My mother's grandmother. We all called her Nana. She lived in Montpelier VA. Small ass country town. I never met her until I was 10. We took a road trip from Pittsburgh to go visit. About 4 or so hours. One thing about her was you could tell that back in the day she was very beautiful. This was backed up by old photo's I saw of her. She was high yellow and had a very deliberate way of looking at you that would have you
Now at the time I figured it was because of the thick glasses she wore.. . but later as I really got to know her It was not the glasses. I got the distinct impression that she could see just fine with or without the glasses.
When we visited that first time she was married.
She was on her third husband. The other two died. . This one also died shortly after we left. My step great grandfather was a pretty amiable guy. They had a small house sitting on about 5 acres of land. We stayed for a week and then we left. About a year later it became apparent that Nana could not really live on her own anymore.
Husband was dead. She was in a small ass town. .Other than the neighbor who owned a farm next door there was nobody else for at least 5 miles. She had given up driving a long time ago. . None of her kids or other family members would take her. . My mom did. My dad and uncles rented a truck and drove to VA. Got her and her belongings. Got the house ready to sell and drove her back to live with us in PA.
Now we had a pretty good fam. . Mom and Dad and my two siblings. I was the oldest. We also had two foster kids staying with us. They were 3 and 5. Nice sized house in the burbs. No stress or worries. The day Nana set foot in our house was the day shyt went to hell. It stayed that way until the day she left.
She was very manipulative and much sharper than she let on. People would look at her and think she is a feeble old lady
. But on more than one occasion she would catch you slipping. Now this in itself is not evil. . But combined with the other weird shyt that went on it turned the house upside down. The 1st time I recognized something was off was because of the foster kids. Will and Ray. Will was 5 and Ray was 3. I have heard that kids can notice Evil. Well. . .
Nana had the 5 year old Will under her thumb like a Sith Lord. He waited on her like a puppy. . She tried to control Ray like that too but he did not like her from the giddyup. He knew instinctively that something was off and he did not fukk with her at all. One day I was going into the kitchen. . We had turned our Den into Nana's bedroom. The den was not that far from the kitchen. . I heard Nana in her room arguing with someone. .. What caught my ear was that she was talking in a different tone than I ever heard her talk in. . The shaking in her voice was gone. The old lady voice was gone. She was DEMANDING
for Ray to COME HERE! I am like wtf is going on?? I peek in the Den. . This was the situation.
Nana was sitting on her bed. . She was not slouching as normal. She was sitting straight up and had a hard glint in her eyes. She had her cane in her hand and was pointing with the other hand at Ray. Will his brother was meekly sitting by her feet like
Ray the 3 year old was on the other side of the room. . . He was like a cat that you piss off that arches his back to make himself seem bigger. . He
was DEFIANT. In his little voice he said NO! Then quick as a fukking hiccup Nana stands up and halfway dashes across the room and hits him with the cane! Aiyo she moved FAST AS FUKKKK
You would expect a 3 year old to start crying and screaming. . Nah. He ate that hit. . scampered away and grabbed one of his lil Tonka trucks and cocked that bytch back and winged it at Nana. . She side stepped it smooth as fukk and they both were just staring at each other. . . I blurt out whoa whoa what is going on??
In that instant she transformed from some kind of Super Nana back to the old lady again. . She meekly sat back down on the bed and went
The baby tried to hit me and he stole my cane.
I am all kinds of fukked up cause I knew what I saw but to be honest it should not have been possible. . I just scooped up Ray and we both dipped.
There were so many other instances too. . . My parents were getting ready to buy another house. We had a nice house but my moms had eyes set on this big ass house. shyt looked like a slightly smaller version of the Mcallister house in Home Alone. shyt was fukking impressive. . .My mom would just drive by the house and look at it on some
shyt. . No matter how she tried to crunch the numbers it was just out of our comfortable price range. . I heard my mom and Nana talking one day. .
Nana - Whats on your mind dear? You look preoccupied.
Moms -
Oh nothing. . Im looking at this house for us. ... But I dont think we can swing it.
Nana - I can help you with that. Its nothing.
How much would you need?
Moms - Oh no. .. We cant do that. . Your money is your money. We will figure it out.
Nana - Oh no. I INSIST. I have it. . I would only require something small.
Moms - What would that be?? ( i could hear it in her voice that she REALLY wanted this house )
Nana - That I would have the Master bedroom.
and i want to be on the deed to the house.
Moms - she was speechless for a while. . Said let me think about it.
Now to me it did not sound like a bad deal.
House was huge. More than enough room. Truth be told how many years would Nana have left? Why not let her have the bigger room? Whats the harm?
We never ended up getting that house. We got a slightly smaller house in the same neighborhood. We would have to drive by that house all the time. . One day I asked my mom why we never moved in there and I told her I heard the convo they had that day. This was her explanation.
She said it was like she was in a haze at the time. She was so tunnel focused on the house that she thought it was a excellent idea too.. . But something told her not to accept right away. She thought about it long and hard and then happened to mention it to one of her good friends.. . Her friend told her she wants control of the house. Meaning she wants to control everyone in it. If my mom agrees she is willingly giving her control of the house. My mom did not think of it that way. . Hell neither did I but I was only 11 at the time. .
My mom went back to my great grandmother to see if they could negotiate something different. . .
She said Nana flipped from nice old lady to "somebody" she never saw before. .
Started DEMANDING for my mom to verbally consent to the deal she gave her. My mom said it took everything in her to back out of the room. . Like something was trying to keep her there. . . Shortly after that convo my moms had her put into a nice nursing home in our neighborhood. So when we moved she did not come to our new house.
I have so many other little stories about Nana that were weird as hell.