How Grandpa met Grandma

gpa “We’re real different, but it’s always been worth it ‘cause I just love her.”

gma “Really? I didn’t know that. I don’t think you’ve ever told me that.”

me “Haha. Really Grandma? I’m sure you knew it. I’m sure he’s told you more than once since you got married.”

gma “We’ve been married 45 years, 45 years on your twentieth birthday. All the girls over the years always said he was really something, that Benny.”

me “You better believe it Grandma. Grandpa is a catch. You got lucky with him, and any girl would tell you that.”

gpa “I got lucky.”

me “You both did. That’s true.”

me “She didn’t like you at first, right?”

gpa “No, I didn’t like her.”

me “Haha. Oh.”

gpa “I had a gas station. And her sister Eva would come in and get gas. Well, she would come in, too. She had her nose sticking up and she would say, ‘A case of coke… and fill up my car.”

me “How did that change? And one day she went in and asked you out? Didn’t she say: ‘Do you want to go get lunch with the two cutest girls in town?” (her and Eva.)

gma “No, I did not ask him out.”

gma “It was EVA. She told me to go in there. We were both working at a restaurant in town. She was a better waitress, got all the tips. I was crappy. She told me to go down there and tell him to come to the restaurant for lunch. So I did.”

gpa “I told my partner Luke. Hey we gotta go down to the restaurant for lunch today. I think something is going on down there.”

me “But you didn’t like her. How did that change?”

gma “I was little.”

gpa “She was something. She was stuck up, but man, she had a right to be.”

gma “I think all the guys liked me ‘cause I was little.”

gpa “I ate lunch there just about every day. Sometimes Eva would wait on me, but whenever Jackie did, I would tip her a dollar. Once we started going together, she pulled out all these dollar bills and gave them right back to me. All the tips I gave her. She kept ‘em all”

gma “He looked poor. Let me tell you. He. did.”

gma “One day I brought Buzz to the station and when we left he said, ‘Mom, did that man want to kiss you?’ Sure enough.”

gma “That’s when I started giving him the tips.”