“The older I get, the longer the days but the shorter the years.” - Gramps
“I’m not sleeping, I’m thinking.”
After lunch my grandma often got really sleepy. But instead of going to her bed take a nap, she’d put the elbows on the table, hold her head between hands, and close her eyes. Sometimes genuinely sleep there. And when my uncles or my mum told her “mum, go sleep on your bed”, she’d angrily answer “I’m not sleeping, I’m thinking.”
It’s the exact same answer that my nephew gives to my sister, when he’s napping on the sofa. Kind of weird because, when grandma (his grand-grandma) died he was simply too young to remember her.
And while not a specific word or phrase, the shitty jokes that my mum tells remind me grandpa. He did the same.
“This is good”
My grandfather’s go-to response whenever something goes well, or he gets some good news. Whenever I read the phrase, I can picture him saying it, and hear the words in his voice.
“Mof”. That is the Dutch equivalent for “Kraut” as in the slur for “German”. My grandparents lived through the second world war and went through some traumatic experiences.
Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze!
I’ve never heard about apple pie with cheese, and I never want to hear about it again.
“I woke up this morning, so I’m blessed.” Some days, even waking up is a struggle, so that’s kind of on repeat for me nowadays.
Saaa L mon. The way my grandmother pronounced the elongated a and the L in salmon
“salad is for bunnies”
My father routinely referred to any bread with grains or seeds in it as bird or squirrel bread.
To this day, I agree. Give me my white Texas toast and don’t put any seeds or nonsense in my bread.
Duplicate/very similar to a topic posted a few hours ago.
“Chesterfield”
Hello hello hello!
I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!
Ah!
No you don’t!
Yeach.
Fiddlesticks
Oh, for cryin’ out loud!
