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.