my grandmother,
nana, has been staying with us over the holiday season. more so than most years,
nana has become hard of hearing. this has made for fun times.
just now, as i was checking the weather reports and my dad was eating lunch in the kitchen, one such time occurred. it went something like the following:
(phone rings, dad is at the table &
nana close by)
dad: hello this is bill (to the caller)
nana: bill, is that you?
dad: yes (to the caller)
nana: yes bill, what is it?
dad: (continues on with business conversation)
nana: what?! oh.
this conversation is a very standard kind of thing. it is also interesting how easily and inevitably i scare her. when i come up the stairs, regardless of how quietly or loudly i do so, she will be very startled, proceeding to tell me that i "scared the s#%t out of her." according to my unofficial calculations,
i've scared this material out of her close to 24 times in only a few weeks (a personal best).
also, i feel it important to say that i started this year off in manly fashion. on new years day i chopped wood, started a fire, and sounded a barbaric
yawp throughout the wilderness (the roofs of the world were far away).
i'm a lumberjack and
i'm okay.
3 comments:
I, too, have to scream at my grandmother for her to hear me... its typically very entertaing, except when I had to scream about Joel Ostein for a 1/2 hour...that's just annoying
Tim -
I hope you were truly checking the weather... not the "checking the weather" that Nana used to do! Oh the horror. Sometimes a conversation with her is like "Who's On First." Can't wait to get old and feign hard of hearing.
i have a grandmother named nana also - and she says that word too.... except when garrett and i scare her she calls us "little sh#%s"
oh happy day -
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