s/o Funny things your aging parents and/or grandparents say

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You really think making fun of your aging parents makes you look like nice people?


My thoughts exactly...


Do your faces crack when you smile?

I smile all of the time. It just isn't at someone else's expense...

The spirit if this thread is way over your head. Caring for elderly loved ones is hard and often very sad. Sometimes it's nice to be able to smile at some of the silly and sweet things they say. I bet everyone who has posted so far loves their parent dearly.

Exactly. Humor is considered a HEALTHY way to cope. Carry on folks...

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Anonymous wrote:I was helping my grandma clean out the attic and she saw my thong underwear peak through my jeans as I was bending down. She said to me (totally serious)...

Grandma:Huh that is so strange
me: what?
Grandma: I thought girls that wore those string underwear's did it because they liked anal sex but i KNOW there is no way you could handle anal, maybe "Ana" (my sister) but not you, nope you couldnt handle it.
me: jaw dropped to floor
Grandma: I guess everyone wears them now and they no longer mean that


This is a lady who went to church every Sunday and whom I never heard swear or refer to sex EVER

I spit my gum out laughing at this.

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My FIL was 94 and every time someone passed gas - he'd say, very loudly, "What did that asshole say?"

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Anonymous wrote:My 70 something FIL is full of great lines.
"Everybody needs a hoss," usually uttered while chewing a toothpick and said out of the blue. A hoss is a best friend.
He once seriously asked my DH how things were going at the circus. That's the closest he could understand my DH's work at the time in fine art auctions.
For years he referred to me as "young lady" because he couldn't say my Arabic name. My now deceased MIL schooled him on this one day. It was hilarious.
He can't pronounce our daughter's Arabic name so he calls her "cute little girl."

My dad had an Engineering degree, and worked for the water company. His mom thought he drove a train.

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Anonymous wrote:My FIL was 94 and every time someone passed gas - he'd say, very loudly, "What did that asshole say?"

OMG, I may have to borrow this one hahaha.

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Anonymous wrote:I did the vent post about my aging parents and decided it would be helpful to read people's funny experiences. Here are a few to start the thread..

"Somebody stole my car from the hospital parking lot. Oh my gawd. Go call the police. Get security over here. What kind of an ass steals a car from a hospital?" 1 minute later I found my mother's car, exactly where she parked it.

"Oh, hello. So glad you visited. How is the new baby doing? Did you bring her?" I was/am "the new baby" she was referring to. When I visited my grandma in the nursing home as she got closer to passing away, she always thought I was my mother.

Sobs..."My dying wish is for you to settle down and get married already. Why haven't you found anyone yet? You know I'm dying right? Do it for me." My grandma said this to me when I was 16. She lived another decade, but I didn't marry until 30.

I'm not saying this to be insensitive but that's not aging, that's dementia. Normal aging doesn't follow this degeneration. I work in the field, so I TOTALLY get why you need the vent and the laugh sometimes though at things that are sad or crazy- but just know that you will probably get a lot of people NOT dealing with dementia that will jump on you in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You really think making fun of your aging parents makes you look like nice people?

I agree. This is so disrespectful. Shame on all of you.

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"The birds are getting sexy too early!"

-- My 73 year old mother, complaining about birds chirping before the first day of spring

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My grandma once told me a story about meeting one of her friend's children, and how he told her all about "smoking the pots."

She passed away a few years ago now. But I have a voicemail she had left me shortly before she had a stroke that led to a quick mental decline (when I was pregnant). "Hi Larla, how are you? Are you getting fat? I hope you're feeling alright! This is grandma!" It makes me smile every time I hear it.

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Anonymous wrote:You really think making fun of your aging parents makes you look like nice people?

I agree. This is so disrespectful. Shame on all of you.

You obviously are not there yet. We laugh because otherwise we would cry. Hopefully, this doesn't happen to you.

signed both parents with dementia

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Anonymous wrote:You really think making fun of your aging parents makes you look like nice people?

I agree. This is so disrespectful. Shame on all of you.

Obviously, you are not there yet. We laugh, otherwise we would cry. Hopefully, this never happens to you.

signed: both parents have dementia