My grandmother has discovered texting.

Forzare

This morning, I woke up to find this gem on my phone.

"Hey [REDACTED]!  Talk 2 me.  R u alive?!  U no I tried to call u the other day!  Y u no call me back?  Do NOT ignore me!!!"

I'll never be able to get the image of grandmother-as-Y-U-NO-guy out of my head.

MillerCross

My brain = Forzare's brain.

that was the first image I had in my head while reading this.

snowbull

Thankfully the most advanced piece of technology my grandmother owns is either her TV or a landline phone.

Crimson

idk my bff rose?

/obligatory

glennmagusharvey

inb4 idk m--

damnitdamnitdamnit.avi

Icalasari

For a second I read that as sexting

My mind has been perverted beyond repair

Forzare

Forzare

and that is why grandparents should not text

Ironweaver

The one time I tried teaching my grandma to send text messages, she ended up spamming my inbox with empty ones for about a week... until she forgot the procedure.

All Nines

^^ Wait, that . . . uhh . . .

Wicked223

yo, your grandma be mad racist, man

Forzare

I still haven't texted her back because I just have no idea how to reply to that.

All Nines

Going by her previous text to you, she probably wouldn't be good at handling chastisement for that stunning bit of racism.

Forzare

I guess it's not fair to say that all grandparents shouldn't text because my mom's parents are awesome, but yeah



It's always weird when someone you like and respect goes and does something like



that

Crimson

^that feel, i know it.

ClockworkUniverse

^that feel, i know it.

MillerCross

I know it, that feel.

All Nines

For once, I don't know the same feel as Forzabro and INUH.

ClockworkUniverse

The occasion I was thinking of was when after I left my first school, I wanted to attend a local school just to take a few summer classes while I looked for another one. My dad vetoed one because it has a lot of black students.

MillerCross

There was this time my mom and sister were discussing about my sister's hypotheticall boyfriend, and then I don't know who brought it up, but someone suggested "What if it is black?" and they made err, some unsavory comments on the line of "Never" and "I would take you from my will"

I think they were joking, but still.

Forzare

Every now and then my dad will say something about or imply how gay people are unnatural or bad or something, and my and my sisters will just go "wtf" at him, and he'll get all uncomfortable and change the subject.

Fuschlatz

For a second I read that as sexting

I wanna fuck you hard, I wanna feel you deep
I wanna rock your body, I wanna taste your sweet

It feels great knowing that Raydere will now be responsible for my horrible and agonizing death.

All Nines

Wait, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure my stepdad has used the not-quite-a-word "ariens" to describe illegal immigrants at least once in my presence. But I don't say anything about it because he's an incredibly stubborn Sean Hannity listener and my stepbrother, his son, was there and didn't speak up against it.

He's done some other stuff too, but I can't quite remember it.

Nyktos

Makes me thankful for my family. Bleeding-heart lefties the lot of them. I have an aunt on my dad's side who's a lesbian and an uncle on my dad's side who married a black woman, and as far as I can tell they've both been shown nothing but kindness.

All Nines

That's good. The only thing I can really think of that sticks out as a hopeful sign is that I somehow managed to sway my mom into approval of gay marriage, where before she was thankfully only anti gay marriage in the sense that she believed in the historic definition of marriage that I'm pretty sure isn't even the proper historic definition. We seem to agree on most other issues, though, even if she's much more vehement about them than I am.

When I talk about this sort of thing, I often feel like I should shut up, on account of I'm theoretically in favor of capital punishment. e_e;

Forzare

I'm pretty lucky in that my family doesn't really talk about politics and controversial stuff like that much. So I don't have much of a bead on what most of my family thinks on different issues.

ClockworkUniverse

My dad never shuts up about politics.

Nyktos

My dad tends to talk about politics a lot, but I actually agree with him on most things.

MillerCross

My folks don't share their views with me most of the time, but my mom told me once that he said that women should wear longer skirts taking into account the whole rape thing and that pretty much made me facepalm.

vandro

My mother is a social democrat through and through, but she is one in a fiscal sense rather than a social way, pardon the redundancy. But she isn't so much of a racist(she is cool with people of all colors, but she prefers me to marry a white woman), but a mild homophobe(they can do what they like as long as they don't think they are normal). Most of my older relatives are hard homophobes, being born before the sixties do that to you.

Ironweaver

My father's a fairly typical social democrat, while my mother is more to the right - something along the lines of a populist conservative liberal (yeah, that is not an oxymoron), and a member of a conservative party, though she dislikes some overly conservative and clericalist aspects of their ideology. She's got some fairly iffy views on quite a few subjects, but I'm working on changing her mind on those (because of that, she's suspecting me of being secretly gay, among other things).

Ironically, the father is quite strict, traditional and authoritarian, while the mother is rebellious, philosophical, artsy and something of a hippie, which totally goes against what you would expect, based on their political beliefs.