Crazy things you parents used to do? My mom bought a wig one time. She wore it home from work. It
was the exact same hairstyle as my mom usually wore. My brother immediately took it off her head when she walked in the door. LOL! She had short, naturally curly hair. Her hair looked perfect right after the rolled out of bed. But hey it was the 70s and everyone had to have a wig. I don't know that she ever wore it again. It sat on a white foam head in her closet. I once covered that foam face with her make up, eyebrow liner and eye shadow. It was just begging to be dolled up.
My dad, who was worried about west nile virus and mosquitoes, once poured a bottle of cooking oil into a swamp at the cottage when the grandkids were coming up to the lake. He didn't want them to get sick.
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My dad loved practical jokes.
When a store that sold gag items opened in Paterson, NJ back in the early 60s, he started dropping in during his lunch break.
Rubber spiders, fake ice cubes, you name it.
But his last, best gag involved a realistic-looking rubber sunny-side-up egg. He sneaked it home one Friday evening.
When Mom got up and entered the kitchen, he was standing there, looking sheepish, with a frying pan in his hand.
He pointed to the ceiling, she looked up, and flipped out wanting to know how they were going to get that mess off the ceiling.
My mother talked to her plants. She talked to her French rose, Madame Bouchard, in French.
All I can say is, the fried egg didn't fall far from the rosebush. 
