Old people do and say crazy, weird and offbeat things. For instance, my Grandmother, who can never figure out that voice messaging system and always thinks she is talking to a person.
What are some of your weird, crazy and funny old people stories?
2007-01-10 06:55:13 · 5 answers · asked by IamBatman 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i teach 6th grade on the third floor of a public school. the school just happens to be in the township where i grew up (my wife and i live in a neighboring city).
one day, not so long ago, my 83 year old mother came to school, without my knowings she was there. in the dsitance i heard a voice calling out my name -----. a second time i heard the voice call my name and it sounded closer and familiar. this process continued for about 7-8 times. finally, my mother reached the top floor and her voice was as AUDIBLE as possible. i didn't know what to do. i stepped out into the hallway and there mom was, looking in each classroom and asking if ---- was there. when i finally caught up with her she merely wanted to know if i was going to stop by to visit on my way home that day. there wasn't anything urgent, except my mother was lonely and wanted her youngest son to stop by to visit with her, which i did.
did i ever take some ribbing from the principal, the teachers, and MOSTLY, the kids.
2007-01-10 08:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well we have a printer that is also a fax machine. My grandma lives with us and one day she was on the phone talking to her sister while my parents were moving the old computer out of the room. The fax machine hooks up directly to my phone line and for some reason my parents plugged the phone cord to the fax machine into the printer. Doing this caused the phones to go dead. I was in the house and wanted to make a phone call so I pick up the phone and there was dead silence but I walked past my grandma's room and found out that she was talking to someone on the phone. I was like geez what does she have a privacy button on her phone so that no one can hear anything when they pick up another phone? I mean that can't be. So after about 10 minutes we discovered the problem and I heard my grandma saying "Pat, Pat what did you fall asleep?" It was so funny I'm like that just describes how much people wanna talk to her that 10 minutes they wouldn't say a word and that they probably have fallen asleep while talking to her.
2007-01-10 07:05:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some friends of mine were in a parking lot and they saw an old guy getting out of his car and start walking toward the store. He stopped, got a terrible look on his face and slowly looked down to his foot. He lifted his foot and yelled, "God damn bubble gum chewing adolescents!!"
My mom (age 62) still believes she needs to turn her cell phone off after each call. Every time she goes to use it, it takes a few minutes for her to figure out how to turn it on, then she takes a few more minutes after the call to figure out how to shut it off. She has it for emergencies but she doesn't understand that I CAN'T get in touch with her if there is an emergency if the phone is always shut OFF. She thinks leaving it on for more than 20 minutes will kill the battery. She seems to have a problem understanding that leaving a cell phone ON does not mean it's 'off the hook'. We fight about it all the time but I just have to laugh at her. Then I tell her that every year she gets more like Grandma. That makes her laugh too.
2007-01-10 07:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by Pico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My most memorable "old person story" isn't funny, but it is downright scary.
There was an old lady living across the street about a year ago. I'll call her Mrs. S. Mrs. S was in her 80s and was slipping further and further into senility. She seemed harmless enough. Then, back in June, she announced to me that her daughter and grandson were moving in with her. I was very happy for her because she was so scared of being alone. Then, it's like she changed overnight.
About mid-June, she called me over to her house for a visit. She was raving about how her daughter was going to take everything from her. Then, she leaned towards me and, with a conspiritorial look on her face, said, "But I'm not going to let them walk all over me. No, siree..." and then she went over to a bag stretched across the front of her walked and took out a GUN! "It's real," she said, "and if they try anything..." She started waving it around IN MY FACE and I was just sitting there, thinking, "Agree with whatever she says." When my husband came to get me, he says that all the color had washed from my face and that I looked like I was about to throw up.
About two weeks after that, she had a stroke and went to live in a nursing home, so everyone around her doesn't need to worry about having loaded guns waved in their faces anymore.
2007-01-10 07:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by Avie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my grandpa gets drunk and drives his john deer tractor to the bar to drink more crazy old fart
2007-01-10 07:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by skittles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋