Sunday, Sept. 8 is National Grandparents Day

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Sunday, Sept. 8 is National Grandparents Day

Got a story about yours?

Here is a Sunday sample of Grandma's and Grandpa's

Comments

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Nooo! She's fattening you up for the oven!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Then she'll feed him to the dogs, which is why they're hanging around. Corn-fed child is cheaper than dog food and healthier, too.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

But how long to roast the child? I can never get an even cook.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure. I guess if it's a chubby child, you could always call the Butterball hotline! :D

I know. I am the worst!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

even back then, they couldn't keep those girls from going wild! ;)

grandparents...both my grandfathers were against my parents marrying "so young". my dad was 19 and in the navy, my mother was 17 and a junior in high school. they got married her spring break (my grandmothers went to the county seat with my parents and my father's mother knew a judge there. he signed the waiver for them to marry.) and mama moved to live with him when school was out that year.

my grandmother FORBADE my grandfather to go see me when i was born (she was a fiesty old bat) and he waited for her to get about 5 minutes down the road, got in his truck, went another route and got there before she did. mama said that he thought the sun rose and set on me.

my grandfathers died before i was 2, and my grannies were always around. i lived with my mother's mother plenty of times off and on while i was married to the first husband (the evil ex)...she was a royal pain in the ass, and i was the same back to her. she called me "wart" and "hyena" and "miss black velvet" when she was making nice with me (that was the "tea party name"). my daughter laughed her behind off when she was in first grade and i snuck up behind GT and jumped in a big water puddle, splashing us both. GT tore me a new one, i'm holding my stomach i'm laughing so hard, and we were a SIGHT in the walmart parking lot. needless to say, i have NO shame. *G*

i miss my grandmothers. my dad's mom was "gone" several years before she died in her 70's, alzheimer's will do that to a person. mama's mother lived to be 94, and that was a long good life.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

"A 5¢ Tootsie Roll contains as many energy units as a woman uses doing nearly two hours of ironing."

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

I'm eating some Tootsie Roll midgies right now and I sure as hell ain't gonna use any of this dextrose-infused energy ironing, Grandma!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Grandma was right about your shirts, guys. Too bad you didn't listen to her about your ties, pants, and haircuts.

Serves you right about the constipation, Grandpa. That's what you get for helping Sherman purge the South. Karma's a bitch, old man!

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Ah, so Grandpa follows Grant's advice about a good strong drink?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of booze as a cure for constipation but it is the old-school "cure" for PTSD. Maybe Grandpa wasn't trying to purge his bowels. He was trying to purge the awful war memories. Bran won't help much with that.