Dara’s birthday is coming up, and her grandpa sent her this card. (Explains Dara: “He calls birthdays ‘anniversaries’ because ‘you only have one birth day.’) Nice, huh? And we haven’t even gotten to the guilt-trippy part yet.
“He lives in Florida and I live in upstate New York.” Dara says. “I went to visit my parents in NYC a few weeks ago and he chose to visit them the day after I left. Somehow that’s my fault.”
related: Don’t worry, I’m alive. Not that you’d care. I’m only your mother!
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#1
TippingCows
My grandpa is a Grand Pa! He just can’t help himself, that Grand Pa.
May 19, 2011 at 12:16 pm rating: 8
#2
zenvelo
There’s nothing PA in that, no reference to “missing” her in NYC, just a grandfather’s regret that he doesn’t see someone he loves. Why is this even here?
Dara seems to have a bit of guilt causing her to read between the lines.
May 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm rating: 66
#3
Car Title Loans
This is a card that I would get from my grandma; she has no conception of how much flights cost, but that’s probably because she’s never been on one. Maybe you should send another passive aggressive notes saying that he should let you know when his trip is so you can try harder to see him next time? Old people are funny.
Ava
May 19, 2011 at 12:30 pm rating: 4
#4
SillyGirl
That’s grandparents for ya, always willing to send you guilt-I mean love.
May 19, 2011 at 12:31 pm rating: 3
#5
Mrs.Beasley
So Grand Pa arrived to visit your folks the day after you left.
And yet you couldn’t stay one day longer to see him, and he couldn’t arrive one day earlier to see you.
Doesn’t sound PA to me. Sounds more to me like you both have a life.
May 19, 2011 at 12:39 pm rating: 18
#6
TippingCows
Saying, “I guess that can’t be helped” often means “You don’t care enough about me to fly down here and spend a week with me and meet my bridge friends and wake up at the buttcrack of dawn to go for my daily walk with me and eat egg beaters and yogurt for breakfast.” I know the ways of the elderly.
May 19, 2011 at 12:54 pm rating: 40
#7
Lisa
Is it just me or does it seem like everyone from older generations writes the same way? I swear, my grandfather’s handwriting looks exactly like that.
May 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm rating: 4
#8
Canthz_B
What is grandpa, a drug courier? Who goes from Florida to NYC and only stays one day? Dara couldn’t dash back down to the city? It may be a long drive, but a lot shorter than going to Florida. The old guy was practically in the neighborhood, probably for a few days.
May 19, 2011 at 2:53 pm rating: 9
#9
Adriana
Cards like these make me glad that my one remaining grandparent has no interest in talking to me.
May 19, 2011 at 3:50 pm rating: 3
#10
Flip-flappin'
I think we’re missing the crucial element here: was there a five-dollar bill tucked in there? Or worse; a five-dollar check?
May 19, 2011 at 5:36 pm rating: 22
#11
gacy
I know it seems passive-aggressive now, but come on. This is a member of your family who may not be around for much longer.
For what it’s worth, I’d give a lot to spend one more day with my late grandfather.
May 19, 2011 at 9:50 pm rating: 13
#12
pony girl
Buzzkill.
hehehe
where’d my pic go?
update: oooh, tricky!
oh-oh, gigglebrax. Time to go to bed.
May 20, 2011 at 2:04 am rating: 2
#13
ulblil
It seems to me that if the Grandfather was coming from Fl to visit the parents, everyone would have known about it in advance and any grandchildren could have made their visit when he was in town. At least that’s how we do it in my family, when someone visits my parents from out of town we have a big get together and everyone goes.
My grandfather writes the same exact way as well…..
May 20, 2011 at 8:01 pm rating: 2
#14
skull muncher
Wow, what a bitch… she lives in the same state as her parents and couldn’t hang around for one more day to see her Grandpa? Yes, I’d say that’s her fault.
May 21, 2011 at 1:19 am rating: 7
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