Comments on: Dear Grandma: Thanks, I guess.

By: mirain

mirain — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:34:06 +0000

Haha, those notes remind me of my grandparents and aunt. If they did not receive a thank-you note for their crappy gifts on the first possible day the USPS could have gotten it to them they wrote or called to complain. And then when I did write they criticized my handwriting. Wonder why I didn’t feel more grateful…

By: H2Ik

H2Ik — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:11:02 +0000

Dear Grandma,

There were no lessons about thank you notes in school. They were much too busy teaching us penmanship and proper capitalization.

Love,
Grandson

P.S. Thank you for the present. It was delicious .

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my condolences on your birthday — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:29:48 +0000

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By: crazybeachcat

crazybeachcat — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:21:25 +0000

first grandma: annoying, nagging, lonely old lady. jesus christ, reading that note irritated the hell out of me. does she have lots of cats? i hope so, because that’s likely going to be the only companionship she’s gonna have if she keeps this bullshit up. i’m all about manners (i have a 7-year-old and have been making him do his own thank-yous since he learned to write) but that’s just not the norm anymore…for kids and adults. that doesn’t make it right, so i don’t know exactly what my point is. whatever. anyway, she should have said something to a parent first instead of sending a 6-year-old a hardcore guilt note. i bet that poor girl totally hates grandma.

second grandma: bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter, jealous bitch!!! are you fucking serious? you’d think she’d be happy for her daughter to be able to enjoy something fun like that, guess not though. i bet grandpa left her ass a looooong time ago and she’s all kinds of pissed off that her daughter’s doing cool shit that she never got to do and still married and all that good stuff. and i doubt grandma had a damn gun put to her head and forced to take the grandkids that she obviously can’t stand. she’s that god-awful annoying lady who does shit just so she can whine and get sympathy from other people because poor, poor thing, she’s always so put upon. hell, she probably BEGGED to keep the grandkids just so she could make everyone at bingo feel sorry for her or something.

By: crazybeachcat

crazybeachcat — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:06:52 +0000

dontcha know? moms fuck up everything. everything. everything. everything. everything. everything. EVERYTHING!!!

sorry, that was not-very-funny sarcasm. you make a very good point here…i hadn’t even thought of that, why the hell IS it just mom’s fault? we’re always blamed for everything, dammit.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:09:26 +0000

It’s sort of a given that grandparents always give us crappy gifts. Five bucks and writting paper? She got lucky. My grandma once gave me one pair of panties for Christmas. True story.

By: park rose

park rose — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:51:26 +0000

There’s no way that your name is ethel, right? And in your day, if your name really is ethel, you knew how to capitalise proper nouns.

And in your day when you went to thank grandma you ran down to the telegraph office with your pennys and nickels burning a hole in your gingham pocket and you sent the message, right? It only cost you a penny or two, right? And that was six months pocket money.

THANKS GRAN STOP FOR THE US DOLLAR STOP AND THE WRITING SET STOP I CANT WRITE STOP BUT THIS KIND MAN IS DOING IT FOR ME STOP.

Pick up the phone? Come on Ethel, in your day, Alexander Graham Bell was still in diapers. In fact, maybe the telegram was not even invented and you had to send it via Cobb and Co. But you did. Cos’ you were brought up right, good and proper. Bless your heart.

By: ethel

ethel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:57 +0000

Team Grandma on both counts. And 6-year-olds can write or pick up the phone, can’t they? In my day…

By: C J

C J — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:45:30 +0000

Sorry why is this just the Mothers fault? People keep saying “the Mom should have done this”

Why is the Mom usually blamed and why didn’t the Dad teach the kid about thank you notes?

By: Car RamRod

Car RamRod — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:10:24 +0000

This grandmother is why they invented euthenasia…

By: meme

meme — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:09:09 +0000

I live in BC, Canada and I have to say I don’t see the BFD about her sending American money. Its accepted almost everywhere from walmart and grocery stores to the small popcorn business that I work for (and we don’t even have a cash register!)…still its totally something one of my bitchy grandmothers would have said/sent if I didn’t say thank you for the cat print blanket or the shania twain perfume or the commemorative coin that they gave me. *eye roll* maybe the 6 year old girl (or her mom), like me, is just not a good enough liar to say thank you convincingly.

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:14:20 +0000

Yeah, just look at Superman.

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:04:35 +0000

What I find most amusing in the whole Suicide is Painless story, is that he made more money on the song than his Daddy made for the movie.

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:29:48 +0000

Banks frequently won’t exchange money less than a certain amount, at least they won’t do so in any country where I’ve traveled. If you’re stuck with less than x amount of euros, dollars, pounds, whatever, you’re just SOL. So, Grandma is still in the wrong. $5 U.S. likely can’t be exchanged easily in Canada.