Mama had a bad habit...of throwing things that frustrated her out the back door lol.  All kinds of things landed in the backyard at our house, from broken dustpans to toys.

Once, my mother had been nagging my dad to fix the oven door.  For some reason, the hinge was messed up and the oven door wouldn't close properly; it would 'catch' right at the last moment and leave about a one-inch crack open.  You could usually wiggle it around a bit and get it to close.  On this particular day, Mama was cooking a roast in the oven and when she opened the door to check on the meat, she couldn't get it to close.  No amount of 'wiggling' would work, and as I watched her from the kitchen table, the oven door came completely off in her hands.  So here she was, standing in the middle of the kitchen, holding a 350 degree oven door in her hands.  Mama never even blinked...she turned and walked out of the room (holding the oven door, mind you)...in a minute, I heard the back door open and BOOM, there went the oven door, right out into the backyard!

When she calmly re-entered the kitchen, I was laughing so hard that tears were running down my face.  She stopped and stared at me in that 'you better cut it out' mother look, you know the one I mean lol.  The more I tried to stop laughing, the funnier it got; a grown woman had just calmly thrown an oven door out into the backyard!  When the 'mama look' didn't work, she turned to me and icily stated, "I fail to see the humor in this, missy."  I ROLLED, I laughed so hard my stomach hurt and all I could do was helplessly wipe tears from my hysterical face. 

Mama got tickled at me laughing so hard, and then she started laughing, and then we both just lost it.  It is one of my fondest memories of my mom. :)

Who knew kitchen appliances could be so funny??