My maternal Gran passed away this morning. She was 99.
AMUSING SIDENOTE: I was her oldest grandchild. When I was about ten years old, she made a request to all of us to call her Granny, not Grandma. She thought “Grandma” made her sound too old. 😀
I received tons of emails from Gran over the last 17 years or so. She was pretty hip like that, sporting an AOL address since before there was even such a thing as Google.
Chain emails that seem so vintagely cliche now were a daily thing for me back in the early days. There were a few awesome Granny emails that were lost in an email crash back in the nineties — personal emails that gave me inside info on how she met my grandfather — and it totally bums me out that I no longer have them. But they’ll always be in my head.
I just did a quick search in my dusty old Yahoo inbox and found an email from Gran that dates back to a relatively recent August 2009. Funny to see this now, as 2009 was the year I was writing the anagram-driven Under Angels novel.
I’ll spare you the font choices and colored rubberband background, but it went something like this:
This has got to be one of the cleverest
E-mails I’ve received in awhile.
Someone out there
is deadly at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOMPRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYERASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARERDESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS ITTHE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEEGEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORETHE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTSSLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN MEANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITYELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES – LET’S RECOUNTSNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘SA DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACETHE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKEELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONEAND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLERYep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands!
Rest in peace at last, dear Gran. Give my love to Grandpa. <3
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