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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:47 PM
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I was asked if I was a GRANDMA today!
:cry: :cry: :cry:

I'm only 36...damn...
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:48 PM
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1. I guess that rates up there with being congratulated for being pregnant
when you're not!
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:49 PM
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2. Well if you had a child at 16 you could be one??
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:50 PM
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5. I don't have any kids...
Damn.. not even my DOGS have had kids!!! :cry:

Botox here I come...
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:50 PM
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3. But its Texas!
Wouldnt you be considered "over the hill" for being a Grandma.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:52 PM
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7. heh heh...
Atleast you made me laugh.....

Now I'm gonna go CRY! :cry:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:50 PM
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4. You're not even a "ma", much less a grandma!
Ouch. :hug:
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:51 PM
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6. Yeah... I know...
Damn...

Do I look like like a grandma David?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:53 PM
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10. No, I wouldn't say that.
Who was it that said this?
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:54 PM
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12. Some stupid patient....
I don't even WANT kids... damn.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:52 PM
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8. My sister was a grandmother at 36
I also realize she is a rarity.

In what context were you asked? Sounds pretty ignorant. By someone who thinks anyone over 30 are dinosaurs, perhaps?
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:54 PM
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11. I had a patient that just recently had a baby
she brought the baby over and I was looking at the baby and babbling when some other patient came around the corner and said " Oh TG, is that your GRANDCHILD??"

:cry:
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:57 PM
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15. Ouch!
But it sounds like the patient thought you had a bond with the baby, and likely knew you hadn't recently been pregnant...so they stupidly came up with grandmother?

I would think AUNT would make more sense, but hey. ;)
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:00 PM
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17. Yeah... no kidding...
I started looking in the mirror on my desk after that.....

Tonight it's cucumber slices on my face with a mask!
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:09 PM
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27. Was this patient
Edited on Mon Nov-21-05 08:10 PM by u4ic
also wearing underwear over their head? :crazy:

Good grief, that's quite the assumption!

:hug: I'm sure they would take it back if they could. Sounds like a brain fart to me.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:18 PM
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30. Brain fart!
LOVE that analogy!!!

I do work for a surgical EYE center...maybe she couldn't SEE!!! :P
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:52 PM
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9. I had a similar thing happen to me when I was 36.
A friend and I were out looking for wedding dresses, as we were both getting married. The friend I was with was about 7 years younger than me. We were in this one bridal shop, and this sales person looked at me and said, "So, you're the mom?" I gave her the Evil Eye, and said, "NO." She skeedadled back to the back room, and we didn't see her again. Someone else helped us.

Some people just have no sense of age. I know I don't have a real good sense of that (though I don't think I would ask someone as young as you if you were a grandmother). So, I keep my mouth shut on things like that.

Here, Texasgal, let me at whoever said that to you (and I promise, these will NOT be fun spankies!) :spank: :spank: :spank: :grr:

And here's something for you: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:55 PM
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13. Awwww... thanks...
I feel like I should break out the freaking BOTOX! :cry:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:56 PM
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14. Whoa, wait a minute...you're 36?
Oh, that's like, "the age" for women.

Mmmmm...36 is easily one of my favorite numbers when we're talking female experience.

Oh, yeah. I won't say anymore as I don't want the thread locked (and that Southlandshari is ALWAYS watching!).
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 07:59 PM
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16. OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Please don't tell me I am too old for you.... your my DU crush!!!!!


DAMN! My day is just getting WORSE!!!!! :cry:

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:03 PM
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21. Too old? Oh, hell no. Perfect.
Like I said, that's "the age" for women in my book. THE age.

You know, a Florida vacation does a body very good. I'm just sayin'...
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:05 PM
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23. Oh thank GOD!!!!
FLVEGAN STILL WUUUUUVVVVS MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!


*gulp* back to the wine!

Thanks,.... :loveya:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:12 PM
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28. Never a doubt in my mind. Matter of fact
you've just been moved up a notch or two.

If I were txvegan, I'd do whatever I could to make you feel better in your time of pain.

First, you'd need to relax. Full body massage with hot oil, coming up.

Second, unwinding in the hot tub while I fed you strawberries and grapes.

Third, cooling off. I'd fan you with large palm fronds whilst you read or watched tv, or posted on DU.

"flvegan (a/k/a txvegan) is fanning me with palm fronds and feeding me exotic fruis while wearing nothing but pleather chaps! ask me anything!"

Ahhhh...The Lounge would adore such a thread, I'm sure.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:19 PM
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32. OMG....
Do you know that actually HAVE a hotub?

COME TO TEXAS!!!!! :P
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:21 PM
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34. I didn't know that.
What would we do? See the sights and sounds of your community? I love to travel, and I do like hot tubs.
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southlandshari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:04 PM
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22. .......




























And for the record, I am 36. ;)
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:06 PM
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24. Awww,,,c;mon Shari...
Just ONE SEX THREAD! My day has been TRASHED!!! :P
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:07 PM
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25. I know, on both counts.
I had a girlfriend when I was 26 who was 36. Oh, my. And then, these women in their mid-30's just keep backing up what I knew and then had proven to me.

Sometimes Alabama is a little toooooooo close for comfort...in my...nevermind.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:08 PM
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26. Hmmm.... do tell, do tell...
This seems interesting!!!

:)

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:13 PM
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29. My dear, this thread is about you
not the proximity of another lovely 36 year old DUer.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:01 PM
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18. WTF? No way! Not that there's anything wrong with being a 36-year old...
grandma... but... no way!! :hi:
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:02 PM
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19. Your sweet Ms U....
It really made me take a long hard look at myself...

Screw it...I'm getting DRUNK NOW!!! :P
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:03 PM
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20. LOL!
In that case... :toast:
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:19 PM
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31. Heartless bastards!
Who do I have to beat up? Just point me in the right direction!

(But just as a warning... when you hit forty it really starts to get ugly.)

Khash.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:21 PM
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33. You know what Khash...
I was going to dedicate a song to you the other night... The "song" thread... didn't get around to it.

It would be "mystify" by INXS. :)

Just a nice thread HIGH-JACK here...
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:41 PM
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38. She high jacks her own thread!
Way to go, gal!

And nobody dedicated a single freaking song to me! So I will accept "mystify" graciously ( nice choice!) and just say "thank you".

Khash.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:36 PM
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35. Are you in East Texas?
That was my question BEFORE I noticed your nickname. haha

I worked with a woman once in a convenience store who was 36 and a grandmother. And I have a friend who is 27 and her mother is 40. And that woman is also a grandmother, to a seven-year-old. So was a grandmother at age 33. Wild, huh?

Welcome to Podunkland!!!
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:38 PM
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36. On the positive side, they didn't ask you if you were a grandpa.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 08:40 PM
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37. oh I'm 36 too
that's brutal! :hug:
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