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Every family has that one hilarious story that gets retold at family dinners and gatherings without fail, leaving everyone from grandma and grandpa to all the nieces and nephews in splits. With that in mind, we invited readers to share funny family stories about their kith and kin with the chance to win a $500 grand prize. After sifting through the many funny short stories that made us laugh out loud, we narrowed down our list of the funniest family stories ever.

Grab some popcorn (or a stack of baby photos) and dive into these funny family stories that'll take you right back to the days when your toddlers still said the darndest things with the cutest faces.

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For the second week in a row, my son and I were the only ones who showed up for his soccer team's practice. Frustrated, I told him, "Please tell your coach that we keep coming for practice, but no one is ever here."

My son rolled his eyes and said, "He'll just tell me the same thing he did before."

"Which was?"

"That practice is now on Wednesdays, not Tuesdays."

—Annette Olsen, Layton, Utah

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More funny family stories

Still chuckling from the last one? Good, because we're just getting started! Keep reading for funny and short stories that prove that when it comes to unintentional comedy, no one does it like family.

Bloody awful

When my 5-year-old daughter came down with a virus, I took her to the doctor's office. Holding her hands, I explained the sad facts: "The doctor is now going to draw some blood."

Calmly and stoically, she responded, "Whose?"

—Faye Hintz, Glendora, California

Hung jury

After painting the bedroom walls, my husband prepared to put back the pictures. "How should I hang them?" he asked me. "Too high or too low?"

—Nancy Setter, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Pooped out

Upon being reminded to use the toilet after waking up, my 4-year-old was thoroughly dismayed: "You mean I'm going to have to go potty every day for the rest of my life?!"

—Penelope Inan, Palmdale, California

Harvard, here I come!

"How was your first day of school?" I asked my kindergartner.

"Fine," she said. "They want me to come back tomorrow."

—Shirley Sprague, Concord, California

The gutter truth

Although my daughter wasn't much of a bowler, when her friend's bowling team was down a player, my daughter agreed to fill in. "So how'd you do?" I asked a few days later.

She rattled off her scores: "160, 167 and 155."

"Wow! That's great."

"No! One game 60, one 67, one 55."

—Ruth Saarela, Garden City, Michigan

Erin Patrice O'Brien for Reader's Digest Little Einstein

We're not sure how it happened, but my 3-year-old nephew James got his tricycle stuck under another bicycle's tire and gear mechanism. My 4-year-old kid, Rowan, watched him patiently and painstakingly extricate the trike, then turned around to us and declared, "Him's a genius!"

—B.O., Montclair, New Jersey

Let's rat out Grandma

During Thanksgiving dinner, my young niece Mackenzie started fiddling with my father's wedding band. Dad said, "That never comes off. You know why? Because I love your nana."

That's when Mackenzie informed him, "Nana takes hers off."

—Elizabeth Veldboom, New Braunfels, Texas

And on the seventh day, he got paid

In church, my 3-year-old insists on being the one to put the money into the collection basket. One Sunday, as the basket came toward him, he held out the envelope and asked aloud, "When is God coming to pick up his paycheck?"

—Chris Allen, St. Louis

Hear no evil

It was a typical noisy dinner at my parents' home, and Dad was having trouble following the conversations. He kept jumping in with off-topic comments and asking for things to be repeated. I finally told him he needed to get a hearing aid.

Looking at me as if I were crazy, he said, "What would I do with a hand grenade?"

—Pat Tornatore, St. Louis

Mystery man

My ex-husband hosted a graduation party for our son that included his new family and mine. My confused nephew wondered who was my son's father. When I pointed him out, he asked, "Do you know him?"

—Laurie Strand, Vernon Hills, Illinois

Blow out the pipes

I take after my father in the sense that we both have proud, prodigious noses. Anyway, one morning, following a night of tossing and turning, I sat on the side of the bed. "What's wrong?" my husband asked.

"I can't sleep," I said. "My nose is so stuffed up."

My loving man got out of bed and said, "Let me go get the plunger."

—Lisa Boudreau, Yorkville, Illinois

Erin Patrice O'Briend for Reader's Digest Listen to reason

"Can you play with me?" my preschooler asked.

"Not now," I said. "I have too much work to do around the house."

Taking my hand, and with the wisdom of one who has lived many a lifetime, he said, "Mom, I have advice for you. When people tell me to do work, I don't listen to them. Then I don't have work to do. It works for me. You should try it."

—A. Caldwell, Farmington, New Mexico

Yeah, he's always there

We ran into our minister at the mall, but my son couldn't place him. It was only later that it hit him. "I know that man," he said. "He goes to our church."

—Charles Stockhausen, St. Louis

Book him

A book I'd ordered arrived in the mail. I unwrapped it and flipped through its pages. My 21-year-old son, Sean, was at the other end of the table, gesturing as if he wanted to see the book. I started to hand it to him, when he stopped me.

"No, I'll take the trash," Sean said. "What would I do with a book?"

—Mary Kelley, Gillette, Wyoming

Over and out

When her 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son ran outside to play with their new toy, my sister sat back to enjoy a cup of coffee and a rare moment of quiet. The peace was shattered when my nephew ran back into the house, crying.

"What's wrong?" my sister asked.

"She won't stop calling me Roger!" he sobbed, and threw down his new walkie-talkie.

—Melissa Johnson, Johnson City, Tennessee

That's my girl!

Herein lies the difference in my kids' personalities: My teenage son bought me a beautiful necklace; my daughter called dibs on it when I die.

—Jenni Phomsithi, Belleville, Arkansas

Driven to distraction

My mother and father were driving when she was pulled over by the police. Mom was in a hurry and told the officer so.

"I understand, ma'am," he said. "But I have to ticket anyone over 55."

Mom was beside herself. "That's discrimination!" she shouted.

The officer calmly explained, "I meant the speed limit."

—Tamara Encke, Holladay, Utah

Erin Patrice O'Brien for Reader's Digest With a side of argument

We were in a restaurant, perusing the menu, when I let my husband know that he rarely paid attention to me when I spoke. Well, of course, he disagreed, so we went back to reading our menus in chilly silence. After a few uncomfortable minutes, I said, "I think I'm getting a headache."

He responded, "Go ahead, sweetheart; get whatever you want."

—Angel Salamanca, via e-mail 

The anatomy lesson

Great hoopla followed my newborn son's umbilical cord's falling off. So it was only natural that during one of his diaper changes, his 8-year-old sister would point and ask excitedly, "Will that fall off too?"

—Susan Wise, Campbellsville, Kentucky

Careful what you wish for

My son and his wife were determined to have a boy, and two years after their fourth daughter, Bridgette, was born, Trey arrived. When he was 6, Trey complained to Bridgette that he had no one to play with and wished she were a boy.

"You'd better be glad I'm not a boy," she told him. "Because if I was a boy, my name would be Trey, and you wouldn't be here."

—Bettie Cashion, Picayune, Mississippi

Stable relationship

We had just pulled up to the pig farm when my aunt bolted out the front door of her home to greet us. After the hugs and kisses, Dad asked about my uncle.

"He's in the barn with the pigs," she said. "Don't worry; you won't have any trouble finding him. He's the only one with a hat on."

—Monique LaPerle, Burlington, Vermont

Better than milk

I walked into our family room just in time to see our kitten standing on a side table, sniffing my husband's wineglass. "Get down!" I yelled.

As she jumped away, I turned to my husband and son: "I've never seen her do that."

My son shrugged. "Really? We watch her drink out of your glass all the time."

—Rebecca Pervere, Fairfield, Connecticut

Good question

Having absorbed the birds-and-the-bees discussion, my sister's young son asked, "Is that how we were born?"

"Yes, it is," she said.

He took it all in for a second, then, pointing to his father across the room, asked, "Where'd we get him?"

—Kathleen O'Hara, via e-mail 

Oh, deer

One year, the family went to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. The Rockettes represented reindeer by wearing headband antlers. At the end of the show, I asked my husband, a biologist, what he thought.

"The antlers were wrong," he said.

"What?" I asked incredulously.

"Reindeer have palmate antlers. Those were white-tailed bucks' antlers."

I knew he wasn't kidding. I just couldn't believe he hadn't noticed anything below the antlers.

—Sandy Feinstein, Silver Spring, Maryland

Awkward …

"So I understand how a baby can look like its mother," my 9-year-old son told the school nurse. "But how can it look like its father?"

Unsure how much he knew about where babies come from, she deflected. "That's a good question," she said. "So who do you look like?"

"My uncle."

—Penny Gregory, Richmond Hill, Georgia

Hair apparent

Pointing to a 30-year-old picture of me, my 5-year-old granddaughter said, "Grandpa, next time you get a haircut, have them cut it like that picture."

Problem is, I wasn't half bald then.

—Allen Jochim, Spearfish, South Dakota

Seeing is believing

After my mother suffered a bout of serious headaches, we persuaded her to visit her doctor. While we were in his office, the doctor asked, "Have you been seeing any flashes of lights or auras?"

"I don't know," Mom said. "I didn't have my glasses on."

—Judy Kelley, Conway, Arkansas

Oh, fudge

We were driving to dinner when my 5-year-old shouted, "Guess what! I know the f-word!"

Saying to myself, "Now it starts," I asked him what it was.

He proudly announced, "Phonics!"

—Stacy Stevenson, Tucson, Arizona

Save the snoozing for class

My brother was trying to awaken his son for school one day, but the boy wouldn't budge. "Gimme a minute," he said. "I'm watching previews for tomorrow's dream."

—Kimberlee Woodward, Waterford, Michigan

What a pistil

Our daughter-in-law was telling her 3-year-old about the brain surgery he had had when he was an infant. "Why did I have to have the operation?" he asked.

"Because you had something growing in your head," she answered.

His next question: "Was it a flower?"

—Marilyn Lindberg, Providence, Utah

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Dr. Hubby

Mom had a small decorative windmill in her yard. A storm broke one of the blades, causing the windmill to shake violently. Dad announced that he would "take care of it" and rebalanced the windmill by snapping off the opposing blade. Watching him, Mom remarked, "I hope I never break a leg."

—Gerald Loffredo, Chandler, Arizona

Gee, thanks …

Just as I got out of the shower, my 3-year-old son walked into the bathroom. As I frantically grabbed for my robe, he quickly assured me, "It's OK, Mom; I won't laugh."

—Ella Robbins, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Checked out

Mail from the bank was piling up for my daughter, who was away at college. So I called her. "Open one up and see what it is," she said.

I unsealed an envelope. "It says your account has insufficient funds."

"That's got to be a mistake," she said. "I still have plenty of checks left."

—Patty Happy, Granville, New York

No. 1 on the naughty list

Seven-year-old Lily is very polite. So as her grandparents, we let her know just how proud of her we were. She smiled gratefully and said, "That's OK; I'm just trying to get through Christmas."

—Nathan Dunaway, Madison, Mississippi

Flip a coin

"Are you going to have a boy or girl?" my 4-year-old nephew asked while staring at my pregnant stomach.

"I don't know," I told him.

"When will you decide?"

—Cindy Forish, Red Oak, Texas

Why, yes. Yes, you do

Once, when my mother asked me if she had any annoying habits, I observed that she typically follows up statements with a question asking for validation. She thought a moment and then admitted, "I do do that. Don't I?"

—Bill Spencer, Cullowhee, North Carolina

Deep thoughts

It was autumn, and the leaves were at their colorful best. My 4-year-old son looked out the window and said, "Look, Mom; the trees have their pajamas on."

—Betty Childress, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Wherefore art thou?

My granddaughter loves my Chihuahua puppy so much, she asked, "When you die, can I have Romeo?"

"Of course," I said.

She was thrilled. "Oh, I can't wait!"

—Barbara Correy, Woodbury, Tennessee

It's Kind Of A Funny Story Streaming: Watch & Stream Online ... - Yahoo

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It's Kind of a Funny Story is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about a teenager named Craig who, feeling overwhelmed by pressure, ditches school and checks himself into a psych ward. But there's a twist – he winds up with the adults instead of the teens! This funny and touching story follows Craig as he makes new friends, confronts his struggles, and discovers a surprising path to growing up.

Here's how you can watch and stream It's Kind of a Funny Story via streaming services such as Netflix.

Is It's Kind of a Funny Story available to watch via streaming?

Yes, It's Kind of a Funny Story is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.

High school overachiever Craig feels like he's cracking under the pressure. He checks himself into a mental health clinic. But fate has other plans the teen ward is full, so he gets bunked with the adults! This side-splitting journey throws Craig into a world of quirky characters, including a burnout waxing poetic about life and a potential fellow teen love interest named Noelle who might just be his match.

The film centers around Keir Gilchrist as Craig. Zach Galifianakis plays Bobby, a fellow patient, and Emma Roberts portrays Noelle. Veteran actors like Viola Davis and Lauren Graham round out the cast.

Watch It's Kind of a Funny Story streaming via Netflix

It's Kind of a Funny Story is available to watch on Netflix.

Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that offers a huge collection of movies, TV shows, and original content. For comedy fans, there's a dedicated section featuring stand-up specials and hilarious sitcoms.

You can watch via Netflix by following these steps:

Choose a payment plan from the following:

$6.99 per month (standard with Ads)

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The cheapest Netflix Standard with Ads Plan provides all but a few of its movies and TV shows. However, it will show ads before or during most of its content. You can watch in Full HD and on two supported devices at a time.

Its Standard Plan provides the same but is completely ad-free while also allowing users to download content on two supported devices with an additional option to add one extra member who doesn't live in the same household.

The Premium Plan provides the same as above, though for four supported devices at a time, with content displaying in Ultra HD. Users get to download content on up to six supported devices at a time and have the option to add up to two extra members who don't live in the same household. Netflix spatial audio is also supported.

It's Kind of a Funny Story synopsis is as follows:

"A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward."

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.

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