dent in head due to war
My friend's dad was rather 'odd' due to a head injury - we were always told it was a bit of 'shrapnel in his head from the war.'

He, too had various 'foibles'.

For example - he would always do the dishes after dinner. We all had to be out of the kitchen at this point, and he would boil the kettle (wouldn't let them turn on the hot water taps throughout the house) and put on his white boiler suit. For some reason he only felt ready for domestic chores when wearing his boiler suit - he had about four of them, with various patches and holes.

My friend and his brother were on the dole for some time, and their dad would chuck them out of the house from 8am til 5 pm, and under no circumstances were they to return until they'd found a job. Said friend returned one day as it was snowing, and he had no gloves - which were promptly handed OUT of the letterbox by his father.

My friend (when still living at home) was leaning over one day to put a video in, and his dad noticed he had a pair of HIS underpants on. Dad freaked and made him go upstairs and take them off. Friend entered kitchen half an hour later and found dad boiling them in a saucepan on top of the cooker, and stirring with a wooden spoon.....

Should I go on.........?
(smellydrain, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 1:38, Reply)