My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband

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I'll be honest, that 'creamed corn as bait' idea looks smarter to me everyday

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

you wouldn't believe how many fish they caught that day! so yeah, you're right

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

because you know, they just baited the lines with the CANS and threw 'em out. sunfish for dinner AND breakfast for us!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

To add to the thread:
MY stupid ex-husband (though I hate to call him that, just for the purposes of fitting into the thread, I really don't think he's stupid)

Showed up at a gig in the mid-90s where a major label A&R guy was to see us. Everyone else set up. The leaad guitarist said " Hey man, where's your guitar"
My husband (rhythm guitar), with a straight face looked back and said "Oh, shit, I forgot it":

I rest my case.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 7 August 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

21. One day my family was sitting around the living room and Chris said something semi-dumb, I don't remember what. (Not flat-out stupid a la the bulk of this thread, just something dumb.) In response, I said, "Chris, you've got a mind like a steel trap." "What a stupid phrase," he replied. "Steel traps don't have minds."

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This is surely the best thread ever.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It is. That's why I'm *bumping* it. Newbies, read this thread if you read anything on ILE at all.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Best part of this thread: "Matos is the new Margaret Cho."

― animal wrangler (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

i can't believe i never saw this thread!! thank you, matos.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 20 September 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i have similarly awful stories about my grandpa. every summer when i was a kid he used to drive us somewhere. one summer he insisted we eat at denny's the whole way there and the whole way back. it's been a somewhat bitter running gag in my family ever since.

when i mentioned it to him recently he vehemently denied that he'd EVER been to denny's.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 20 September 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

as a teenager my mom once got mad at her dad and told him 'shove it!' and ran into her room. he came into her room like 10 minutes later and said 'you meant up my ass didn't you?'

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 20 September 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Never got the chance to say how much I love this thread. Thank you for sharing these stories, M Matos.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 20 September 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos is my hero of the week for just having to put up with half that bull. Hell, make that 'of the month'.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Month? Of a lifetime!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

How did I miss this thread!?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

How great is this thread?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Find a Fudds" made me larf a lot too, coz that word means summit altogether different than a hamburger chain round our way....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My mothers incredibly stupid now husband pull some classic shit. I thinked he topped it all yesterday. I got a call from my mother this morning. Apparently Wa*ne had one too many Natty Lights on Saturday and decided to do some work in the basement of the apartment (they live in an old victorian house). Well I guess the pipes in the house basement are insulated with asbestos insulation. And the landlord was going to pay some guy $600 to have it removed. Well shithead decided after a few beers to save the landlord some trouble and remove it himself. Without any protection or without a license to do so. So my mother hears him down there banging pipes around a ripping asbestos out with his bare hands. No mask. The people on the second floor went down and saw him and called the landlord. The police as well as the EPA showed up at the house. Wanting to fine him $10000 and arrest him for illegally doing this. Now, the basement (where the laundry is and storage) is labeled as a hazardous site and is sealed off. My mother says it looks like something from ET. And everyone in the building is not allowed down there for weeks.

Needless to say, the next day Wa*ne had to go to the emergency room because he passed out. He had minor poisoning. Smart guy, eh.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

*sits down cross legged* Matos, tell us another. It's been too long.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't think of anymore!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just being greedy.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

22. One day, Chris was sitting around bragging about absolutely nothing--in this case, his family, telling my mom, "My aunt was married to someone pretty high up in the Pillsbury company."

"You mean the president?" Mom asked.

"No, not that. He wasn't on the business side of it. He was more like the company spokesman--he was pretty famous, actually."

"You mean," Mom said in disbelief, "that your uncle was the Pillsbury Doughboy?!"

"FUCK YOU," Chris replied.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris is revealed finally to be the Stay Puft Marshamellow Man??

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

15a. I was reminded when back home for the holidays this year that whenever someone would use the word "God" around Chris, particularly in the event of swearing, he'd answer, "Yes?" [see 15 above for details]

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

[I had SUCH a good vacation, the one regret is not getting more stories]

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Your second regret is not seeing me in Seattle DAMMIT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

haha "regret"

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Your second egret is not seeing me in Seattle DAMMIT.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

but I'm back! let the egrets begin!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nps.gov/calo/graphics/egret.jpg

*sniff*

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

So, Matos, enjoying the slightly-milder-than-Minneapolis weather we're having today?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

milder?! it's WAY colder than Mpls was the entire 10 days I was there!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor souls.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

so THIS is where the "can't turn my face into a heart" thing started!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, you hang out in balmy mpls, and leave us here in 31F frigid winterness. bah.

When are we Top Pot Donuting???

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, I don't MIND this weather. Crunchy white grass is just really odd, that's all.

Ned, I'm sure we all envy you and your heavy rains and mudslides right about now.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

4" snow forcast for seattle tomorrow- what are the odds on my flight tomorrow AM actually taking off on time?

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, I'm sure we all envy you and your heavy rains and mudslides right about now.

Hurrah! Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot how great these stories are.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, this Chris guy is a dumbass, but I kinda wanna get fucked up with him and taperecord the entire time, and then use excerpts of intros/hidden subliminal messages on Josta Baby's triumphant return 50-song quadruple-disc EP to the world of ROCK.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

So you're mum's still with him then? She must be quite patient.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The great mass of mums lead lives of quiet desperation.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

heh. *insert BurmaKitty joke here*

― mmmm (Kingfish), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds to me that any fool 30-40 year old man can have his pick of intelligent single women in their 30's. That's good news for people like me.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

she divorced him after four years

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

also, she was in her early-mid 20s during all this. so was he.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody hell Matos. You just paused for four months before continuing that thought.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

[[shrugs]] I was re-reading this and noticed I'd left that one open. now it's closed.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a slight reference to this in Sign 'O' The Times though subtle. :)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

("this" being "Chris" and the concept/reality thereof, not the continued thought)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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