Life’s Like That

Sure, they look sweet, but some grandmas just don’t have a filter.  My first year of university, my grandma posted me sugar biscuits for my birthday but wrote in the card that she’d put chilli pepper in them so that I would know she was thinking of me “but wouldn’t gain the weight”.

When my older sister told my family she was pregnant and not in a relationship, my grandma sighed, looked at me, and said, “We always thought it would be you.”

I had just met my boyfriend’s family for the first time. As I was leaving, his grandmother gave me a hug and said it was wonderful to meet me. I said, “Thank you. It’s nice to know I have approval.” To which she replied, “Oh, now, dear, just because we like you doesn’t mean we approve.”

I once got a Christmas card from my granny, signed, “Maybe next year you’ll make us proud.”

“Sorry I’m late. Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by …”