15 Moms Who Accidentally Became the Stars of Family Legends

Moms are not only an endless source of care, wise advice and delicious food. They’re also the queens of unforgettable one-liners and stars of stories worthy of a stand-up show. In this article, you’ll find touching and hilarious stories about moms. The ones we’ve been telling our friends for years and still laugh like it’s the first time.

• One day my mother came to visit me at the summer camp — she wanted to check on me, so she climbed over the fence. She was slim, wearing short shorts and a tank top, and looked very young. The counselor noticed her and asked her what her name was and what cabin she was in.
  Mom replied without blinking an eye, “Nadine, second cabin.” At the evening line-up, the counselor was looking for the mysterious “Nadine from the second cabin” who had broken the rules. © Chamber 6 / VK
• My mom is a genius. I recently broke up with my boyfriend, and was crying all the time. My mom comes to me with a laptop and shows me a website about dieting.
  I say, “What for?” And she replies, “Baby, you as soon as you go on a diet — all your thoughts will be only about food, not about these scoundrels.” © Chamber 6 / VK
• My mom decided to make a quest on my birthday. I went round the flat, tidied up a bit — that was the quest, looked for clues to find my present. The last clue led me to a mountain of unwashed dishes. I started washing — had to.
  The last one was supposed to be a pot. It was clean, and under it was the phone of my dreams! I got a present and cleaned the flat. © Caramel / VK

• I gave my mom a pocket fan. She went to a local party with it, all the women there got so delighted that immediately ordered one for themselves. Mom, “I am, what’s it called, an influencer.” © evgienika / X
• Mom read somewhere that if you take a piece of a rose stem, stick it into a potato and bury it, a new rose bush will grow in a month or two. I, of course, laughed at her — my mother often experimented in the garden.
  So, she planted a few branches, watered them. A couple of weeks later, she comes pleased, “You did not believe me, and now go and look, new leaves have appeared.” I went and looked, there were leaves indeed, only these were potato sprouts. © Not everyone will understand / VK

• I’m being discharged from the maternity hospital. There’s me with the baby in my arms, my husband with flowers, happy relatives, and everything. The photographer gathers everyone together, asks us to smile, and at that moment, my mom asks me in a loud whisper, “Did you remember to take the jars in which I sent you the soup?”
• My grandmother’s neighbor, who seemed to be about a hundred years old, lived alone, like almost all the grandmothers in the building. Her son visited her with his family on weekends.
  One day, vigilant grandmothers noticed that a young man of about 60 visits the neighbor on weekdays. They collected and systematized the information: wiretap and surveillance data — the surveillance was conducted from the windows, the wiretap — through the wall.
  It turned out that they met by chance, in a shop, and found kindred spirits in each other. Now the “young man” regularly came for tea and for high-minded pastime in conversations about the sublime.
  At the urgently convened meeting of the committee to develop strategies and tactics, on a bench at the entrance, the grandmothers decided that this is not the way things should go, and they needed to urgently call the neighbor’s son to make a decision on how to overcome the crisis, “Who knows, she could end up leaving him the apartment, then you’ll be stuck dealing with a lawsuit.”
  The son came and did some explanatory work with the mother, about which a report was immediately requested from him. The mother, according to the son, categorically didn’t understand and didn’t accept the son’s interference in her private life and said, “I will marry him if I want to, and you are not my boss!”
  When her son asked, “Mom, how can you get married at 90 years old?” she replied with a killer answer, “I’m 89.” © Ksaverija / ADME

• My mother, a nurse by profession, often took my 5-year-old self to work with her, and in order to comply with the hospital’s internal regulations, she made me a white coat and a nice hat. I remember that I found shoe covers and gloves, put them on, tied a gauze bandage over my face and went straight to the operating theater.
  At the surgeon’s strict question, “What is the child doing here? Who is it?” I calmly replied, “I’m my mom’s microsurgeon!” That’s what my mom used to call me all the time. © Not everyone will understand / VK
• My cactus “gave birth” to “babies.” I planted the first one — the biggest one — in a pot and gave it to my mom. Then I transplanted another one, decorated it with shells and sea stones and put it in my sister’s room as a surprise for her return from a long trip abroad.
  My sister comes back, I go with her to her room and notice that the cactus is gone. Mom said she had accidentally dropped it. I was surprised that she didn’t tell me, a little upset.
  Later, it turned out that it was bad luck to give a cactus to a single girl. So, Mom secretly got rid of the cactus meant for the sister. And of her own. Mom is 47 years old. © Overheard / Ideer
• Mom has come to visit. We’re talking about all sorts of things. And suddenly she says:
  — I saw a hilarious video on the website you showed me. I really want you to watch it, I laughed so hard!
  — Did you save it? Can I see it?
  — No. But it’s searchable, right?
  — Yes.
  — Take your phone, come on, we’ll find it.
  I’m opening the website, go to the search, waiting.
  Mom:
  — Write: “cat.” © CaptainOcevidnst / Pikabu

• We were outdoors with my boyfriend and his parents. His dad was sitting with a fishing rod on the shore, and his mom approached him every 5 minutes, asking if he was going to call it a day.
  In my family it’s exactly the opposite, so the boyfriend likes to go on nature trips with mine more. Sometimes Dad just wants to watch TV, and Mom stands over him and says, “Well, let’s go to the river! It’s still 2 hours before dark, we’ll have time to fish.” © Caramel / VK
• I called my mother today. She is 84 years old.
  — Mom, how are you, how’s your health?
  — Oh, I’m so sick, so sick.... And my arm, and my leg, and my blood pressure. It’s hard to walk, I’ve got asthma.
  — Well, then stay at home. Alex (my son) and I will go shopping now, then we’ll go to the countryside, and on the way back we’ll visit you. What should we buy you?
  — Son, you know, I feel better already. I’ll come with you. © MAPK.TBEH / Pikabu
• One day, a long time ago, my mom saw a culinary show where they made either sushi or rolls. Without thinking twice, she decided to treat me and my dad with this delicacy. And to impress the guests, of course.
  Dad just brought a salmon from a business trip, which my mother cut and partially salted. I don’t know where she got nori from at the time. She made rice, rolled sushi and proudly placed it in the center of the table.
  It was the first sushi I ever had. They were thick as my arm. By some miracle, the nori held it all together. Everyone was impressed, mom was happy.
  And a few years later, sushi cafés started opening everywhere. And my mom said, “Why are they so tiny? Mine were hearty.” © pugchoo / Pikabu

• One morning I hear my mom muttering something angrily, like talking to herself. Mom’s 68 years old.
  I go to ask her what’s wrong, what she’s indignant about.
  Mom: “Can you imagine? My filling fell out! They can’t do anything right.”
  And I don’t remember my mom going to a dentist at all, a couple of years, for sure.
  Me:
  — Where did you get it and when?
  Mum:
  — Back in high school! © Lenchbina / Pikabu
• On the beach, a very young kid came up to me with compliments. I said, “Thank you, but I have a husband and 2 children.”
  In the evening, laughing, I tell this story to my mom, saying that he took me for a schoolgirl. And she was like, “Oh, it’s not about what you look like, it’s about what schoolgirls look like nowadays.”

And so that the warm smile after reading these stories doesn’t disappear too quickly, we suggest taking a look at old photos of our moms and grandmothers in this article.