Gambling Grandma
My grandma wants to spend Mother's Day at the Firelake Casino. I find this to be extremely annoying.
I called my mom to ask what was going on for Mother's Day this year, and she tells me that grandma wants to have lunch and spend the day playing slots at the Firelake Casino, so she is going out there with two of my aunts and grandma to spend an exhilarating afternoon watching her pump money into those obnoxious life-ruining machines.
So now I'm losing my mother for half of Mother's Day so that she can waste her gas driving out to Shawnee to watch my grandma piss her change away on the slots.
I loooooove my grandma, but I sometimes wish that she would quit egging on her own stereotype: little tiny ancient Asian grandma addicted to gambling. And my aunts and uncles and mother enable her to do so by driving her ass out there (more often than I want to admit to anyone).
Whatever happened to the days when our family would all get together at Grandma's for home cooked food, or hell, even Kentucky Fried Chicken, and actually socialize with one another and enjoy family time?
Granted, gambling is apparently what grandma wants to do for Mother's Day, and technically it IS a day reserved for her and whatever she wants to do, but COME ON GRANDMA.
It is impossible to spend any kind of quality time with anyone when they are hypnotized by the charms of a casino- this I've learned.
In a way it's cute to me that grandma loves the casino, for the same reasons it's so cute that she loves NFL football and baseball. Hearing her get all excited about that stuff in her broken English is a trip.
But this whole disregarding of family tradition in favor of gambling all day is ridiculous to me. ~sigh~ What can you do?
