Vault: Strange Things Grandparents Do
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Bird Show. |
| 0:02.0 | Jeff mentioned something yesterday and I couldn't get to it because we just ran out of time that I thought was pretty funny because I think, generally, old people are funny. |
| 0:10.0 | And Jeff was talking about Jessica's mom, his mother-in-law and kind of this idiosyncrasy, this eccentric side to her. |
| 0:19.0 | And I think all old people have some things they do that don't make sense to younger people, |
| 0:26.3 | but they make total sense to themselves. |
| 0:29.2 | And it's just so out of the realm of possibility that it just seems so eccentric. |
| 0:34.0 | I know my, like my aunt who, you know, she's, yeah, I mean, she's older. She's the 60s, maybe early 70s. And like, she used to have a thing. I remember she would heckle my grandmother if my grandmother did not finish an entire can of soda. Like that was my aunt's thing. You don't wait because once you open a can of soda, it'll go flat. Right. If you put it in the fridge. Right. So, but my grandmother, I mean, she's, you know, 92 years old. |
| 0:57.0 | And you know, when you get that old, your meals become, you know, a slice of bread with peanut butter on it. And that's it. And that's all you eat for the entire day. And you have to even put that in a blender. Right. So I just remember being over my grandmother's house once and, you know, she opened a can of whatever it was and poured half a glass and drank it. |
| 1:15.9 | And my aunt said, were you going to finish the can? |
| 1:17.6 | No, and that was her thing. |
| 1:19.6 | Jessica's mom, I found this out when we were there because she lives alone and doesn't like to, these are her words, waste electricity, that 20 minutes before you take a shower, you have to turn on the hot water heater. |
| 1:32.0 | And my question is, doesn't it take, like, as much energy to heat it up every single time you're going to take a shower as it does just to leave it on? |
| 1:39.7 | Well, she's 60-something years old. I'm not going to argue with her. |
| 1:41.9 | Right. |
| 1:42.3 | Like, you know, but it screwed me every night because I would forget that you had to do it. And I didn't get |
| 1:46.5 | it for the first couple nights. Like, the first night had happened, I thought somebody had just gotten out of the shower. You know how if you take like two showers back to back, the second person might run out of water. Like, so I thought maybe, and then like the second night, I think Jessica said, |
| 1:59.5 | I'm going to get in the shower |
| 2:00.2 | and her mom said, |
| 2:01.9 | I'll go turn the water on for you |
| 2:03.1 | and then I don't even know |
| 2:04.0 | if there's a switch. Now, you can't say anything because it's your mother-in-law and you want to be respectful. But Jessica, you can. Yeah, you can say something to your mom about like, mom, just turn it on. Well, it's not that it's a conservation thing. It's the house. Like that house is like a hundred years old. |
| 2:20.3 | It's like one of |
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