# My grandmother was a funny woman. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783 "2015-02-16T02:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/21 "2015-02-21T03:14:42Z")
Your grandma is officially a badass. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/22 "2015-02-22T18:50:48Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > My grandmother died late last year just shy of her 104th birthday after living an amazing life (orphan, POW, immigrant, farmer). > > Her last few nights were spent in the nursing home that she had been in for several years, the home has a protocol that when one of the residents is on their last legs a nurse will quietly check on them a few times during the night to see that they are still alive. > > Apparently the night before she died she was lying awake in bed around 2am and heard the nurse (who wasn’t very popular with the residents) open her door to do one of the checks. > > So she held her breath…and let the nurse walk a few steps into her room so he could listen a bit more clearly…and then said (quite loudly) “I’m not dead yet!”. > > Scaring the hell out of the nurse and giving my grandmother and her fellow patients one last laugh before she checked out. 😃 > > She’ll be missed. And the nurse believed her? ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/23 "2015-02-24T05:00:21Z")
One Christmas when my Grandma was over 80, she asked me what I wanted for my gift. Farmer style overalls were my choice, and she was familiar with them, having been a farmer’s wife for most of her life. After I opened my present she said I should try them on, and I did. After I came out from changing to model them, and said I needed to go change back into my regular clothes, she said “Wait!” and walked up to me. With a twinkle in her eyes, she reached up and undid the straps that hold up the front, and said “I haven’t done that in a long time…but I still remember how to do it” All present were amused no end. And Grandma laughed louder than I had ever heard; she was usually quite prim and proper. She was probably one of the gentlest people I’ve ever known. A very wonderful Grandma. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/24 "2015-02-24T05:08:18Z")
My grandma was 89 and never used glasses. She drank right out of the bottle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/25 "2015-02-24T06:24:30Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > My grandma was 89 and never used glasses. She drank right out of the bottle. 🙂 How did she manage to get it open once her teeth were gone? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/26 "2015-02-26T01:21:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > How did she manage to get it open once her teeth were gone? Are you insinuating she pulled off the cap with her choppers? Nonsense, she broke off the cap on the side of the table and drank from the open neck. Like a lady. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/27 "2015-02-26T05:12:51Z")
> [@wellanuff](#): > > Anyone can pull off the “not breathing” joke. It takes a real dedication to the art of humor to pull it off on the night before you actually die, getting the victim a second time leaning the other way. > > “OK, Agnes, very funny, you’re not going to trick me two nights in a row…you can breathe now…Agnes?” > > (Said only with the sincerest condolences for you and respect for your wonderful grandma. I hope I have her same spirit if I live to be 104.) I totally agree. I’ve gotten a few folks with the same joke twice. But if you do it on your deathbed. Wow! Kudos. And condolences as well.She kicked ass all her life, it sounds like. Respect! ---
**Author:** ![fridolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85f322/32.png) [@fridolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fridolph)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/28 "2015-02-26T05:19:35Z")
Sorry to hear that about your grandmother. On the other side, your grandmother wanted to leave you funny memories of her. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783/29 "2015-02-28T04:25:39Z")
Your grandmother sounds like an extraordinary woman! I love her prank, and I hope you inherited a lot of her genes! P.S. another vote for a movie based on her life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-was-a-funny-woman/712783.md?page=1)