IRISH GRANDADS ARE a lovely bunch. They absolutely love…
1. Long-winded, inappropriate jokes
GRANDPA NO
- You at every family gathering.
2. Waking up at 6am
Why do they feel the need to get up so early? We’ll never know, but that porridge isn’t going to make itself.
3. These exact trousers
4. With this exact jumper
5. Combing their hair
Well, what’s left of it. It has to be PERFECT.
6. A good suit of a Sunday
If you turn up to mass in anything other a full suit, you may as well just spit on the replica of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Dancing with any woman who’ll have him
He doesn’t discriminate, once he can have a bop.
8. Slipping grown grandchildren a fiver
Go get a few sweets now won’t you?
9. Snoozing in front of the telly
Usually when the horses are on.
10. Building stuff
Whatever it is, if you buy it instead of building it from scratch, you’re a wimp.
11. This with dinner
Well, that or a pint of Beamish if he’s let.
12. Singing, unprompted
I suppose we can have a sing song grandad…
13. Stories about 1916
His da was fighting at the GPO, didn’t you know?
14. Complete opposition to technology
Here’s a room full of people grandad has ever picked up his phone for:
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