How To Stop! Now Unbearable

@sunil_008 (1269)
India
April 8, 2010 2:50pm CST
we have a family here living for decades now. like all other indian familes they are all together(i guess) the parents and their children and the grandchildren too under the same roof. one of the grand chid of the family is my close friend.yesterday when i met him on the street he was looking too upset. when asked about the reason at first he was hesitated but later on he started to narrate the whole thing for which he and the entire family is so upset. the grand old lady of the family is the root cause of their worries.we all love our grand parents but from his words i kind of felt that they all want her to die asap( i hope i am wrong with my guess work).anyway i am here to tell you the exact cause of their worries and seek help to help the family to get some peace. the grand ma of the family in her youth had read a lot of story books , novels, dramas and fictions and she is still in the habit of reading them even now.so she's full of stories in her head .but for a past few months she wakes up in the middle of the night and starts writing some horrible stories which are either taken from the old books witha fine touch of her own writer skill and then in the morning when everybody wakes up she gathers them around the dinning hall at the breakfast table and reads it aloud to them. in the begining of these the family members were taking interests in her writing skills but now it seems like a punishment for them as everyday they have to listen to all those mixed thoughts of the books and real life plots. my friend and his parents as well as his uncles were all quite upset about the whole issue and things are so worse in the family that there now hardly they meet each other on the breakfast table. so to keep the family intact the grand ma sholud be stopped ... is there a way to STOP her with her writing skills???...i am idealess about it.if anybody here can give me some valueable suggestions to help and save my friends large family from spilting away ...
3 responses
• Philippines
8 Apr 10
They're gonna have to deal with it. She's an elder so they have to respect her. If she wants that then let her have it. Although they can have another breakfast time separate from the grandmother so they can pass up to her literature.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
8 Apr 10
it definitely sounds like your friends grandma is senile and i hate to be the bearer of bad news but it will probably only get worse. my dad has this problem and over the years its only gotten worse. its just something i've dealt with and accepted. it really doesn't help to allow it to bring me down in those situations of frustration like your friends family is dealing with although its understandable.
@abirsinha (114)
• India
8 Apr 10
This is a very funny yet serious situation. I guess the best solution is to speak frankly with the old lady that her stories are boring and she needs to keep them to herself only. I guess if everybody avoids the breakfast storytelling then she would understand that everybody is avoiding her, and through self-realization she might understand her faults.