AIBU to ask what you think about grandparents?

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I'm sorry. I have the sense of humour of an 12 year old (I'm nearly 50) and I couldn't stop a little smirk at the idea of how many collective heads would explode reading that title. I'm a bad human being. I've had a trying day at work and my commuter train is like being a sweaty human Spam (the meat-amalgam obelisk thing, not the email junk kind). Forgive me, Mumsnet, I am being a wanker. Feel free to roast me.

YABU: Yes, you are indeed a wanker. One more grandparents thread and I'll start biting people.

YANBU: You are still being a wanker, but we are all permitted one small bit of stupidity to brighten our shitty commute.

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Obelisk??

YANBU, though. A'm not a grandparent, but I am of grandparentable age and I am amazed that the mere fact of being a parent of someone who has become a parent creates such a straitjacket for your acceptable life choices.

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I opened this thread with an intake of breath wondering what the fuck I was going to find this time.

Burst out laughing when I actually read it. Please continue!

My grandparents loved spam. The wobbly meaty jelly mess kind. Wouldn’t have known what an email was if you printed it out and posted it to them.

Strangely I don't think about grandparents, although MN is obsessed by them being on call 24/7 or to have nothing to do with the kids or to visit only when asked or to not offer advice but to offer support or to buy stuff or not buy stuff or to be nice to step grandkids but not to treat their own grandchildren....

Christ I thought being a parent was hard, but being a grandparent is a minefield.

You've answered the OP seriously!

Now take yourself outside and give yourself a suitable kicking! 😡

Wear your chunkiest boots! 🤣

My grandparents all died before I came along but I had two elderly aunts who I loathed. They were boring, tedious and seemed, to 5yo me, to be creatures from a different planet.

I was delighted when they decided they were too old to cope with small children.

Well played OP, well played!

and a great example of how (some) posters just respond to the thread title without even reading the OP

I'm actually wondering if this is an orchestrated attack or attempt to detail Mumsnet. I'm sure some of these grandparents posts are legitimate (and clearly we all have A LOT to say about it), but the plethora of similar posts all in a shot span?

It made me think that if I wanted to disrupt legitimate conversation on Mumsnet, filling it like this might be one way to be annoying. Have I read too many conspiracy theories? Is the Queen truly still alive and living her best life in Surbiton??

Ooooh I like that one. Maybe we could START some of our own conspiracy theories?

I’m a grandparent of 5 ranging from 16-25 and I think I did okay - all five of them are reasonably well-adjusted human beings despite my best efforts to corrupt them with sugary snacks and unlimited television. I honestly can’t get my head around the grandparent-related batshittery on Mumsnet.

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You got me @SardinesOnButteredToast!

My work here is done. Thank you for playing.

My mother is 92 and bent double with arthritis. She can barely see. I still expect her to look after my 6 children and my newborn twin babies 7 days a week so that I can go to work.

My selfish mother moans about it constantly coming up with all these ridiculous histrionic excuses such as her hip hurts but she's my mum so she is obliged to do it, and if she refused then I would cut her out of my life before you could say "saga holiday" and she'd never see my children ever again. It's only fair and its what she signed up for when she decided to have me.

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Bravo 👏 👏 👏
This made me (a grandparent) chuckle 🤭

Well, my great grandmother is 103 and she manages fine to rear all mine plus their 18 cousins. Between them, they go to 22 different schools, but so long as she cycles up the steep hill (goes up in both directions) she can get round them all. Bloody who gets, the lot of them

22 schools?- that would have been a luxury for us! My mother has to collect her grandchildren from 52 different schools.

When I say my 6 kids and my newborn twins, I also forgot to mention that I have 17 siblings and they also all have 6 children each so she's actually looking after 110 children every day starting from 4am. They're at 52 different schools - one based in the outer Hebrides which she has to get to from where we live in Devon by running (to be fair its probably less running, and more dragging her withered leg in a fast manner) with the kids on her back as she cant drive due to being almost blind.

I pay her a pretty generous fee of 10 pence per day to cover the costs so she really doesn't have any reason to complain about our arrangement and she gets one day off every decade for a little break.

Oh don't be so ridiculous. You had me until 10p but you jumped the shark there. Reporting to Mumsnet.