thanks but no thanks

subject: grandma

body:  I spent a full hour trying to get grandma connected to her e mail, I knew I was almost there when I asked her doesn’t it say anywhere to click here for e mail and she said.  Yes, It says click here to check comcast e mail, but I don’t want to check their e mail I want to check mine” – at that hour it was time for me to hang up and have my piano lesson.  When I later called me back she said she finally figured out how to do it, but she needed to run an errand, but she did find your e mail, but wasn’t sure how to open the attachment – she said she would call you and if I thought if she found her way to your e mail, maybe you could walk her thru opening the attachment

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i had asked my father to walk my grandmother through opening her e-mail so that she would be candid telling him what she thought of the attachments i sent.  it didn’t occur to him to also be on the computer while he navigated. i guess they are both geris.

all russians know mom

<my mom is originally from russia, as in she still has an accent and her name sounds russian>

grandmother went shopping in philadelphia with her daughter<my aunt> and a russian woman helped them in the fitting room.  grandmother asked the salesperson if she knew my mother – and oddly the salesperson said that she did.  this is particularly funny because my mother never uses her real name in department stores – especially with a russian salesperson.  it’s one of her strange quirks about not wanting to speak in her native tongue and so she tends to use my name instead.

phones have been around since the 1870s

i was talking to my grandmother about how i may travel to israel.  she has long time friends there and she requested i call those friends from the holy land to “let them know we still love israel and still think about our friends” – for some reason calling from inside the country is more valuable than she calling herself across the waters? last words of the phone call: if you get there you’ll be sure to call them