Friday, April 13, 2007

"Elizabeth H Cowie has added you as a friend"

This was one of the weirder emails I've gotten: my 83-year-old grandmother friending me on Facebook. She fricking loves it. She sits there poking people all day and asking all my friends how they are doing. I think she just might be the oldest person on Facebook. Go stalk her! Or better yet, friend her... it would make her day, nay, life.

I filled out some of her profile for her. "Why did you put that I am interested in grandchildren, Tuppy, and men?" she asked. "I'm not that interested in men. I'm interested in women too." I explained that "Interested In" meant SEXUALLY interested in, not just plain old interested. ("Ohhhhhhh," she said.) I'm not going to even try explaining the implications of Random Play and Whatever I Can Get.

4 comments:

Kate said...

I see where she's coming from. I always feel a little bad putting that I'm interested in men, as if I weren't interested in a hundred other things including women . . . perhaps because so many women who are interested in men are really only interested in men.

Molly said...

Yeah, I actually took it off mine. I figure, nobody's business anyway.

Kate said...

unless they *LUV* you.

Molly said...

they don't. grumble grumble grumble.