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Grandma, 74, injured while demonstrating monkey bars
Mary Baio hurt herself while showing her 7-year-old granddaughter how to use the monkey bars on the family's play set. "I hit my forehead on the wood [during the demonstration]. I fell and passed out." (Lake County News-Sun)
March 29, 2007 | Permalink
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Um. I'm trying to come up with a snarky comment, but I just sort of feel sorry for the lady.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 9:51:16 AM
That's the kind of grandparent I want to be. Granted, the child could have been traumatized or whatever, but still... what a story she'll have to tell to her grandchildren.
Posted by: DT | Mar 29, 2007 9:51:26 AM
I love this grandma!
Posted by: mamatx | Mar 29, 2007 9:51:28 AM
I love how they defined monkey bars for the common reader.
Posted by: ssw | Mar 29, 2007 9:53:49 AM
Yup, she's got the moxie...Aha!
MAybe we can sent her a red hat.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 9:54:27 AM
I can see this thread running dry without some priming. Anybody have any good grandparent stories? Come on. Don't be shy. (Yeah, right...)
Posted by: DT | Mar 29, 2007 10:03:08 AM
Hmmmm...well, the story I just told in the posting about the cafeteria thieves was about my grandmother...
I'm sure I can come up with some. Give me a minute to think.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 10:07:39 AM
Aha! Got one!
My grandmother is known throughout the world for her...thriftiness. Vendors in Middle Eastern Bazaars take the day off when they hear she's landed at the airport. But, in one of the pinnacles of her career as a 'quality-control' specialist, she once bought a ham from the supermarket, took it home, cooked it, served it to her family and, not satisfied with the quality of the ham, took the BONE and the receipt back to the supermarket and demanded her money back.
And they gave it to her.
Wow.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 10:11:00 AM
I like that kind of grandparent.
My grandpa almost killed us both when he asked me to help him make a carbide bomb. All I remember when the thing prematurely exploded was seeing his feet in the air. All the other kids in the neighborhood wanted a grandpa like mine.
Now that I think about it, I'm kind of glad my dad lives 600 miles away from my kids.
Posted by: oxhead | Mar 29, 2007 10:18:52 AM
My Gram was a lkleptomaniac when she was in the nursing home, you'd find all kinds of clothing that weren't hers in her closet, she'd switch desserts with her blind roommate if she thought she had a better one. Stole charts from the nurses station...Yet all her belongings were marked "Property of (my grandmothers) name. Do not touch."
She was a riot. I miss her.
Posted by: dyndylion | Mar 29, 2007 10:22:16 AM
Ha! I'm thinking about the day I will have kids and what my parents will be like. At this point I'm probably going to be the first in the family to supply grandchildren (I think), so I'm just imagining how silly both my parents will get. I can definitely see them being the kind of grandparents that kids want to visit, and that parents worry will give them too much caffeine :D
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 10:23:16 AM
My mom's parents are both still with us, and they are just so laid back it's awesome. They have ten children. No really. Ten. And they still share a bed...which, now that I think about it, makes a lot of sense :D They are both in their eighties and still going strong. I hope they will stick around for a while longer, I'm going to really miss them when they go.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 10:25:47 AM
when i was about 14 my grandma rode our honda mini dirt bike and crashed it into the flower beds in the front yard.
she was fine.
she's always had a wild side, but has become increasingly fearful of the world in her later years so she never gets out anymore. it's sad.
Posted by: natallica | Mar 29, 2007 10:39:08 AM
The ladies in the neighborhood used to avoid shaking hands with my grandpa for fear that the extreme fertility was catching :D
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 10:42:39 AM
V - Your grandpa sounds like he was full of spunk.
(Sorry, I really wrestled over that one.)
Posted by: DT | Mar 29, 2007 10:54:24 AM
I always said my mom's mom was the smartest uneducated person I ever met. She *did* get her GED eventually, but had to drop out of high school her sophomore year because of family finances.
And she was a riot. She lived next door to my mom, and somewhere I have a picture of her in a halter top (at something like 85) that she made by tying two (mis-matched and clashing) head scarves together. It was frightening. And she went outside in it.
One Christmas, we gave her a set of bookcases. The box had a huge gold foil bow around it, which she proceeded to remove and wear on her head. The bow had to be a foot or more across.
When I moved away, she used to call and leave looooooooong messages on my machine about how she missed seeing me. She's been gone 14 years now. If she were still here she'd be 103, so it's probably better that she's not.
Posted by: Wolf | Mar 29, 2007 10:58:24 AM
"They put a plate in with a couple of screws,"
Now if she falls again her head will ring out like an aluminum baseball bat.
Posted by: Dick C. Normas | Mar 29, 2007 11:01:45 AM
Oh, examples of grandma's smarts: She didn't have the terms for them, but two of the things I vividly recall her predicting were the web and electronic banking. "Some day you won't have cash and you won't need it," she'd say, and I'd just go "yeah, right."
Posted by: Wolf | Mar 29, 2007 11:03:11 AM
DT-argh. He's still around, and he'd prove how full of...vigor...he was if he read that :D
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 11:07:04 AM
Wolf-your grandma sounds like she was freakin' AWESOME :D
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 11:07:51 AM
Yeah, she was. She could be a dingbat (same as my mom) but she wasn't dumb by any stretch. I think a lot of my attitude about almost everything comes from spending so much time with her.
Posted by: Wolf | Mar 29, 2007 11:20:38 AM
Sometimes it's really nice to be able to say you're like your parents/greandparents.
But I also have to admit how much I'm like my parents/grandparents in all those other ways, too...yikes.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 11:37:37 AM
What a cool Grandma. I love that she wants to be involved and trys. Hey, anyone could have hurt themselves. Who cares how old you are?!?!? GO GRANDMA!!!!:)
Posted by: Elizabeth | Mar 29, 2007 11:42:13 AM
So... what would Toby the Wonder Dog have done? :)
Posted by: kestrelmas | Mar 29, 2007 11:51:00 AM
Toby would clearly have knocked the phone off its stand and dialed for an ambulance, all while performing mouth to mouth on the grandma and comforting the little girl.
Posted by: V | Mar 29, 2007 11:53:23 AM
