Not So Squeaky Clean

(The guest bed in my grandmother’s house is notoriously uncomfortable. Since guests are only there a couple nights at a time, no one has ever complained. The frame has been broken and squeaky for years. This past month, my aunt finally said something and my grandmother got a new frame and box spring for the room.)

Grandmother: *to my mother* “You just slept on that for Thanksgiving! Why didn’t you say anything?”

Mother: “Well, it’s only for a few nights.”

Grandmother: “How do you even sleep with the bed squeaking so loud?”

Mother: “It’s not like we are squeaking the bed much at our age.”

Grandmother: “…Well, that’s too bad.”