Grandpa D

Happy Birthday 1971

               

Things I learned from my Grandpa 

Frank 'D'

                    

Chocolate milk is made by feeding 

Hershey chocolate bars to cows.

  

There was no reason to doubt this explanation.
Grandpa had milked cows & supplied milk to Bridgeman Creamery for 40 years.

You can eat as many pink peppermint candies 
as you want.
 
Just use a slow & steady hand 
with the lid of the 
crystal candy dish 
so Grandma doesn't catch you. 

Napping on the couch 

is good medicine. 

If a nap doesn't fix 

your problem, 

                                   Alka-Seltzer will.

 

 If you eat 

Cream of Wheat  

and 

stewed prunes for breakfast 

it will 

run right through ya. 

(Consider yourself warned.)

Husbands are to obediently 

perform any household chore the wife requests 

to the wife's precise specifications. 

Smile and cheerfully 

start over

if Grandma frowns at the job

you did vacuuming. 

And last, there were the "Dutch" words Grandpa 

taught me. 

For example, the word "poopaloola." 

If you were being a little stinker, Grandpa would affectionately call you a  

"little poopaloola" 

(pronounced poop - ahh - looo - lahh.) 

Any person who was particularly nutty he referred to as a "crazy poopaloola."

At some point my gullibility fell away and 

I realized that this was not a word

from the Dutch language, but my

Grandfather's confabulated word for "little sh*t."

I decided not to add a picture of a little sh*t to this last item. Certainly you understand....

A heavenly memo to my Grandpa -

I miss your big noisy "smooches" and how you called me "Bobolinks." I'll be expecting one of those sweet Grandpa kisses that tickled my cheek when we are together again....and I'd love a pink peppermint if you have some.

Love,

Bobbie