@Neizvestnaya That sounds like torture. Why did she make all that food if she didn’t want anyone to eat it? How did she changer her life to make things better for you?
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OK Now I want to talk about my other grandma, She has always been ahead of her time. My mom said that my grandmother mortified her because she had a a JOB when my mom was growing up and that was so distasteful. Even worse, she was a civil engineer. I thought it was cool, but my mom said she got teased.
My grandmother also used to carry a full set of tools in her purse. Once when my mom was a kid, they went to the movies and the projector broke down. The manager said everyone would get their money back because he couldn’t fix the projector because they didn’t have a screwdriver big enough to unscrew the thing and fix what was broken. My grandmother proceeded to pull a 2 foot long HUGE screwdriver from her purse that was just big enough.
My grandma is great and quite an individualist, but she mortified me as a kid. She would wear whatever she wanted and didn’t care what other people thought. Once she picked me up from school wearing an aviator hat with flaps, this huge seal fur coat and combat boots. I begged her to never walk into the school where people could see me—she could just honk the horn. So she made a point to walk right into class and make sure everyone saw her. She refused to be shamed into dressing conventionally.
Right now, she’s 87 years old and a big computer geek. She is addicted to 2 different kinds of solitaire and some cat and mouse pac man style game. She has a digital camera and takes really unusual pictures. Like the morning mist rising off her old welding tanks or turkey buzzards eating a carcass in the driveway.
The only thing that dates her on computers is that she doesn’t get instant messages. She always writes them as if they were a formal letter. She had ICQ for a while and would write “Dear Keo, I see that you are online. How are you this evening? Love, Grandma”
One more thing. She’s very level headed and rational, but she 100% believes in telepathy and is constantly experimenting on sending messages to my grandfather and other family members. She swears it works and sometimes when I call her she claims that she knew I was going to call because she was sending me messages, telling me to call. I swear she’s not a kook or crazy—she’s just totally convinced that ESP is real.