If you need to know anything about absolutely anyone, Granny’s on the case! She probably goes to church with their cousin. #itsasouthernthing #sotrueyall
Reminds me of when I transferred schools and some kid was being mighty rude to me. Told my grandma about it. After pointing him out she said she would "take care of it." The next day the kid apologized and never even looked my way again. Always wondered what grandma magic she pulled.
@@jennahenry4426 oh lord if someone’s grandma talk to my grandma about me she’d tan my hide. If someone talked to my great aunt about me She’d make me pick the switch myself and god help me if it broke. I miss those two, god that I don’t believe in but they did rest their souls
I did that once to one of my kids...someone called to tell me he was riding his bike in another part of the neighborhood without his helmet. I jumped in my minivan and was down there in 30 seconds flat. The bike was impounded and he was grounded and he was just SHOCKED that I had caught him. Moms and Grandmas that look out for ALL of the children are heros.
My dad was on the local council when I was younger. It ended up with me having a drink of water at the local pub at around 14-15 years old on my own and somehow my dad ended up sat next to me when I hadn't actually called him myself... At that point, typical teenage rebellion, if I had wanted to, wasn't an option. Both my parents helping in the Church, everyone knew me from being a baby and I am still known in the area as the daughter of my parents with my husband working in the same area and being known as their son in law locally too... I ended up moving out of the area to begin to do my own thing instead. Bursledon is a village still with a village mentality, partly love it and partly not.
I finally got to see my grandma the other day. She's in the nursing home & they're not letting anyone in. But my aunt works there (her daughter) & she took my grandma to the doctor & came by my house. Now, my grandma has Alzheimers & it took a bit for her to remember my name. She bawled, I bawled. We haven't seen each other since March. I'm also a grandmas girl so it's been hard on me. I told her before she left to not forget me ❤
@@QueenGoddessYume I'm sorry love. My grandma is my only living grandparent now, other than my husbands 2 grandmothers. My grandDaddy passed away 3 years ago on Christmas Eve. Tell your baby girl that she'll see her Nana one day in Heaven ❤ I had a good family friend pass away today & he was real close to my church family, so I went to pick up my best friends little girls today & took them on a joy ride, went to see a puppy & kittens, went to get a pop and candy then finished the day by taking a walk by the river & talking about Jim (the guy who passed) I'll pray for comfort for you & your baby girl ❤💗
I'm so glad your aunt works there! During this time when no family is allowed in the abuse happening at a lot of nursing homes is so severe these elders are coming in to the hospital in absolutely deplorable condition even worse than before the shutdown. 😭 I'm glad you were able to see your grandma! My grandma is also my only living grandparent now too and is just started to show signs of dementia back around December. It's been rough not being able to see her during this time (I last saw her in February) especially since her memory had gotten far worse. But at least she's living with her sister for now. (When it gets safer she's going to live with me at least).
@@Shanequabumblebee oh girl I'm glad too! Plus my best friend is a nurse there & she makes sure my grandma is taken care of. I thought numerous times of just going in there & grandmaNapping her! I hope you get to see your grams soon ❤ I'll say a special prayer that it happens soon for you.
I am NOT surprised. That's what my grandmother did before I married my husband and it turned out his great aunt and my grandfather were neighbours when they were little. My husband and I had met online and were chatting for 4 months at the time.
When my mom got her first teaching job back in the late 60's, the vice principal was so jealous that she was getting invited to so many homes of well placed people in town. She was related to a woman who knew everyone, and the pastor of the church she attended, was the pastor of a church from the town that her mother, my grandma, grew up in. Grandma was one of nine kids, big family. Showed my hubby the family history book once, he swore the family photo looked like his graduation class.
The actual moment I decided my husband was the man I would marry was when I saw how kind he was to some stray kittens we found. He helped me gather them up and take them an hour trip (each way) to the emergency animal hospital because one of them was obviously deathly ill. He was so gentle and caring. 34 years later, we're still together. If the guy is kind to animals and store clerks and waitresses, he's more than likely a good person (which is wisdom I learned from my southern grandma!).
I grew up in a community of just under 5000 people, in Iceland. It's a farming community that consists of two villages, one town, and a whole bunch of farms, all this boxed in by mountains all around. My family has lived in this community for generations, my nan knows every single person there and if she doesn't she knows their family. She's been active in all these community groups and activities, she's the most knowledgeable person I know.
My second cousin in the north of Scotland was a midwife her whole working life, and lives in the house where she was born 87 years ago. Well. Any people I meet over there I have to tell her their mother's maiden name and I get all the info. I don't dare even have more than a passing conversation with anyone without running them past her first! First time I visited everyone knew who I was already and I got all kinds of stories about my grandparents who left in the 1920's :)
My family comes from Poland (I was born and raised in the USA) and I went over to visit some friends in Hungary. My mother insisted that I ask them if they knew Uncle Tomek. “Uh … mom … Tomek lives in Poland. I’m going to Hungary.” “Ask them if they know Tomek! They might know him. Or they might know his kids.” Keep in mind, at the time she was asking me this, Tomek was 102. Doing the math, I realized his kids were probably close to 80. My Hungarian friend was indignant that he didn’t know Tomek, but we did seem to run into oddball relatives of his no matter where we went in Hungary. “Let’s stop in this store for some things. Oh, look, my aunt is here! We’re going to a winery in Villány. Oh, look! My cousins! We’re going to Budapest for a day. Look, Uncle János is working on the medieval walls!” Keep in mind, this wasn’t a small village. We were going all over the western half of Hungary. “I don’t know why your mother keeps thinking I know your Uncle Tomek.” “Well, you seem to related to everyone else!”
@katrin896 : I've always wanted to know what the difference is, between a town, and a village? Is it that a village has houses, and a town has shops? TAT
@@catwhisperer9489 it mostly has to do with size. A village only consists of a few houses and shops, a town is much bigger. And then you have the biggest ones, the cities
I am fairly certain that there was sorcery involved in some my my granny's pies. I've tried to recreate her pie topping crumble for 40 years and still can't get it right.
I grew up listening to my Grandparents, Aunts, & Uncles talk about people I didn't know or ever heard of. "Harold & Pauline's nephew's back at the gas station." ... "The Meyers moved into the old Miller place." Once, I chimed in "How are Joe & Evelyn these days?" Everyone went silent. Mom says, "Who are they?" I confessed I just made them up lol
This is so funny! It's absolutely me every time my son says "Hey mum do you know a guy/girl called ____?" He then gets a half hour lesson on the person's entire family tree and their relationship to our family :)
I’m Thai and a Bangkok native, but we have this aunt who lived with us and she literally knows everybody in a 2 kilometer radius of our house, and all the gossip that goes with that. Growing up, my sister and our cousins would sit around in the women’s sewing circle and would be like “WHAT?!!!!” “GASP!!!!!” “What’s a ‘mistress’??!!! GASP!!” and that’s how we learn to be always be on our best behavior at all times, and that discretion is a MUST MUST MUST. Fun times. Years later and the sewing circle got smaller and smaller and now if we want the latest gossip, our go to is my elderly nanny. Yes she lives with us (as per tradition she can stay for as long as she likes).
Try a Southern Cherokee mom. My mom could find out our flights (Army, Navy and Air Force) when the flight details hadn’t been released yet. If someone was flying, she would get more intel than the CIA. Called me at two different bases, while on duty, both at unpublished numbers. I had to explain that I hadn’t given the info out but that this was her skill set, lol.
My Grandma looked out for me during my school years. She always made sure I didn't accidentally date a relative. That's one of the possible hazards of living in Kentucky. LOL
@@RandomThoughtsFromEll I have 5. Well, had ... rest their souls. And Diane is nicer than all but one. My Southern one was the meanest of the lot and hated me.
@@mikemesser4326: Wait.... How do you have 5 grandmothers? They're not all actually kin, I guess---like, your parents or grandfathers remarried, or something?
The grandma network can work for and against you. I remember acting up when I was a kid and before I could make it home, my grandma knew about it. I learned real quick I needed to either behave or learn some stealth. 🤣🤣
I got sent to the principal's office in 5th grade. My cousin told his mom, who told her sister-in-law (my grandmother). I got a phone call that I needed to confess to my parents or she would make the call.
"He has an unpaid parking ticket from 2014" Cop in me: "So what you're saying is he has a warrant." Also, "this isn't my house" probably isnt the strangest thing a delivery man has heard.
Eh its a hobby for her. Needs something to keep her busy. The 75 is just for things like gas, the pizza, taking her contacts to lunch, going to the beauty parlor to talk etc cant lose money after all
My mother used to keep _hundreds_ of names, birthdays, anniversaries, addresses, and other important information IN HER HEAD (or a family rolodex, OR the family phone book right next to the phone). That she now has dementia and can't remember anything outside of 5 minutes about kills me. And she was JUST like this. Knew everyone and everything. God bless grammas!
Part Italian from my father's side. I know everything about my boyfriend and his favorite foods. My aunts told me ' once he has tasted your food he won't leave you mija '
@@yvonneyvonne2513 thank you. My solution is to remain single. I no longer have to walk on egg shells. I no longer have to be questioned about my every move. I am no longer browbeaten and berated. I've never been so content in my entire life! My plea to fathers is to treat your daughters and your wife with kindness, love and respect. If you don't, that is all your daughter will know and will relive that awful situation with every man in her life.
@@jeanbean1390 Bravo!! I've always felt that Contentment was underrated and undervalued. Yes, cliff diving in Acapulco can be exhilarating, but soothing myself on a floatie in warm beach water is my bliss. Balanced life is best life. Congratulations, Girl, and get to stepping. Your life awaits. And don't forget the (lightly) sweet Iced Tea.
OH MY GOODNESS! 😆My granny & great aunt would both say, "Who's his people?" from there they would run down the family history just like this. His mother's, cousin, husband's daddy went to church with .......ending with "I know his people" lolol
I once said something like "where are your people from" to an african-american gf at work. Mine are all southern. Deep. Southern. Sabrina was so shocked at the question. Obviously NOT southern she thought I was asking if her family owned slaves!!!! 😲 I explained your people are your kin.
OMGoodness!!!😂 that was my grandmother Muffy and my Great Aunt Joyce 2 weeks before my wedding!!! Fiancé from upstate NY had the GALL to ask me isn't your family going to be upset because you're not marrying a cousin??😢 MY Muffy & Aunt Joyce asked Who are his people? What's his Momma's maiden name? & then went to work... @our wedding, during our 1st dance as husband & wife, I whispered into his ear: By the way, Muffy & Aunt Joyce ran your people & YOU ARE my 62nd cousin on ur Momma's side 😮 thru the Fultons!!😂🎉 (YEAH! I said that!!!❤) Welcome to the REST of us family Yankee Boy!! Ha Ha!
By using the grandma intelligence network you forever become a part of the grandma intelligence network. You'll just get a phone call bleary eyed at like 6am going "Hello dear, I got to thinking. Didn't you go to school with some boy with the last name Ekhart?"
I grew up in Pennsylvania and for fun my sister and I would interrupt my mom's conversation with Gram just to mention someone in my class to hear Gram say, "Now is that so and so's boy?" And that tangent would go on for 15 minutes or more.
My grandmas not southern but man i couldn't stop thinking of her not only knows everyone but remembers peoples phone numbers adress even work locker codes from 20 years ago
@@parmesean_ i thought so always but in truth she knew a lot of people plus a big family plus a perfect number memory up until the end still should have been her job
People used to have better memories. Even we did when we were young. But things like digital calendars and cell phones that store everything for us has caused us to have weaker memories.
Omg if my grandma doesn’t know someone she will talk and talk and TALK Edit: Son of a biscuit I see this and it’s at 212 LIKES!! Thanks so much Edit 2: Omg 234 likes
If the FBI is watching this, I think they should hire grandma’s as Secret Agents FBI because they will find out about “everything” plus they make good cookies and food 🤔🤣
For real, they actually wanted to hire my great aunt during the Cold War to host dinner parties and get info - her husband was military and she still makes the best cheesecake.
Mom always told us that she had the name of every other Mother in town in her purse and our friends did NOT want her calling their Mamas if they acted up while they were with us.
I have an aunt in her 80''s and not only does she know everyone in the surrounding counties, but if I know someone from out of state she probably knows them too. Amazing thing is in all my years, I have never heard her say anything bad about anyone.
@Leandro Aude I now want the movie that's half R.E.D and half Miss Marple where a couple of Southern-Grandma-style secretaries, filers, and evidence loggers/inventory who used to work for the FBI all team up together to solve a crime.
Theone82 people skills are as good or more important then academic knowledge. Also this is a joke don’t take life so seriously. I’m here for a fun time not a long time.
Sooo funny! Southerners can do this anywhere too. This Southerner knew EVERYONE in the small NJ town i moved to. My sons were so annoyed I always knew everything about their girlfriends. They were so happy when we moved back to ATL and I didn't know anyone in their school.
Yeah so true. My grandmother raised me. She could find out anything on anybody and had a super power I thought. Because she would say I have a gut feeling about that person that doesn't make sense. And sure enough she'd know the next day if her gut feeling was right. Can't get nothing pass a southern grandmother.
Back when I was dating, my grandmother always wanted to know, "Who are his people?" I didn't understand it at the time and it irritated me but I sure understand now!
That is spot on. We're in a rural area. If you're not careful, you could end up marrying a distant cousin. That's just a other reason this kind of Grandmom stalking is very, very VERY important. 😆😂😂🤣🤣
So true especially when you are free a small louisiana town and 90% related to everyone. So you have to call all your grandma’s to find out who you can and cannot date. 🤣🤣🤣 so true
This is also why you could never leave the grocery store quickly. Grandma knows everyone and their most random connection. I knew once o heard “Ms. Anna-Bell”... get good and comfortable, you’re not going anywhere soon.
This is so funny to me! And they always know and remember every person you ever went to school with too. “Do you remember that nice girl that you went to first grade with, the one with the long hair, well she’s cut it since then but I saw her the other day and she....” (note - I barely remember first grade from 20 years ago, and have no idea who she’s talking about, but she knows everyone I went to school with and is able to greet them by name. It’s some sort of super power.)
A spin off from this could be Southern Grandma's tracking down criminals just by sharing what they know about who they know & dragging them by their ears to the police station.
My Maw has this uncanny ability to remember everyone she knows' birthday, give her a month and she can probably name someone with a birthday on every day. Sometimes she doesn't even remember who it is, just that they have a birthday then
Oh, how I wish my late son were here...he would point to me & laugh...but yeah, if we don't know someone, we know someone who does! (Grandma in training)
This made me die of laughter. Plot twist, Granny is really my sister in disguise. I gave up social media a few years back and really just keep to myself for the most part but anytime I need to find something out about someone or a local business or local gossip, I reach out to my sister. She’s my little P.I. We joke about it all the time.
Yeaaah Flemish grandparents as well. Any conversation inevitavly ends up in a 30 minute convoluted deep dive of the personal relations of people their age who went to school in the next town over.
This applies to every grandma. My grandma has the deets on a sizable chunk of the population of Massachusetts. Because of her I know about relatives who probably don’t even know I exist!
When schools say “it will go on your permanent record” they mean the grandma record 😂
That actually makes perfect sense.
Lol
I never thought of that, good point! 👍👍👏👏❗️.
Yep
John 3:16 KJV 👍💕
Video idea - grandpa's always know every road to get there except the highway
Shoot that sounds like me except the names of roads but I can give you all the markers to look for 😁
100% agree
this needs to be made.
Ll
Accurate!
This is why no country will attack us because our local intelligence would be faster than a rabbit in hunting season.
Tyg Rahof your durn right
Let me just say...I HIGHLY appreciate your exposition on this
And another season ;)
Duck season? Lol
I read this, and immediatly started saying “Duck season“ in my head
Forget Sherlock Holmes. Southern Grandmothers are the best detectives in the world.
There's actually a mystery series where the detective is just an old lady with all the gossip. She's really funny!
@@alicejohnson9709 Murder She Wrote?
Renee Hunt Miss Jane Marple novels by Agatha Christie.
So are wives 😉
So true!
Reminds me of when I transferred schools and some kid was being mighty rude to me. Told my grandma about it. After pointing him out she said she would "take care of it." The next day the kid apologized and never even looked my way again. Always wondered what grandma magic she pulled.
She spoke with his grandma 😂😂
she knows his mama and babysitted her way back when
@@jennahenry4426 oh lord if someone’s grandma talk to my grandma about me she’d tan my hide. If someone talked to my great aunt about me She’d make me pick the switch myself and god help me if it broke. I miss those two, god that I don’t believe in but they did rest their souls
@@ah5721 *babysat
@@KyrstOak baby sitted is correct.
Now this isn't true. That invoice would have said "3 calls a week for a month"
And get that heavy casserole dish off the top shelf for her.
Yep
AND you best come by for Sunday supper at least once in that month
And bring your fellow over asap
Hi Amanda
My mom when I was young: Now be good out there. I have my spies.
Me then: Sure, whatever.
Me now: Oh my God, now I get it!
I did that once to one of my kids...someone called to tell me he was riding his bike in another part of the neighborhood without his helmet. I jumped in my minivan and was down there in 30 seconds flat. The bike was impounded and he was grounded and he was just SHOCKED that I had caught him. Moms and Grandmas that look out for ALL of the children are heros.
My dad was on the local council when I was younger. It ended up with me having a drink of water at the local pub at around 14-15 years old on my own and somehow my dad ended up sat next to me when I hadn't actually called him myself... At that point, typical teenage rebellion, if I had wanted to, wasn't an option. Both my parents helping in the Church, everyone knew me from being a baby and I am still known in the area as the daughter of my parents with my husband working in the same area and being known as their son in law locally too...
I ended up moving out of the area to begin to do my own thing instead. Bursledon is a village still with a village mentality, partly love it and partly not.
Oh yeah, they know everyone and everything. They can tell you all about that “floozy, Donna Rounderankles, and her loose ways.”
🤣🤣🤣
@Allison Hunter ...and that's why you don't make those kinds of in-jokes in front of kids. Not even once! 😂
Donna Rounderankles is now Sister Donna on channel 6's Hour of Power.
I finally got to see my grandma the other day. She's in the nursing home & they're not letting anyone in. But my aunt works there (her daughter) & she took my grandma to the doctor & came by my house. Now, my grandma has Alzheimers & it took a bit for her to remember my name. She bawled, I bawled. We haven't seen each other since March. I'm also a grandmas girl so it's been hard on me. I told her before she left to not forget me ❤
Every day my daughter says she misses her Nana. It's been years since my mother passed. 💔😪
@@QueenGoddessYume I'm sorry love. My grandma is my only living grandparent now, other than my husbands 2 grandmothers. My grandDaddy passed away 3 years ago on Christmas Eve. Tell your baby girl that she'll see her Nana one day in Heaven ❤ I had a good family friend pass away today & he was real close to my church family, so I went to pick up my best friends little girls today & took them on a joy ride, went to see a puppy & kittens, went to get a pop and candy then finished the day by taking a walk by the river & talking about Jim (the guy who passed) I'll pray for comfort for you & your baby girl ❤💗
I'm so glad your aunt works there! During this time when no family is allowed in the abuse happening at a lot of nursing homes is so severe these elders are coming in to the hospital in absolutely deplorable condition even worse than before the shutdown. 😭
I'm glad you were able to see your grandma! My grandma is also my only living grandparent now too and is just started to show signs of dementia back around December. It's been rough not being able to see her during this time (I last saw her in February) especially since her memory had gotten far worse. But at least she's living with her sister for now. (When it gets safer she's going to live with me at least).
@@Shanequabumblebee oh girl I'm glad too! Plus my best friend is a nurse there & she makes sure my grandma is taken care of. I thought numerous times of just going in there & grandmaNapping her! I hope you get to see your grams soon ❤ I'll say a special prayer that it happens soon for you.
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This is so true! My granny knew everyone! I used to get asked by total strangers "Ain't you Maxine's? How's she doin'?" 🤣🤣🤣
That's how they always asked to!!!!
I am NOT surprised. That's what my grandmother did before I married my husband and it turned out his great aunt and my grandfather were neighbours when they were little. My husband and I had met online and were chatting for 4 months at the time.
Met my partner online. Lives overseas. The perplexed look on my mamas face when she couldn't get any intel was priceless
When my mom got her first teaching job back in the late 60's, the vice principal was so jealous that she was getting invited to so many homes of well placed people in town. She was related to a woman who knew everyone, and the pastor of the church she attended, was the pastor of a church from the town that her mother, my grandma, grew up in. Grandma was one of nine kids, big family. Showed my hubby the family history book once, he swore the family photo looked like his graduation class.
Abuelas know everyone, that's how the chisme starts.
At this point they might as will become PI’s
Yes!! Vicks vaporub, jesus, and a chacla or wooden spoon is all that grannies and abuelas need.
Elijah Hines : except that the P, for private, doesn’t apply to them. Ha!
@@theresabergstrom3782 Oh God... Not the CHANCLA
@@theresabergstrom3782 Especially when it is your Cuban one
I'm not from the US, but these videos are really entertaining.
I am from the south... of England. That counts, right?
Totally counts
Actually northern uk is more like southern America 😆
@@GeeklingNo1 you’re not wrong! :D
i can already hear the accent
Maybe
I was impressed with the CSI board and then I saw the dog approved. That got tears running down my face from laughing so hard.
Dog approved is very important.
The actual moment I decided my husband was the man I would marry was when I saw how kind he was to some stray kittens we found. He helped me gather them up and take them an hour trip (each way) to the emergency animal hospital because one of them was obviously deathly ill. He was so gentle and caring. 34 years later, we're still together. If the guy is kind to animals and store clerks and waitresses, he's more than likely a good person (which is wisdom I learned from my southern grandma!).
Poor boy got way more than he bargained for 😂
Sorry I'm so confused. Does the guy at the start want to be in a relationship with John Harper?
@@taleabriggs2249 basically
@@taleabriggs2249 yes
@@taleabriggs2249 Yep. 😊
Let's just hope he Burns the evidence just in case 😁
I grew up in a community of just under 5000 people, in Iceland. It's a farming community that consists of two villages, one town, and a whole bunch of farms, all this boxed in by mountains all around. My family has lived in this community for generations, my nan knows every single person there and if she doesn't she knows their family. She's been active in all these community groups and activities, she's the most knowledgeable person I know.
My second cousin in the north of Scotland was a midwife her whole working life, and lives in the house where she was born 87 years ago. Well. Any people I meet over there I have to tell her their mother's maiden name and I get all the info. I don't dare even have more than a passing conversation with anyone without running them past her first! First time I visited everyone knew who I was already and I got all kinds of stories about my grandparents who left in the 1920's :)
My family comes from Poland (I was born and raised in the USA) and I went over to visit some friends in Hungary. My mother insisted that I ask them if they knew Uncle Tomek. “Uh … mom … Tomek lives in Poland. I’m going to Hungary.” “Ask them if they know Tomek! They might know him. Or they might know his kids.” Keep in mind, at the time she was asking me this, Tomek was 102. Doing the math, I realized his kids were probably close to 80.
My Hungarian friend was indignant that he didn’t know Tomek, but we did seem to run into oddball relatives of his no matter where we went in Hungary. “Let’s stop in this store for some things. Oh, look, my aunt is here! We’re going to a winery in Villány. Oh, look! My cousins! We’re going to Budapest for a day. Look, Uncle János is working on the medieval walls!” Keep in mind, this wasn’t a small village. We were going all over the western half of Hungary. “I don’t know why your mother keeps thinking I know your Uncle Tomek.” “Well, you seem to related to everyone else!”
@katrin896 : I've always wanted to know what the difference is, between a town, and a village? Is it that a village has houses, and a town has shops? TAT
@@catwhisperer9489 it mostly has to do with size. A village only consists of a few houses and shops, a town is much bigger. And then you have the biggest ones, the cities
@@katrin896 : Ah, Thankyou, so much !! 😊
*ding* cookies!
This woman is the perfect Southern Grandma.
She reminds me of my Mimi! 👵
I am fairly certain that there was sorcery involved in some my my granny's pies. I've tried to recreate her pie topping crumble for 40 years and still can't get it right.
I love her. She looks so much like my favorite aunt.
Talk about multitasking!
True! I was wondering where the cookies were...he would have got a 5% discount if he brought pie; 25% if home made;50% if it was homemade by his Mimi.
I grew up listening to my Grandparents, Aunts, & Uncles talk about people I didn't know or ever heard of. "Harold & Pauline's nephew's back at the gas station." ... "The Meyers moved into the old Miller place." Once, I chimed in "How are Joe & Evelyn these days?" Everyone went silent. Mom says, "Who are they?" I confessed I just made them up lol
LMAO
NEVER confuse conversations about relatives & neighbors.
You'll put out bad information about people who don't deserve to be ridiculed after Church.
This is so funny! It's absolutely me every time my son says "Hey mum do you know a guy/girl called ____?" He then gets a half hour lesson on the person's entire family tree and their relationship to our family :)
I’m Thai and a Bangkok native, but we have this aunt who lived with us and she literally knows everybody in a 2 kilometer radius of our house, and all the gossip that goes with that. Growing up, my sister and our cousins would sit around in the women’s sewing circle and would be like “WHAT?!!!!” “GASP!!!!!” “What’s a ‘mistress’??!!! GASP!!” and that’s how we learn to be always be on our best behavior at all times, and that discretion is a MUST MUST MUST. Fun times. Years later and the sewing circle got smaller and smaller and now if we want the latest gossip, our go to is my elderly nanny. Yes she lives with us (as per tradition she can stay for as long as she likes).
Try a Southern Cherokee mom. My mom could find out our flights (Army, Navy and Air Force) when the flight details hadn’t been released yet. If someone was flying, she would get more intel than the CIA. Called me at two different bases, while on duty, both at unpublished numbers. I had to explain that I hadn’t given the info out but that this was her skill set, lol.
Lol, that must be where my mom gets it
😂
Hope King intel ninjas, man.
code talker raised ^_^
The military should've hired your mom to work as a civilian contractor in the intelligence sector.
So that code talker stuff is real!
My Grandma looked out for me during my school years. She always made sure I didn't accidentally date a relative. That's one of the possible hazards of living in Kentucky. LOL
I swear Diane is my favorite person on these. She just seems like you took all my grandmas and rolled them into one lady.
How many grandmas you got in there?
@@RandomThoughtsFromEll I have 5. Well, had ... rest their souls. And Diane is nicer than all but one. My Southern one was the meanest of the lot and hated me.
@@mikemesser4326: Wait.... How do you have 5 grandmothers? They're not all actually kin, I guess---like, your parents or grandfathers remarried, or something?
The grandma network can work for and against you. I remember acting up when I was a kid and before I could make it home, my grandma knew about it. I learned real quick I needed to either behave or learn some stealth. 🤣🤣
I got sent to the principal's office in 5th grade. My cousin told his mom, who told her sister-in-law (my grandmother). I got a phone call that I needed to confess to my parents or she would make the call.
So did parents network work the same way You couldn’t get away with anything
"He has an unpaid parking ticket from 2014"
Cop in me: "So what you're saying is he has a warrant."
Also, "this isn't my house" probably isnt the strangest thing a delivery man has heard.
I agree! But as a former delivery guy, the best was when the kid answered the door & said "Mommy's in the shower".
Thank you for your service
Yeah, delivery zones are weird. Sometimes people order to the nearest acceptable address and pick it up from there
@@andrewgrant2990 And the kid just hands the cost of the pizza while thinking that the extra money for the tip is theirs.
Geez, she must give an extremely deep discount for her "family" rate... $75 for that quality (and quantity) of investigation is a great deal.
Eh its a hobby for her. Needs something to keep her busy. The 75 is just for things like gas, the pizza, taking her contacts to lunch, going to the beauty parlor to talk etc cant lose money after all
@@travisrolison9646 You really know the Granny methods!😁😂
@@travisrolison9646 😂😂😂
My mother used to keep _hundreds_ of names, birthdays, anniversaries, addresses, and other important information IN HER HEAD (or a family rolodex, OR the family phone book right next to the phone). That she now has dementia and can't remember anything outside of 5 minutes about kills me. And she was JUST like this. Knew everyone and everything. God bless grammas!
Italian grandmothers know everyone, plus what they like to eat
I think eating habits might have been an extra charge here.
Part Italian from my father's side. I know everything about my boyfriend and his favorite foods. My aunts told me ' once he has tasted your food he won't leave you mija '
Southern Italy, of course.
This video makes me miss my grandma. She passed away almost 2 weeks ago and she was a strong willed Texas woman who didn't take no guff from anybody.
Our southern Grandma ran the only beauty shop in town! She knew Everything about Everybody!!
👍 you got it!
“A full southern stalk” 🤣 so accurate though
Grandma's 👵🏼 know so many people they good at getting the tea lol 🤣😂
I love it! If only I had Granny before I married my last 3 husbands, it could have saved me a lot of time, money and heartache. Dang it!
@socal rocks my problem was I was too trusting and have let narcissists take advantage of me. I wish I were stronger.
@@jeanbean1390, you've done a good job targeting your problem. Now work on going to opposite direction. Quickly.
@@yvonneyvonne2513 thank you. My solution is to remain single. I no longer have to walk on egg shells. I no longer have to be questioned about my every move. I am no longer browbeaten and berated. I've never been so content in my entire life! My plea to fathers is to treat your daughters and your wife with kindness, love and respect. If you don't, that is all your daughter will know and will relive that awful situation with every man in her life.
@@jeanbean1390 Bravo!! I've always felt that Contentment was underrated and undervalued. Yes, cliff diving in Acapulco can be exhilarating, but soothing myself on a floatie in warm beach water is my bliss. Balanced life is best life. Congratulations, Girl, and get to stepping. Your life awaits. And don't forget the (lightly) sweet Iced Tea.
OH MY GOODNESS! 😆My granny & great aunt would both say, "Who's his people?" from there they would run down the family history just like this. His mother's, cousin, husband's daddy went to church with .......ending with "I know his people" lolol
I once said something like "where are your people from" to an african-american gf at work. Mine are all southern. Deep. Southern. Sabrina was so shocked at the question. Obviously NOT southern she thought I was asking if her family owned slaves!!!! 😲 I explained your people are your kin.
OMGoodness!!!😂 that was my grandmother Muffy and my Great Aunt Joyce 2 weeks before my wedding!!! Fiancé from upstate NY had the GALL to ask me isn't your family going to be upset because you're not marrying a cousin??😢 MY Muffy & Aunt Joyce asked Who are his people? What's his Momma's maiden name? & then went to work... @our wedding, during our 1st dance as husband & wife, I whispered into his ear: By the way, Muffy & Aunt Joyce ran your people & YOU ARE my 62nd cousin on ur Momma's side 😮 thru the Fultons!!😂🎉 (YEAH! I said that!!!❤) Welcome to the REST of us family Yankee Boy!! Ha Ha!
By using the grandma intelligence network you forever become a part of the grandma intelligence network. You'll just get a phone call bleary eyed at like 6am going "Hello dear, I got to thinking. Didn't you go to school with some boy with the last name Ekhart?"
I grew up in Pennsylvania and for fun my sister and I would interrupt my mom's conversation with Gram just to mention someone in my class to hear Gram say, "Now is that so and so's boy?" And that tangent would go on for 15 minutes or more.
yes PA is so like that! lolz
The transitions are everything.
This is 1000% my momma and now that my sister has a baby, mom officially qualifies as the southern grandma who knows everyone.
There is no level of snooping like a southern sleuth.
You need this one in your team. Whoever who is not like this, is useless.
My grandmas not southern but man i couldn't stop thinking of her not only knows everyone but remembers peoples phone numbers adress even work locker codes from 20 years ago
Um that's not ur grandma, that's an FBI agent
@@parmesean_ i thought so always but in truth she knew a lot of people plus a big family plus a perfect number memory up until the end still should have been her job
People used to have better memories. Even we did when we were young. But things like digital calendars and cell phones that store everything for us has caused us to have weaker memories.
"DING", Cookies! That Granny has it all.
When you are trapped in her car and she drives you around a 2 city metroplex to tell you everything that has ever happened since the 30s.
I would love it!
Omg if my grandma doesn’t know someone she will talk and talk and TALK
Edit: Son of a biscuit I see this and it’s at 212 LIKES!! Thanks so much
Edit 2: Omg 234 likes
Same
Cynthia Baker ?
And if she does know them, or any other time of day
Same and I am the Grammy (my grandkiddos called me.) Plus I am a writer and I do talked about my books
I’ve meet many women who instantly became my grandma in the canning aisle at Walmart 😂
If the FBI is watching this, I think they should hire grandma’s as Secret Agents FBI because they will find out about “everything” plus they make good cookies and food 🤔🤣
For real, they actually wanted to hire my great aunt during the Cold War to host dinner parties and get info - her husband was military and she still makes the best cheesecake.
It’s like small towns in Central Minnesota. Not because everyone “knows” everybody. It’s because everyone is related to everybody!
My grandma from Kentucky knew everyone around and she lived in a decent-sized town. R.I.P Grandma. I miss you every day.
Gotta love our grandma’s!! I’m from Kentucky too!!
Ky here too!!!
Jennifer Gragg I was born in Illinois but have lived in North Carolina most of my life. Mom/Grandma’s family is entirely Kentuckian.
ThatTealShyGuy I’ve been in Kentucky my whole life...I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to move lol
Both of my Grandmothers were from Kentucky. And yes, they knew everyone for miles and miles. I miss them so...❤
At one point, my Mama was using the gun sight from my Daddy's rifle to gather "intel." For Christmas, my Daddy bought Mama binoculars!
*Complete twist*
This is actually a dominos commercial
Handmade Pan Pizza
Mom always told us that she had the name of every other Mother in town in her purse and our friends did NOT want her calling their Mamas if they acted up while they were with us.
It's nice to know we have Southern Grandmas stalking us every inch of the way
I have an aunt in her 80''s and not only does she know everyone in the surrounding counties, but if I know someone from out of state she probably knows them too. Amazing thing is in all my years, I have never heard her say anything bad about anyone.
That's the MOST IMPORTANT part.
Wow, that's the sweetest thing
Ok... you got me... after years of watching y’all’s content, I will finally say ‘so true y’all’
Well that was creepy. I will quote John Wayne. " Talk low ,talk slow, and don't talk too much."
LOL...My Grama owned a beauty shop so she had this in spades!
This is soo true! All they need is a last name and the next question is "is he any kin to...?" Aaaand, they're off!
I thought the price was gonna be a hug and a kiss
Or her asking about information about someone he knows.
Yardwork
2 calls a day indefinitely
My grandma wouldn't even have to do any of the work, she would already just know.
This is who trains all the really good agents.😀
This just made my day. I love Southern Grandma videos.
Famous first words.....
"Is he any kin too...?"
Can you imagine what the grandmas in the FBI can do?!
This is a scary thought, but also, strangely comforting.
Hi beautiful lady
@Leandro Aude I now want the movie that's half R.E.D and half Miss Marple where a couple of Southern-Grandma-style secretaries, filers, and evidence loggers/inventory who used to work for the FBI all team up together to solve a crime.
I just lost my southern grandma and let me tell you this made me feel so happy
I'm sorry for your loss.
Hi beautiful
I thought the punchline would be they do all this and find out right at the end that Jon's not gay!! Haha!!
Damn, really felt that
Been there done that : /
Is it bad that I know how to do southern stalking and I’m only 22.😂😂😂
I know! I watched the video and though "oh no! it's me!"
Early training. Better to hone your abilities 😁
By the time you are a granny,you will be working 24/7.The demand for your services will be that great
Theone82 people skills are as good or more important then academic knowledge. Also this is a joke don’t take life so seriously. I’m here for a fun time not a long time.
Its ok. Im 16 and im a pro at it! Lol
Sooo funny! Southerners can do this anywhere too. This Southerner knew EVERYONE in the small NJ town i moved to. My sons were so annoyed I always knew everything about their girlfriends. They were so happy when we moved back to ATL and I didn't know anyone in their school.
How are you beautiful lady?
I absolutely adore the actress playing all the grannies on your channel! She's so good at it
Brings back memories.
“Now, you stay away from those Carmens. They ain’t’t noth’in but problem”.
Had a crush on a Carmen. Mama knew.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Yeah so true. My grandmother raised me. She could find out anything on anybody and had a super power I thought. Because she would say I have a gut feeling about that person that doesn't make sense. And sure enough she'd know the next day if her gut feeling was right. Can't get nothing pass a southern grandmother.
Grandmas know everyone and they have tea on them all!
Hi beautiful lady
I swear my granny could tell you where the family was from, where they descended, their religion just from a last name. Man I miss her!
Back when I was dating, my grandmother always wanted to know, "Who are his people?" I didn't understand it at the time and it irritated me but I sure understand now!
That is spot on. We're in a rural area. If you're not careful, you could end up marrying a distant cousin. That's just a other reason this kind of Grandmom stalking is very, very VERY important. 😆😂😂🤣🤣
I laughed so hard. This is so on point.
So true especially when you are free a small louisiana town and 90% related to everyone. So you have to call all your grandma’s to find out who you can and cannot date. 🤣🤣🤣 so true
Grandmas are the all seeing eye !
This is also why you could never leave the grocery store quickly. Grandma knows everyone and their most random connection. I knew once o heard “Ms. Anna-Bell”... get good and comfortable, you’re not going anywhere soon.
This is so funny to me! And they always know and remember every person you ever went to school with too. “Do you remember that nice girl that you went to first grade with, the one with the long hair, well she’s cut it since then but I saw her the other day and she....” (note - I barely remember first grade from 20 years ago, and have no idea who she’s talking about, but she knows everyone I went to school with and is able to greet them by name. It’s some sort of super power.)
A spin off from this could be Southern Grandma's tracking down criminals just by sharing what they know about who they know & dragging them by their ears to the police station.
No connections or grapevines run deeper than a southern grannie's does!! So true y'all!!
God bless y'all's. I've enjoyed your skits and humor for some time. I think I need a shirt or coffee mug by now. Keep being Southern!
My Maw has this uncanny ability to remember everyone she knows' birthday, give her a month and she can probably name someone with a birthday on every day. Sometimes she doesn't even remember who it is, just that they have a birthday then
Y'all, my MAMA knows everybody in a four county area here. I say anything about anybody, and she carries on for at least an hour about his family. 😂
Thats my mom to a tee. Every time I call her she spends 30 minutes catching me up on the lives of people who I have no idea who they are.
This is EVERYTHING!!!! 💖 I LOVE Y'ALL SO MUCH!
When Grandma shows up in front of the pizza boy and he jumps, that is just hilarious! Well done😂
I can already tell by the title, this is so relateable to me.
Oh, how I wish my late son were here...he would point to me & laugh...but yeah, if we don't know someone, we know someone who does! (Grandma in training)
This was wonderful! The pizza bit was the best! Awesome!!!!!!!
are we all just gonna ignore the single greatest line in human history "that's O.K. this isn't my house. . . Thank You."
This made me die of laughter. Plot twist, Granny is really my sister in disguise. I gave up social media a few years back and really just keep to myself for the most part but anytime I need to find something out about someone or a local business or local gossip, I reach out to my sister. She’s my little P.I. We joke about it all the time.
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the elephant in the room yet so I won’t neither but my grandma would say bless them boy”s”
only an elephant if you make it one
Criminal investigators could probably be trained by grannies. Lol
My granny knew who my sister was gonna marry before my sister even met him!
So very true!! Thanks for another great video!
I was little when my grandmothers passed, but I'm pretty sure my Mom is a part of the northern chapter!🤣
Hi beautiful
I love her!!!! The Grandma in this video is so cute and funny
She is the best!
Mary Patterson Broome 💕I agree...and I love this channel so much
I love the southern grandma videos - the actress is wonderful and plays the part very well
Is NO ONE going to talk about the flawless transition at 1:58 ??? The timing!! Perfect!!!!
Terrifying. But also very sweet and helpful, thanks grandma!
Yeaaah Flemish grandparents as well. Any conversation inevitavly ends up in a 30 minute convoluted deep dive of the personal relations of people their age who went to school in the next town over.
This applies to every grandma. My grandma has the deets on a sizable chunk of the population of Massachusetts. Because of her I know about relatives who probably don’t even know I exist!