the Coode Island chemical plant exploded [img]http://ports.co.za/admin/large/image-620.jpg[/img]
My grandmother's uncle mailed himself in a piano crate from Czechoslovakia to London to escape the Soviets. My grandmother was on a train on her way to school when the train was forced to stop and they all had to get off because the Tuskegee Airmen were about to bomb the train tracks. My grandfather, grandmother, father, and aunt all emigrated from Czechoslovakia around the time the Soviets were taking over. They went from Pakistan to Mexico to the US and by the time they made it to the US, the Commies decided they wanted my grandfather and his family back, but the United States granted him asylum and allowed him to stay.
My mom's father died when she was only fourteen years old. She was the fourth of seven children, and the oldest one still currently living with her parents. So, in addition to completing homework and everything, she also had to do cooking, cleaning, other household chores, and caring for her younger siblings while her own mother was the family breadwinner.
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