Grandkid Tells Some Stories About His Grandma And Thousands Of People On Tumblr Think She’s A Real Badass
People who have grandmothers know how awesome they are: they not only brought up your parents but helped raise you as well. They often sneak you a candy when your parents aren’t looking, they tell the wildest stories and give the best Christmas presents.
But there is another level of grandmas. Those who are almost like mythical creatures because they’re so mysterious and just ageless. Tumblr user clockwork-mockingbird shared what kind of an unbelievable person her grandmother is and sounds like she is a living legend.
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A Tumblr user made a post about their grandma and her life was and still is pretty crazy
Image credits: Annie Spratt (not the actual photo)
The story about the grandmother who is endearingly called ‘Mamaw’ was originally posted on Tumblr at the end of last year and was reposted not too long ago on Imgur. There it was viewed nearly 120k times and people were fascinated by this grandmother that seems immortal and fearless.
Sadly, there is a disclaimer that the poster wasn’t going to answer any questions so this story is all we will get. However, it is very impressive. So impressive to the point that you should be warned to take it with a pinch of salt.
Mamaw outlived her husbands and children, survived the Great Depression and cancer and possibly could be a tribe’s leader
The Tumblr user decided to talk about their Mamaw after they suddenly had the thought that she most probably is their family’s matriarch.
clockwork-mockingbird explained that not only is their grandma the head of the family, but she has a mysterious aura around her. They said that the family even got into a discussion about Mamaw’s glass eye and didn’t come to any conclusion. No one in the family, not even Mamaw herself, knows her age, just that she is over 90 years old.
After the first part of the story, someone wanted to know more and the original poster continued to reveal more details
What is more, she outlived her two husbands and three out of seven of her children. She survived cancer and the Great Depression. The Tumblr user isn’t sure which one, Mamaw’s dad or grandad, but one of them was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian and the family guesses that she could be the tribe’s leader.
Historically, women often were community leaders in Cherokee nation as they were seen as the life-givers and respected, so it wouldn’t be a stretch that this Mamaw could be the leader of the community.
On top of all that, she is kind of intimidating and knows how to stand up for people she cares about. In the post it is said that she once got involved in a conflict with her son’s bus driver and she didn’t even realize at the moment that she had a butcher’s knife in her hand. But at least the bus driver didn’t cause any more problems.
clockwork-mockingbird goes as far as to compare Mamaw to a cryptid because so many things have happened to her but she has always pulled through
Besides, she’s just overall an amazing person, judging from an episode that the grandkid remembered when she stood up for a female cousin’s wife
This Mamaw is almost like a cryptid because she seems so out of this world. Nonetheless, few could argue that she isn’t a wonderful person.
The user clockwork-mockingbird remembered a Thanksgiving dinner when Mamaw stood up with a passion for a cousin’s wife when another person in the dinner expressed their disgust towards her.
The mysterious aura is strengthened when it is said that it looks like Mamaw doesn’t age and her hair, in her 90s, is still black without her coloring it
Another mystic thing about her is that it seems that she doesn’t age at all. According to clockwork-mockingbird, their grandma’s hair is still black, though she doesn’t dye it and even her kids are already gray-headed. In the poster’s eyes, grandma looks exactly as she did when they were younger.
This strong lady survived COVID-19 and went to call anti-mask family members idiots
Image credits: clockwork-mockingbird
Unfortunately, Mamaw got COVID-19 and the doctors didn’t have any good news. They thought that because of grandma’s age and a severe case of the disease, she wouldn’t make it. Sike! Not only did she get better, but she had enough energy to complain that she would miss her wrestling shows while she was in the hospital.
At this point you could say she is immortal as she completely recovered and survived to tell the story. And of course, Mamaw wouldn’t be Mamaw if she didn’t call the family, but it wasn’t to say she was fine. She called the anti-maskers to call them idiots.
This grandmother is surely worth respect. She is a real daredevil and has gone through an eventful life. Plus, she still has a way to go. But what do you have to say about this story? Leave your reactions in the comments!
People are fascinated by this grandmother who could easily be compared to an unbeatable movie character
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This is great and so relatable! I grew up in the south also with a "Mawmaw". She out lived two children and never married. Raised 9 "head" of kids in which 3 of the 9 was a neighbor kid, cousin and grandchild (me) as a single mother in a time this was unheard of. Over the course of her life she had a heart-attack, tumor and a stroke while suffering from diabetes since her 20s. Bought land in a time it was difficult for Native American women to own property in the south. She did this by working as a share cropper and worked at a chicken farm to save up the money. She did all this with just a 7th grade education. This was the grade she dropped out of school to help on the family farm. Survived a car wreck that killed her brother and sister and threw her out the windshield. She had a metal shoulder and could barely lift her arm but still worked. Simply put, the most badass person I've ever met!
This gal (& I say "gal" w/ the utmost respect) sounds epic! My mother, although we are pretty confident she's not in her 90's , refuses 2 reveal her true age....that. & her teeth - apparently one should never ask a lady her age or about her teeth?!?! My partner resorted 2 digging thru her handbag .... she had blacked out her age on her driver's license! I was also, years ago, married 2 a real a**hole - she took me aside one day & whispered " I know the desert really well if you ever need me"!?!? Thankfully she adores my current partner 😉
My mother is nearly 80 and in the last five years alone she has beat cancer, two heart attacks, and a brain tumor that was 6-cm by 6 cm. Oh yeah, and survived operations for all that. And treatments for all that. Even her doctors have concluded she won't die till SHE wants to. (Her mother, FYI, lived past 90 and fought an infection normally known to kill within a week.... for three months. Eek!)
Everyone on my grandfather’s side of the family has lived past 90, let’s hope we have the same luck as your mom and my grandpa
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Today is my grandmother's 96th birthday. Grams is an amazing woman; she is strong, and funny, and wise. If I ever grow up, I want to be just like her.
Oh wow she sounds awesome indeed! I'm thinking of calling all the antimaskers I know to call them idiots, thanks for the idea!
My grandpa was shot in the head with a bullet, owned a construction site, beat up gangsters, went to protests in Pakistan ( we are Pakistani), and escaped a few gangsters when they tried to car-jack him.
WOW-she is EPICALLY AWESOME-INDEED a TOTAL BADASS...Mawmaw RULES!!! All the best wishes for her/other non-idiots!!! ^_^
Truly badass - a defender of her family, and one who doesn't let family members belittle each other. My aunt was like that, and the one who held us all together. She was the heart of our family. When she died, we all just drifted apart. We tried to keep in contact, but she was the beating heart of our family, and we lost so much when she died. I hope the OP's mamaw lives forever!
The story about the cousins wife reminds me of when I told my grandmother about a kid who had said a lot homophobic slurs to the GSA on club day. She asked if they do club day often. I told her yes, they happen every quarter and that there would be one in winter. Well a few weeks after that quarter, she asks me when is club day. I told her Friday of that week and at lunch. That Friday, 20 minutes before lunch I get a very weird voice mail from her, saying that she’ll see me soon and don’t order lunch at school. Confused I walk out of class, wondering if I need to call my mom to ask if grandma has a fever. Then I hear a very familiar voice yelling my name and my best friend’s. I look up and see grandma with a visitors pass. She’s carrying 3 things and hands me two of them, Tupperware containers with my favorite dish and my best friend’s. She asks me where the GSA table is. I point it out to her and realize she’s holding a sign. She walks up to the table says hello to my best friend and
Tells her she made her favorite dish and that I have it. My best friend looks confused as I come over to the other side of the table. Then the kid from last club day comes over to the table acting exactly as he did before. Grandma notices and picks up her sign which say “Hate will never belong” and chanting what the sign says to get the kid to stop. The kid eventuality backs down and we spend the rest of club day in peace. Grandma even helps a few kids join and gives them her number saying “If you feel you need help you can call me!”
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I would have loved for her to meet me and my husbands grandmothers. Both were spitfires. His Grandmother sat with her husband (both 14 at the time and married) and watched as the rising flood waters crashed a house into a nearby bridge where they lived in NC. My grandmother took on a black bear when I was a kid. She was trying to protect us from it when we went camping. I can imagine these three ladies sitting on a porch somewhere sharing stories of their adventures and their kids. You Mamaw sounds like a riot!
I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve got a “mawmaw” story as well. My grandmother was born in southern China during the Japanese invasion. Her father was a soldier, and her family was constantly moving to avoid the Japanese. She survived the war even though they barely had anything and the family fled to Taiwan. Years laters she saved up enough money to go to college in Brussels(no idea what she majored in) and she wound up in America with my grandfather. She’s still alive and her mother died only ~6 years ago at 95. She also has yet to go grey and has black hair as well. She is an opera singer and can play piano.
Reminds me of my late Grandma Kay. Had three types of cancer and beat them all, even though doctors said she had six months/five years to live; didn't bother saying that the third time! Had radiation for the breast cancer and it disintegrated three inches of her collar bone so she wore a brace under that arm. Got DIVORCRD in the late 40s, which you didn't do, especially not just because they weren't in love anymore, raised my Dad on her own and bought her own house (might have been the first woman to do that in my city).
This reminds me of something I recently learned about my great grandmother. Back in May of 1922 her husband and father-in-law (my great and great-great grandpa) were shot and killed while working a field. My great grandma, who was hanging laundry about 100 yards away heard the shots and saw who did it. She ran into the house, grabbed a 12ga and a .38 And chased the shooter into an empty house, emptying both guns in the process.
You obviously know how old she is by just looking at her ID,that information would also be used for medical purposes.
This is great and so relatable! I grew up in the south also with a "Mawmaw". She out lived two children and never married. Raised 9 "head" of kids in which 3 of the 9 was a neighbor kid, cousin and grandchild (me) as a single mother in a time this was unheard of. Over the course of her life she had a heart-attack, tumor and a stroke while suffering from diabetes since her 20s. Bought land in a time it was difficult for Native American women to own property in the south. She did this by working as a share cropper and worked at a chicken farm to save up the money. She did all this with just a 7th grade education. This was the grade she dropped out of school to help on the family farm. Survived a car wreck that killed her brother and sister and threw her out the windshield. She had a metal shoulder and could barely lift her arm but still worked. Simply put, the most badass person I've ever met!
This gal (& I say "gal" w/ the utmost respect) sounds epic! My mother, although we are pretty confident she's not in her 90's , refuses 2 reveal her true age....that. & her teeth - apparently one should never ask a lady her age or about her teeth?!?! My partner resorted 2 digging thru her handbag .... she had blacked out her age on her driver's license! I was also, years ago, married 2 a real a**hole - she took me aside one day & whispered " I know the desert really well if you ever need me"!?!? Thankfully she adores my current partner 😉
My mother is nearly 80 and in the last five years alone she has beat cancer, two heart attacks, and a brain tumor that was 6-cm by 6 cm. Oh yeah, and survived operations for all that. And treatments for all that. Even her doctors have concluded she won't die till SHE wants to. (Her mother, FYI, lived past 90 and fought an infection normally known to kill within a week.... for three months. Eek!)
Everyone on my grandfather’s side of the family has lived past 90, let’s hope we have the same luck as your mom and my grandpa
Load More Replies... Today is my grandmother's 96th birthday. Grams is an amazing woman; she is strong, and funny, and wise. If I ever grow up, I want to be just like her.
Oh wow she sounds awesome indeed! I'm thinking of calling all the antimaskers I know to call them idiots, thanks for the idea!
My grandpa was shot in the head with a bullet, owned a construction site, beat up gangsters, went to protests in Pakistan ( we are Pakistani), and escaped a few gangsters when they tried to car-jack him.
WOW-she is EPICALLY AWESOME-INDEED a TOTAL BADASS...Mawmaw RULES!!! All the best wishes for her/other non-idiots!!! ^_^
Truly badass - a defender of her family, and one who doesn't let family members belittle each other. My aunt was like that, and the one who held us all together. She was the heart of our family. When she died, we all just drifted apart. We tried to keep in contact, but she was the beating heart of our family, and we lost so much when she died. I hope the OP's mamaw lives forever!
The story about the cousins wife reminds me of when I told my grandmother about a kid who had said a lot homophobic slurs to the GSA on club day. She asked if they do club day often. I told her yes, they happen every quarter and that there would be one in winter. Well a few weeks after that quarter, she asks me when is club day. I told her Friday of that week and at lunch. That Friday, 20 minutes before lunch I get a very weird voice mail from her, saying that she’ll see me soon and don’t order lunch at school. Confused I walk out of class, wondering if I need to call my mom to ask if grandma has a fever. Then I hear a very familiar voice yelling my name and my best friend’s. I look up and see grandma with a visitors pass. She’s carrying 3 things and hands me two of them, Tupperware containers with my favorite dish and my best friend’s. She asks me where the GSA table is. I point it out to her and realize she’s holding a sign. She walks up to the table says hello to my best friend and
Tells her she made her favorite dish and that I have it. My best friend looks confused as I come over to the other side of the table. Then the kid from last club day comes over to the table acting exactly as he did before. Grandma notices and picks up her sign which say “Hate will never belong” and chanting what the sign says to get the kid to stop. The kid eventuality backs down and we spend the rest of club day in peace. Grandma even helps a few kids join and gives them her number saying “If you feel you need help you can call me!”
Load More Replies... I would have loved for her to meet me and my husbands grandmothers. Both were spitfires. His Grandmother sat with her husband (both 14 at the time and married) and watched as the rising flood waters crashed a house into a nearby bridge where they lived in NC. My grandmother took on a black bear when I was a kid. She was trying to protect us from it when we went camping. I can imagine these three ladies sitting on a porch somewhere sharing stories of their adventures and their kids. You Mamaw sounds like a riot!
I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve got a “mawmaw” story as well. My grandmother was born in southern China during the Japanese invasion. Her father was a soldier, and her family was constantly moving to avoid the Japanese. She survived the war even though they barely had anything and the family fled to Taiwan. Years laters she saved up enough money to go to college in Brussels(no idea what she majored in) and she wound up in America with my grandfather. She’s still alive and her mother died only ~6 years ago at 95. She also has yet to go grey and has black hair as well. She is an opera singer and can play piano.
Reminds me of my late Grandma Kay. Had three types of cancer and beat them all, even though doctors said she had six months/five years to live; didn't bother saying that the third time! Had radiation for the breast cancer and it disintegrated three inches of her collar bone so she wore a brace under that arm. Got DIVORCRD in the late 40s, which you didn't do, especially not just because they weren't in love anymore, raised my Dad on her own and bought her own house (might have been the first woman to do that in my city).
This reminds me of something I recently learned about my great grandmother. Back in May of 1922 her husband and father-in-law (my great and great-great grandpa) were shot and killed while working a field. My great grandma, who was hanging laundry about 100 yards away heard the shots and saw who did it. She ran into the house, grabbed a 12ga and a .38 And chased the shooter into an empty house, emptying both guns in the process.
You obviously know how old she is by just looking at her ID,that information would also be used for medical purposes.
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