Respect Your Elders. A short story

She snarled a nasty look, "and where do you think you're going?" as she lit yet another cigarette. Her name was Elysa, and she was an elderly woman. Short, about 5'2" with a hump on her back, medium grey to white hair and she would smoke a pack of cigarettes by noon! She always had a thing for bright pink lipstick which Melinda never could understand. Her fingers were covered in rings, had her favorite necklace on and as usual, her giant pink and silver earrings that she was sure had stretched out the lobes over time.
"What is wrong now grandma? I have things to do!" Melinda snapped back. "I'm 30 years old grandma! what do you need?"
Elysa, an easily angered woman snaps, "One day I'll be gone and I hope you look back at how you treated me all these years! She was almost in tears, gasping to re-catch her breath. "In my day, we respected our elders! Not shove them into a tiny room by themselves."
Melinda replied, somewhat calmly, "Don't worry grandma, i'm not leaving you. I just need to pick up a few things for dinner. I also noticed you are running low on depends...." She flicked her hair back nonchalantly like she hadn't just cracked a joke at her elderly grandmothers expense. "Besides, i'll only be a few blocks away and i'm sure you are running low on smokes....
Elysa hearing that her granddaughter was bringing smokes home for her, calmed right down. After all, she was down to her last cigarette. "Thank you deary! I don't know what I would do without you!
Melinda waved and muttered under her breath as she locked the door, "Crazy old lady! What does she want all the time? Drives me nuts!"

Melinda did her thing at the grocery store. Bought some milk and cheese and cauliflower for dinner tonight and thought, "I'll just stop for a coffee."

After she had her coffee and chatted with some of the girls at the local Tim Hortons she returned home. With groceries and a carton of smokes in hand. "Grandma? are you there?"

She walked past the empty kitchen, living room, bathroom and came to her grandmothers bedroom. That was when her jaw dropped...

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