Investing
During the tech boom, my grandmother took the money she had saved for her funeral and invested it in the stock market. Thinking that she could make a small fortune that could get her to Vegas and back, she had no clue that the tech boom was soon to turn into the tech bomb.
About a year later, the company went under - leaving my grandmother flat broke. As she sat in her chair and cried, muttering about how she wasn't going to have a proper funeral, we tried to console her, "Don't worry, Granny," we said. "We'll take care of it. We'll just bury you in the backyard!"
For some reason that made her cry even more.
I hope for my own sake that she's been saving up again - she's a big woman, and I don't want to get stuck digging the hole in the backyard.
About a year later, the company went under - leaving my grandmother flat broke. As she sat in her chair and cried, muttering about how she wasn't going to have a proper funeral, we tried to console her, "Don't worry, Granny," we said. "We'll take care of it. We'll just bury you in the backyard!"
For some reason that made her cry even more.
I hope for my own sake that she's been saving up again - she's a big woman, and I don't want to get stuck digging the hole in the backyard.
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