One of the disappointments of being a grandpa

[rburg]

Last night after our walk, we went to Sam's Club to pick up some stuff. My wife spotted the tub of strawberries. She selected one with a berry the size of an apple. Huge, red, and demanding to be taken home. We just put it in the cart and moved along. When we got to the car, I had terrible guilt feelings.

As we headed out on to the interstate, I told my wife to call our son. My grandson needed that strawberry. So I made the 5 mile detour. He couldn't wait to get his teeth into it (it did look great.) But then his mother took it away to wash it. He would have nothing else to do with the thing! He did eat huge bites out of the two I selected for me, but the choice one just sat on his plate.

I'm guessing his mom or dad finished it. Probably took them 5 or 6 bites, too. I'd hate to imagine that great looking berry going to waste. And next time I won't be driving that way when I spot something great like that.

 

[rburg]

Last night after our walk, we went to Sam's Club to pick up some stuff. My wife spotted the tub of strawberries. She selected one with a berry the size of an apple. Huge, red, and demanding to be taken home. We just put it in the cart and moved along. When we got to the car, I had terrible guilt feelings.

As we headed out on to the interstate, I told my wife to call our son. My grandson needed that strawberry. So I made the 5 mile detour. He couldn't wait to get his teeth into it (it did look great.) But then his mother took it away to wash it. He would have nothing else to do with the thing! He did eat huge bites out of the two I selected for me, but the choice one just sat on his plate.

I'm guessing his mom or dad finished it. Probably took them 5 or 6 bites, too. I'd hate to imagine that great looking berry going to waste. And next time I won't be driving that way when I spot something great like that.

 

[M29since14]

Very funny.

I used to watch my Dad and my son go at it. Dad would buy him a drink, or something to eat. The lad would drink or eat one-third, maybe half of it at most, and then it would sit there - never to be touched again.

Dad would tell him to finish the thing or he wouldn't be buying him another Coke (or whatever)...

You can imagine how long that threat lasted.

 

[ingmansinc]

Dick,

Isn't being a grandparent about the best thing that ever happened. My wife and I married at age twenty-one and had our three daughters before we were thirty. Therefore we were young enough to enjoy the grand kids. We have seven ranging from age seven to twenty-one.

I used to sit next to the garden and eat strawberries with my grandma. It seems a little strange to me but she would always eat them with Velveeta Cheese. She also taught me how to chop the head off the chickens and dip them in boiling water to help get the feather off. She also taught me how to iron and sew. Those were the good times and I have tried to duplicate them with my own.

 

[feralmerril]

I have found those huge strawberries arent near as tasty or sweet as the small ones we used to grow when I was a kid. When I was a kid I worked a summer picking them for a couple cents a box.

 

[Indiana George]

"But then his mother took it away to wash it..."

I shudder when I think of the horrible, disfiguring diseases we narrowly missed by eating berries, fruit, etc. straight from our grandparents' gardens.

 

[rburg]

Originally posted by Indiana George:
when I think of the horrible, disfiguring diseases we narrowly missed

Its why we're all so stupid these days, and why the younger generation has ADD and stuff we never heard of.

I talked to my son today, he said the strawberry didn't last but a few minutes after we left, plus the little one ate a few more. Guess all wasn't lost. I just wish someone would stop here and drop of some prime berries!

 

[Onomea]

Well, sorry it didn't turn out as you'd hoped, but, heck, it's just a minor thing, of course.

I think from the grandkid's point of view, grandpop gave him this really nice strawberry. For him! It's his! And then mom takes it away?!!! What the...?!! (Probably the "needs to be washed" message blew right by him. It was HIS strawberyy, goldurn it! His!!) So when she brings it back, by golly, the grandkid is gonna show 'em! Gonna ignore it.

I am looking forward to my own grandkids. None so far, at least as far as I know...

 

[scoutsdad]

Your DIL was right to wash that strawberry. Its one of the dirty dozen of foods to buy organic. That one must of had a little to much pesticide sprayed on it and screwed up its chromosomes.

 

[dovekiller]

Do you come to praise my berry?

No. We come to sieze your berry.

Tks to the late Flip Wilson [/I

 

[Bullman]

I have found the trick with my little girl to be that if I claim it as my own, she will want it then. Nothing fires me up more than to ask her what she wants for breakfast, then to make it, then have her tell me she doesn't want that for breakfast. So I just tell her it is mine, and she will eat it.

 

[michaelknifenut]

Our grandkids(4&2) keep our strawberrys cleaned out as soon as they are ripe.I second the thought that there is nothing better in life than grandkids.I babysit our 2 year old grandson five days a week and I can't wait untill he gets here.Nearest thing to heaven is a child,Oah Ridge Boys have it right...Mike