Grandpa's socks

[mrissa]

sheyrena misread my previous subject line, and it reminded me of a Grandpa thing. I have told this one before, too, I'm pretty sure. Now I'm telling it again.

He and I and Mom and Grandma had been out to dinner or something when I was a teenager and Dad was out of town. We got back to their place, and Grandma went upstairs to change into her robe and slippers. Grandpa sat down in his recliner. "Oh, Debra," he said to my mom. "I'm beat into my socks."

That is not what my mother and I heard. We both went, "You WHAT?"

Because we both heard, "Oh, Debra, I peed in my socks."

It's become a family thing that we say when we're really tired, but I have to say it's one of the more alarming of our family things (which is actually sort of an accomplishment), because it tends to come up when we've known people long enough that they think they should know what on earth we're on about, and then there we are announcing that our hosiery is urine-soaked. Which would give a body pause, I can understand.

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

ha!

in my family it's "brain death brain death i'm a turtle".

i no longer recall what my father *actually* said, but that is what we heard.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

As a family, we agree that the world is a lot more interesting when you get the wrong end of the stick some of the time.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

It would give me pause, certainly. Reading this has given me giggles.

[aedifica]

Oh, my. (Giggling.)

My family believe that things will get smaller if you blow on them. This is based on hearing exactly what was said but applying it to the wrong conversation. It went something like this:

Me, calling down the stairs: I can't get everything in my suitcase!
[My sister, unheard by me: My hot chocolate is too hot!]
[Dad, answering me: (something I never heard)]
Mom, answering my sister: Did you try blowing on it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. How old were you? Is this like last year or like when you were 10?

[aedifica]

Closer to 10 than to 31, but I'm not sure exactly how old I was. We were all home, which means it was probably before I started high school.