What's the funniest thing you've seen a family member do in public?

My dad was always very funny and seemed to get out of "bad" situations the humorous way. On holiday in Italy, we went to a restaurant to have dinner. He had ordered steak.

I can't remember what we ordered. The dishes came and we started eating. The steak was so tough, my father tried to cut and cut it when suddenly the knife slipped and went flying across the floor.

How do you explain to the waiter that you are NOT happy with this steak in a foreign language? Easy, my father called the waiter and took off his shoe and placed it next to the dish. The waiter nodded understandingly, we all laughed and a moment later my dad got a new dish with a succulent Italian steak.

Happy all round!

I should mention, Mom was very ill when this happened with undiagnosed severe bipolar and dementia. We have since gotten her safe and diagnosed. The two year journey to getting her safe and diagnosed was very trying on my patience.

I spent many days crying and praying. So when we got a laugh in, it was cherished. During that time in our life laughter was very important.

We, of course did not laugh in front of Mom with the incident below. I had just had a horrible day with Mom, watching her every step. The kids and their friends were in the pool.

Mom went out back and I had a brief moment of relief. The next thing I know my daughter came in and asked if I would please get my Mom back in the house. In front of their friends she dipped her hand in the water and then stuck her finger in her ear.

Looked at the wax on her finger and put her hand back in the pool to rinse the wax off her hands. I told my daughter I would take care of it. She closed the door, I had a quick chuckle with my spouse and then proceeded to bring Mom and explain to her that she could not clean her ears out in the pool.

The kids were so very embarrassed.

Chasing my sister's wig! It was a windy day, my sister and I was shopping at a local mall. As we both approached the revolving doors, my sister's wig blew off head..The wig went flying in air like a bird in the parking lot..I was laughing and chasing her wig.

Finally, it landed on another shopper's vehicle... Its funny but it was an embarassing moment for her :-).

My sister who is an avid sports fan was in the hospital for a colonoscopy. She hates waiting and became bored and anxious to get it over with. We weren't sure why, but she asked us to find her a black ink marker.My niece happened to have one in her purse.

My sister took the marker and wrote on her butt cheeks: GO CAVS! Needless to say, she was the talk of the hospital staff that day. Her comment: "They won't make me wait so long next time cuz they'll all want to see my next message!

" -Gotta love her!

My 70 year-old grandfather likes to play dress-up, but he always does it for a good cause. Every year, he dresses up as Santa Claus and takes socks and blankets to a local Native American church for the kids. I have seen him do a lot of funny and embarrassing things in public, but perhaps the funniest things was when he dressed in drag for a local parade.

I am not even sure what the charity was that he was sponsoring this time, but he had the most hilarious outfit ever. He wore a blonde Marilyn Monroe wig, knee-high boots that had about a three inch heel, a black leather mini skirt, a tube top, and a leopard print boa. Of course, he also had on a bra that was stuffed to beyond "maximum capacity."

My mother also did his makeup, and had to include bright red lipstick and fake eyelashes. He rode down Main Street in the back of a convertible and waived at everyone that he knew. The worst part of it was perhaps when the parade was over and he was walking around town trying to flash people.(I don't think he would have actually gone that far, but he would sure make you think that he was going to.) This is the same man that would punish me for staying out too late when I was a teenager by taking me to get pizza in his long johns.

I should also mention that his long johns were red and had a flap in the back.

I have one very embarrasing one. We decided to have a girl's night out at a bar/bowling alley, we decided to take my cousin who was very stuck up and did not want to let her hair down and did nothing but work and no play. Well anyway, we all went to the bar to order drinks and it was her round to buy.

She was ordered water for herself, while we were knocking back the gin and tonics and bacardi's (neat) We sure did know how to party. So for some reason, about half an hour later, my stuck up cousin was acting kind of strange, because in an hour that it how we would have been acting. She started to talk more, she was smiling, I mean like chilled out not like so stuck up.

She kept saying there are bubbles in her drink and she started laughing out loud, she eventually stood up on tables and started like doing this freaky dance (don't know what to call it), it went something like she was tripping on a happy pill and all her snobbiness was disappearing (which was a good thing). We thought we were seeing things, because she was so stiffed neck it would have broke if she ever moved it. Well we ignored it until she started playing hanky panky and taking off her shirt buttons with some guy in the corner she just smiled at, she started shouting "I am still a virgin, it is my first night out".

I mean do your thang girl, but don't announce it, but I knew this would have been something she would have regretted for the rest of her life, losing it to someone she did not even know and we did nothing to stop it. I knew something wrong had happened, I smelt her drink and it was barcardi, she knocked back a triple and this did not taste like plain old water. I completely sobered up, she was my responsibility and I would have got slaughterd by her mum and dad if they saw her like this.

I don't know if the drinks got mixed up or the bartender gave her the wrong one. Well we gave her tons of coffee, took her to my friends house to sober her up 7-8 hours later and promised that was the last time she would be seen with me. It was so embarrasing, she was a few months younger to me and I asked her mum (my mum's sister) as they were already at my house, I offered if she wanted to come.

Believe me, I prefer her the stuck up way.

Well its wasn't a family member, but a family friend we were on holiday with, our friend, a former Oxford student, and current ambassador for thailand, invites us over for a few weeks, one night we went to watch a lady boy show, and he is coaxed in to getting up dancing on a pol with his shirt off, with a 50 year rather large male, badly dressed as a woman, nows that was funny. Lol.

Same person, two things. One of the things, twice (at least):: My son is now 6. When he was 3, I used to drive him to preschool every day.

I'm a former on-air radio personality, did top-40, mostly rock in the early 1990s. I've got a 6-CD changer in the car. Every morning, he heard something to get ME motivated to get moving, often something off Sinatra's Duets album, Classic Sinatra or, on a " Springsteen's "Glory Days": sunrisemusics.com/musicas/glory_days.mp3 Well, one day, I took him to dinner & to play at the play area of a local mall--it was a cold winter night.Mr.

Personality--the younger of us--abandons his dinner and walks right up to a nearby table on the aisle and out of nowhere, starts air-guitaring: "Naw-naw naw naw, naw-naw naw naw, Oh yeah..." The table was filled with a crowd of 50 females--high school basketball and volleyball players and their coaches coming home together on a bus from games against the same school. He instantly realized he had an audience, and here's what I heard as this little tiny thing started singing about his "friend who was a big baseball player back in high school. " "Oh my gosh, he's so cute!

" "Will you look at him?" (Coach gets cellphone) "I have GOT to get a video, my husband is never gonna believe this. " "He's adorable! " "Aww, he's sooooooo cute!"

Every time he rocked out to some part in the song, this crowd went crazy laughing and clapping, with a huge round of applause and cheers at the end, then they said goodbye to him, told him how great the show was and began to head out. One of the coaches came up to me and asked "Did you know he could do that? " I didn't even look up and I replied, "Yeah, you know, he does it everywhere we go."

I didn't realize just how true that was. Two weeks later, I'm taking him to The Little Gym for a playtime with friends. He runs around with the kids for an hour and then it's time to go.

All of the moms were friends of ours, and they were getting their kids ready to leave. All he had to was walk over to the cubby and get his shoes, but all of a sudden, he jumps up on the bench in the middle of the room..."Naw-naw naw naw,..." and all of the moms busted up. This is the same child who, one day when he was 18 mo.

Old, the three of us went to lunch at a Red Robin. He was booster seat. Four giggling teenage girls sit down at the table next to ours.

All it took was one to wave hi to him and say to the others, "Isn't he cute? " for Player to point back with his thumb up, wink an eye (he'd just learned how) make two clicks with his mouth and say " baby. " I thought I was going to be arrested or something when it was his mother, in the seat next to him and cracking up My wife thought it was funny that she he actually did the thing she taught hm to go with the wink.

Now he's onto Mambo Number Five. The first time I heard him sing it was just a few weeks ago. I don't drive him to school anymore, but he sang it in my ex's car when they picked me up to grab dinner a couple of weeks ago.

I had to bite my tongue when I heard "I like Angela, Pamela, Cassandra, Sandra and Rita..." He loves to imitate the horn players, too: http://itsparty.narod.ru/lou_bega_-_mambo_5.mp3 That and "Brick House,. " all the way down to the "'cause she's a Buh-rick...Hawse...": http://slanskybuilders.com/media/commodores_-_brick_house.mp3 Thankfully he doesn't have all the words right to any of the songs. And he's never performed either of the last two in public, that I know of.

My dad wasn't too funny but man could he lay down a whipping☺

Some years ago, my Grandma had way too many glasses of wine during a party to celebrate 55 years of marriage to my Granddad. There was quite a crowd. Auntie jokingly dared my grandma to take her teeth out which she did, singing the following: 'I miss my swiss, my swiss miss misses me!' (Which, with no teeth in, came out , I mith my swith; my swith mith mithes me!

) She then continue on(in front of a video camera, no less) to recite the following: People say I lisp. I don't lisp. Just listen while I call my pu$$y.

Here PU$$Y, PU$$Y! (Coming out here PUTHY PUTHY). Everyone bent over double laughing.

Grandma forbidden me to show that tape to anyone. Great blackmail material! ˜º.

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