30 People Share What Funny Things Their Moms Have Said In Response To Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge
“It’s Hashtag time!” yells the beloved host of the The Tonight Show and we all know what we gotta do. Bring our seats closer, open Twitter, and share a bite of our very own ensued hilarity in a form of a hashtag.
And just in time for Mom’s day, Jimmy Fallon put up an announcement: “Tweet out a funny or weird thing your mom has said and tag it with #MomQuotes,” on May 3.
The answers started flooding in like there was no tomorrow, because we know how crazy, boomer-like, adorable, and clueless in tech (but not in your dating life!) our moms can be. So let’s give them a big round of applause and get ready for the funniest tweets right below.
After you're done reading this one, be sure to check out our earlier Jimmy Fallon hashtags, #MyWeirdSuperstition, #WeddingFail, and #FitnessFail.
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Well did you get the reminders every time "this time X years ago I was...etc" she extended the courtesy via phone call at my time of birth the first few years after I moved out 😂
I'll be 49 in a few weeks and I fully expect all this from my Mom. She also still calls me her "kitten". PS : I hated it when I was younger, but I cherish it, now. She's almost 80; never know how many times are left, still...
Load More Replies...Alright then, on Mother’s Day you should give ME cards because I made you into a mother
Agreed. I told my oldest "thanks" for making the day possible.
Load More Replies...fine, then I'm getting flowers on Mother's day! I was the one who made you a mother after all.
It's usually the mom that does the screaming though.
Load More Replies...i used to send my mom flowers on my birthday. the first time i did it she asked why. i told her that i needed to apologize for some of the things i put her through for the rest of my life. continued to do this until she passed.
On mother's day, I always remind my mum that it was me who made her into one, so she owes me! hahaha
I used to give my mom flowers on my birthday. She did the work. I could/should have kept that up. I think I'll start leaving flowers at the :)
Whenever someone asks me that i wonder how they got on the cliff in the first place...
I... never thought about that. But now I will!
Load More Replies...Dd I raise children stupid enough to go hanging off a cliff? would be my answer. Unfortunately, I think maybe I did sometimes...
That’s just an easy way of getting out of that one, would’ve said the same thing
The chances are your mom is at the top of your speed-dial list, and you may be anywhere between 10 and 80 years of age. Because this bond that a child, no matter their age, and their mother shares is something truly special and should be viewed as a gift. And how could it not be when often, it’s mothers who are the emotional backbones of our families?
i dunno i mean pretty likely she decided to have a kid
Load More Replies...And deer perverts, and especially perverted deer! It's a cute way to say she wants you to be safe ^-^
My bf's mom says don't do drugs and stay away from strangers and don't do drugs with strangers
My grandparents told us to "drive safe and don't bring back any strangers." I now tell people not to bring back strangers from daily mundane activities, such as grocery shopping or going to the loo. I have gotten several strange looks in response, especially the time I forgot to say "don't:" "Bring back a stranger."
Sounds like my friend's mom's warning to "Watch out for drunks and bears."
But the appreciation most of us have for our moms surpasses the realization that if it weren’t for your mom, you wouldn’t be breathing right now. And it’s not just the time she knew (but didn’t tell you) that you ran away for a night in town with your boyfriend in high school when she noticed your sneakers at the door were soaking wet. You didn’t realize, but she knew it—it was raining that whole night.
Reminds me of the story of the couple in their 90s who went to a marriage counselor. The husband says, "My wife and I notice that we aren't getting pleasure out of sex any more." The counselor is taken aback -- they're in their 90s! So he asks, "Umm, when did you first notice this?" And the wife replies, "First last night, and then again this morning."
The Villages in Florida has the zipcode with the highest STD rates in the US. The Villages is a 55+ retirement community
Anyone else think Sydney looks a little too young to have a 93-year-old mother?
Yeah, although I want to believe this is true so bad!
Load More Replies...im 66, widowed for ten years, and i will steal and use this comment!!
When we were kids my friend was over for dinner (sausage on a bun) and my dad said to my friend “open your buns so I can put some sausage in” and had no idea why my friend froze
Yes, the girl should be grateful how "slow"(sex time) he will be. Seems a bit creepy and inappropriate, but people find it funny, so I must be a bit senstive.
Load More Replies...Girl: uh what? Mom: laffs Son: omgomgomg I hope we die before we get home!
And nothing speaks more subtly of the goofy and fun side of our moms than the tweets people shared for Jimmy Fallon’s #MomQuotes challenge. So we reached out to one Twitter user, Reva Rice, who shared a funny moment: “'These are my daughters and they are single' This is how my mom introduced my sister and I at a FAMILY REUNION!” and added the hashtag #MomQuotes.
Reva Rice told us that she was very close to her mom, who sadly passed away 18 years ago. “My mom was always trying to marry off my sister and I. I can’t even count the number of times she told me, 'By the time I was your age, I was married already,'” she recounted.
ikr, the most embarrassing things have to be said as loud as possible
Load More Replies...omg! reiminds me of the time i was having a seafood themed dinner party & my 4 yr old son saw i was making an octopus salad. he was interested & askedt what the little things with the dots were. i told him they were the tentacle of the octopus. he promptly marched to the other room & announced to my guest we were having testicle salad. everyone tried to be inconspicuous as they checked out their food.
Sounds similar to when my daughter (age 5) was sent to Daddy in the next aisle at the supermarket. She asked him: Mum wants to know what kind of Olives you want" Rather than come to me, she shouted at the top of her lungs: "Dad says to get stuffed!" :D
Every year my mother in law wishes my husband a happy birthday, two days after his actual birthday.
To twist things around, have you considered the possibility that it is your husband who actually mistaken his actual DOB?
Load More Replies...My mother remembers that there are two years between her wedding and my birthday. Unfortunately she generally adds them to my birthday instead of taking them off. I learned to roll my eyes shortly after I learned to count. When I learned the facts of life, I learned to hide behind my own eyelids.
Ah wait, hold up, cause my a** just came back from Poland and the check-in was annoying as hell. We had to be careful with my name because my American passport had my middle name initial included in my first name, but my Polish passport didn't. It needs to be exact when you check in. The dates are switched, too. American: M/D/Y while Polish: D/M/Y.
This! I thought the same thing. OP's mother didn't just ask for name and DOB, she asked "what's on your passport". Things can get really tricky if middle names and/or initials are used or not used when booking tickets. It has to match passport "exactly".
Load More Replies...My mum's surname is misspelled and her date of birth is wrong by one day on her passport.
Therefore, all the tickets should be incorrect then too, so that they match!
Load More Replies...It all changed one day as “At the age of almost 26, I met and married my husband within 8 months. She left me alone at that point.“I had always considered myself a Mama’s girl, especially after having children,” Reva said and confessed that she doesn’t think she “completely appreciated her until then. She died from stomach cancer about two years after I became a mom. Mother’s Day is still difficult.”
She tweeted the story because “it was funny and one of the most embarrassing things my mom ever did to me and I was hoping Jimmy Fallon might say my name.”
Now Jodi we understand you're jealous of your sister's new haircut but there's no reason to deny her existence like that.
Grey hairs. If you look more closely there are also some sprinkled in the fur nearer the collar. One of my black dogs went slowly grey around her eyes as she got old.
Load More Replies...Its mom-instincts. There was a guy driving with his kid with his head totally out of the window the other day in the opposite direction of me and before I knew what I was doing I was yelling at him to put his head back in the car! So I get that it just pops out.
I had charge of my 4 year old goddaughter, she went to run across the road and I bellowed "stay!" Thank goodness she did, but so did two other children, a Labrador and a spaniel, and a grown up.
My "kid" is 6' 300 lbs and when I had to slam my breaks on the other day, I threw my arm in front of him, like he was a little kid again. He shook my hand and started laughing LOL
I tell my girls that all the time... I am happy to be the bad guy or the excuse you need.
I've always told my kids this - use me as the excuse anytime you need me. Just tel me about it so I don't screw it up.
I have a chronic illness and I have told both my daughter and my friends that I can be a convenient excuse for them.
my son and i joke that my mom loved & wanted to protect us from problems that if we ever killed anyone, she would harangue us for at least an hour and then tell us to go get a couple of shovels.
I tell my kids the same thing. Don't want to go but don't want to hurt your friends feeling? Blame me. Just let me know what I said just in case lol.
I assume she once found a baby in a bag or knows someone who did, or she followed news where they sometime report on a baby found in garbage and the police is looking for witnesses
Load More Replies...Honestly - Mine told me to never aim for a bag in the street when I was driving because there could be an animal in it. And then, my senior year in college, my roommate and I found a bag in the street with a kitten in it. Someone had thrown it out like garbage. Now, I actively avoid hitting bags and if I'm concerned at all, I stop and check. And yes... we kept him. Socrates was a great cat!!
Never found an animal in a bag but always avoid hitting them with my car just in case.
Load More Replies...Same here Kristen, my parents also told me boxes or bags in the road might have animals in them, so never run them over
It happened to us! My family spent a weekend at the lake and spotted a tied up trash bag inside the fence of our yard when we got home. I slowly approached it and discovered 2 things: the semi-transparent bag showed a rolled up pink knitted blanket inside, and the whole thing was covered in flies. Called 911 and I felt terrible for the poor cop that had the task of opening that bag. It turned out to be a dead kitten. Took off about 3 years off my life! So yeah, I'd be thinking that.
My father was driving in a neighborhood and debated squashing a big box in the street. He decided not to but looked back in his rearview mirror after he'd passed by. A child was climbing out of the box.
"A bored person is a boring person" in my case
Load More Replies...the fact that this is on here and this website literally has the word Bored in the title is kind of funny to me
I guess I have to say this to myself everything i do catch myself getting bored
Mine says it stimulates my brain but I can stimulate it better doing chores.🙄
That's a general observation? It's even the summary of an entire Pet Shop Boys song?
I was out with some buddies of mine a while back. We stopped into a fast food place to grab a bite. I had to use the bathroom, so I just told them "I'm going to go use the potty". I had a 3 year old at home. ><
Always carry Kleenex! Of course hers were always licked and used to clean stuff off our faces!
It is in our house. I'm the mum with terrible jokes XD inherited from my dad and also now from memes
Load More Replies...My mom refers to the people in stock photos as "the cousins" and she occasionally gives them back stories lol
"Makes less sense! Why would there be phone chargers in a store that sells apples? An apple a day keeps the doctor away but a phone surely does not!"
I love this! My mother-in-law says this sort of stuff all the time too.
my step mother spills stupid stuff out of her mouth and because shes older and smarter, we fight. I am a high schooler with mostly a's and b's and she does not have a diploma. One thing we fight about is that she thinks covid and corona are two different things. She is 31 and I am 16.
Load More Replies...Probably heard her say that many times before and looked it up one time.
Load More Replies...I am sure I will be like this some day, probably sooner than I think. Back in my day etc etc XD
Hey, why not? That's not totally irrational. Why do phone numbers work one way and email addresses a different way?
Gave my gran my Yahoo and gmail email - addresses. She responded "I only have yahoo so I will use that one"
I live in WA, mom lives in OH. She emails so that she doesn't have to pay long distance. Even though long distance is free on both her cell and home line.
Yes me too, in fact I can't wait for the next time one of my 3, or my husband for that matter, complains about the food LOL
Load More Replies...Too late for this, kiddo! I waited long enough! I am done, goodbye.
Load More Replies...That's more than my grandmother used to say. When she was finished talking, she hung up!
LOL My mom just sends empty texts. I have never figured out how in the world she actually sends a text with zero characters, numbers, photo, nothing!
When my mom calls me she always starts, "This is your mother," like I won't recognize her voice.
Rule 1 of plagiarism is not to ask permission. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Like buying more fishing gear before asking your wife.
Load More Replies...I will gladly discuss it: WHAT A CUTE DOGGO AWWWW <3
Load More Replies...My mom was a super creative cusser . It's one of the first memories I've had of her that makes me laugh instead of cry. We even have some old 80's home video of my dad break checking my mom and she spewed out an entire phrase of creative cursing . It's too bad for me to say it on here .... but my siblings and I , and even a few of our friends have used that phrase many times over the years. She was a very loved teacher , and coach and neighborhood mom. The phrase she was famous for was what she used when she was trying not to swear , and it became her trademark . She would just yell Jesus Jesus , and for some reason it was hilarious . I'm getting it tattooed in a sleeve I've been working on.
me too!!!! im argentinian so we have a variety of curse words, but i like to mix them up. an example is (original) “la concha de tu madre”, but when i get creative i say “la concha de tu bisabuela” dont mean ir in a disrespectful way, i just get creative when it comes to cursing 😂
Load More Replies...My mom had 2 stock swear words. S**t and dammit. One time, I was home from college, and one of my sisters was on the way. She walked in the house and was complaining about something on and on. Finally my mom said the F word three, loud times! Then she said, if you can’t be happy to come home go back to school now, and quit complaining! We were all shocked she said the big F word, and that sister did walk back out the door and back to school, 4 hours away! Once she left, my mom said “WHAT?!” You guys say it all the time! We burst out laughing, and until she died, it was then her favorite curse word!
For most of my formative years I never heard my mom swear. Then one day I was looking through my baby book, reading about my first words etc. when I came to my first cute phrase. I guess mine was "Oh s**t!" I finally understood why my mom didn't swear when I was a kid.
May you forever feel no shame laughing at your own jokes.
Load More Replies...We are now the Knights who say Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
Load More Replies...Yea, well, a family reunion is not the most appropriate occasion for that to say the least
Load More Replies...Beats how my MIL used to introduce her kids. "This is our oldest [Oldest]. This is our youngest [Youngest]. And this is our mistake [Hubby]." I can actually say I'm glad she's dead...that was the least of the horrible things she did and said to him.
Aren't moms supposed to talk up their kids instead of acting like single is a bad thing to be?
I live not so far from Florence and didn't know that ninja turtles were buried there
Each of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (from comics and cartoons) is named after a famous artist. I'm guessing all those famous artists are buried at the same church in Florence.
Load More Replies...My grandmother did the same with her osteoporosis pill Boniva. She used to call it her "Sally Fields pill" cause she did the commercials! Lol!
We live in Greece. My mother has never said pop corn correctly. Porn c**k or pop porn or pork corn are the standards. Yes we have been to the movies and she had requested this. Imagine the cashier's face.
Spoonerisms!!! My grandmother was Queen. One time during a dinner with her colleagues she tried to say faculty wives and it came out wackeltie fives! She said everybody at the table stared at her for a couple of seconds dead silent...and then they all started laughing and could stop. She is notorious for coming out with some good ones..stumper bickers instead of bumper stickers. The list is a long one
My mother always called Captain Crunch cereal Colonel Crisp.
Magic Jack and Doctor Domino sound like a great New Orleans R&B duo.
My mom can never remember Chipotle. Chippy Pots is my favorite 😆
We had a pizza/food place that I called four hookers and a dude stoll dont know thr name of it
Mine is "Let's just stop by the Chicken Hutt so I don't have to cook". I don't even know where that came from, but it's my thing.
Super cringy that the mom in insinuating that her some has a "big package"
Used to work in a fabric store. Moms would come in to get replacement zippers for jeans a lot -- but the problem wasn't the quality of the zippers. The problem was that they put the jeans in the washer without zipping them up. Washing machines are hard on clothes. Always button, zip up, turn inside out before tossing them in.
She probably meant all the men in her family are clumsy and can break anything, including zips
One, he was shot in Dallas, not Austin. Two, Are you famous? (I'm just joking)
Uh, that was Dallas. A bit away. UT is in Austin. About the distance from London to Paris. ABOUT, not the same.
We went to the Grand Canyon and it was snowing in Flagstaff. The Grand Canyon has some snow on it, but it melted by mid day. We were walking back to our car when it started to hail, even though we expected snow. When my mom figured what is was she says, "It's the thing! Not the thing!" (she said it in French, but I don't know how to spell it.) We still make fun about it.
We used to call someone who left the door open a church visitor. I suppose it is because church doors are always open here.
in the Netherlands we also say that: are you born in a church? Ben je in de kerk geboren? lol
Load More Replies...I know it's a typo, but my brain had me trying to pronounce 'your're' XD
I'm sure the next message was "now that you know where it is, call your mother more often"
Relatable. My mum borrowed my phone once, then called me later (after hers charged up) to ask me if she returned it.
My mum once introduced me to a friend of hers we happen to meet in a shop "Hi, oh yes, this is my daughter, she doesn't always look this terrible, she's been ill"
My mother once said that I was single to a security guard that was semi trailing us. I could have just sunk into a hole. It still gives me flashbacks.
Unrelated, but your low power mode is still on, and you're at 50%. :)
She's absolutely right: Winter mode blows air down, whilst summer mode sucks it up.
This! Winter mode blows warm air down, while summer mode sucks the warm air up. Warm air rises, cold air sinks. Mom was right.
Load More Replies...Umm, ceiling fans routinely do have summer and winter modes. Summer mode is to blow air down, to create a breeze. Winter mode is to blow air up, so you keep the air circulating without creating a breeze. There's often a switch on the side of the housing.
I relate to this. We switch the rotation of our ceiling fans with the seasons. I thought everyone did.
There's an old book called "yoga with Veronica"(edit:Veronica Waring), with random as stuff in it like similar facial exercises to 'prevent wrinkles' etc. From memory it must have been a 60s/70s book as it was b/w photos and from what I remember about her hairstyle etc. Worth a look if ur ever bored! I'll find a link if I can
This is an already sold item on Etsy but the exact book: it has pictures including the weird one where you were supposed to puff up your cheeks and slap yourself! https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/496736530/1975-yoga-with-veronica-by-veronica?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
Load More Replies...Looks like Benedict Cumberbatch doing the motion capture expressions for Smaug. :p
Years ago Mom attended her 1st major league baseball game. She kept asking my dad to report to staff that she couldn't hear the radio announcer calling the game, so she was unable to follow it's progress.
"WE COULD'VE HAD IT ALLLLLLLLL, ROLLING IN SHEEEEEEEEEEEP." (Loved that song(with deep not sheep) as a kid. Now that I think about it, I still do.)
In the standard Android messaging apps, iPhones and Androids don't get along well, so they dont share certain features, such as marking messages as read or reacting to a message. At least for Android 10 and earlier. I'm not sure about Android 11. Some Samsungs are able to share the features between Samsungs, however.
Load More Replies...I despise the "like" option on iPhones. It is so annoying, especially in group texts. I don't need validation that badly that I want you to like my LOL response
XDDDD Omg, this is so relatable! Everybody else has iPhones, so my mom always likes the texts people send her, but since I have an Android, every time she leaves a reaction, it says "Liked '_____' " or "Disliked '_____' " lol. Maybe I should send her "Liked _____" just to mess with her :P
You don't get expelled for that..plus I don't believe it happened. Isn't that some joke floating around the internet?
Yeah this one is fake...evident enough by "told my mom I got expelled"...the school would contact your parents to come pick you up in that event.
Load More Replies...It is called, "Insubordination" and is a big deal in some schools. My son once told me, "Mom, do you know what insubordination is? Well, I did it and am suspended for two days."
Had a recipe that called for slivered almonds. My mom said she had some. When we opened the expired package she had in the cabinet, a puff of smoke came out. They had turned to mold they’d been in there so long.
I suppose that's true if it's a vinegar-based dressing. Vinegar is a preservative.
my step mother says my step brothers are half my age so they can do half the work when i prove her wrong she says hes a third of your weight. I am 16 and my step brothers are 10 and 11. I weigh a little less than an average 16 yr old and my stepmother weighs 14 pounds less than me and does less chores(she starves herself to loose weight). Does less wight=less chores apply to her also?
Abbot and Costello had a routine where Abbot says of some little girl, "I'm 40 and she's 10, so I'm 4 times her age. In 5 years I'll be 45 and she'll be 15, so I'll be 3 times her age. In 20 years I'll be 60 and she'll be 30, so I'll be only 2 times her age. How long before we are both the same age?"
Murkey teatloaf over here! (Turkey Meatloaf)
Load More Replies...And we have pork lions, because my son asked if they were really made of lions.....
I still make fun of my boyfriend for this very same scenario. He thought LA Fitness was a fancy French gym.
Yes - La Fitnéss with the stress on the last syllable.
Load More Replies...Omg....to this day my parents use “Carter’s got pills” as a reference for everything negative. Growing up in the 70’s I just figured it had something to do with President Jimmy Carter...lol
Carter's was a famous old thing that made itty bitty pills for the liver. Seriously. Just no longer relevant.
Carter, not Cater and my grandmother says this. It refers to an old medicine brand that had pills for everything.
It's an expression, "More _____ than Carter has liver pills". It would be like saying, "More _____ than Heinz has ketchup". I'm guessing it's somewhat common. I heard it all my life.
I studied translations and English is my second language. Whenever I don't know a word in English, my mum goes "Wait, aren't you a translator?" It's super annoying. I love it! <3
I find that actually a good technique! It makes you think harder if you really can't recall anything
My mother does that as well. It is usually when she sees an actor and can't place him or her.
I took my 82 year old Grandmother to a grocery store and a guy in a huge jacked-up Hummer parked next to us. (Well, in two spots, right down the line). My grandmother stood there and waited for him to get out and, bless her southern belle heart, said "I like your car. So sad about your penis." and toddled off to Aldi.
Clothing store, age 14-15, trying on jeans (during the super low rider jeans stage 🤦♀️) asked my what she thought as I was struggling to find something with more than a 1cm zip! Well, meaning to say she could see my 'muffin top', ie my hip fat etc, she said, right there in the store, "Your m**f is showing". It took her a moment to twig to what it sounded like but I was mortified! She made it sound like I was some kind of flasher 😂
My mom: "Oh look, a pe*is compensation unit!" every time she saw a sports car, and I still call them "PCUs". Side note: I just raelized my dad owned a Mustang convertible when they married. Oh gad. Things I did not want to think about...
My Dad had a corvette convertible when he married my mom. They used it to go from the church to the reception and, with the top down, were cleaning rice from the car the next day. It rained later that day and the inside of the car got doused with water. A week later, little plants started growing in the carpet. Apparently not all of the rice grains had made it out of the car.
Load More Replies...When I was learning french my Mom didnt know any. So she would just say "le" followed by whatever she was going to say. She was watching a movie with me and my friends and someone said Gonads. I looked at her and said dont. She broke down laughing at "Le gonads" in front of my friends.
Not wrong, 'Les gonades' have the same meaning in French, but it's more a medical term.
Load More Replies..."You're my daughter so I guess I have to love you anyway" when my sister got a pierced belly button. "I don't like when they make those realistic reconstructions because you can't tell if it's real anymore" about a documentary on dinosaurs. And once I needed my pin code to unlock my cell phone and she could get it for me (can't remember how or why). I think I must have still had a land line so I could call her and ask her for the code. She said she'd text it to me. (I did point out that that wouldn't help me much.)
My grandmother was a naturalized citizen. She spoke Spanish and knew only a few words of English from watching TV. One day at the butcher's, she asked for 2 pounds of porky pig. She wanted pork chops. I couldn't stop laughing but she got mad at me because she said she only brought me along to translate, not to laugh at her English.
My Mom was in her 80s, a guy approached her, smoking a cigarette, as she walked into the supermarket and asked her for money to buy his kids food. My Mom said, well you've got money cigarettes, you should have spent it on milk. She was lucky he took it well.
My mother got in a very heated argument with security at a casino. She kept waving down the cocktail waitresses to bring her more drinks as she argued, they kept giving her more drinks. The argument raged on and one said "If you continue to argue we will have to take you to jail" she slammed down a shot and smiled saying, "That's okay, I've never been to jail before and I am always game for new experiences." I will never be able to achieve that level of not giving a damn.
My grandmother always told us only boring people get bored. And I tell my kids.
My mom told me that too, and I thought it was super annoying and rude, so I stopped telling her I was bored and came up with annoying ways to entertain myself. When my son told me he was bored, I gave him chores to do, so he stopped telling me he was bored and found annoying ways to entertain himself. Same result.
Load More Replies...One morning everyone is hovering around the kitchen semi groggy and my brother was making himself tea so he boils the water (we use electric kettles) and pours it. The kettle was empty so he refills it with cool tap water and starts having breakfast. As he's sitting there he takes a sip of his hot tea and burns his tongue and exclaims "Ah! f**cking hot!" A second later, from behind him, mom takes a sip from her coffee mug and is like "Ah f*cking cold!" she thought the kettle water was hot and had made coffee with cold water. It was funny cuz she never ever swore in English.
It was nice that he refilled the kettle, since it was empty, but surely he realised others would want it too? It would have taken an extra second to switch it on again.
Load More Replies...I took my 82 year old Grandmother to a grocery store and a guy in a huge jacked-up Hummer parked next to us. (Well, in two spots, right down the line). My grandmother stood there and waited for him to get out and, bless her southern belle heart, said "I like your car. So sad about your penis." and toddled off to Aldi.
Clothing store, age 14-15, trying on jeans (during the super low rider jeans stage 🤦♀️) asked my what she thought as I was struggling to find something with more than a 1cm zip! Well, meaning to say she could see my 'muffin top', ie my hip fat etc, she said, right there in the store, "Your m**f is showing". It took her a moment to twig to what it sounded like but I was mortified! She made it sound like I was some kind of flasher 😂
My mom: "Oh look, a pe*is compensation unit!" every time she saw a sports car, and I still call them "PCUs". Side note: I just raelized my dad owned a Mustang convertible when they married. Oh gad. Things I did not want to think about...
My Dad had a corvette convertible when he married my mom. They used it to go from the church to the reception and, with the top down, were cleaning rice from the car the next day. It rained later that day and the inside of the car got doused with water. A week later, little plants started growing in the carpet. Apparently not all of the rice grains had made it out of the car.
Load More Replies...When I was learning french my Mom didnt know any. So she would just say "le" followed by whatever she was going to say. She was watching a movie with me and my friends and someone said Gonads. I looked at her and said dont. She broke down laughing at "Le gonads" in front of my friends.
Not wrong, 'Les gonades' have the same meaning in French, but it's more a medical term.
Load More Replies..."You're my daughter so I guess I have to love you anyway" when my sister got a pierced belly button. "I don't like when they make those realistic reconstructions because you can't tell if it's real anymore" about a documentary on dinosaurs. And once I needed my pin code to unlock my cell phone and she could get it for me (can't remember how or why). I think I must have still had a land line so I could call her and ask her for the code. She said she'd text it to me. (I did point out that that wouldn't help me much.)
My grandmother was a naturalized citizen. She spoke Spanish and knew only a few words of English from watching TV. One day at the butcher's, she asked for 2 pounds of porky pig. She wanted pork chops. I couldn't stop laughing but she got mad at me because she said she only brought me along to translate, not to laugh at her English.
My Mom was in her 80s, a guy approached her, smoking a cigarette, as she walked into the supermarket and asked her for money to buy his kids food. My Mom said, well you've got money cigarettes, you should have spent it on milk. She was lucky he took it well.
My mother got in a very heated argument with security at a casino. She kept waving down the cocktail waitresses to bring her more drinks as she argued, they kept giving her more drinks. The argument raged on and one said "If you continue to argue we will have to take you to jail" she slammed down a shot and smiled saying, "That's okay, I've never been to jail before and I am always game for new experiences." I will never be able to achieve that level of not giving a damn.
My grandmother always told us only boring people get bored. And I tell my kids.
My mom told me that too, and I thought it was super annoying and rude, so I stopped telling her I was bored and came up with annoying ways to entertain myself. When my son told me he was bored, I gave him chores to do, so he stopped telling me he was bored and found annoying ways to entertain himself. Same result.
Load More Replies...One morning everyone is hovering around the kitchen semi groggy and my brother was making himself tea so he boils the water (we use electric kettles) and pours it. The kettle was empty so he refills it with cool tap water and starts having breakfast. As he's sitting there he takes a sip of his hot tea and burns his tongue and exclaims "Ah! f**cking hot!" A second later, from behind him, mom takes a sip from her coffee mug and is like "Ah f*cking cold!" she thought the kettle water was hot and had made coffee with cold water. It was funny cuz she never ever swore in English.
It was nice that he refilled the kettle, since it was empty, but surely he realised others would want it too? It would have taken an extra second to switch it on again.
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