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As I was trying to find a shirt to wear I fell over my travel bag and banged my head on the wall.
The phone rang. As I grabbed it, I fell over the bag again. By the time I focused on the voice and realised it was my Gran, she was already in full flight halfway through a story, for all I knew. As I zoomed in on the voice, she was saying something about an Applegreen store down the road which was not selling the best coffee on the road. My head hurt. I finally got her to slow down and start at the beginning.

My Granny lives in Templeogue. Her mind is still very much humming along like an old sewing machine. She swore on Granda's grave that there is a new Applegreen station open just down the road from her house. I tried to tell her that she must be mistaken. No, she said, she knows an Applegreen station when she sees one and she had peeped in the window on her way home from church. (She's very proud of me working at Applegreen, I never told her I was only working in the complaints department...) Well she insisted that I come over that evening and see for myself. I agreed hurriedly, trying to say goodbye without being rude. As I reached to put the phone back in the cradle I could still hear her talking away about the station not having the "Best Coffee On the Road" sign, but she was still sure it was an Applegr.., I hung up, and fell over the bag again.

That evening I drove over to her house, and, of course, there is no new Applegreen station. There is a station belonging to an oil company down the road from her house, but surely I asked, that wasn't the station she had been talking about? She replied it was. I could see she was getting upset, she was beginning to think her eyes were failing . "Don't worry Gran" I said, " I'll make an appointment for you with the optician, you probably just need new glasses".
I could see she was still a little confused when I said goodbye. I promised to call her the next evening to find out how she got on.

I did ring. Funny thing is her optician says she has tremendous eyes for her age, she doesn't need new glasses after all.
I forgot to mention I fell over the bag again a few times...maybe I do