# Funny but crazy true stories about my mom **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544 "2015-09-26T06:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/21 "2015-09-29T04:29:55Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > When I opened the thread, I expected it to be one in which _everybody_ talked about some crazy stuff their mothers did. Like how my mom, when she was a teenager, thought the emergency brake would stop her in mid-air if she fell off a bridge. šŸ˜ƒ > > Canā€™t we have a thread like that? (By the way, my momā€™s still alive.) Well, my grandmother was at a restaurant and wanted a drink and it went kind of like this: Gma: Can I have a small glass of Barfs Waitress: What? Gma: Barfs. The drink. Waitress: I donā€™t know what that is. Gma: Barfsā€¦isnā€™t that root beer? I want some Barfs. Waitress: Barqs Root Beer. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/22 "2015-09-29T07:45:59Z")
Anyone is free to share crazy mom stories here. A maybe correction on the quadriplegic potential tenant, she did not actually use that word I remember in her emails but said she was totally disabled and in a wheelchair I remember. Quadriplegic is how I would interpret that, I feel it is important to maintain the integrity of these anecdotes because none of this is fictional. ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/23 "2015-09-29T08:44:05Z")
grudeā€™s mother once filed a complaint about filing complaints My crazy\* mom story: Me- ā€œMom, Jeb Bushā€“ā€ _interrupted_ Her- ā€œI donā€™t want to hear it. All I know is that Iā€™m not voting for Obama again.ā€ True story. Took place recently. Eternal facepalm. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/24 "2015-09-29T12:29:44Z")
But Grudeā€™s stories arenā€™t to interact with us. Seems to be just a release for him. Much better suited to a blog, I agree. And, really, is anybody finding these stories ā€˜funnyā€™, or even amusing? I think they are sad, in the extreme. And Grudeā€™s still needing to relate them, after sheā€™s dead and gone makes me think HE could benefit from a little therapy. Posting them, one after another,on a public message board? Also a little sad, in my opinion. Please consider a blog. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/25 "2015-09-29T12:48:37Z")
Hang in there, **grude**. Regardless of what you do here, it does take time to work through things like this. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/26 "2015-09-29T13:07:10Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > But Grudeā€™s stories arenā€™t to interact with us. Seems to be just a release for him. Much better suited to a blog, I agree. > > And, really, is anybody finding these stories ā€˜funnyā€™, or even amusing? I think they are sad, in the extreme. And Grudeā€™s still needing to relate them, after sheā€™s dead and gone makes me think HE could benefit from a little therapy. Posting them, one after another,on a public message board? Also a little sad, in my opinion. > > Please consider a blog. If you disapprove of what Grude is doing, why do you think him doing it in another manner (blog) is any better? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/27 "2015-09-29T13:28:40Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > Aww, let him keep posting Iā€™m really enjoying these. Agree. Plus weā€™re getting an idea on what made **grude** **grude**. I just wish after surviving all of it he was in a better situation today. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/28 "2015-09-29T14:39:41Z")
I like **grude** ā€™s stories. Please keep them coming. Yes, theyā€™re often sadā€¦ but I still laugh, usually. And I get the feeling that talking about it is good for **grude**. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/29 "2015-09-29T14:40:17Z")
I remember when \*\*Sampiro \*\*posted stories about his eccentric mother, everybody wanted more. He and **grude** are just doing what standup comics do. Francesco Martuliano, writer of Sally Forth and artist of Medium Large has this blog page of [conversations with his dad](https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/conversations-with-dad/). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/30 "2015-09-29T15:51:06Z")
My mom had a sort of crazy situation. She never got her driverā€™s license until she was 60-something, after my dad died. The reason? When she went to take her driving test at the age of 16 she was understandably nervous. There was a long line at the testing center, so she was reviewing the manual. The car in front of her moved up a few car lengths, and her father barked at her to move up. She drove forward too fast, then stabbed at the brake, hitting the gas instead. CRUNCH. So, she put off her test for the next forty-some years! ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/31 "2015-09-29T15:54:57Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > Thereā€™s a reason we have a prohibition here against piling on banned members, and in cases like this one it should apply as well. Was **grude** ā€™s mom a member here? If not, then what you are suggesting is equivalent to eliminating the Pit and about half the threads in MPSIMS. Not gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/32 "2015-09-29T16:14:58Z")
I like the stories. I always like stories about bad or crazy moms; it makes me feel not so alone out there. What would you rather have in its place, this is a message board for us sharing, and itā€™s MPSIMS, please stop trying to stifle all discussion. I love the firewood story. Iā€™ll tell you a story about my mom which stung at the time a lot but now just seems silly. I didnā€™t know it at the time, but I was born to the youngest sister in my family and adopted by the eldest. Before I found out, my real mom used to come over and visit. I was told she was my aunt (so basically all the relationships reversed). Well, one of my chores as a young teen was to fold and put away the laundry. This time I did it and I confused my bio momā€™s and my adoptive momā€™s underwear and mixed them up. They were both huge white cotton things. My adoptive mom freaked. I mean, carrying on, yelling, screaming, drama. She didnā€™t talk to me for three days, telling me I had no consideration for her. It got to the point where my dad, who never so much as spoke up to my mom, told her she was being irrational. Now I see that she was worried -no, terrified -about her place in my life. But I had NO IDEA why she was freaking out over a bunch of misplaced underwear! Talking about these incidents is like drawing poison from a wound. Other people chuckle sympathetically and a little bit more of the bile has gone away. There is nothing wrong with talking about it, it helps. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/33 "2015-09-29T16:38:18Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Please consider a blog. Ah, what a nice way to say, ā€œGo away.ā€ Iā€™ll have to remember the next time someone is telling me something I donā€™t care about so I can tell them to just post it in their blog. Please consider not bothering to read this thread and just let Grude have his say. Would it harm you to do that? And to be honest, it can be helpful to hear someone say that yeah, it was your mom who was crazy. Sympathy can be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Stately\_Greek\_Automaton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stately_Greek_Automaton)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/34 "2015-09-29T17:15:15Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Its a thread in MPSIMS, Iā€™m not posting randomly in GD or anything. There is a thread here in this forum with hundreds of posts by the OP with not a single reply(if you are interested in pidgeon updates read or not), just thought someone might get a laugh out of these true stories. I know a lot of people I have shared with got a kick out of it, and no sad horror stories here. My expression internally while typing:p not :(, I think my posts often arenā€™t interpreted right as to their intended emotional reading not sure why though. > Find out how to save ten bucks a month by spending hundreds with Sprint! > > Mom and dad had a limited minute cell phone plan because it was ten bucks cheaper than unlimited, but if you went over the small limit you paid big bucks for each minute over. > > They always went over by about $200-400 each month, mostly calling each other. My dad understood the issue perfectly but apologized as he refused to challenge my mom or attempt to talk to her(he would always tell my openly someone as illogical as her was a waste of breath). I explained to my mom she was spending hundreds monthly, which could be saved by unlimited which was ten bucks more, she said she wasnā€™t going to waste ten dollars she did not have for a phone plan she didnā€™t need. They did not need unlimited minutes, the plan they were on was fine if they could just stick to the minutes, no need to waste ten dollars. > > But youā€™re spending hundreds a month NOW! That you could save by spending only ten dollars, she said why should I throw away money and give Sprint ten dollars when I donā€™t need unlimited! > > :smack:My wife said give me the headset, I can calmly explain it to her. More than thirty minutes later she threw the headset with a blank look on her face > > We still laugh about it. > Eventually she ran up an overage bill even she couldnā€™t pay. > > EDIT:BTW if you feel bad thinking youā€™re laughing at a senile woman, nope! My mom was always like this her whole life, and she was smart enough to graduate college and hold a good job. Having worked for a phone company, Iā€™m amazed how often I see this happening. Someone calls in to find out why their bill was so high, and it ends up being overage for minutes, data or somesuch. As soon as I recommend moving to a larger plan, they get suspicious and accuse me of trying to get more money out of them and how we are a terrible company that overcharges their customers. Wellā€¦ that last bit might have some truth to it, but either way, would you rather spend $60/month or $600? Otherwise, Iā€™m enjoying the stories **grude**. Keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/35 "2015-09-29T18:48:47Z")
My mother chased me up a tree when I was six. Stunned me to no end. I hadnā€™t any idea they could do THAT. I thought they lost the ability as they got olderā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/36 "2015-09-29T20:31:52Z")
Please continue as you see fit, **grude**. I would contribute but my fatherā€™s stories donā€™t come out funny. They are just short and end with him yelling about my disrespectful attitude over some perceived slight I gave him. I guess the funny thing is I didnā€™t respect him - but mostly because of his irrational and insecure outbursts about perceived disrespect. That and his hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544/37 "2015-09-29T22:06:29Z")
I like **grude** ā€™s stories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-but-crazy-true-stories-about-my-mom/732544.md?page=1)