what is a grandparent

25.04.06, 23:46
WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT


For all you grandparents, grandparents-in-waiting, and sympathetic
aunts, friends, and surrogates! I thought this was really cute.

WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT?
(taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)


Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of her
own. They like other people's.

A grandfather is a man grandmother.

Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come
to see them. They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run. It is good if
they drive us to the store and have lots of quarters for us.

When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty
leaves and caterpillars.

They show us and talk to us about the color of the flowers and also
Why we shouldn't step on "cracks."

They don't say, "Hurry up."

Usually grandmothers are fat, but not too fat to tie your shoes.

They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.

Grandparents don't have to be smart.

They have to answer questions like "why isn't God married?" and "How
come dogs chase cats?".

When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for
the same story over again.

Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't
have television, because they are the only grown ups who like to spend time
with us

They know we should have snack-time before bedtime and they say
prayers with us every time, and kiss us even when we've acted bad.


A 6 YEAR OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED ''OH,'' HE SAID,
''SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT, AND WHEN WE WANT HER WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN
WHEN WE'RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT.''


It's funny when they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame
their dog.

smile
    • usenetposts Re: what is a grandparent 26.04.06, 21:39
      I particularly liked the airport one at the bottom. They must think their
      grandparents are terminal cases.
      • kylie1 Re: what is a grandparent 26.04.06, 21:42
        I like it, Dave. You got a way with words and always see more to a sentence
        than most of us. Ianek is very much like that too.

        Very funny smilesmile
        • usenetposts Re: what is a grandparent 26.04.06, 22:33
          Thanks, Kylie.
          • brookie Re: what is a grandparent 30.04.06, 17:21
            I've got one grandmother left, she is sort of funny but she doesn't live in the
            airport. I called home last weekend because my brother got married and I wanted
            to congratulate him. Grandmom picked up the phone and went "come over for the
            reception, I'm gonna wait by the door". I tried to explain it would take me
            some time to get there from Australia, but she wasn't aware of the distance
            between us. I wish it was that simple.
            • usenetposts Re: what is a grandparent 30.04.06, 17:28
              I bet she's a bit like the granny form Titanic who drops that diamond in the
              Atlantic ocean and then turns into the pre-chubby Kate Winslet and meets the
              Leonardo da Vinci character by the clock.
              • brookie Re: what is a grandparent 30.04.06, 18:47
                Nope, but I know what you mean.
                My grandmom is completely unaware of the world surrounding her. Sounds like
                dementia, well geographical one.
                • usenetposts Re: what is a grandparent 01.05.06, 11:33
                  Have you come across the comic "Viz" on your travels? There is this amusing
                  character called "Mrs Brady, old lady" who gets into all kinds of scrapes and
                  carries on obvlivious, going "Eee! This wasn't like that in my day" and other
                  geriatric stereotyped comments. Very amusing she is.
    • ejmarkow Re: what is a grandparent 03.05.06, 07:53
      My grandfather from my father's side (I never met my mother's father, he died
      young and is buried in the parish cemetery in the small village of Bolesław, 65
      km north of me) was a fabulous historian of the First World War. Born in 1893,
      he was a soldier in the Austrian army during WWI when living in Skałat, near
      Tarnopol and Zbaraz(in Kresy). I remember he always had a lump in the bottom-
      back of his head resulting from a bullet or schrapnel he received during
      battle. His soldier experience took him from pre-war Skałat to the front in
      Italy, where he travelled through the land of current Romania and Hungary to
      get back home. One of the most wonderful memories of him, and of our family
      surname, is his elegant house which still stands today in the small town of
      Skałat. When I was in Tarnopol (Ternopil) in the year 2000, I was able to
      gather his original birth record and research my family, from the State
      Archives located in the former Polish cathedral which has since been converted
      to a Cerkiew subsequent to WWII. I guess a passion for history is in the blood.
      He eventually came to Ellis Island, NYC on the S.S. Polonia steamship from the
      free city of Danzig. Both of my grandmothers were wonderful as well, with the
      typical loving old world charm. I have visited their respective villages of
      birth on numerous occasions. Such travel memories last a lifetime.
      • minimus Re: what is a grandparent 03.05.06, 10:05
        Eugene, are you a famous half Pole as well then??
        • ejmarkow Re: what is a grandparent 03.05.06, 12:43
          minimus napisał:

          > Eugene, are you a famous half Pole as well then??

          If traced to my four immediate grandparents, 65% Polish and 35% Ukrainian. I
          wouldn't say 'famous' though. Part szlachta and part cossack...Slavic at heart!

          smile
          • brookie Re: what is a grandparent 03.05.06, 15:00
            You must be proud of your grandpa. I never got to know mine well, but as far as
            I was told he used to fight in Silesia.
            • brookie Re: what is a grandparent 03.05.06, 15:25
              His wife, my grandmom used to keep the house together. It wasn't easy raising
              kids near the( Nazi) concentration camp. She used to hide home made butter and
              cottage cheese in the attic, so noone could find it.
              • varsovian Re: what is a grandparent 04.05.06, 10:29
                I was talking to a friend this morning and she told me her grandfather was shot
                by the Nazis 6 months after getting married.
                • brookie Re: what is a grandparent 05.05.06, 10:23
                  Poor thing, 6 months after the wedding!
                • usenetposts Re: what is a grandparent 05.05.06, 14:41
                  varsovian napisał:

                  > I was talking to a friend this morning and she told me her grandfather was
                  shot
                  >
                  > by the Nazis 6 months after getting married.


                  When I was at school a friend of mine whose grandad had lived in the ukraine
                  claimed that this grandad had had his bollocks pulled out by the tubes in the
                  second world war. I was amazed to hear that they even had 1970's punk bands in
                  the war-time soviet union.
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