What's your closest tie to idiocy?

[Ponyup]

I guess the best story I have is also a farm story. When my brother was little he used to follow my grandpa everywhere. When he was only 2 he followed my grandpa up into the hay mount. My grandpa told him to stand right there while he went to through hay down. The bale of hay took a bad bounce and hit my brother, my brother happened to be standing right in front of the door & knocked him out into the cow feeder. My grandpa jumped out after him.

Thought of another grandpa & brother story. My grandpa had a pile of trash that he needed to burn (this was back when it was okay to do this). The pile had old farm machinary, oily rags, that kinda of stuff & was then dosed with gasoline to get the fire going. My brother was 8 at the time & liked fire, so my grandpa told him to light it. YOu guessed it, it blew up & burned my brothers face & arms. He was wearing glasses & a hat so his eyes were protected, but it was pretty bad.

[Janet]

Something my son and I laugh at to this day is, probably 5 -7 years ago, the three of us were at Pizza Hut. We were just sitting there waiting on our pizza when my husband got this really weird and funny expression on his face. All of a sudden he fell out of his chair, smack dab on the floor. My son and I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pee my pants. We still laugh about it today. It was like funny look on face and then over he went....

Another time, when we were in Florida, we were behind another car at a hotel and my husband got out to go pay for the rooms and everything. When he got to the front of our car he turned to look at our son and then ran smack into the car in front of us. My son laughed so hard over that one too.

Yes, most of our entertainment comes from the goofy things my hubby does.

[DianaB]

I have another really funny story about my two youngest daughters.....

We had gone to Texas to spend time at the coast and decided that we wanted to east seafood since it surely had to be better next to the coast. Well, we were in an area that wasn't heavily populated but we found a place to eat from the brochures in our motel room. When we get there it was a double wide home that had been remodeled into a restaurant and it was very elegant inside.

After we had ordered our food I went to the restroom and in there was a bidet, which I know absolutely nothing about and I knew that my girls were going to ask a lot of questions about. So when I went back to the table I mentioned that there was something in the bathroom that if they had any questions about, I wouldn't know. Which immediately made the girl curious and they had to go and check out.

My daughters at the time were 5 and 15, an interesting age combo!! When they got to the bathroom they were checking out the bidet and the oldest one turned a knob while they were both standing over the bidet and water shot up to the ceiling!!! No joke, there was a wet spot on the ceiling when I checked later!!! The oldest decided that they better go lock the bathroom door so they could get it cleaned up and while she was doing that the youngest decided to turn the knob again!!! I didn't know what was going on but when they came back to the table I looked at my older daughter across the table from me and her hair was wet around her face. I said "You just had to play with it, didn't you?" And she said "At least I didn't get it as bad as her (meaning her little sister)." I looked at my youngest daughter who was sitting on my left and her hair was so wet that her bangs were swiped across her forehead!!!! I just about died laughing and still do even though it's been about 10 years since we did that!!!!

[Marilyn]

Hubby tells one on himself. He was driving down a dirt road pulling a cattle trailer with a cow inside taking her to the vet. He went over a hill and looked to the open field on the right and the trailer with the cow inside were passing him. He had not secured the hitch properly. Fortunately the trailer came to a safe stop. The cow was unhurt so he hitched her up and when on into town. He said the cow had her feet planted on the trailer floor and was looking straight ahead mooing.