I thought we should have a thread about things that are so absurd about survivorship they shoot right beyond being depressing and just make us laugh, and of course for the things that are just FUNNY.It might be something legitimately hilarious, maybe something upsetting that you've started laughing at for one reason or other, an experience related to survivorship that you just think was funny in an awkward or revealing way, whatever your take is.xo

Now I could possibly be persuaded by something like this... ;)

Our parents took us camping a lot when we were kids - can still smell wet tent! My last camping foray was in Kakadu - preprepared tents (with flooring and real beds) and formal dinner ready on our arrival each night at the campsite. That kind of camping I can do!

I would need 'at least' that with my 'better half' @kmakm - as he has involuntary athletic jerks all night (every 30 seconds) that precludes us from sharing a bed at home! :( In our campervan (VWT4) .... it is almost impossible to stay far enough apart (even tho a Queen Size Bed) to have a good sleep. When camping - if your sleep is stuffed - so is your holiday!! :( If I am going on a Fishing Camping Holiday - I now try & arrange my hubby to be with his brother for the weekend!! Then I can just have the camper with the yak & me!!

Husband & myself are heading off again this year, off to the Googs Track & round about SA for the school holidays in April with 2 other vehicles. Camping all the way. But we don't rough it by any stretch of the imagination. We have beds & doonas in our tent. We are generally set up with coffee on in 15 -20 minutes. Husband thinks he's funny to tell people we are quick to set up tent etc in 15 mins ........after 30 mins arguing where to park truck & which way to face tent !!! now days I try to not comment on truck parking (unless I am driving when we stop & then its where I stop.)In July we head off till November camping all the way with one other vehicle, through Qld across NT & WA to Broome & Derby back to Purnululu & down the Canning Stock Route. Not many toilets out there, but plenty of trees to hide behind.I am getting excited about getting a truck with a camper on the back in the next year or two. Carmel

Your comment reminded me of The Lemonheads "Outdoor Type" @kmakm. Love that song. While I do love a fancypants hotel, I love camping and have a big family tent. Unfortunately, hubby HATES camping with a passion so it's a rare, rare occasion that we go. I don't think I will ever manage sleeping on the ground again, though. I look at the camper trailers on Gumtree wistfully - no spare money to justify even a secondhand one.Before we had kids and settled down, my husband and I went up to Darwin, across and through the Kimberleys, down through the Hammersley Ranges, then down to the bottom of WA and back across the Nullarbor to Adelaide. We did it in a Pulsar with the back seats taken out, sleeping in a 2 man tent most of the time (hired a little Daihatsu 4WD in the Kimberleys). Hard to believe this is the same man who won't do camping!

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Sister
Member
7 years ago
Oh dear...at least everyone would be toasty to sleep.
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
Scene: my kitchen

Kid: What else are we having for dinner Mum?

Me: I'm just heating up some pyjamas in the microwave now.

I meant potatoes...
tigerbeth
Member
7 years ago
Me too @Afraser have tons of it & I usually only use hydraderm as I used to have dermatitis on my hands !
Threw out & have given a lot away recently !
Afraser
Member
7 years ago
Hand cream! Why does everyone give you hand cream? I have enough hand cream to slather my hands for a decade.
Blossom1961
Member
7 years ago
I just cleaned out my bathroom cupboards. Between me buying things on special, my daughter giving me a heap of wild nature products, my other daughter buying me things on special and the clinic giving me stacks of samples, I now have enough moisturiser, cleanser, aloe oil, and make up to last me the next ten years! Plus heaps of bandages. And pills. Lots of pills. I reckon I could open a pharmacy almost.
arpie
Member
7 years ago
OMG! I am SO glad someone else buys in doubles & triples @Blossom1961 - cos I do too! Then I come home to find the previous lot of doubles/triples still in the pantry! The shelves are BULGING! And I even have a shopping list & keep buying stuff that isn't on it!

I found the milk & butter in the pantry the other day - I am blaming Keith! ;) I am POSITIVE it was him ..... I think ....
Blossom1961
Member
7 years ago
We had just finished our dinner and had needed to open up a new mayo. Then I started getting a two day early start on my daughters dinner preparation last night. My recipe called for nuttlex so I went to the R/F and after poking around found another large opened jar of mayo. My family thought this was funny as I often buy doubles/triples etc. Oh bother, we have run out of nuttlex. Okay, I will go get some more. With head still in fridge I said, I am going up to get some more mayo. Hubby says I think you mean nuttlex. Family now think I am hilarious. I go out to shop, buy nuttlex, come home and they ask me how many things I bought. They have been playing their normal guessing game. I then start back on my recipe. Sigh, I didn’t need nuttlex after all. NOW they have completely lost it and my daughter gives me a big cuddle and says “I’m going to miss you Mum, you are so funny” She is off to Micronesia for a year.
tigerbeth
Member
7 years ago
Apparently I put a bottle of soft drink in the pantry instead of the fridge after pouring a drink !!! I do not recall that at all !!
Last week !

We went camping as kids , took ages to put our tented village together , although I must say as dad was a gadget man we always had everything we needed.2012 we went to Africa and camped in the Serengeti but way civilized (you could handle this type of camping @kmakm),well except for zebras , wildebeest etc .. munching around the tents!!!
Annie_C
Member
7 years ago
@Blossom1961
I must get me some of those fishing magazines.

@Harvey1903
Would have made for some interesting looking carpets.
arpie
Member
7 years ago
I can relate e to that @Harvey1903 ..... I tried to introduce my bridesmaid to my neighbour as my sister in law!! WRONG!! DUH! Bloody BC Brain!