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My grandma
was clever. As children my Dad's family was extremely poor. They lived in the mountains nowhere near anybody else, had no such things as indoor plumbing, electricity, etc.
So along with teaching her children how to read/write/do math, she'd entertain them with wild stories and trick them.
Dad told me she once told the kids that if they would take every single chair outside, get them all stacked on top of one another, and they didn't fall over for five minutes she'd come outside, take her shoes off, and jump over them.
So Dad, his brothers and his sisters all took the chairs outside and spent two hours getting them all to stand up one on top of another. She was specific, and told them every chair in the house, so it had to be every chair. They finally succeeded, and told her to come outside and prove she could do it.
So she comes outside, pulls her shoes off, jumps over her shoes, and curtsies. Dad tries to argue with her, but she points out exactly what she said, and then tells him to take all the chairs back in the house.
I am highly amused at the idea of my grandmother doing this.
Re: My grandma