How about we all post up random things that we said or remembered from the day we post it. If it requires a bit explenation feel free to put the story in. It didn’t seem that this already exists so I’ll just go ahead now…
Here’s one from me:
“But he violated the placemat!”
The story behind that is that I have this one placemat I got late 2005 and it features one of my favourite characters on it so we’ve even left the cover on to protect the image. Then at some point last year one of my mom’s students came over for tutoring and used my placemat to pick up some fabric scraps off the floor and to hold the pieces so he could throw them out, and then put the placemat on the counter to be washed. Not only did he put it on the floor but he used it to throw something into the big garbage bin (pretty much all the other ones are used for is waste paper). And being a bit of a geek about personal hygene and my treasured things as I am, as well as having a bad first impression of the student was just raking him over the coals for it (he’s atleast a foot taller than me and not counting his big hair so it might have been more shoving him into the coals). Complete with “This is a breach of contract get out of my house before I call the place mat police”. I told my friend about this when they came to visit in I think May (hence the quote) and the responce to that was “You make it sound like he used it to commit a heinece crime” and then laughing. Yes, appearently it’s really funny when I get frustrated.
In this instance, I was addressing my mom whilst referring to those little creatures known as craneflies. Craneflies are fairly large insects that are approxiamately an inch and a half long (at maximum) and resemble daddy long leg spiders…with wings. The very first time I was ever introduced to one, the evil bugger landed on my nose and looked me square in the eyes. The exact same thing happened when I came in contact with another cranefly not a few days after the first incident. Ever since then, I’ve hated the things and refer to them as “harmless killers”. The topic of discussion just happened to come up a few hours ago, hence the quote… (snigger)
Okay. I have two, from when I was helping out with inventory prep at work 3 weeks ago:
“IP!”
We had to flip all the boxes over, cut them open and mark IP (for Inventory Prep) on them so the people who were counting could scan them easier. We did that for 5 hours, so we just started randomly saying IP! to each other.
“What is this?!”
Something I say often but this also happened that day. When I went to mark IP on the box I was prepping, I turned and saw a black stick on the floor. I picked it up and it was leaving black marks all over my fingers. I was like What is This?? One of my friends went, “I think that’s the ink” I looked at my marker and the ink cartridge was gone. she was right. Somehow when I took the cap off the marker, the ink went with it and went flying across the room, without me even noticing. My friend then proceeded to try and get the ink to fly out on her own, which she eventually did.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
The reason I said this is because I have a skin on my computer called Aston Shell. And every Day or after I play a computer game at full screen. It give a funny bit of advice or fact. Today that was it said.
I’m loving all these quotes and their backstories!
“What, your hands have a billion fingers?”
I rang up my friend to ask about the maths homework, and realised that I’d been cheating in one of the sequence type things by counting backwards instead of using the proper formula. I said, “well, it’s not going to make any difference, is it?” and she replied, “well, what if they give you a massive number in the exam, like a billion or something?” I just replied, “I’ll still count back…” She laughed and asked me the above quote, and we then had a long drawn out discussion about how big the palms of our hands would have to be to accomodate a billion fingers, and how we wouldn’t be able to pick things up very well.
Funniest thing my dad had just said today. We were leaving Costco and there was milk all over the front of the store. One worker asked someone ‘what happened here?’ and my dad goes …
“(Aunty Bridget is serving icecream) C’mon, ladies first! Alice and Katy.”
“If it’s ladies first, then I guess that means Chris is first, too.” -Aunty Bridget and Gareth
“It’s like I wake up one morning and I’m in front of the bathroom mirror brushing my teeth and there are people I don’t even know standing next to me… yeah, that’s how social I am.” -Ben
“(Mum is talking to Grandma) The kids made macaroni cheese for themselves one night while we were away.”
“We made it out of a PACKET. That’s not MAKING it.” -Mum and Gareth
All memorable quotes from family members that I wrote down cuz I have no life!
The “this stupid toast” line made me laugh hysterically. Sounds like something my little sister would say-and she’s like 6 years younger than you. As a matter of fact-
“Where’s this hot dog place,woman!?”
Yep. That’s my sister. I think she said that at about age 3. I believe my mom told us that she was going to this “hot dog place” (obviously…) and Hannah blurted that line out. She’s 7 and says a lot of funny stuff. She used to go through this phase where everything she said came out wrong…Burger King was “KingerBurg”,for example.
Wow, these are really funny, I can understand not wanting to write the answer, sometimes writting the answer can really take all the fun out of finding it.
Here’s one from today
“A sign advertising the sofa cushions”
My mom tutors almost all of her students out of our house now & she needed me to print something for her so she could head out to do something and have it out of the way and then help me set-up something when she got back. I printed the article for her but got my dad to take care of the thing I had to set-up because it was taking too long. So when she got back I was talking to her and twisting the paper a little bit into various things and later pointing them out such as a hat that looks like a light switch cover, a teradactal (terisaur) and a sign to show that the sofa cushions were now open for business.
That and reffering to wigs made from human hair as “kadaver hair”
And of course "You’re about 34 years older than me and you don’t know this?
My dad isn’t very good at math and math (the really absract part especially) is my favourite subject so my having to help him with it even though he’s at least three times as old as me still feels weird.
Annoying, my mom used to say that, until I got my first girlfriend at HS. Now, she never cares. She still cares that I learn, but the dating part is gone.
“Yes, we’re late. But there’s no time restriction for this thing, we’re only going to a store and mom and I are always late anyways, it’s cultural and by this point is probably a part of the genetic code…So just let it go. O.K. dad, just let it go”
My dad has a big hang up about time, my mom and I don’t really care about time at all except when absolutely nessicary, so you can imagine that complecating things a bit. Also there were quite a few words in the quote that I (at least sometimes) have a funny of saying. Lightly pronouncing silent "e"s so you can hear it if you listen closely when I’m frustraited i emphsise the last letter of at least half the words I use and most vowels.
“My arms are smaller than yours”
I was carrying somethings my dad was carrying some other things and more of them I pick up something and dropped it right afterwards.
As a matter of fact-
