Family, Awkward, Grandparents and Miscellaneous: Today, I saw my grandmother. All of my cousins and I went to...

By ForgottenKid - 06/11/2009 06:13 - United States

Today, I saw my grandmother. All of my cousins and I went to say hi to her, one by one. When I got up to her and said, "Hi grandma!", she said in Chinese, "I don't remember this one." FML

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By forgotten - 02/10/2009 07:46 - United Kingdom

Today, being the nice grandchild that I am, I went to visit my grandmother. She didn't recognise who I was. I thought she was joking. She later called the police as, "Some weirdo had walked into her house." I'm that weirdo; she wasn't joking. FML

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Today, my grandpa died. I called my grandma to make sure she was going to be fine. After talking over the phone for 30 minutes or so, I told her goodbye and said, out of habit, "Say hi to grandpa for me". FML

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By fuckthat - 18/02/2009 05:08 - United States

Today, my grandmother called. She greeted me by my mother's name. When I told her it wasn't my mother, she apologized and corrected herself, but this time she addressed me as my sister. When I told her it wasn't my sister either, she said, "Sorry, wrong number" and hung up. FML

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By Michelle - 01/09/2010 08:27 - Netherlands

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By lady_jeni - 09/07/2009 07:29 - United States

Today, I went to see my grandmother. She has alzheimers and doesn't remember me sometimes, and today she thought I was her sister and that I was trying to steal my grandfather from her. She hit me with a cane and called me a slut. FML

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Today, during a family reunion, my 89 year-old grandma stood up and drunkenly made a speech about how ashamed I should be of myself for still being single. She then passed out at the table. Half my family got up to help her, the other half whispered in agreement. FML

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MermaidSongXOXO 6

Friday 6 November 2009 12:18

Awww, don't take offense to it. Her memory's just slipping. It would've been worse if she suddenly remembered and said "Oh, yeah--- the mistake."

Jadian 4

Friday 6 November 2009 14:22

Sounds similar to when my great aunt was introducing us four kids... she was like, "This one's Matt, this one's Angelica, this one's Kyle..." then she points to me and says, "and that's... oh, whatever her name is." It definitely sucks.

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realxmuto 4

Friday 6 November 2009 12:17

maybe you just have a lot of cousins? I know some people who have like twenty

make_me_smile 4

Monday 9 July 2012 4:51

20 is actually not that many. I have 42

sayyestothedress 24

Saturday 21 June 2014 23:34

I have 60 on my moms side ONLY!

realxmuto 4

Friday 6 November 2009 12:17

sorry for the double post >.

MermaidSongXOXO 6

Friday 6 November 2009 12:18

Awww, don't take offense to it. Her memory's just slipping. It would've been worse if she suddenly remembered and said "Oh, yeah--- the mistake."

BeeSkwaird 0

Friday 6 November 2009 15:47

Haha, good call, MS. Seriously, OP, grandmas' memory fades; don't take it personally.

MiniatureMayhem 0

Friday 6 November 2009 12:25

lol

tiancai 0

Friday 6 November 2009 12:27

哈哈她怎么能不认识你？

ElMundio87 0

Friday 6 November 2009 12:49

"Haha, how could she not know you?"

tiancai 0

Friday 6 November 2009 13:36

btw why is it that Chinese is displayed in the comments without a problem, but in PM it shows up as question marks?

wellinever 5

Friday 6 November 2009 14:42

Thank goodness for Google translator. As for how? She's old. It happens. It must be sad when members of your own family don't recognise you. Ask anyone with relatives who have Alzheimers. Looking at it the other way round, it must also be hard to realise that you don't recognise members of your family.

fawfulster 11

Friday 6 November 2009 19:04

Why does she need to say it in English? Is it a big problem that people from all over the world type their native language?

RachelTM 0

Friday 6 November 2009 20:18

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