Me (on the phone): Oh no that's awful. Yeah happy to help.
Mom: Did someone die?
Me: Yeah some broad at work, her granddad passed away recently so I'm picking up her shift Friday.
Mom: Oh that's terrible.
Me: He was like ninety and had been dying for like, a year.
Mom: That's still sad though.
Me: I mean yeah, but after that long aren't you kinda relieved that it's finally done with. And aren't you a little pissed that they've taken so long? It's been a year, come on now.
Mom (laughs, maybe uncomfortably at first): I guess so yeah. Your grandma seemed to drag it out near the end there.
I'm a terrible person. I also paraphrased mom a little there on that last line, but I can vouch that it did seem to take her mom forever to die. I feel like I grew up in that hospital while that woman was slowly but surely kicking the bucket.
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