So,
I have this grandma, who takes the media to heart.
Every time she see's one of my cousins or sister with a necklace on, she brings up the "don't put that in your mouth because it's probably made in china and has lead in it".
She's constantly bashing poor china on it's lead problems.
So after receiving a coloured pencil kit made entirely of tightly wrapped chinese newspaper, I said "Uh oh nana, this is made in china! *puts it in my mouth*"
And she goes "Ohhhhhhhhhhh nooo Ick!" and jitters her head around.
Later I did it again with a pair of socks that said 'made in china' on them. (It takes a while for jokes to age in my family)
My grandmother does this with everything though, like when they had a recall on maple leaf products cause it gave people a severe case of food poisoning. And despite the fact that obviously any new shipments would have been well checked for anything as this would have been a pretty hard blow on the company, she would keep going on about it for weeks saying "ohhh when did you buy that? ohhhhh throw it all out!!!!".
Then she went back to the china thing again and blamed it for poisoning babies and making them hyper.
So, anyone else have any crazy grandparents or other relatives who go on about things they hear in the news, or are just plain irrational?
I have this grandma, who takes the media to heart.
Every time she see's one of my cousins or sister with a necklace on, she brings up the "don't put that in your mouth because it's probably made in china and has lead in it".
She's constantly bashing poor china on it's lead problems.
So after receiving a coloured pencil kit made entirely of tightly wrapped chinese newspaper, I said "Uh oh nana, this is made in china! *puts it in my mouth*"
And she goes "Ohhhhhhhhhhh nooo Ick!" and jitters her head around.
Later I did it again with a pair of socks that said 'made in china' on them. (It takes a while for jokes to age in my family)
My grandmother does this with everything though, like when they had a recall on maple leaf products cause it gave people a severe case of food poisoning. And despite the fact that obviously any new shipments would have been well checked for anything as this would have been a pretty hard blow on the company, she would keep going on about it for weeks saying "ohhh when did you buy that? ohhhhh throw it all out!!!!".
Then she went back to the china thing again and blamed it for poisoning babies and making them hyper.
So, anyone else have any crazy grandparents or other relatives who go on about things they hear in the news, or are just plain irrational?
