Category: the Rant Board
I don't know what my grandmother's problem was today but she was bitching at me. Well I had to call her to tell her about college stuff. Then she got pissed off becase I changed my mind and decided to start next semester. If you ask me she wants me to do what she thinks will work out. But I made the right choice and she'll have to live with it.
Well this morning my grandmother got on my case for allowing my dad to take me to get my hair cut and stuff. She doesn't understand that I'm an adult and I should be treated like one. Baicsally she's driving me freaking mad~!
Couldn't you sit down and talk to her about how her treatment makes you feel?
Look, they're old, often crazy, and sometimes smell like piss and shit but they can be cool so what can I say?
often times people who get up into their 80's r very bitter. my grandmother is not bitter though. she makes me sad because she is in the advanced stages of alzheimers and she isnt like she was about a year or so ago. she is alot less coherrent and it makes me extremely sad because i know that the previous grandma that i have always known is gone, replaced with... sigh.
that is quite unfortunate indeed.
ya it really stinks.
I know I might have to face that some day.
*sigh*
Dang I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. My grandparents are the closest people to me. I don't know what I'd do without them.
wow, i couldn't imagine my grandparents ever doing anything to wrrant me starting a board post bitching about them. you may regret this one day. they wont be around forever! So charish the time you have with them, and let them have there little gripes. Then go on with your normal life. I"m not saing what she says is right or wrong. bt let her say her gripes and then do as you would do any other time. She's older and set in her ways.
let me tell you, losing the grandmother that you have always known is extremely hard. so yes, shea is correct in saying, cherish the times with your grandparents because they will not be around forever.
I haven't seen my maternal grandparents in years, as they're in another country, and I never knew my paternal grandparents, but apparently, my dad's mom met me when I was a year old. agree with Shea.
Yay for Shea. Listen to her wisdom, for even that won't be around forever. lol
I highly agree with shea's advice. Also, I think that goes with anybody in your family. Enjoy the times you have with them, for one day, they'll be gone.
Gees. People who complain about their grandparents really piss me off. You are so lucky you have them. I grew up only with one grandmother on my mom's side and she told us such amazing stories. I miss her so much now that she's gone and am glad I never bitched about her ever! How would you feel if you were old and the world was changing around you and all your friends died or were sick and you had such a thoughtless grandchild who bitched about you? I think it's so sad getting old. That's why I want to die before 60. lol But I hope you've fixed your differences with your grandmother because she won't be around for long and as crazy as it might seem now, you will miss her.
Michelle
I think that we should probably try and fix up the differences we have with the people we work with, our friends, our loved ones and yes; even our enemies. Noone knows when our time will come to depart from this world. It's not only grandparents that withers away.
I hate it when my grandmother says "you don't eat very much, and I eat a lot, but I don't gain weight, they need to learn to listen to young people.
It is sad hearing about someone complaining about there grandparents. Yes, getting old is so sad, especially when you have to spend your final years alone.
Good treatment isn't a right, it's a privalidge. How I treat people is usually determined to a large extent by how they treat me. Yes it is true that your grandparents may die during your lifetime, but that possibility exists for every decent and irritating person you know. The future death of somebody doesn't entitle them to be treated well no matter how badly they treat other people. If people consistently behave negatively towards you, permanent disassociation (if practicable) from that person is the best policy, for if they aren't in your life, they can't behave towards you in a way you don't like.
did you ever stop and think maybe they don't like the way you treat them? Treat others as you would want to be treated, or something like that. hehehe If you show them respect, and that you can act like an adult, then maybe they will show you respect, and treat you like an adult. Like i said before, I know not all grandparents are innocent. But, little gripes like they told me to eat my dinner, or they told me to gain waight, or they told me i couldn't go to my friends, sure as hell doesn't mean there all bad to cut all ties with them. if you think this, then you need to grow up.
when my dad was bringing me back home last sunday, we stopped in at the nursing home to see my grandmother. daddy said she smiled as we were walking in. she remembered me as well. so we talked for a while and then a CNA came in to take grandma for her diaper changing. so both daddy and i hugged her tight and told her that we loved her. she was crying as we left. tears are coming to my eyes as i write this because i miss my grandmother.