Truly Funny Moments with Nada

December 22, 2008

A chat moments ago with my sister has reminded me of some very funny things that

our nada would do or say. So I am coming out of lurk mode to share them with

you.

When my child was a baby in diapers, my nada commented on how the bulge in the

diaper made it look like there were testicles in there. Well it was weird but

one night during a family get-together, with a video tape recording, this

subject came up again. My nada wasn't trying to be funny but we went wild, and

this was forever known thereafter as the " Testicles Talk. " It probably doesn't

sound funny but she was so deadpan serious and it was so off the wall in the

first place that we cracked up and do to this day when it is mentioned. Please

note: my nada died the same day as ny Cash. I think it was in 2003 but I am

not sure, I don't remember even though I look it up sometimes when I need to

know. It was September, that I remember.

My sister tells another funny story about our nada, the " Stress Chat. " It went

like this:

Our nada was lecturing (as she often did) about life to my older sister (two

years older) when she was a teen.Nada said:

" There is good stress and bad stress. Good Stress is good, bad stress is bad.

You want the good stress. "

Again, we get hysterical. Who in their right mind says stuff like this? Our nada

could be such a laugh riot sometimes. She called, for example, hush puppies

" puppy hups. " Sometimes she seemed to have a fantastic sense of humor - whether

by accident or design, I know not. Rage she did, beat us she did, split us and

lie to our father (and about our father) she did. But sometimes she was so dang

funny.

And get this - when it was time for us, as babies, to get our smallpox

vaccination, she had the doctor do it on our upper thigh, so we'd have

unblemished arms. Can you just imagine the scene in the doctor's office, in the

early 1950's as she insisted he do it her way? Yup, she won, we've got beautiful

unscarred arms. Here's to a narcissist who passes it on, LOL.

Any truly funny stories out there?

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