I had to blog this so I won't forget everything my Grandmother told me today. I took her out for lunch for her birthday (which was Feb 1st). I just asked her some of the questions that I should have asked Grandma Hall before she passed away. Like how she met my grandpa.

Grandma Hancock met him when she was 15. Her best friend Phyllis, 16,(who she is still friends with to this day-birthday of Feb 2nd, oddly enough) and her were at a restaurant and met my Grandpa Howard and a friend of his. She started seeing Howard, and Phyllis started seeing his best friend.

My Grandma stayed home from school one day because she was having cramps, and during the day Phyllis made her come out and they were hanging out on Vernor St. Anyway, once he realized that my Grandma was out of the house, her father waited for her to come home and really let her have it. He whipped her with a switch, and when it broke- his hand, and then on to a belt.

That night, she went with Phyllis to see Howard and his friend and she showed Howard what her daddy had done, the whelts and cuts all over her back. That was it. He said that she shouldn't have to deal with that, he asked her to go to Georgia with him and get married. She was 15 and he was 19! Phyllis and Howard's friend decided to do the same thing, and the guys drove in their cars and the girls (for some reason) hopped a bus.

Anyway, they had a double wedding. She ended up getting arrested as a runaway and her parents tried to make her come home, but his mom talked them out of it. They did end up coming back to Michigan when Ford called him back (he'd been on layoff). Here she had my Aunt Pat at 17 and then my Dad and then Aunt Sharon. They were happily married all their days until he passed away just before retirement. Phyllis and her husband had a son but ended up divorcing years later.

I'm so glad I got to hear this story! This is something I never would have known since my father doesn't really talk about things like that. Doesn't think they're all that important. Speaking of him, he took Tom and I out last night for dinner for my birthday cause we didn't have time to on my birthday weekend. We had a really good time. My Dad would not admit it, he only has once, but he really REALLY wants grandbabies. I am workin on it, I'm tellin ya. lol.