What’s your grandpa like? If you have one that is. Some grandparents suck, but most of them don’t suck.
I have, well had, 4 grandparents total. Two on moms side, two on dads side. Dads side I was really close to. My grandpa Henry passed when I was 16. He loved the grocery store and had the thickest old person glasses Ive ever seen. I literally watched him lose his sh*t. Like literally run out of oxygen to his brain and he went crazy. He died from low platelets and leukemia at 82? I think it was 82. My grandma Betty was a walking jewelry store. Obsessed with candy. Used to hide it from my grandpa and sneak it to me and my sister. She died from lung cancer in 2020. We did hospice care at her house, so I literally watched her breathe her last breath. SO weird when old people die.
My moms side is different. My grandma I barely know. She’s alive, with my cousins and my aunt somewhere in northern CA, Grandma Mary. She and my mom have their differences and the last time I saw her, she and my mom got into bad fight and mom called the cops. I was 13 or 14? My grandpa though, he’s ALIVE. He’s like a best friend. He’s so f*cking cool. He’s volunteered for the Red Cross over 20 years now. We get lunch every other week and he’s 78. Jim. I love Jim. Him and my mom have a different kind of relationship but there’s love there. Grandma Mary had my mom when she was young. Her and Jim didn’t work out and my grandpa has a wife, who is lovely and quirky in her own ways.
Jim was a mental health guy back in the day. Meaning, when the cops were called to a scene with some crazy guy popping off, they’d call my grandpa. He has soooo many stories. He was in the Navy as a young man, lived all over the place but spent most his time in Seattle WA. That’s where he helped. He always has a new story each time I see him. My favorite is when he was called to a scene where a woman was screaming and yelling off her meds at her home and was hiding. He walked around her property with the cops to find her and ended up walking into some type of barn with a covered swimming pool–he fell into it bc he didn’t see it. lol.
I’ll be heartbroken when he passes. He’s got time but still. Sometimes I text my grandma Betty’s phone number and cry thinking she’ll call me. Even people who are old, like you don’t get over it when they die, you just cope with it your whole life. Old people are amazing though. Some are stinky and weird but they’ve lived so long through so much. Like they have accumulated things and so many memories. One day I’ll be old and stinky too telling my grandkids that I survived the Trump Era or COVID-19 and how we all freaked out once we realized it was a real thing and didn’t come from bat soup (I’ll never forget when I read about this on snapchat Daily Mail in 2019 lmao).
Old people are literally living history. Real life relics. If you have grandparents and you like them, just let them know. Because they might be old and you might be “expecting it” but when they aren’t around anymore, trust me, it’s weird.
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