Grandma
Bikini Nana
“My Nana was widowed when she was 60. All of sudden she felt liberated and would show her body off any chance she got. Including wearing bikinis at dinner.”
(submitted by Jacqui)
Fun With Tetanus
“Playing in grandma’s back yard. She had some old rusty playground equipment. I WAS NOT going to slide my son down, but the family thought it would be a funny picture. We just wanted to climb to the top to look around. (taken around 1991)”
(submitted by Gregory)
Chanel No. 5000
“This was when Nana got home from her twice yearly trip to Mexico. After telling us about the great deal she got on perfume, she wanted to hold my daughter. The baby wasn’t a fan of the copious amounts of Mexican Chanel #5 her great grandma was wearing.”
(submitted by Shea)
Shirt Con
“My son talked his grandma into buying him this shirt when he was eight, “Because he loves Subway.”
(submitted by Heather)
The Stickup
“When I was twelve my Grandma took me to Wild West City. I’m supposed to be sticking her up but it looks more like I’m pointing to her chest.”
(via source)
Octo-Grandma
“This is my Googoo (grandmother) in 1980 debuting the spider costume she made. Everyone in our family has gotten to wear this in at some point in our lives (either by choice or a very strong recommendation from the designer).”
(submitted by Kelli)
Family Appreciation Day
“Pictured here: my sweet, loving grandmother, my sister, her husband and their cute baby boy. The nursing home set up a photo studio and invited the families of residents to come in for a FREE family portrait for their annual ‘Family Appreciation Day.” This is the photo we got! It’s inexplicable that the photographer let this one slide, but now we have this delightfully tragic image to feel weird about for years to come. Thanks?”
(submitted by Fran)
Ghost Boy
“Grandma wanted family photos of all her kids, so she dragged us to JC Penney’s. (No one wanted to do it.) The photographer was so disengaged that she didn’t notice my nephew sneaked into our picture, and we didn’t notice until we got all the prints back. We call this ‘ghost boy.'”
(submitted by Kelli)
Grandma’s Lookalike
“Each time I go tu UK, I look closely to banknote, thinking of “mémé.” If only my Grand’Ma could have been British. But I’m sure she wasn’t, she was Spanish!”
(submitted by Annette, in France)
