Never Thought I'd Be In a Car With an Eighty-year-old Who Passed a Tractor On the Road, That's For Sure

My parents, like a lot of other parents, work during the day so my transportation home from school is my grandmother. I could take the bus, but why take the bus when I could be home earlier and not have to worry about finding a seat by taking a car, plus I love seeing my grandma. I am really close to my grandmother; she lives down the street from me and is the only grandparent that I have left. The others passed away either before I was born, or when I was too young to remember them, so my grandma, Memere, which is grandma in French, means so much to me. Anyway on with todays story about how Memere and I got stuck behind a tractor on the way to the super market.

I walked out of school today and the temperature outside was surprisingly warm! It was about fifty degrees out which is fantastic, since we have been reaching temperatures lately of numbers in the single digits. I felt a little odd, since I prepared myself to brace the cold with a scarf and winter jacket only to step outside into a nearly spring-like climate. I got into my grandma's car and we were on our way to my house. Memere told me she had to go to the super market to return soda cans, so since I had nothing better to do, and no homework for once, I decided to join her. After I dropped my school stuff off and let my dog outside to do her business, we headed to Harry's Super Market. Rounding the corner onto another street we found ourselves behind a big green tractor, that was going extremely slow. I'm pretty sure the guy driving the green mammoth knew what he was doing too; he could have made that thing go a little faster, but no, obviously he's the only one that was on the road today. After a little while of being impatient and making comments about the tractor moving very sluggish, Memere decided to pass it. Mind you, my grandma is eighty years old. So sure enough when the road on the other side was clear she passed the green tractor. After that I was just glancing out the window, when my eyes happened to look over and see what? Oh nothing just a police officer waiting for speeders, or others not abiding the law. It was a good thing he seemed like he didn't see us, otherwise this story would have taken even more of an interesting twist. I can see it in the news papers - Eighty-year-old woman passes tractor on road jeopardizing lives all because she wanted to recylce her soda cans. Anyway we made it to the store fine after that incident.

I hadn't been to this store in a really long time. It's a store that has been open for several years so the elderly people in my city trust it because it's the only thing they've known. My grandma was like a celebrity in there; everyone knew her name, it was sort of funny. We were walking down an isle and she knew almost everyone there, all were about her age so she must have known them from when she first moved here from Maine. It's weird to think about your grandparents when your not with them. Like what other people think of them, if they think of them as just old people, but to you they mean so much more. Anyhow, I really enjoyed my time with my grandma today. It's not very often that I go to the grocery store with her, so that was nice. February vacation is almost here!!! I'll probably post during vacation about snowmobiling adventures with my dad. Stay tuned :)

That is all.

-"M"