“Stupid is as Stupid…does…” 🤐
Yesterday, my granddaughter Tina, called from Nice, France. It was a delightful surprise.
Her mother, my eldest daughter, Lee had mentioned her trip was a part medical conference in England, then a childhood friend’s wedding in Cannes …afterwards.
I asked if she was going alone, she had told me she was going with Ashley.
Oh, I thought cousins travelling together…how sweet. (The girls live in different cities, these days, but were so close as little girls).
They are in their 30’s.
Leave to me, “Gram- cracker”, the nickname they gave me, to make trouble, innocently.
Tina without warning sticks, (after greeting me, briefly), “Ashley’s on the phone, “Talk to Ashley, Gram-cracker”. 😃
Tina's father & my daughter, are divorced for years. Ashley is his sister’s child, who I haven’t seen nor had any communication with.
So, as you can imagine putting me on the spot “speak to Ashley ". I was taken back. 🙄
“Hello, Ashley, I hope you girls are having a good time”, I say, cheerfully. 😊
I don’t what to converse with her about, so I ask, “How is your mother”?
She sorta hesitates, makes a nervous cackle, then she strongly answers, “She’s dead”!
I am expectedly floored, I think I should have heard about it…as my daughter was fond of her x-sister-in-law, Ashley’s mom.
“Uh… when this happen”?
“A few years ago,”, she responses like she’s jesting with me.
Would you believe she’s so lighthearted…as she is holding a conversation with Tina, simultaneously. I’m thrown, so I stupidly ask, “Is she dead emotionally or literally”? (Perhaps she had an estrangement with her mother), I reason since she doesn’t sound remorseful.
“Both”! she giggles nervously. 😕🥵
I wish I could die; I was so humiliated, as the old saying goes…
Again, I lost for words…I ask, “How’s your stepfather”? 😶
“Huh… what, who”? the girl giggles. 😲
Oh, my gawd! I suddenly realize…
😮This was NOT cousin Ashley…but an old college friend of Tina’s.
Why would my granddaughter just put this strange young woman on the phone with me, from Cannes?
