World's Best Grandpa

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World's Best Grandpa

Old, rickety, managing to avoid death

Likes to start his statements with "years ago we had this, years ago

we did'nt have this"

Knew it was bad when I caught him showing his thing to some neighborhood girls-said it was candy

I tried to hang him in the tub, threw a well thought out noose round his chicken neck

Only the floor was wet and I slipped and snapped a leg

Gramps wasnt even breathing hard when he gave me a lollipop in the hospital

It all boils down to something. When I got out, Grandpa told me not to worry about the army comin' round, comin' round-soon we will all sleep in the cold, hard ground

We never discussed the attempted hanging in the tub