We associate family life with tradition and routine. From weekday dinners to get-togethers at our grandparents’ farmhouse, it’s what keeps us grounded even in the most challenging times. However, no matter how well we think we know them, the closest people around us can still find ways to surprise us. Somewhat paradoxically, I think that’s mainly because of the same reason—they know us really, really well. Our moral system, the boundaries of our sense of humor, everything. And they can use it to their advantage. So we at Bored Panda put together a list of funny and ridiculous moments when folks realized their family members went completely off-script. Enjoy!

#1 Ex Cheated. Called Off Wedding. Day Of “Wedding” I Was Sad. My Family Surprised Me With An Anti-Wedding Party

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#2 Dominic Really Went Outside And Brought A Deer Back

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#3 Had My Leg Amputated And My Brother Shows Up To The Hospital Dressed As A Pirate

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#4 Parents Gave Me A Gift For College Today, Which Was All The Money That My Mom Found In My Pockets When Doing My Laundry

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#5 My Friend Got A Christmas Card From His Nephew. He Decided To Copy It And Send It Back

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#6 When My Wife Had An Ultrasound For Our First Child I Took A Photo Of The Print Out So She Could Send To Friends And Family. Instead I Sent Her This Xenomorph Image

And she sent it to everyone before realizing what it was. She was not amused.

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#7 My Wife Just Graduated From The Police Academy And Her Sister Sent These To Our House

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#8 I Got My Grandma A New Apron For Her 90th Birthday. This Is The Moment She Realized What Was On It

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#9 I Beat Cancer This Year And Lost My Hair In The Process. My 4-Year-Old Son Wanted To Be Darth Vader For Halloween, So I Surprised Him As Darth Mom

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#10 The Look On My Daughter’s Face When I Tell Her She Gets To Adopt A Kitten For A Surprise Birthday Present

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#11 Was Wondering Why My Wife Was Giggling When She Asked Me To Change The Air Filters

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#12 2 Steps Into Walking Down The Aisle. He Said “Goddamit Jeri, Did My Pants Just Fall Down?”

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#13 My Mother-In-Law Was Visiting For Three Weeks Leaving My Father-In-Law 2,000 Miles Away To Fend For Himself. He Sent Her These Flowers After A Week

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#14 My Son Wanted “Cold Hard Cash” For His Birthday

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#15 My Dad Had Eye Surgery And My Mom Asked Where He Wanted To Go For Lunch After, So Here We Are

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#16 Marilyn Manson’s Dad Surprised Him By Dressing Up As Him And Interrupting His Photoshoot

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#17 My Wife And I Like To Surprise Each Other With Unexpected Charlie. Charlie No Longer Finds This Amusing

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#18 My Mom Has Been Begging My Dad For A Dog Since Ours Passed Away In May. He Surprised Her Christmas Morning With This Gift. He’s A Man Of Few Words

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#19 My Kids Came In And Told Me There Was Water Coming From The Laundry Room. They Said It Looked Like It Started At The Washer. I Rushed In To Find This

Buncha comedians in my house.

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#20 Shout Out To My Brother For Replacing A Picture Of Jesus At My Parent’s House With A Picture Of Obi-Wan Kenobi As Portrayed By Ewan Mcgregor

Thre

e months and counting without them noticing.

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#21 My Grandfather Always Wears His Favorite 70s Suit To Every Family Event, So As A Surprise For His 80th We All Dressed To Match

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#22 My Little Sister Knocked On My Door And I Came Out To This

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#23 My Wife Put “We Still Do. 13 Years” On This Letterboard. I Added A Word When She Wasn’t Looking

She is posting this version to Facebook as I type this without realizing the change. Wish me luck.

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#24 My Family Is Pretty Odd. Tonight, My Mom Hired An Elvis Impersonator And Didn’t Tell Anyone About It

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#25 My Parents Are Retiring And Want To Travel Full Time. My Brother Sent Them This Suitcase For Christmas

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#26 My Mother-In-Law Made All The Men In Our Family A Pair Of These Sleep Pants For Christmas

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#27 My Sister And Her Boyfriend Are Heading Up To Our Cabin Tomorrow Night, So I Left Them A Present For When They Turn On The Lights

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#28 My Daughter Asked Her Dad To Be Launched Into My Photo Where She Struck This Pose. Now She Is Convinced She Is A Real Superhero

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#29 My Brother And I Became Uncles This Week To Twins. First Impressions Are Important, So Naturally, We Shaved And Dressed To Impress

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#30 We Decided To Embarrass Our Daughter At The Airport After 3 Months Away. (We Don’t Normally Dress This Way)

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#31 I Bought My Parents A TV For Christmas But They Are Going To Think It’s Something Else At First

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#32 Made Masks Of Sister’s Fiance’s Face For A Bachelorette Party, This Is What She Walked Into

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#33 There Are Some Advantages To Being Married For 15+ Years. Like You Can Scare Your Wife With The Cardboard Figure You Found Buried In The Garage

That she bought you five years ago.

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#34 Bought My Family Customized T-Shirts With My Face On Them. They Loved It

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#35 My 13-Year-Old Sister Thinks She’s Hilarious

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#36 Told My Dad He Was Having A Grandkid Before His Birthday Picture

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#37 I Replaced The Old Family Photo In My Mum’s House With This. Still Waiting For Her To Notice

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#38 My 11-Year-Old Daughter Has Insisted On Checking The Mail The Last Couple Of Days. Today, I Checked It. This Is What I Found

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#39 My Dad Sneaky Sneaks Money Around My House

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#40 My Mom Always Finds A Way To Surprise Me On My Birthday

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#41 I Mailed My Sister One Square Of Toilet Paper And It Was Delivered

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#42 Just My Mom And Aunt Doing Family Things
In Wales

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#43 Let’s See How Long Till The Family Notices

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#44 I Turned A Picture Of My Labrador Pooping Into A Puzzle, Gave It To My Dad For Christmas As A White Elephant Gift

He put it together, framed it, and gave it back to me. That’s what Christmas is all about.

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#45 My Dad Thought He Was Home Alone. I Had To See Why He Was Laughing So Hard

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#46 My Wife Has Been Secretly Collecting Pictures Of Me For Months Sleeping. Today, For Father’s Day, I Was Gifted The Collection. I Present Catnapping

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#47 I Haven’t Seen My Parents For Over A Year, So I Decided To Surprise Them For Christmas By Dressing Up As Santa And Coming Over

This is my mother’s face when she realized that Santa was me.

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#48 My Wife Has Had This Photo Frame Hanging On The Wall Without Any Pictures In It. Tonight, After She Went To Sleep, I Decided To Take This Matter Into My Own Hands

I’ll let you know tomorrow if I’m still married.

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#49 My Mother Sketches While Watching TV. She Turns Her Favorites Into Little Printed Greeting Cards For Family

Here is what she was using for birthdays a couple years ago.

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#50 My Brother Is In For Quite The Surprise Tomorrow Morning

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#51 The Best Kind Of Surprise

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#52 Due To The Pandemic, I Decided To Send My Mom A Cutout So I Could Still Be Home For The Holidays

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#53 I Wrapped My Brother’s Present In Cement

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#54 My Brother Gave Me A Framed Photo Of My Most Upvoted Comment Of All Time For Secret Santa This Year

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#55 The Kids Made Me Breakfast For Father’s Day

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#56 Tried To Prank My Son. He Said “Hi Mom” And Kept Walking

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#57 My Parents Left This Photo Album Empty For Too Long, So I Decided To Fill It

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#58 There Were Two Edibles In Here Last Night. Someone In My Family Is Having An Interesting Day

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#59 My Brother Never Fails To Disappoint With His Personalised Christmas Gifts – This Year He Made Me A Calendar

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#60 My Sister And I Painted Each Other Bob Ross For Christmas, Turns Out We Have A Similar Sense Of Humor

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#61 I Came Home To This

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#62 This Is How My Friend’s Dad Greeted Her At The Airport Yesterday. Best Dad Ever

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#63 Came Home And Found This. I Love My Mom

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#64 Every Year The Kids And I Buy Or Make A Meaningful Ornament. 2018 Was A Difficult Year In My Household

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#65 We Have A Lightbox With Inspirational Quotes For My 2-Year-Old Daughter. My Wife Hasn’t Noticed Yet

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#66 I Moved In With My Dad A Little Over A Month Ago. He Asked Me To Clean My Hair From The Bathroom Sink. I Told Him I Didn’t Know What He Was Talking About

This evening I came home to this.

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#67 I Heard This Kid Yelling For His Dad At Lowe’s. I Went Looking For Him And

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#68 Dad Never Fails To Fart During Family Photos

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#69 I’m Staying At My Parents’ Place For The Night. My Mom Prepared The Couch For Me. I’m 27

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#70 Just Got My Christmas Gift From My Grandparents. I’m 31

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#71 My Uncle And Dad Found My Cousin’s Hair Extensions And Sent The Whole Family Glamour Shots

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#72 Last Year I Forgot To Get Batteries For My Niece’s Toy So This Year She Got Me This

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#73 Do You Think My Niece Will Like It?

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#74 This Is How We Announced Our Pregnancy To Our Friends And Family

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#75 My Dad Is A Huge Golden State Fan, But My Husband Is Not. This Is What My Father Woke Up To This Morning After A Raptors Win

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#76 My Sister’s April Fools’ Prank On Her Husband

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#77 Left This 3D Printed Glow In The Dark Masterpiece On My Wife’s Pillow. Also, On A Related Note, Sleeping On The Couch Tonight

Feel free to tell me your favorite practical joke so I have some entertainment in the doghouse.

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#78 I Asked My Husband To Buy Some Cheap Plastic Drinking Cups So That We Don’t Always Have To Drink From Glass Cups And Potentially Break Them While Handling Them

This is what he bought… (and no we don’t have kids).

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#79 My Daughter Had A Nightmare About Me Getting Sucked Into The Computer, After She Watched Tron. This Is What She Will Wake Up To

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#80 This Toddler Loves The Ads For A Local Personal Injury Lawyer So Much, His Mom Made It His Birthday Party Theme

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#81 My Grandma Made This Chewbacca Bath Mat Because She Knows I Like Star Wars

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#82 The Gift Each Family Member Got For Their Birthday In 2018

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#83 My Friends Had A Sonogram To Determine The Gender Of Their Child. Care To Guess What It Is?

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#84 I Surprised Her By Taking Her To Where We First Met

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#85 My Sister And I Call Each Other The World’s Biggest Dork, Bought The Domain As A Christmas Surprise

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#86 My Husband’s Going To Love His Valentines Day Surprise

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#87 Every Year I Try To Disguise My Sister’s Christmas Present. This Year I Think I Went A Little Too Far

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#88 For Christmas, My Dad Received The Exact Outfit That He Was Wearing

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#89 These “Treats” My Mom Made For Easter/April Fools

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#90 My Husband Hates When There Are Small Quantities Of Leftovers In The Fridge

My son pranked him for April Fools by filling 22 containers, each with one strand of spaghetti.

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#91 My Uncle’s 4-Year-Old Daughter Was Not Happy To Discover Her Dad’s Halloween Costume

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#92 Came Home From Work Today To This

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#93 My Friend Got His Niece A Blanket With His Picture For Her Birthday

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#94 After My Family Refused To Help Me Convince My Dad To Wear A Pickle Costume For Halloween, I Bought One And Sent It To Him Anyway

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#95 I Found Out That Our Volkswagen Fits In The Den. I Will See What The Wife Thinks When She Gets Home

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#96 My Uncle Is Out Of Town For A Month And Just Got A New TV. Perfect Opportunity For A Little Photoshop Prank. He Bought It

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#97 My 9-Year-Old Left A Surprise For My Wife. Scaring The Hell Out Of Her When She Checked The Rear View. Kids

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#98 I Surprised My Wife For Her Birthday

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#99 My Wife And I Decided To Welcome My Mom Visiting Us With A “Welcome Home From Rehab” Sign

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#100 My Baby Ordered 94 Dollars Worth Of Pizza Off An App Called Slice. The App Doesn’t Ask For Payment Info Verification When Placing An Order

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#101 My Husband And I Are First Time Homeowners And We Wanted To Show Our Families Pictures Of Our New Home

We decided to pose our skeleton (we named it Scully) in various rooms to show our family/friends. Scully is living their best life.

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#102 Couldn’t Afford To Get My Wife A Lexus For Christmas So I Got One Of Their Bows Instead And Put It On Her Car

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#103 My Friend Got Her Sister The Greatest Birthday Present I’ve Ever Seen

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#104 Roll Window Down, Place Broken Glass On Ground, And Stage The Area. She Freaked Out

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#105 My Wife’s Sister Is Coming To Visit. Getting The Guest Room Ready

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#106 My Commencement Ceremony Got Postponed So My Parents Held A Backyard Graduation For Me Instead

My dad was very excited to create his own regalia to celebrate the occasion.

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#107 My Sister And I Couldn’t Resist. My Dad And Uncle Hoped This Photo Was Forgotten

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#108 I’ve Been Hiding Pictures Of My Dad Around The House. This One Was My Favorite

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#109 My Wife Has Been Wait

ing For 2 Days For Me To Open The Fridge. Lol

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#110 My Dad Got Each Of Us A Calendar With Just Pictures Of Him. July Is My Favorite One

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#111 Our Family Has A 35+ Year Tradition Of Disguising Christmas Gifts. This Took Over 80 Hours To Build

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#112 Daughter Yelled At Me To Make Her A “Surprise Snack”

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#113 My Brother Is Coming Home From College Tonight, So I Left Him A Few Surprises Around The House

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#114 My 15-Year-Old Niece Got This For Christmas. While She Slept That Night, I Made An “Adjustment.” She Didn’t Think It Was As Funny As We All Did

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#115 My Daughter Had My Wife’s Phone On A Long Car Ride. She Ordered All The Barbie Dream Houses From Amazon

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#116 April Fools’ Pranked By My 11-Year-Old Child – Super Proud Parent Moment

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#117 Graduation Gift From Dad

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#118 My Wife Tossed A Comforter On A Chair To Dry, I Nearly Had A Heart Attack

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#119 That Time At My 36th Birthday, When My Husband Made Me Go On Stage With All The Other Birthday Boys And Girls. That Is The Face Of Mortification

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#120 Daughters Got Us These For Christmas. Decided To Put Them On The Bed For Us Since We Kept “Forgetting”

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#121 My 11-Year-Old Daughter’s April Fools Joke On Us. She Hid The Toilet Paper And Replaced It With Masking Tape

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#122 My Neighbor Surprised His Daughters This Morning With 8 Tons Of Snow

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#123 Today My Father’s Birthday Present Arrived. For His Cancelled Holiday. He Couldn’t Resist Blowing It Up

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#124 Happy Mother’s Day?

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#125 The Kids Have Been Asking, Dad Is Delivering. Christmas Is Going To Be Great

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#126 I Think I’m Easily The Worst Sister Alive

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#127 Received A Surprise Package Today: My Brother Mailed His Fart

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#128 My Dad Had A Heart Attack 2 Weeks Ago. My Sister Made Him This For Christmas

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