Thanks guys, I had to stop in and start the thursday thread, I saw it was started and decided to go look around first.

YOU guys Rock!

Phred,
My mom was a Guy's kinda mom!

I have a ton of stories about her and my dad!

LOL, I can tell this one!

We would go camping on the beach in Mexico and my dad would buy a case of bottled Mexican sodas! It went on the table and we were allowed to split one between us kids. Dad would have HIS bottle and warned us that we were NOT to drink from it.

He was doing the cooking that day and my mom DIDN't listen well that time.
When dad turned to tend to the food, Mom came over and took a few healthy swigs from it. MY dad caught wind of it and IT WAS ON!

Mom started to get really funny, stumbling around and really loud.

Dad's soda had some of his "medicine" in it and mom got a little tanked. She was kinda rambunctious and us kids walked her to the beach to 'walk' it off.

There were some dead sting rays on the beach and I remember her walking over and giving them a few kicks. I was kinda amused and startled at the time, but we got her back to the tent and to sleep.

She woke up kinda hung over the next day-then, for years we would jokingly offer her a drink only to have her vehemently deny ever having tasted any kind of booze.

We would tell her she was drunk on the beach in Mexico all those years ago and she would call us liars.

A few years ago we caught her asleep on the couch and took a picture of her with a bottle of booze nestled in her arm.

LOLOLOLOL, We showed her the photo and she was so mad that for the life of me I don't know if I lost the photo on purpose or she scared me into losing it.



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My mom was also a huge sports fan, She loved her Lakers-the AHs had to lose on Tuesday night on a last second shot-I have to laugh and think if she didn't have a hand in the loss. She was never satisfied with close games. She wanted a 20 point victory every game.


This is terrlible but she was also a motorsports fan. I would go next door to watch the start of the NASCAR races and we would rate the singers who did the Star Spangled Banner.

Her least favorite motorsport? Motorcycle roadracing. I would go over and pop it on the tube to watch a few laps. She would freak out when the racers would put their knees on the concrete in the turns.

"OH, I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT-I think that they are gonna knock their knees off!"

After a few laps she'd say, "Who is winning?"