Your grandmother sounds like a real hoot. She reminds me very much of my grandmother. My grandmother was probably the funniest person I ever have know.
Oh, mine is very funny. She just doesn't know it.
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When I went to college and had my first answering machine the out going message was something like "Hello, it's CityGirl. I am unavailable but leave a message".
(note: my grandmother was still using a rotary phone and probably had never heard of an answering machine)
She calls me and thought *I* was telling her I could not talk so she proceeds to talk on the machine like we are having a conversation. Clearly she was oblivious to the fact I was not responding but she yammered on and on giving me the daily rundown of General Hospital. When I heard the message I about died laughing!
This is SO great! I love this. My grandmother has left a message before with her full name--like birth certificate name. This was helpful. This did not lead to my confusing her with my other 80-year-old friends, all of whom have similar-sounding voices.
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My second favorite was when she called and left a message that her kitchen curtains were ON FIRE and she had called my dad (my grandmother lived down the street from my parents) and was waiting on him to come over. Never dawned on her to call the fire department. Have mercy. She said this in the most casual fashion like she was waiting on my dad to come over and have coffee or something.
This is also excellent. My grandmother would do similar things when my late grandfather was in poor health. She would call my father to come provide medical assistance instead of calling for an ambulance. My father is not a doctor or a medical professional of any sort, by the way. He owns a truck, tractor, and car repair business. He would tell her to call an ambulance, but she would say my father should go ahead and come "just to have a look at him."
