it’s possible for you to’t make this up.
“My maternal grandparents cheated on each other constantly, and lived separately for most of my moms childhood.
My grandmother chose her affairs at work and my grandfather cheated with sex workers.
Long story short, my grandfather gave my grandmother chlamydia because they were Catholic and never used condoms.”
Anonymous
2.
“Turns out grandma REALLY got around, and not just when she was young.
Her nickname at the retirement home was ‘the gulping queen.'”
He lived on a farm and he owned a gun that he used to protect the livestock.
“My great-grandfather was an illegal moonshiner and bootlegger.
However, his brother raised the kid as if she were his own.
Nobody ever talked about it, though (nor did she).”
niccivaughn
5.
He escaped from the hospital one night and somehow got his hands on a gun.
Thankfully, my grandmother survived.
So, she gave the baby up, married my grandfather, and never mentioned it ever.
padawanryan
7.
“My grandfather spent his career as a mild-mannered librarian.
kbbpll
8.
But also, this was the early 1940s, so good on grandma for her feminist leanings.”
“My grandfather was blind from a childhood accident, and he had glass eyes.
He was amazing and could do almost anything (not to mention he was incredibly intelligent).
He was found guilty, but served no jail time and was fined the ambulance fee.
The man he shot lived, and it was borderline self-defense.
Had he been able to see, he would have served serious time.”
“My grandfather had an affair with my grandmother’s younger sister.
Very few people knew what was going on (but my mother told me this story).
My grandmothers sister aborted the baby by drinking iodine (the iodine killed both of them).
The saddest part is it took her over 12 hours to die an excruciating death.”
“My grandfather was an HR corporate executive for a large pen manufacturer based in Wisconsin.
He had to resign and give up the country club royalty.
No one in the family ever talked about it I didnt even know about it until after his death.
Thats when all of the secrets came out.”
“My grandfather had a baby when he was 15 years old.
Many years later, the ‘brothers’ got into a bad fight and my grandpa revealed everything.
My now great-uncle left and never came back, and we don’t know where he is.”
“My grandfather told me he and his friends used to do all kinds of out-of-pocket stuff.
He used to also throw fire crackers in the vents.
You could not do any of this stuff nowadays it blows my mind.”
“My grandma never talked about it and no one outside of our family knows.
She ran on a pro-life platform and won.
She served one term and hated every minute of it (mostly because of the rampant misogyny).”
“So it turns out my grandpa lied to my entire family about where we were from.
We’re not Italian and neither was he.’
Everyone was shocked (especially my mom after she named me).
youruncleben
16.
“My grandma was a bank robber and getaway car driver.
She robbed the same bank on the same day a year later.
They only told her she had to ‘get out of the county.'”
“This is a story my cousins and I weren’t told until after my grandfather passed.
Then she goes, ‘Then there was the armadillo.’
Me: ‘Ummm, what armadillo?’
‘The one he mailed home to his parents.’
He then mailed a LIVE ARMADILLO to his parents in Chicago.
They were good sports and let it roam the basement as a pet.
(which confirms my mom wasn’t pulling my leg).”
18.And finally, “My grandmother cheated on my grandfather with hisbest friend.
She eventually divorced my grandfather and married the best friend.
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