the stories your grandparents tell

My life is a series of surprises. I think that everyone's is but I try to never stick to a routine but instead walk a different way to class or to the grocery store, but the other day I was surprised in a way that I still can not fully explain.

I called my grandmother to thank her for he birthday car she had sent me. We were talking and ended up on the conversation of my gay grandfather and the life they lived together before he was gay. I think this came up because I finally had the balls to mention in brief passing my girlfriend. I have never ever used those words with my grandmother even with really serious girls like Anna! It just NEVER happened. But anyway that is a whole other story about how I did not even receive a reaction from her about it (thank goodness!)

So we were talking and the conversation went to how the marriage began falling apart even before he came out because he was on a lot of drugs at the time. My grandmother then said, "but hey it was 1968, 69 and 70 we were all on a lot of drugs then!" Now if that was not enough my grandmother then went into a description of all the drugs she has ever taken! Which as far as I can tell was everything available that you didn't have to smoke or wasn't LSD. This she explained to me was because her father always told her that she shouldn't smoke because it wasn't lady like. The reason behind not messing with LSD was because a man on TV always talked about how his daughter took LSD and thought she could fly but ended up killing herself.

It was really strange to have this conversation with my grandmother, but I am really glad that it happened.