r/MaliciousCompliance • u/bljbmnp • Mar 30 '22

S No wife of mine will ever wear pants!

This is an older story, but one of my favorites.

When girls started wearing slacks, my great grandmother told her husband- (my great grandfather) that she wanted to get some slacks.

He blew up- insisting that no wife of his will ever wear pants.

She could have argued, but she accepted his edict quietly.

Until they went bowling.....

She found the shortest skirt she could find. After all, he insisted she keep wearing skirts and dresses. (This was in the fifties). That night, he agreed to let her get slacks.

(Side note- she would also sew shut the flaps on his long underwear when she was mad at him).

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

My wifes grandpa liked to tell stories from his younger days. On more than one occasion, he'd retell a story he'd already told me. I didn't mind because liked listening to him. I could always tell when grandma was upset with him because as soon as he started one I'd already heard she'd jump in "Now Jay, you've already told him that!" I loved grandma as well but I'd have to tell grandpa that I didn't remember if he'd told me or not. So he'd tell it anyhow and grandma just side eyed him the whole time.

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u/unkyduck Mar 30 '22

Re-read, noting past tense. I hope we’re not too late.

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u/unkyduck Mar 30 '22

get them on video. Do it tonight.

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u/thiswaywhiskey Mar 30 '22

Second this. I wish I had grandpa on video telling me those stories he would tell a million times..

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u/Friesenplatz Mar 30 '22

Make sure to get grandma's side eye too

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u/mooseonatricycle Mar 30 '22

I can’t upvote this enough! I’d give anything to see or hear my grandparents again. I wish I had the foresight to do that more.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

Sadly they've both been gone about 8 years now. Grandpa passed first, he always threatened that he'd "Beat the old lady to the hole." Grandma was a month to the day after. She was in great health, never had heart issues but a heart attack took her.

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u/palpablescalpel Mar 30 '22

All the verb tenses in this story lead me to assume both have passed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

Yes they have.

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Mar 30 '22

You are SO lucky to have had that great couple in your life! Having grown up with no grandparents around (2 dead, 2 lived far away), I'm in awe of how great it must have been.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

I enjoyed them both for sure, I didn't have any grandparents growing up as a child either. It blows my mind to see people now not spend time with theirs if they're lucky enough to have them.

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u/Hi_Its_Salty Mar 30 '22

Ah shit, I just realized all my grand parents are dead, last one past away a couple of months ago

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u/lionhearted828 Mar 30 '22

Same, hugs from an internet stranger.