My grandmother

[Amasov]

I don't normally share stories like this, but this gave me the biggest laugh, it was hard not to.

Yesterday I stopped off at my parents' house to return my mom's car that I borrowed to head to a job interview. When I got home, I was helping my mother clean out one of the cabinets in the kitchen -- this cabinet was LOADED with old cookbooks and recipe books. So I come across one particular old one that was in pretty bad shape. She told me that it belonged to my grandmother (who passed away almost eight years ago).

On a side not, before I was born, my grandmother married and divorced her second husband, a man by the name of Frank, who I never met before. I believe they separated about a year before I was born.

So I'm sort of thumbing through this old cookbook and right there on the first page in my grandmother's handwriting is a phone number with the words written above it -- "Frank the shit head."

Needless to say, it gave me one of the biggest laughs I've ever had, because even though she's been gone since 2004, that alone sums up her personality to a tea. Still making me laugh after being gone so long.

Has to be THE best reminder of her, hands down.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Good story!

 

[Lumi]

That is adorable.

 

[Kelso]

Nice!

 

[Klingon Empire]

That is so cool.

 

[trampledamage]

Wonderful!

 

[Australis]

That's one of the very best things about parents and grand parents. Sometimes they can still surprise us.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Sounds like she was as cool as Betty White before anybody knew what that meant.

 

[Amasov]

Sounds like she was as cool as Betty White before anybody knew what that meant.

Oddly enough her name was Betty.

Any of you have some late relatives that still make you laugh long after their passing?

 

[Finn]

Although she is still alive, I have a nice story about my maternal grandmother. These days, she's very old and slow. But apparently she was once a very lively young woman.

Many years ago, she used to go to the pool like many her age at the time during hot summer days in Cincinnati in the 1940s. There was this fellow who would go on to become a local TV personality. Everyday, he would stand by the pool, and comb his greasy hair like you see young males do in the movies from these days.

Grandma would spend a lot of time laying in those lounge chairs. One day, she had enough. She got up and pushed him into the pool.


Just remembered a story. My paternal grandmother has been gone for over five years now. But there's a funny story. When Dad and Uncle were small, she used to make sure her boys would eat healthy food. She often got them settled then went into other room and stuffed her face with Coke and junk food.

 

[Amasov]

At her wake, I found out that my grandmother used to send my sisters up to the store when they eight years old with a note to get her a pack of cigarettes.

Never have I been to a wake where there were so many laughs!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Sounds like she was as cool as Betty White before anybody knew what that meant.

Oddly enough her name was Betty.

Any of you have some late relatives that still make you laugh long after their passing?

My Jewish step-dad has been gone for a little over 8 years.

Several months before he went, he & my Mom were in the process of buying a trailer in an "over 50" trailer park. Easier to take care of and no upstairs.

The daughter of the park owners is....let's say she's a big girl. But Harvey described her to me like this: "she's a biiiiiiiiiiig girl!" in his fairly deep voice. Still makes me laugh my ass off every time I see her.

I also get a good giggle when I remember him sitting in his office at his & my Mom's old house and shooting at squirrels with his BB rifle from his chair.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Once when I was home from college, my grandmother was visiting and decided to spend the night. I lent her something to sleep in -- a long, bright orange sweatshirt with the word love down the front. (Hey, it was around 1970.) She thought it was hilarious. I managed to get a photo of her wearing it, trying to hide her face and run from the camera. Still makes me .

 

[RJDiogenes]

About a year after my grandmother died, we started to go through her stuff (and the lady never threw anything away-- I guess that's where I get it from). Now, my grandmother was kind of what you'd expect of a grandmother; she was old-fashioned and proper and would always tch tch at anything even vaguely sexual. Well, we eventually came upon a little book that was sort of a diary and also had some notes from her friends saved among the pages. Well, it turns out Nana was a bit of a Flapper back in the day.

You never know....

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

OP, funny story. I didn't read this thread at first because I assumed it would be "My grandmother is about to die.."