Strange Grandmother.

Corega

Maybe this should be in the humour category.


Roughly 2 months ago I received an accusation from my grandmother that I was buying class A drugs off the street, giving them to my mother who would then put them in my grandmothers food
Her basis for this accusation was that she found a suspicious "white powder" in the wash-house, coincidently where we keep our washing powder i.e. Daz, Bold etc.

All of the above are "white powder" substances ironically.

If anyone else has senile grandparents and have been presented with a similar situation I'd love to know so I can laugh meh head off

Gordon

I love the way my Granny goes through every single member of our family's names before striking gold at the correct name. She kinda half says their name and says them all really fast so that you don't notice, even passing both sexes' names!
"Acht you're a wee dear Pete, phili, marti, julie, amy, ails, frank, god... Gordon."

And my Grandad has no memory at all so he answers in open ended statements, or questions in spurious ways.

"So, Peter (his son), are you still staying in your house?"

"And how is your son, getting on, is he still doing that job?"

you gotta love him

Kali

http://www.crazygrandpa.com/stories.html for all your crazy grandparent stories

Corega

Haha. I think that opium one is relevant to my situation, also hilariously funny

rymus

ladies and gentlemen... welcome to Alzheimer's country

Beruthiel

... welcome to Alzheimer's country

me grannie also lives there - she keeps asking when my uncle is coming home from the USA to visit - considering he has been dead for 4 years now, it's not gonna happen anytime soon

LegacyUser

Some day we will be old too......

LegacyUser

Originally posted by Kali
http://www.crazygrandpa.com/stories.html for all your crazy grandparent stories

Just seen that sorry excuse of a website . His granddaughter is the one thats warped.

Corega

I'm sure you all know the casino type thing opperating in Bray. Well so many odd years ago my uncle and dad used to take my great-aunt out their every Sunday as a way of pissing away the day. Well meh uncle and dad would usually go off to the poker machines and leave this aunt to her own devices. So they would both go their seperate ways and burn away the afternoon. Every single Sunday this particular aunt would go up to the same machine for the whole afternoon. She'd start off by putting a few coins in and every single go she'd get more coins out. She thought she was the bomb. It was a ****ing change machine:D

Beruthiel

LOL - excellent Corega!!!!!

Corega

Thanks Beruthiel. I'm sure a lot of people have plenty of stories of thier own so keep them coming.

Gordon

Hehe, funny.

At a time when senility wasn't really a factor...
My Grandad's brother was called Adolf and his family name, like mine, was Jensen (A good old Danish name). Now at the time of "the war" when Mr. Hitler was about - my Grandad's brother got a little worried for his name. As you may guess - being called Adolf Jensen at that time may be a bit... embarrassing if not dangerous!

So the clever old lad decided to legally change his name which he did to...

Adolf Johnson!

Every time our family gets together I keep asking if that story is true and every time they all guffaw in embarrasment and say that it's true.

mocar

my grandmother in law (rip) answered the phone one day while alone in the house. It took her a few seconds to put the phone to her ear and all she heard was "please check your mail box". (those who have eircoms answering machine service will understand). When my mother in law came home two hours later granny was sitting staring at the letterbox in the hall. When mother in law asked what she was doing she said I was told to check my mail box but i have been sitting here 2 hours and nothing as come through it....
That is a true story.

mo:p

rymus

my grandmother (who was 98) used to accuse the man across the road from her of breaking into her house and stealing these little ornaments which had no value other than sentimental value to herself. He was also accused of stealing small amounts of money (£1 and 50p on one occasion). She had the police round to his house on a number of occasions and the man was just generally plauged with her annoying him every so often.

Funny thing is that this man used to do everything for my grandmother - driving her places, doing DIY, buying stuff for her... the lot. That said tho when we used to go and visit it used to take her a few hours to work out who my mother was. As I said before welcome to Alzheimer's country

LegacyUser

rymus-You must have no respect for the elderly or you're Grandmother.
Alzheimers is a disease and ilness that nobody should joke about and some day YOU might get it.

Just like the other diseases/ilnesses(Cancer, Heart trouble, AIDS...etc.)...it has its symptoms, forgetfulness is one of them.

Gordon

Good point but it isn't unfair to find some symptoms of a disease funny if the symptoms are not life threatening surely? The fact that one loses memory is a symptom of a larger problem. Sometimes there can be some funny stories attached to them like above. (what if one of cancer's symptoms was having a banana grow out of your knee?)

To be honest I don't think that Rymus was treating anyone with disrespect, it sounds like Rymus' grannie is dead so I'm sure he wouldn't be jibing at her. And, yes, I'm sure he knows that he'll get Alzheimers just like I probably will after my Grandad. I just sure hope that nobody treats me like I'm a piece of crystal, just like when I die I hope nobody cries tears of sadness.

Corega

I'm a heavy smoker myself and I live with the fact that one day I will get the dreaded disease myself. But as the old saying goes "Sh*t happens" and I've made a little add on to that quote "All you have to do is wipe your as* and get on with life".
I'm going home to me granny now and I'll let you know what else she has in store

rymus

Originally posted by Unregistered
rymus-You must have no respect for the elderly or you're Grandmother.
Alzheimers is a disease and ilness that nobody should joke about and some day YOU might get it.

Just like the other diseases/ilnesses(Cancer, Heart trouble, AIDS...etc.)...it has its symptoms, forgetfulness is one of them.

I have plenty of respect for the elderly. I'm fully aware of how nasty Alzheimers is and what it does to a person. I'm not joking about it despite what meaning you have taken from my post.

Thanks for the moral reality check but its misplaced on this occasion

Corega

Ohh I forgot to mention her fav clothes are these pants that are coloured lilac green and florescent blue I kid you not. Whenever I go outside with her I try telling people that I'm not associated with her in any way, just kidding she has'nt stepped out of the house in about 5 years.