I spoke to my dear Nan on Sunday. Seems the bush telegraph is working well and truly as she already knew that Thomas (as she calls him) and I were moving in together.
Normally I'd be worried about how someone of her age would take it, particularly given my Dad's somewhat traditionalist stance. Then again, it wasn't so long ago that Nan told a rather nosy man where he could stick it when he tried to upset her by asking about my living arrangements.
Still, I don't know that I was prepared for what she told me during our phone call.
Nan: So, darling, I hear you and Thomas are moving in together!
MD: Yes Nan, next Saturday. We found a place really easily.
N: Great news! I think it's a fabulous idea. Best to try before you buy, don't you think?
M: Well, yes, quite.
N: I mean, if I'd lived with my first husband before we got married, I NEVER would have married him. Would have saved myself a lot of heartache there. Oh yes, you're doing the right thing.
M: It feels that way, Nan. I'm really happy and he's a lovely boy.
N: Good, good. And you know what I've always said.
M: What's that?
N: Well, it's far more comfortable to do it in a bed than in the backseat of a car. And this way your mother knows where you are, too.
This from my 91 year old Nanna. Just when I think I have her pigeonholed in the crocheting, biscuit-baking, blue rinse set, she blows away all my assumptions.
That said, when I mentioned it to Mum afterwards her face quickly turned to thunder.
Mum: She said what?
MD: That I should try before I buy. And that in a bed is better than the backseat of a car.
Mum: Hmmph. She didn't have that view before your Dad and I got married. She would have killed us both if we'd tried it.
It must be so much easier to be a grandparent than a parent.
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I like the sound of your grandmother. I think she knows just what she can get away with. Regards, Mike.
"She didn't have that view before your Dad and I got married. She would have killed us both if we'd tried it."
That's because she'd just had the back seat of her car upholstered and didn't want it to get stained.
Grandma talks sense but it just wouldn't have been possible when I was a girl. I'm trying to make up for it with my grand children who occasionally see quite shocked:)
Your grandmother is fabulous.
Congrats on the big move!
What? Someone my age did not invent sex and your granny might have been doing it?
your nan is awesome. she's the type of granny i hope to be some day!
You might have the most awesome grandma in the world. She is hilarious.
LOL God bless your Nan's cotton socks ;)
Brilliantly perceptive closing line, Miss D. My Gran acted as a sort of "alternative" mother to us whose views were often delightfully tangential to our own mum's.
Nan would be thrilled to know she had an online fan club.
Mike, I figure at 91 you can do whatever you want - and she knows it!
Brian, so that was why!
Pat, I think we grandchildren often forget that our grandparents know a thing or two. Keep reminding.
Thanks Frisky!
Andrew, no, you don't mean to tell me...? My grandmother had sex?
Ling, me too.
Dina, she comes out with some corkers. She's not offering me money for babies yet, but I don't think she's far...
Jayne, I think so too.
LL, grandparents just seem to be able to get away with more. We were spoiled rotten as children by her (and actually still are) but I know there was discipline for Dad. I once heard that grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own kids. Hmm.
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