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Coming back from camping I smell like campfire and meat. I have showered twice and I still smell like it. I raked, chopped wood and set-up and took down the tent by myself. The highlight of the chores was when I got to get in the 8°C water to go retrieve the dock that had blown away with its anchors during the winter. I also got to cook anything that needed cooking over the fire.
I went with my mother and my grandmother. This can be trying at times.
My grandmother and I are both stubborn, the difference is I gather information before taking that stance. For example, she and my mom were setting up the gazebo and I was cooking lunch and I just looked over and notice a pole had shifted and was going to punch through the screen and so I said “hey guys, the pole at the back came loose". My grandmother with her back to the pole immediately says "No it didn't" and refused to turn around. So how did it resolve? She pushed the pole through the screen as my mother said "MOM, WAIT!!". So I had another beer and went back to cooking lunch. My favourite expression tends to become “Whatever” when I’m around her. Not going to listen to my suggestion.. whatever. I’m not doing anything right... whatever. “Shut up you drunken elf” being screamed into the woods... a definite whatever.
She also drives me nuts because she's racist, but not against groups like "blacks" that's racism, but you have to watch out for them Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Indians and Filipinos, but that not racism because she bases it on countries. Uh huh. We watch TV and she'll say things like "See that woman, I bet she's a Jew, look a her eyes, have to watch out for them Jews, they're thieves you know"
I mean, I have a friend who is Jewish and we joke about the stereotypes and the people who believe them. Apparently my grandmother is part of the reason they live on.
So I smile and nod and do what I’m told. Taking time out to go eat Moose tracks ice cream, play drunken trailer park bingo, sleep on an air mattress in 4°C with my dog, Of course this time I got to teach them both what s’mores were. No grandma, I really don’t think I want to take your sleeping pills.
I went with my mother and my grandmother. This can be trying at times.
My grandmother and I are both stubborn, the difference is I gather information before taking that stance. For example, she and my mom were setting up the gazebo and I was cooking lunch and I just looked over and notice a pole had shifted and was going to punch through the screen and so I said “hey guys, the pole at the back came loose". My grandmother with her back to the pole immediately says "No it didn't" and refused to turn around. So how did it resolve? She pushed the pole through the screen as my mother said "MOM, WAIT!!". So I had another beer and went back to cooking lunch. My favourite expression tends to become “Whatever” when I’m around her. Not going to listen to my suggestion.. whatever. I’m not doing anything right... whatever. “Shut up you drunken elf” being screamed into the woods... a definite whatever.
She also drives me nuts because she's racist, but not against groups like "blacks" that's racism, but you have to watch out for them Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Indians and Filipinos, but that not racism because she bases it on countries. Uh huh. We watch TV and she'll say things like "See that woman, I bet she's a Jew, look a her eyes, have to watch out for them Jews, they're thieves you know"
I mean, I have a friend who is Jewish and we joke about the stereotypes and the people who believe them. Apparently my grandmother is part of the reason they live on.
So I smile and nod and do what I’m told. Taking time out to go eat Moose tracks ice cream, play drunken trailer park bingo, sleep on an air mattress in 4°C with my dog, Of course this time I got to teach them both what s’mores were. No grandma, I really don’t think I want to take your sleeping pills.