Feisty women in my family!
Slightly funny story - I like it because women in my family have always stood up for themselves!

My dad lived with his uncle and aunt for a couple of years when he first started work as a lad of 15. They were well known for being pretty argumentative - my great aunt being a feisty creature, and my great uncle, of course, knowing it all.

Whenever she made fish and chips he'd eat it, whilst moaning continuously that they were nothing like as good as the ones you get from the chippy - imagine this happening once a week over a long period of time, and combine that with the aforementioned feistiness!

So, one night, they all sat down to fish and chips, wrapped up in newspaper, all greasy and delicious, whilst my great aunt and dad try to ignore my great uncle banging on about the fantastic chip shop, how his wife's efforts didn't come close.

She waited til he'd finished eating til she told him in great triumph, that she'd cooked that lot herself, wrapping them in paper and keeping them warm in the oven to fool him and to prove her point!

They didn't speak for quite a while, and by all accounts it was back to boiled kippers every night for my dad's tea after that.

Heh, sorry, not that funny, but it tickled me...and it's a bit of light relief from the normal bizarre stories I have about my family!

:D :D
( curvylittlegoth heard the voices in your head on, Mon 17 Dec 2007, 16:55, Reply)