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fingertipsmp3 · 4 years ago

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Having an immediate family who never really do anything toxic or dramatic is really funny because the smallest thing can cause dissent since they’re not really used to conflict

#the latest ~family drama~ is that my granddad’s favourite jumper (american translation: sweater) that he’s been wearing for about 20 years #has finally worn out #some necessary background info is that my granddad is the only person in my family who has less clothes than i do. he just doesn’t buy them #he’s got about two jumpers; enough shirts for the week; and maybe 3-5 pairs of trousers in various styles #i don’t think he owns any jeans. he might have a suit somewhere for weddings and funerals #so he just wears variations of the same thing every day basically. my grandma is constantly doing laundry so he can have clothes #because he is too cheap to buy any more clothes since ‘he has the necessities’#all of this means he has no concept of how much money a good quality jumper costs in the year of our lord 2021 #he eventually grudgingly agreed to give my mum £20 to order him a jumper online and she found a suitable one from cotton traders #(criteria for ‘suitable’: crew neck; regular fit; mostly cotton; a neutral colour; absolutely no patterns whatsoever)#i sent her a link to a h&m sweater and she was like ‘he will think it makes him look gay. also it’s too baggy’#i was like ‘just buy a smaller size?? also you can get him two of them for this price’ she said ‘no’#anyway so now he has his navy crew neck cotton traders sweatshirt and he’s very happy with it #but now my grandma is lecturing him saying he can’t eat his dinner while wearing it because she doesn’t want him to spill something on it #and my mum is relaying all of this to me since she goes to their house for lunch every sunday (she’s in their support bubble)#and i’m just dying to be honest like... how can one old man’s jumper cause this much dissent #it just makes me laugh that he now has only one jumper (which he has also been wearing for probably as long as i’ve been alive)#and yet he is so picky about what type of sweater he wants and that it cannot be interesting or unusual in any way #i don’t know if it makes it funnier or not that my granddad is loaded. like £20 is definitely Not his maximum sweater budget #he just wasn’t willing to spend any more than that #personal

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