What is the funniestn thing an elderly rtelative has ever said to you??

Question

My great nan (God rest her soul), was in hospital, i think she was about 100 years old at the time. She was doing quite well and recovering from the illness, but there was another elderly lady in the bed opposite my nan who was obviously very unwell. She had tubes in her mouth and nose providing her with oxygen and my nan, not knowing what all the wires and tubes were actually for, said to me ; "that woman must be really important, they had the phones installed for her". I couldnt hold up for laughing for ages

Answer 1

Nothign to me personally, they were all very dry people. However - my girlfriend had a jewel of a conversation with her mother once.

Mind you, her mother waited till she was about 35 to have her.. and when I asked her this story this is what she said: one day when she was 14 she was getting out of the shower and her gramma walked in the bathroom - and exclaimed "Oh my, I remember when mine used to look like that!"

O_o

Answer 2

Before my gran passed away she was unwell and had an infection which made her a little delerious and she would come out with these stories that were completely in her own head. One time I went to see her she said she had been interviewed for Scotland Today (news programme in Scotland) and that she had seen me and my sister on the tv too. she also said that the nurses were trying to slit her throat when we were gone and that she was being starved! completely untrue of course. I think she even went for the nurses a few times too. She also told everyone that I was going to be a Judge one day and that was all I had ever wanted to do (I have never expressed any interest in the whatsoever) It was sad but also quite humerous too!

Answer 3

one of my funniest memories with my nan is a language misunderstanding... She was Dutch but I was brought up in the French speaking part of Belgium. I was still learning to speak Dutch and then one day she asked to get some groceries and to buy (or I thought they were) Brussel sprouts. When I asked her how many, she told me "if they're big, just two, if they're small, 3 or 4". You can imagine my face at the thought of buying 2 or 3 Brussel sprouts! Turned out she wanted me to buy a very different vegetable, endives!

Answer 4

I was trying to phone my mum once and couldn't get an answer, I was getting a bit concerned, as she had just got out of hospital, after several attempts she finally answered the phone, I asked her where she had been, I've been here all day she said, I thought you would have heard me coming down the stairs, why did you hang up. I nearly wet my pants.

Answer 5

It wasnt what my Grandad said, but what he had done. He had taken us to some fair that was being held and after the day was done after planes flying about, things to look at, shows going on, my brother makes his first real interest by pointing out to me a pile of horse s*** that was in the middle of the road and laughing. So my grandad grabbed him by the back of the neck and walked him around saying.
"Oh look, there's more over there and look over there too, you dont want to miss any do you? How about we put it in a bag and take it home to show your mum?"
This may be one of those where you have to be there to find it funny, but it was funny.

Answer 6

My hair had always been blond since I was little, but by the time I was 18 it started darkening to brown. For a while I died it blond, then I stopped. I hadn't seem my gran for a few months and when I did she accused me of dying my hair brown. I told her I had not died my hair brown. She said that I must have died it brown and she preferred it 'natural' blond.I told her that I hadn't but rather had stopped dying it blond.
Stunned she looked at me and said
"Well you are still a fat boy!"

Answer 7

My X mother in law bless her heart.
She was at my place and I had just filled up a bowl of dry god food for my dogs, it was on the counter and I didn't have time to put it on the follor becasue I was greeiting my inlaws at the door.]
My mother in law wandered in to the kitched. I noticed she was chewing. And she then pointed to the dry dog food and said. wow what kind of snack is that? It is very good
""Grandma you are eating dog food'

Answer 8

My very elderly mother in hospital saying 'look at all the very old people in here dear'


When you are old you rarely perceive yourself as being so to others.

Answer 9

My dear departed mother was full of those little sayings!One of my favourites was If she saw an obese person on TV or in the street etc. she would say to us "Well it must be jelly cos jam don't shake like that!".

Answer 10

When I made my grandad a cup of coffee, I asked him "how many sugars do you take grandad", and he looked at me as if I was crazy and said, "well i don't know darling - ask your nan!!".