Bryan’s Grandma’s on the LSD!

Not now, but she admitted that she used to take it, “A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot!” She has just a touch of dementia. And by “just a touch” I mean, a huge gallon of it. In her brain. I’ve written before about how she has the funny kind  of dementia, and she always ends up being one of the highlights of our trips back to Chesaning.

Last weekend, we were sitting down to dinner and I mentioned to the rest of the table that, according to my brother-in-law’s nephew, some people think LSD helps increase brain function and maybe in the future they’ll be treating people like Grandma with low doses of LSD. As soon as I said that, Grandma perked up and started to laugh. I said, “Would you like that, Grandma?” and she said, “Yeah, oh yeah!” and then I said, “Grandma, did you used to take LSD?” and she said, “A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot!” and laughed and laughed. I believe that just the very mention of LSD caused her to have a moment of lucidity. And if I had any money at all, I would throw it at LSD research. In the name of science. And in the name of funny videos of the test subjects tripping.

Grandma always used to tell us that she danced on tables while people threw pennies at her when she was a young girl. Now I wonder if that was just a trip that she took.