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What's something that one (or more) of your grandparents said or did that struck you as funny, interesting, memorable or just plain cool?

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never had grandparents

dang, were you the baby of the family or something?

well, anything like that then - an aunt or uncle or greataunt or great uncle????

i wasn't quite the baby,my brother 2 years younger than me is,but yea,we were born late.

My grandparents on my dad's side died before I was born, my mother left us when we were young so I didn't see my other grandparents much until I was an adult.

One thing I remember my grandmother telling me was she didn't know what region of France her parents came from because they never talked about the past in her family, they had a boarding house in upstate New York and there was lots of work every day.  My grandmother escaped all that to be a flapper in Chicago in the roaring 20's.

I can't imagine a family that didn't talk about the past, my grandmother was one of five sisters she had one brother who died in WWII.

your gramma was a flapper? hmmmm

my great-granpa

My paternal grandparents were farmers in Minnesota.  They were German, and a bit stiff and un-fuzzy, when it came to us kids.  I knew they loved me, but they weren't the "climb into my lap and read a story" types.  But what I noticed even back then, when I was so young.....was the way she sat right next to him in the car, and whenever they walked in public, it was always hand-in-hand.  I remember thinking that was nice.  It made me feel.....safe, somehow. 

Wow a flapper :)  Tha's cool....and I think your memories of your grandparents, Karin, were so endearing.

My Paternal Grandmother was fussy. She had dolls in her living room and a piano. We were not allowed to play with the dolls. She also had the best banister to slide down in the whole world. She was a secretary in the court house.

My Maternal Grandmother had a bajillion cats!  They all had names and she seemed to love them all. She had a willow tree in her front yard that we all thought was enchanted. She had a piano too.

I never knew either of my Grandfathers.

My paternal grandmother was very quiet but she watched and listened.  She was already quite old when I was born.  She used to dip snuff that came in a glass with a metal lid.  She'd sit rocking on her front porch and every once in a while she could knock a fly off the porch rail when she spit.  Back then you didn't carry a red plastic cup to spit in;  you spit in the yard.  They bought a TV finally in the late '60s but only kept it about a year.  Nothing on it but nonsense, bad news, and liars.  (Imagine if she could see it now!!)  She didn't believe that men walked on the moon.  She believed they could but that they didn't because nobody would spend what they said it cost to do something useless like that.  She said it was done on a movie set.  She always wore cotton stockings rolled down right below the knee and a full apron over her dress.  She didn't like to ride in the car with my Grandpa because he went fast then slow.  "May as well park it and put a house number on it," she told him once.  He finally took their last car over a cliff with them and she'd never ride with him after that.

I use to get a kick out of my mother and grandfather go at it about politics over the dinner table.  A hot time to say the least lol... 

My grandpa used to hide a candy bar somewhere in his house when I came with my parents to visit. While the grown-ups talked, I was kept busy hunting for my candy. 

My maternal grandmother came over on a ship from Norway in her early 20s, all by herself.  From Boston, she took a train to Minnesota, where she met my grandfather (I never knew him.  She spoke perfect English and never even taught any Norweigian to her two daughters.  She was a firm believer in, "When in Rome.....".  But on Christmas Eve, she would ask me to sing her favorite song, "Oh, Holy Night", and in return, she would sing "Jeg er sa glad hver Julekveld" for me.  To this day, whenever I hear either song, I think of her.

That is sooo cool.  They say leave yesterday behind and it sounds like she was successful at it.

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