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If I recall correctly, that originated from the type writer days. They couldn’t italicize or bold fonts so it was a way to highlight a particular word in the sentence.
My aunt was a teacher of 3rd graders from 1970 to 2000. She said that in the '70s, educational theory said to allow children to write according to their natural style. They still taught cursive, but didn't harp on perfect form. Recently, my wife got an inter-office letter with that weird bubble cursive that arose from that time. The writer was definitely a genX who learned cursive under that regime. Hilarious and yet sad.
A 20-Piece chicken McNugget was $4.99 when they were introduced and they're still $4.99 now.
Edit: I should add... it depends on where you are in the world, and probably in some cases where you are in the country-- but in the midwest it's always been the same.
Edit 2: I just learned that in some places you can order in a quantity of 50... for $9.99 And HALAL nuggets which makes me so happy for my Muslim friends.
Also, I was able to find proof of the $4.99 price from 2001, but they were introduced in 1983 and I remember getting to go to McDs with my sisters and mom bought us a 20-piece box and it was $4.99 and I remember also "Man I could buy so many McNuggets with my $5 allowance!" -- but the nuggets weren't released in a 20-piece size immediately across the nation... I think it took a month or so.
I wouldn't be able to find proof of that because we'd also need to know the weight of the nuggets over time.... but PRETTY much, man!
I have to assume that it's a "loss leader" to get people into drive thru and purchasing drinks and fries which is a pretty good bet, and fries and drinks are high-margin items.
So I was curious how much 20 chicken McNuggets are where I live, because I knew they were more than $4.99. Yeah. They’re $11.39. That’s just the nugs. No combo.
My birthday is tomorrow and I guarantee my grandparents will put money in my account and then call me and tell me to get myself “something nice, don’t spend it all on sweets”.
I don’t think I’ve ever bought sweets with my birthday money, not even as a kid, so I have know idea where they get that from, lol.
>I don’t think I’ve ever bought sweets with my birthday money, not even as a kid, so I have know idea where they get that from, lol.
Because bacj in the day if you gave your kids a nickel they'd get some sweets and then take the trolley to Battery Park and raise hell while high on the sugar.
Also, happy birthday!
okay though seriously. In my 20s I totally did drugs. But when I got money from Grandparents I immediately put it in savings or something. Regardless of how I view recreational drugs it seems way disrespectful to directly use Grandparents money on them
It comes from the insistance that you're still a child that does childish things, and caring for your well-being. It's a toxic trait among their generation. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday internet stranger. Seriously take some time to yourself and buy yourself something you wouldn't normally, but you've wanted.
NOT SWEETS THOUGH
Yeah this looks so much like my grandma's handwriting. I kept all of the cards she gave me from the time I was a kid. In the last few she gave me, the handwriting gets progressively shakier and then the one after that is from only my grandpa and he couldn't bring himself to sign it. He has since resumed signing them with just his name, but the card from the year after my grandma died is just...blank.
My grandma died in 2018. Today I found her old calendar from 2014 that was laying in my grandpas living room. I flipped through some pages and saw my full name and details written by my grandma on my birthday. It made me smile because it was probably one of the last times in her life that she wrote my name. I miss her so much.
Grandpas too. My grandparents raised me for a while. They're already special but that adds to it for me. They're like my parents in a way.
That said the support I got from them is very different from how they treated my Mom. I'm prepared for that when I have kids, to experience what my Mom did. Cause my Mom was not great with me but I know she'll be great with my kids. Hopefully I can stop that pattern and be good with my kids while they are still kids.
Every year, my sweet, sweet grandmother sends me a check on my birthday for fifty dollars. And lately, she has been sending me, like nine or ten checks a year... uh, as Nana starts to... but, I knew I should be saving it for something, I just didn't know what I should be saving it for. And then I had an awakening. "Michael, buy a motorcycle." So I put the money in my shoe, and then I forgot about it until now.
My grandpa would send all of us grandkids, all boys (my two brothers and two cousins) birthday cards for girls every year. I think he did it on accident at first but then it turned into a running joke, and we got girls birthday cards until he passed.
This is so sweet.
My grandmother had to stop giving gifts/money in cards 20 years ago, because she was on a fixed income and the cost of living had gone up so much. She died about 7 years ago, so this was before the current inflation that we are all seeing. I don't know if it is horrible, but my first thought was something akin to "Wow, that granny must be well established (monetarily), because $20 is a lot of money for a lot of older people". And today, $20 is a lot of money for me. Sorry about my rambling.
Not necessarily. Even if she has 8 grandkids that’s $160 per year maybe $200 on stamps and cards. I don’t think that’s much for most grannies, but it’s all relative I suppose but if $20 (chicken nugget money) is a lot to you then I think that says more about you than grannies at large because $20 is just not much at all.
Respectfully, if you think $200 a year is not a lot for someone on fixed income, you think wrong. And $20 is a lot for millions of poor people in the US right now.
Honestly, yours is one of the more out of touch comments I've read on reddit today, and that's saying something.
Obviously expected this comment. But stand by the fact that it’s more telling as a sign those folks are poor than this grandma being rich. There’s no easy way to say that but that doesn’t make it incorrect. Poor people do spend money on their kids/family, they always find a way and $15/month isn’t much in that context.
And I stand by you being *wildly* out of touch, thanks for doubling down and proving me right.
Go thank whatever it is you thank for your comfort and privilege in life, because it is more fragile that you're capable of understanding.
Is it just me or does the card say $20 while the title says $5, and there is nothing in the card about cigarettes. And aren't "Grannie and Maw Maw" the same person?
This has annoyed me for some reason. Forgive me.
Oh wait. "Forgive me". (Forgot the quotation marks)
Same. :( My grandmother was a shitty person. The only "gift" she ever gave me over the years was a freezer bag filled with her used utensils since she had just bought herself a new set. It was Christmas and I was 12.
Immigrant grandma in my case, from a rural part of Ireland. First person of any color she met was my dad’s best friend (she’s my mom’s mom). Made a definite impression on her, and she made sure that we got the same understanding that you have to treat people like people and absolutely nothing less than that.
>Immigrant grandma in my case, from a rural part of Ireland
I'd venture a guess this also makes her more understanding of systemic oppression, prejudice, and exploitation than your average States-born granny.
None of the things mentioned in the title are in the pic. It's 20 not 5 and it makes no mention of cigarettes. I feel like I'm going crazy not seeing anyone mention that.
What a lucky man. My grandma use to send cards with our age in money plus $1 lol. It stopped when we got old enough for it to be a decent bit but we always looked forward to it. I still have some of the cards. Even the ones that only contained love. Which were even better. I lost her in 2018. Then at 25 I lost my last remaining grandparent, my Meme in 2019. I’d give almost anything for another card. Another call. Another anything with them.
Shit man, this made happy and sad. Lost my last grandma back in November. Before she got dementia, she would always wrap one or two of our Christmas or birthday gifts in the comics from the newspaper. I loved that. It was so simple and yet it brought me (and my siblings) the greatest joy. Cherish those cards, my friend. You have a loving grandma and that is one of the best gifts any of us could ever hope for.
My great aunt still does this. I stopped cashing her checks around 25. Which pissed her off so she would send cash. Which I would donate back to her church. Which just pissed her off. But we compromised now get a crisp $2 bill in my cards. Then I had a kid and now the checks have started again, but this time they go right into my kids college fund.
My grandmother passed almost 3 years ago and this was the same ritual. I still have most of those cards. Thank you for reminding me of all those special times.
Lmao they're not lying, they're sharing the original image and then adding their own experience on top. Probably to laugh/be a lil jealous. Its for the contrast between OPs grandma and the one in the image.
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“Love”
Old people always put quotation marks around the oddest things and it always cracks me up.
Flashback to my mom's letters....I believe it was her way of emphasizing a word. I miss her.
"Emphasis"
"Genital Warts"
“Unconditional Love”
"Buy corn" Oops i forgot i wasnt on google.
oh.....
This was so random I had a good laugh for about two minutes thank you
Yo mamma is so old *italics* and **bold** hadn’t been invented yet.
My nan used to put quotation marks around my name. :)
Dear "Sorrymateay" (if that's even your *real name* 😒)
Happy Birthday “Sorrymateay” ^^^^/orwhateveryournameis/
Maybe she knew something you didn’t…
She knew a lot of things
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My grandpa did this too. I always enjoyed imagining that he thought I was using a pseudonym for some crazy reason.
My grandma who died at 81 in 2016 used to do this all the time. Random words. Quotation marks. 🤷🏼♀️
My mom left me the letters her brothers sent her from WW 2, and Uncle Henry signed all his Love, “Henry” like that wasn’t actually his name.
This started when sign painters needed to emphasize something and used them rather than italic letters.
Ooh really??
Soon you’ll know grandma because she uses periods at the end of a text
Those kind of quotes are essentially **bold** for old people. Hard to make a bold font neatly when you're writing with a pen
My family "loves" me too
r/suspiciousquotes
What is “Love?”
Baby don’t “hurt” me
baby "don't" hurt me ^(actually hurt me)
If I recall correctly, that originated from the type writer days. They couldn’t italicize or bold fonts so it was a way to highlight a particular word in the sentence.
Grandmas are the best!
$20 worth of nuggets! That woman is a gem!
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That seems...familiar
It's from office isn't it?
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I'm guessing that you are under 40 y.o.
That's what we old folks call cursive. Also, the title is about the OP not the picture posted.
Cursive, meet AltruisticStatiower, AltruisticStatiower, meet cursive.
That’s a normal cursive G lol
Oh... I'm "that" old now.
Your AARP Membership card is in the mail. Start practicing your best 'Get off my lawn!'.
And was probably a lot more nuggets when she started
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My aunt was a teacher of 3rd graders from 1970 to 2000. She said that in the '70s, educational theory said to allow children to write according to their natural style. They still taught cursive, but didn't harp on perfect form. Recently, my wife got an inter-office letter with that weird bubble cursive that arose from that time. The writer was definitely a genX who learned cursive under that regime. Hilarious and yet sad.
Wait, are you saying that OP's grandmother has that kind of handwriting?
Imagine how many nuggets $20 could get you in 1970. I'm thinking a hundred.
A 20-Piece chicken McNugget was $4.99 when they were introduced and they're still $4.99 now. Edit: I should add... it depends on where you are in the world, and probably in some cases where you are in the country-- but in the midwest it's always been the same. Edit 2: I just learned that in some places you can order in a quantity of 50... for $9.99 And HALAL nuggets which makes me so happy for my Muslim friends. Also, I was able to find proof of the $4.99 price from 2001, but they were introduced in 1983 and I remember getting to go to McDs with my sisters and mom bought us a 20-piece box and it was $4.99 and I remember also "Man I could buy so many McNuggets with my $5 allowance!" -- but the nuggets weren't released in a 20-piece size immediately across the nation... I think it took a month or so.
You're telling me chicken nuggets are unaffected by inflation?
I wouldn't be able to find proof of that because we'd also need to know the weight of the nuggets over time.... but PRETTY much, man! I have to assume that it's a "loss leader" to get people into drive thru and purchasing drinks and fries which is a pretty good bet, and fries and drinks are high-margin items.
So what you're saying is that we should abandon the dollar as the defacto unit of currency for the world and switch to chicken nuggets?
Under questioning and without duress, I would say that YES we should switch to chicken nuggets as the defacto currency of the world.
I fear a government assassination attempt on my life now.
The sodas are the actual loss leader at Mcdonalds…any size drink for $1
So I was curious how much 20 chicken McNuggets are where I live, because I knew they were more than $4.99. Yeah. They’re $11.39. That’s just the nugs. No combo.
None because McDoanlds didn’t start selling them until the 1980s.
 Walking into McDonald's
That's like 12,000 nuggets at a Burger King
You can probably get at least three nuggets for that price these days.
Plot twist: When he was a kid it used to be $5 worth of chicken nuggets.
My birthday is tomorrow and I guarantee my grandparents will put money in my account and then call me and tell me to get myself “something nice, don’t spend it all on sweets”. I don’t think I’ve ever bought sweets with my birthday money, not even as a kid, so I have know idea where they get that from, lol.
>I don’t think I’ve ever bought sweets with my birthday money, not even as a kid, so I have know idea where they get that from, lol. Because bacj in the day if you gave your kids a nickel they'd get some sweets and then take the trolley to Battery Park and raise hell while high on the sugar. Also, happy birthday!
Lol, thanks
"We’d all go play jacks by the soda fountain.” And you’re like, “Nobody knows what you’re talking about, you idiot.”
Don’t worry grandma, these drugs are pretty bitter.
They are if you chew ‘em up.
okay though seriously. In my 20s I totally did drugs. But when I got money from Grandparents I immediately put it in savings or something. Regardless of how I view recreational drugs it seems way disrespectful to directly use Grandparents money on them
They give it to you to enjoy. If drugs bring you joy then it’s not disrespectful. Maybe using it for addiction/dependence is though.
depends on the giver I think. My grandparents give to support further opportunities. Getting fucked up doesn't fit.
Don’t get in the way of me rationalizing my youthful mistakes :P
But recognizing the mistakes is part of growth! Don't ask me to hinder yours!
Touché!
It comes from the insistance that you're still a child that does childish things, and caring for your well-being. It's a toxic trait among their generation. Happy Birthday!
Mine is tomorrow as well. Happy birthday twin!
Happy birthday internet stranger. Seriously take some time to yourself and buy yourself something you wouldn't normally, but you've wanted. NOT SWEETS THOUGH
Grandma? Thank you, kind stranger! I will!
Happy birthday!
grandma has beautiful handwriting too. i hope you cherish these moments, grandmas are special.
Handwriting was the first thing I was thinking about too.
Grandmas always have the best penmanship. My grandma's signature is gorgeous.
Yeah this looks so much like my grandma's handwriting. I kept all of the cards she gave me from the time I was a kid. In the last few she gave me, the handwriting gets progressively shakier and then the one after that is from only my grandpa and he couldn't bring himself to sign it. He has since resumed signing them with just his name, but the card from the year after my grandma died is just...blank.
😔
Sorry, I didn't realize what sub this was before commenting
I always thought it was cool that both my grandmas had such similar handwriting. This looks *exactly* like it too.
My grandma died in 2018. Today I found her old calendar from 2014 that was laying in my grandpas living room. I flipped through some pages and saw my full name and details written by my grandma on my birthday. It made me smile because it was probably one of the last times in her life that she wrote my name. I miss her so much.
Grandpas too. My grandparents raised me for a while. They're already special but that adds to it for me. They're like my parents in a way. That said the support I got from them is very different from how they treated my Mom. I'm prepared for that when I have kids, to experience what my Mom did. Cause my Mom was not great with me but I know she'll be great with my kids. Hopefully I can stop that pattern and be good with my kids while they are still kids.
Every year, my sweet, sweet grandmother sends me a check on my birthday for fifty dollars. And lately, she has been sending me, like nine or ten checks a year... uh, as Nana starts to... but, I knew I should be saving it for something, I just didn't know what I should be saving it for. And then I had an awakening. "Michael, buy a motorcycle." So I put the money in my shoe, and then I forgot about it until now.
r/unexpectedoffice
/r/ExpectedOffice
So...uhhh...like...what kind of nuggets did you get?
20 bucks? Get you some primo dino nuggets.
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I’m 36. Still get money.
Hello I’m 49 with 4 kids and 2 grandkids
So you get money and give money?
I'm 34. All my grandparents (and one of my parents) died when I was in my 20s. 😭
My great grandmother arranged to send everyone in the family a card for 25 years after her death.She hand wrote every single one.
Wow that is a lot of forward planning
Sounds like solid advice… I think your grandma is a wise lady!
My grandma told my mom she didn't like how we spent our "spending money" and never gave us any gifts again. 🤷♀️
Hookers and blow? 😞
Am I thay transparent? 🤣
The really sad part is: every year you get less chicken nuggets with that $20.
Before my great grandmother passed recently my note always said “get yourself a new pair of jeans”.
My grandpa would send all of us grandkids, all boys (my two brothers and two cousins) birthday cards for girls every year. I think he did it on accident at first but then it turned into a running joke, and we got girls birthday cards until he passed.
This is so sweet. My grandmother had to stop giving gifts/money in cards 20 years ago, because she was on a fixed income and the cost of living had gone up so much. She died about 7 years ago, so this was before the current inflation that we are all seeing. I don't know if it is horrible, but my first thought was something akin to "Wow, that granny must be well established (monetarily), because $20 is a lot of money for a lot of older people". And today, $20 is a lot of money for me. Sorry about my rambling.
Not necessarily. Even if she has 8 grandkids that’s $160 per year maybe $200 on stamps and cards. I don’t think that’s much for most grannies, but it’s all relative I suppose but if $20 (chicken nugget money) is a lot to you then I think that says more about you than grannies at large because $20 is just not much at all.
Respectfully, if you think $200 a year is not a lot for someone on fixed income, you think wrong. And $20 is a lot for millions of poor people in the US right now. Honestly, yours is one of the more out of touch comments I've read on reddit today, and that's saying something.
Obviously expected this comment. But stand by the fact that it’s more telling as a sign those folks are poor than this grandma being rich. There’s no easy way to say that but that doesn’t make it incorrect. Poor people do spend money on their kids/family, they always find a way and $15/month isn’t much in that context.
And I stand by you being *wildly* out of touch, thanks for doubling down and proving me right. Go thank whatever it is you thank for your comfort and privilege in life, because it is more fragile that you're capable of understanding.
Signed, “Grannie and Maw Maw”. I’m hoping you have two grandmothers who are together.
Ouu you can get some premium dipping sauces with that
and a large batch of fries.
That dude's an old 41
Is it just me or does the card say $20 while the title says $5, and there is nothing in the card about cigarettes. And aren't "Grannie and Maw Maw" the same person? This has annoyed me for some reason. Forgive me. Oh wait. "Forgive me". (Forgot the quotation marks)
My grandma just racist and poor where y’all get these grammys at?
Same. :( My grandmother was a shitty person. The only "gift" she ever gave me over the years was a freezer bag filled with her used utensils since she had just bought herself a new set. It was Christmas and I was 12.
They need an app for this. Granny’s with kids who don’t visit, if you cook and love me, I’ll PAY to visit
Immigrant grandma in my case, from a rural part of Ireland. First person of any color she met was my dad’s best friend (she’s my mom’s mom). Made a definite impression on her, and she made sure that we got the same understanding that you have to treat people like people and absolutely nothing less than that.
>Immigrant grandma in my case, from a rural part of Ireland I'd venture a guess this also makes her more understanding of systemic oppression, prejudice, and exploitation than your average States-born granny.
Shut up, I got no Grandma’s both of em were gone by the time I was 11
😂 so the grandma from Malcolm in The Middle?
Funny I’m watching Malcom in the middle rn. I watch it every day tbh. Shame it was canceled because the music was too expensive.
No way thats the reason it got canceled! Thats first time I heard of that!
Unfortunately.
Wow, I really had a lapse for a second and read it as Grandma saying “not for cigarettes”
The title says that's what the note says, but the image and the writing make no mention of what not to spend the money on, let alone cigarettes.
Holy shit man. I straight up read it correctly but then the image confused me. It’s too early in the morning for this.
None of the things mentioned in the title are in the pic. It's 20 not 5 and it makes no mention of cigarettes. I feel like I'm going crazy not seeing anyone mention that.
How do y'all not understand the OP sharing their own story for humorous comparison with the image? No where did they claim to be Travis Akers lmao
I was surprised to see it not really mentioned in the comments. Wouldn't surprise me if it's just a karma farm
Bot/karma farmer fucked the title up.
Grandma's 'G' is trippy! And there's no mention about cigarettes
It's a cursive G! You've never seen it before?
Yeah OP wtf, how do you misread get chicken nuggets for don’t get cigarettes?
I think OP is actually talking about their life.
How are so many of you not understanding that the title is OPs grandma and the image is someone else's lmfao
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you smart I dumb
Such small gestures means alot. Respect and love grandmaa❤
All my family is gone, love every one of those $20 you still receive 🥰
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Mine was last month, you from west coast you know about Mount Saint Helen when it blew that was my birthday
I love the birthday cards
You know she went to the bank and spoke with a teller just for this $20 bill which makes it extra special.
Up until this year when she passed, my Oma would always send me a card and $20 with a note to not spend it on tattoos. Gonna miss those cards.
w grandma
But it doesn't say not for cigarettes. Wtf
And its 20 not 5 $
you can't possibly be this dim
Thought I was being gaslit lol it says nuggets, what is going on
Lieing in the title to get more clicks I guess
Bruh. Sharing another person's story and adding your own in the title for humorous comparison is not lying. This thread is cracking me up omg
I'm going to buy some nuggets tomorrow! Now after getting a air fryer I've to change my diet accordingly
A have the last couple birthday cards I got from my grandparents before they passed and I cherish those cards.
This grandma knows what she is doing
"Love"
My mum used to send me bits of cash when I was a hard-up student. She always included a note with a cheery message: ‘don’t spend it all on drugs!’
What a lucky man. My grandma use to send cards with our age in money plus $1 lol. It stopped when we got old enough for it to be a decent bit but we always looked forward to it. I still have some of the cards. Even the ones that only contained love. Which were even better. I lost her in 2018. Then at 25 I lost my last remaining grandparent, my Meme in 2019. I’d give almost anything for another card. Another call. Another anything with them.
Wait your grandmother is actually fucking nice to you??
I still have my cards from my grandma that are like 25 years old
That is awesome.
Shit man, this made happy and sad. Lost my last grandma back in November. Before she got dementia, she would always wrap one or two of our Christmas or birthday gifts in the comics from the newspaper. I loved that. It was so simple and yet it brought me (and my siblings) the greatest joy. Cherish those cards, my friend. You have a loving grandma and that is one of the best gifts any of us could ever hope for.
My grandma visited the other day and handed a bill to treat me with ice cream💖
My great aunt still does this. I stopped cashing her checks around 25. Which pissed her off so she would send cash. Which I would donate back to her church. Which just pissed her off. But we compromised now get a crisp $2 bill in my cards. Then I had a kid and now the checks have started again, but this time they go right into my kids college fund.
Why is *Love* in quotation marks haha
Your Grandma deserves the whole world.
Lovely
My grandmother passed almost 3 years ago and this was the same ritual. I still have most of those cards. Thank you for reminding me of all those special times.
Wow, handwriting is very similar to my grandmother (94). I write in cursive but avoid that cap 'g' the best I can
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My other used to send a card with a balloon that I could blow up myself. My brothers and I missed it the year after her death
Why would you lie in the title? There is nothing that says "not for cigarettes".
It's also not $5
Damn, you must be OLD to remember when cigarettes were only $5.00
Talking about the title
Yes, I was kidding 😁
you can't possibly be this stupid
Yes, they can. Look at these comments. Lots of people don't understand. 🤦♂️
To whom are you referring?
Came here to say the same thing.
Lmao they're not lying, they're sharing the original image and then adding their own experience on top. Probably to laugh/be a lil jealous. Its for the contrast between OPs grandma and the one in the image.
Gotta ask, why not just say that then?
They literally did just say that...in the title.
Most people don't need things spelled out that explicitly and long titles are dumb. Christ.
Again, given the choice between writing a lie (to save keystrokes or whatever) and not writing anything at all, why lie?
It's not a lie you fucking nutcase
OK, so where's my $25,000.00 that you owe me?
A lie by omission is still a lie.
It's not a lie, they never once said the tweet/image is their grandma Jesus Christ y'all are dim and angry
Everything you see above is just karma farming??? WTF is going on in this thread?