I found these 2 sweet pictures of Mike and Granny Lil as I looked thru old pics...
esp love this one...
She gave Mike the nickname "Personality" b/c she couldn't say Perzanowski :)
The longer version: When I was first dating Mike, I'd taken him home to meet my parents. Grandma lived with Mom and Dad. I would sleep with her in her double bed to make room for others in my bed. As we were laying there and talking before we went to sleep, she asked me my guy's name. I said "Mike" (remember she was hard of hearing). At first, she said back to me, "Mack". No, its Mike. OK, Mike.
Then she asked what his last name was. I thought, oh great, she is never going to be able to understand me. So I tried and said "Perzanowski" really slow. What? Per-zan-ow-ski. What? Per-zan-ow-ski. What? Repeat a few times. Finally, she said "Personality?" and I said "YES!" From that day on, she called Mike 'Personality'. She did come to know that his last name was Perzanowski but she still had her sense of humor and thought Personality was much funnier... and it was. And it helped that Mike loved it as much as she did. Occasionally, she'd call him Mack, too.
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