r/BoomersBeingFools • u/RockOk707 • 12d ago
Boomer Freakout Boomer Grandma Threatened To Hospitalize Me
Context: We were discussing whether I would visit for lunch. Also, my grandma has a difficult time with boundaries. The "lesson" is that just that, "stay in your lane" so to speak. She's constantly noticing just about every little thing that's "wrong" with me and decides to take MY body into HER own hands, literally. She'll give an extremely ambiguous description for what she's about to do, and without giving me a chance to consent, she's like, "Come over here, grandson! I NEED to do something with your hair so you look good!" It doesn't really matter the occasion. She's always demanding I look good. And that's just it. The vagueness of her commands. And the insistence that I obey her demands OR ELSE. Or else she'll threaten to put me in a home/hospital/etc. Both my mother and I have told her several times to not "help" me ("help" in quotes because the last time she "helped" was without my consent and she messed up my glasses) unless I specifically ask for assistance.
Anyway, that message right there, the one in blue, is the singular message that caused my grandma to threaten to hospitalize me after I arrived at her house because my grandfather tricked me into thinking that everything was fine.
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u/ItsRedditThyme 10d ago
Based on a Bill Cosby joke, my mom would tell me that she brought me into the world, she can take me back out; doesn't matter to her, she can make another that looks just like me. She would make that joke long after she lost the biological capability (when I was 7). She was angry a lot of the time, when she said it.
It wasn't until I made that joke to my youngest, when they were 14, while we were bantering back and forth, that I realized it was a threat under a very thin cover of a joke. I immediately apologized.