My grandma taught my grandpa a lesson when he complained about her cooking in the ’50s – I strive for her level of petty
THIS grandma wasn’t going to take any griping from anyone – especially her husband.
In fact, it was time to teach him a lesson.
“Back in the 1950s my grandma did something that will live rent free in my mind for the rest of eternity,” said Kelsea (@kelseaec).
The story starts one night, many decades ago, when her grandpa came home and complained that his wife had made soup for dinner.
“He said that working all day, he didn’t want soup, and he didn’t like it, and he wasn’t happy about it, and he wanted steak, and that’s what a man wants after he’s working all day,” she said, mouthing her tale over a recorded voice.
She explained how instead of reacting – much to her husband’s surprise – she offered an apology.
But things didn’t end there.
The next day, she bought them enough steak to last an entire week.
Needless to say, her grandpa came home the next night to exactly what he had requested – a cooked steak.
But he was in for quite the surprise when he opened the fridge that was also filled with steak.
“And he thinks wow, if this is the best you’ve got, this is your level of petty, and my grandma’s just standing there like ‘well, you said you wanted steak’.”
And there was still more to the story that was juicier than the steak itself because as Kelsea explained, her grandma was unhinged.
As he takes a seat at the dinner table, he noticed they were missing something.
Her grandma acted as if she had no idea what he was talking about.
“He’s like there are no forks, I’ll go get them,” said Kelsea.
His wife continued to remain perplexed.
And he was in for yet another surprise – if he had thought she was being petty before, he hadn’t seen anything yet.
When he went to open the drawer, all of the forks were mysteriously missing.
“And my grandma just pretended like she had slipped into another universe and forks never existed. She’s like ‘what are you even talking about the forks?'”
This time he knew what was going on, so decided to remain silent.
He sat down and played the game while proceeding to eat his steak with a spoon.
The obedient husband was hoping that after getting what she wanted, his wife would finally put the forks back by the next day.
But this grandma didn’t give up the game that easily.
“For the next week, until my grandpa said that he was sorry to my grandmother, he ate his steak dinners off of a soup spoon.”
For those questioning why he didn’t just buy new forks, the answer was simple – this was a cutlery stalemate, and nobody wanted to surrender.
“Obviously he wanted her to put the forks back and she wanted him to apologize. Finally he did, and she put the forks back – and then she made soup.”
And her fans couldn’t get enough.
“Gramma is epic!” wrote this impressed follower.
“Women in the 50s walked the petty road so we could use it for our runway to fly. Love this story!” said another in awe viewer.
After telling her tale, Kelsea simply looked off to the side.
“I still strive for this level of petty,” she said.
And there was a good chance she would achieve it as this trait seemed to run in the family.
Others also had their own similar stories to tell.
“Great-grandmother’s second husband was mean and she hated him so one day she forgot English and only spoke German the rest of her life,” explained this watcher.
“My great-grandma would re-arrange the furniture so when my grandpa would come home from the bar he would trip and fall over it,” another chimed in.
“I could watch a series on ladies of the 50s being petty,” said this intrigued follower.
According to eisenhowerlibrary.gov, the image of the American woman in the 1950s was heavily shaped by popular culture.
Think the ideal suburban housewife who cared for the home and family.
Things began to turn, however, during this decade after the war when more women began returning to the workplace and became increasingly more involved in state and local government.
