| WRITING PROMPT: Grandparents. |
[21 May 2011|12:00pm] |
→ Paternal; Grandma Jack and Grandma Rose.
I figured that since I just got off the phone with them, now would be a good time to write about my grandparents. Or at least, half of them. Due to the fact that Catholics have a very weird policy when it comes to birth control, all four of mine are still alive. I'm going to take the paternal side and leave Emily with our mom's parents.
Grandpa Rose met Grandpa Jack when she was thirteen. (Don't bother, they don't understand Titanic references.) After a...whatever, I don't really know what happened to them after that. I was unborn. I just know they got married at eighteen and started popping out kids immediately after. Again, Catholics and their birth control. They had all their kids before they turned 21. Come to think of it, so did my parents. I wonder what happened after that? Did they just stop fucking or decide that after 2/3 kids they were allowed to swallow a pill or something so they didn't turn into the Duggars? Oh my god, why am I thinking about my parent's/grandparent's sex lives?
ANYWAY. Grandpa Jack and Grandma Rose have lived in Brunswick forever. It was my great-grandparents, Jack's parents, who opened up Dunn Construction a ridiculously long time ago. Eventually my Grandfather took over and passed it on to my father, who keeps trying to hint that if I were worthy enough I might get a chance at running the place one day. Some days I'm kinda glad that mom's parents live out of state, because I don't know that I could handle disappointing that many people on a daily basis.
My grandparents are nice. I like them. Grandma makes the best motherfucking vegetable soup I have ever eaten. Sometimes, I dream about that soup. We used to have lunch with them every Sunday after church, and even when I stopped going to church I'd show up, and for an hour everyone would pretend that I'd been there so we could eat peacefully. I haven't seen them as much since I got back from Florida, but I need to fix that. They are both retired now. Grandpa from the construction business, and Grandma a former elementary school teacher. Grandpa always wants me and Eddie to go fishing with him, and Grandma wants me to come over and move furniture and eat cookies. She also keeps asking me why I am not married yet, which is awkward. She says she wants to live long enough to see my children. Grandma, you're only 61. I think you will be fine.
That said, I don't want to break her heart. So, if she ever appears to be on her deathbed, I'm gonna need to borrow one of you girls and someone's baby.
I woke up this morning far earlier than I would have liked to listen to a thirty minute phone call about the rapture. Did you know there's still time to save my immortal soul?
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