by Amy Louhela

Created on: December 28, 2009

Adventures with Grandma..

Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking my granny to Wal-Mart.  My mother had told me that it would be about a three hour trip but I assumed she was joking. I was excited to take granny out because she had been ill and not out for a long time. My mom decided to go with us and as soon as we got to Wal-Mart she disappeared leaving me with granny. She quickly stated this is going to take forever and zoomed off on her merry way.

My granny is a very tiny woman and she came prepared. She had on her long johns, hat, three shirts, scarf, mittens, furry brown boots that went up to her knees and a very warm winter jacket. She did not want to get cold while shopping at Wal-Mart.

We first went shopping for my boys and she quickly picked out one of the latest Wii games and an item from the sports section.  Grandma likes to joke around so I  asked her if she wanted to get the boys new jock straps and she blushed and said “ why would I want to do that?” when I got home Tanner wanted to know what he got and I declared that Grandma picked them out new jock straps. I think that put an end to the “What did I get for Christmas” harassment.

 I would soon learn that granny is a woman who knows what she wants!

We then ventured over to the makeup section to get granny some lipstick. She wanted Pink lipstick, sounds simple doesn't it? Well it wasn't! We must have spent at least 20 minutes going through pink lipsticks. This one was to dark and the next one was to light and then she already had that one… I had realized that she must be a descendant of Goldilocks. Finally she tells me “Amy Lynn, open those lipsticks up and put some on my hand” The terror gripped me; open the lipstick? “Grandma we could get in trouble” I felt like I was an accessory to a crime but I also felt like I was five and had to do what grandma said. So I reluctantly started opening the lipsticks and putting some on her hand. She eventually found the one she wanted.

Grandma also needed some gray slacks. We went into the slack section. I picked her out a pair of gray spandex shiny slacks, but she quickly rejected those.  She informed me that the slacks have to go way up past her belly button. Hmmm….. Most of the pants now days are hip huggers. I began the quest of trying to find her slacks that go past her belly button. With each and every pair of pants she would hold them up to her and line up the waist

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