to expect my mother to be able to sit in her back garden without being hit by a flying gala melon!!

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My 76 yo mother was gardening at the end of her garden when a melon came flying over her back hedge and smashed against her caravan

Why would you even do that???? Back neighbours have grown up children. My mother can be a bit feisty ( think Catherine tates nana but scarier)

Can only think they were wanting to thow it into the alley but thew it too hard.

My mum said she launched a barrel of expletives but heard nothing - no laughing no "oops sorry"

Why would anyone do that??

It's not funny really, it could have hurt her.

Can't help but laugh though, especially at the thought of a 76 year old launching it back with a barrel of expletives for good measure.

Is she ok?

I congratulate you (or your DM) on your ability to identify the exact variety of a melon in a crisis.

I'm sure there must be an award for that? OBE maybe?

Yippie-Kai-ay, Melonfarmers

YANBU

We back onto an alleyway, and over the years have had numerous flying objects appear in the garden.

bike wheels
innertubes
lawnmower engines
numerous (slightly obvious)
and by far the most entertaining,

a raw chicken (in packet) complete with garlic butter. Opened the curtains one morning, and there it was, just looking back at me.

It all stopped when I was in the garden one day and something flew over, I made many outrageously over-acted noises as if it had struck me

Naturally we now have a new generation of tikes in that alleyway, and we're currently dealing with having rocks thrown instead. It makes me look back at the days of raw chicken precipitation with warm feelings of nostalgia

Ow!

WILL EVERYONE STOP THROWING THINGS!

Jeez.

Raptor

What was the chicken in garlic looking at you with?

Attitude, HoneyDragon ATTITUDE!

Like it owned the place

I did laugh at the title, !

But, no it's not funny is it, really? It could have knocked someone over if it had it them hard enough, or caused them a head injury!

It must have been a bit of a shock when it came flying over the fence!

dammit, I only got hit by a flying orange today. I feel short changed

It may not have hit you suzie, but your pendatrypants are now covered in melon jizz.

Would it be pedantic to point out that you spelled pedantrypants wrong?

YANBU

But it is a funny thread title

Sorry LEM I did laugh at the title, but you are right it could have hurt your mum if it had hit her. Rather an expensive fruit to be throwing around and good on your mum for retaliating with expletives!

"You dirty fucking bastards"is what my 4'6" 76 yo mother shouted apparently

This reminds me of a lazy Sunday afternoon when I was about 13yo. I was lazing in my dp garden reading a book on the lawn. Hot, but shady as Dp's garden is surrounded on 3 sides with huge (20'+) laylandii.

My df was pottering around the garden trimming stuff, and then sweeping it up afterwards. When he'd finished sweeping, he started one of his favourite things to do.
Pretend golf, using the brush as a club. Hitting the ball, then turning upwards to shade his eyes as the pretend ball flew straight down the middle to land in the perfect place.

On the second or third shot, the brush-head detatched itself, and launched itself clean over the line of trees into the behind us neighbour's garden. The expression on df face as he looked down at the end of the stick he was holding was priceless.

Dm wanted him to go and apologise and ask for it back, but he didn't dare! We didn't know them at all. So they will probably have puzzled over a brush-head in their back garden, and how it got there.

We didn't hear anything from the garden after it landed, but the only sound they would have heard was me: laughing.

It had to be one of the funniest moments I ever had.

OP I know it's not funny that your mum had a melon thrown at her and I hope she is ok after the shock but I have to say this thread has had me in absolute stitches! Some of the replies are hilarious and good on your mum for her reaction!

My dad had a skull fracture from someone randomly throwing a tin mug at his noggin whilst he was fishing

Holy fuck Sharon

I know it's awful but we still can't help but chuckle a little tiny but at the obscurity of it all...

Sorry but it is a bit funny!

Does she like cherries? Whenever we have cherries we have a cherry stone spitting contest. It has become a sort of family tradition now. (This is outdoors I hasten to add) Maybe your Mum could get her own back by spitting a load of stones over their fence.

My previous neighbours threw a frozen fish finger into my garden one evening. Just one. I still don't know why, 6 years on.

Hope your mum is ok, melons can make a terrible mess if they splatter. And I would not be impressed if someone did that to my mum.