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Pet peeve day for me, I guess. Couple things came up at work, and this was one of them...
A gal I work with said the title as she was telling us that her step-grandson and his girlfriend are going to have a baby. She kind of went on and on about how young she is and how she doesn't know anyone else who is a great grandma that young and how are people going to take that and what will people think and she's too young to be a great gramma and she's too young to be a great gramma and on and on and on...
Her husband is 14 years older than she is. He already had teenage children when they met. She is only 6 years older than his oldest child. Don't wear it as a badge of honor (or something to get sympathy over) if you married into it. If it was her biological child making her a great grandma...I could see whining, but it's not.
Petty, I know...I was feeling petty today .
When it gets brought back up tomorrow (and I know it will), I am tempted to just tell her "Yes, you are too young to be a great grandma" and leave it at that .
Last edited by Sabinerose; 06-04-2013 at 06:31 PM..
I once told a co-worker that she's not the kid's grandma, anyway. You're only great-grandma by marriage. And she was much younger, than her husband, too. Didn't go over well. LOL
I once told a co-worker that she's not the kid's grandma, anyway. You're only great-grandma by marriage. And she was much younger, than her husband, too. Didn't go over well. LOL
If the person was a jerk about it, that's exactly what I would say "You're only a great-grandma by marriage".
Or maybe "You don't look too young to be a great-grandma." if she was a real jerk about it and went on and on about it.
I like steelstress and germain's responses. That should shut her up in now time and at the very least send her running as fast as she can to the nearest plastic surgeon for botox.......
Ah, she's just postulating...probably figures people will think the child really IS her grandchild, and then think...wow, what a young looking, great grandma, she sure keeps herself well...
Pet peeve day for me, I guess. Couple things came up at work, and this was one of them...
A gal I work with said the title as she was telling us that her step-grandson and his girlfriend are going to have a baby. She kind of went on and on about how young she is and how she doesn't know anyone else who is a great grandma that young and how are people going to take that and what will people think and she's too young to be a great gramma and she's too young to be a great gramma and on and on and on...
Her husband is 14 years older than she is. He already had teenage children when they met. She is only 6 years older than his oldest child. Don't wear it as a badge of honor (or something to get sympathy over) if you married into it. If it was her biological child making her a great grandma...I could see whining, but it's not.
Petty, I know...I was feeling petty today .
When it gets brought back up tomorrow (and I know it will), I am tempted to just tell her "Yes, you are too young to be a great grandma" and leave it at that .
I don't understand why you are annoyed. She's just making conversation. It's just something going on in her life that she wants to talk about. If you can't converse on the topic, politely change it. Do you think everyone is interested in everything you want to talk about? I don't understand people who get annoyed at other people just because they talk about their feelings - feelings that have nothing to do with you and cannot in any way be considered insulting to you. Really, I think you are the one being rude here. How could someone work with you and not annoy you? She can't read your mind and know that what seems like something innocuous is a pet peeve for you.
I once told a co-worker that she's not the kid's grandma, anyway. You're only great-grandma by marriage. And she was much younger, than her husband, too. Didn't go over well. LOL
Wow. Really? I can't imagine why that did not go over well. Why in the world would you say that? My grandfather (my mothers father), remarried later in life. I always considered her my grandma. My mom remarried when I was 20 (father died when I was 6), and now that I have children, her husband is Grandpa to my kids. Do you have to be biologically related to be a grandparent? I guess I don't agree.
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Originally Posted by marie5v
I don't understand why you are annoyed. She's just making conversation. It's just something going on in her life that she wants to talk about. If you can't converse on the topic, politely change it. Do you think everyone is interested in everything you want to talk about? I don't understand people who get annoyed at other people just because they talk about their feelings - feelings that have nothing to do with you and cannot in any way be considered insulting to you. Really, I think you are the one being rude here. How could someone work with you and not annoy you? She can't read your mind and know that what seems like something innocuous is a pet peeve for you.
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. I may if I have to listen to this for the next umpteen months.
. It's supposed to say "too YOUNG".
