Every November my wife and kids get in the car and drive to Wisconsin to spend Thanksgiving with her family. My wife's family includes her parents, 2 sisters and their families and her 100 year grandmother.
Grandma used to be a pretty robust woman but now she is quite frail and usually just sits quietly and observes. I've always loved Senior Citizens (mainly because of their honesty, like children) and always talk to my wife's grandmother. Mentally, she kind of in and out but not bad. So, at the dinner table I'm sitting next to Grandma making sure she's comfortable and getting her food. Well, everyone is eating(Grandma is eating like it's her last meal-Amazing!) and the discussion of how my wife and her sisters met all their husbands come up. Let me give you a little background. My wife is the youngest of 3 daughters. Her oldest sister married someone they knew for years while the middle daughter married their best friend's son. Of course, my wife marries this mental patient from a broken home in Chicago. Whatever! It worked out. As this discussion is going on, all of a sudden Grandma picks her head out of the feed bag she's working on and proclaims "I told Stan (my father in law) that Lisa shouldn't marry Danny. It's too soon! Stan don't let her marry him!" Everyone is silent as this century old woman is stating how my father in law shouldn't have let my wife marry me! So I say "Grandma, I'm sitting right next to you." She continues to state how my wife should have waited. I jokingly say "Grandma, you know all I have to do is snap my pinkie on your hip and it's going to break" Everyone at the dinner table is in hysterics. Then just as quickly as she shouted our her statement, she put her head down and continued to eat like a dock worker.
I can't wait until I'm 100 and can just say whatever the heck I want to say!
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