Wednesday, December 24, 2008

One Upping is Hereditary

Before last weekend I thought that one upping was just something en vogue because of SNL's Penelope skit, but I realized it may be hereditary. Last Friday night I was kicking it at G & G Campbell's house (Gma Campbell is pictured below but don't tell her I took this picture or she would disown me- she hates pictures). As usual I was trying to secure my position as favorite grandchild and win grandma's affection. My current strategy was offering her an orange that I had brought her all the way from Utah. What do you think grandma did when I showed it to her but say something about it's small size and runs to get an orange twice the size of the one I was offering. That was a clear one-upper.

I am quite sure that my grandma has never seen SNL. As such I think that one one upping habits are not merely the miming of a popular TV show but a hereditary trait passed down from my grandma to my mom to me.

Doesn't grandma look happy. My favorite part is the bright orange shoelace she has used as a head band.


Oranges: mine is pictured on the left, grandma's on the right. In case you couldn't tell which was bigger.



P.S. The day this life changing story happened I was on a computer fast so I couldn't type the entry. Instead, like a true writer I wrote it on a napkin. My evidence in pictured above.



6 comments:

Mike said...

I must say, your grandma's orange clearly is better than your's. Did she get her orange from a different, more favorite grandkid?

mike and chenoa said...

If only your grandma's fashion sense was also hereditary...

Katherine said...

Your grandma is adorable! The orange shoelace headband really could start a new trend. She's so punk-rock!! I don't know if she was going for that...

Jess said...

Katherine you might be right because she also wears Chucks.

mike and chenoa said...

What are chucks? converse?

Jess said...

yes old people. chucks is slang for converse