Shame a Friend

[Clara Bow]

What is your favorite funny story to tell on a friend?
My college roommate and I were in Savannah one night and we were fairly lit (drunk) and we were walking down River Street after most of the bars had closed. Kim looked up toward Bay Street (the street above us, River Street in down on the water line) and said "Oh sh*t" and got pale in the face. I followed her gaze and there was a man in a Confederate uniform looking down at us. Kim was in tears immediately, she knew she was seeing a ghost. I called up "Hey mister, are you real?" He laughed uproariously and informed us there was a Confederate Ball that night and he was just out having some air. It took hours for Kim to calm down, she was convinced that man was a ghost....

[phred246]

I have a college friend, who appears to have no sense of navigation. In 1981 we were in Florida, staying at his parents timeshare just before Thanksgiving, and drove up to DisneyWorld for the weekend. I had the route all planned out on the map (I did all the driving as he can only drive a hand control car), and showed him the exit that we were going to get off from the interstate, so that we would approach DisneyWorld from the South and avoid Friday Rush Hour traffic near Orlando.

On the trip up (about three hours drive) he falls asleep. I woke him up when I saw an exit go by that I remembered was close to where we wanted to get off. He checked the map and said we had a long way to go. After a half hour, I asked if we were almost there, he said no. When a road sign said Orlando, five miles, I got suspicious, pulled over, checked the map, and saw we were twenty miles north of the exit we wanted. We ended up driving thru Orlando east to west on Friday afternoon Rush Hour. I still bug him about that trip!

He also doesn't know the difference between a American restaurant and a Japanese one, but that is another tale.

[Twik]

My cousin and my mother were watching the Olympics, and my mother happened to mention that she'd always longed to go to Greece to see all the ancient archeological sites.

My cousin looked at her blankly, and said "I never knew there was anything OLD in Greece!"

(Note that my cousin in nearly 50 years old, and has travelled all over the world.)

[Bijou]

I know someone who got lost in a trailer park.  It wasn't big or confusing, but he couldn't find his way out.

[Bijou]

This isn't shameful, just funny
When my son was about nine, he and my dad were watching a football game on television.  My son loved football and my dad didn't, but was watching it with him, anyway.  My son was cheering for one of the players and dad asked which guy he was rooting for.  My son said, "The one in the red jersey."  My dad got really irritated because the tv was black and white.  I guess my son was so into football that he knew the colors of the jerseys and was imagining the game in color.

[Clara Bow]

I'll tell one on myself. Before hubby and I got married I hung out with his friends a lot. I was the "little sister" of the group and they took care of me. They were trying to teach me football.
So we were watching a game and I noticed a kid running down the field with toilet paper hanging out of his pants. I looked at Jeff and Kirk and said "I cannot believe that those hateful jerks would let that poor kid run all over national television with toilet paper hanging out of his pants. His mother is probably watching!"
Dumbfounded, they asked what I was talking about. I showed them again. Then the laughter started. Through their hysterics they explained that that was not toilet paper but a towel for the quarterback to wipe his hands dry on during the formation.
I am still eating dirt over that eleven years later.

[Twik]

I know someone who got lost in a trailer park.  It wasn't big or confusing, but he couldn't find his way out.

My cousin and I got lost on the 9th floor of the Barrington Hotel. It took us nearly 1/2 hour to find the elevator.

And no, we were perfectly sober.

[IndianInlaw]

A friend of mine was featured on TV for being in a Tai Chi class.   When I said I saw him, he said his mother was also in the class. I said "I didn't see your mother".   He replied "You don't know my mother".

He probably thought I was stalking him and his mom, but really, I was thinking of someone else who also had red hair (and a mom!).

[IndianInlaw]

A friend of mine owned a Kirby vacuum cleaner (way expensive).   It quit picking up dirt, although you could hear the motor running.   They took it to the shop and had the engine rebuilt, but still never ran quite right.

Eventually, she and her husband got divorced.  Her husband stuck in the vacuum cleaner with her stuff.

Fine.

She got a new boyfriend and he was looking at the Kirby.  He turned it over and took all this hair and stuff out of the beater bar.

After that it ran wonderfully.

Every time something didn't run quite right, he would tell her "Better rebuild the engine!"