the most inappropriate thing you've ever said/heard

[Conspir8or]

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I did not hear this, I have only heard about it. When FDR died my grandfather said "Today is the greatest day in American history." My mother was in grade school and went to school and repeated that.

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My grandfather, of pre-Depression vintage, refused to take dimes with FDR on them. When I was told this story early in my life, no explanation was given. When I grew up, I was eventually told he considered FDR, and I quote "a [censored] Jew-lover." What made this curious is that his mother was Jewish.

In other news, my mother once worked the counter at the neighborhood pharmacy. One regular patron was a Holocaust survivor. He used to walk past whatever line there might be at the counter and try to get his prescriptions and cigarettes ahead of everyone else.

My mother eventually called him on this when he blew past a line of folks during the holidays (they also sold gifts, cards, wrapping paper, so holidays were always very busy) to demand his meds. When she protested, he pointed to a tattooed series of digits on his arm. "I was in Auschwitz! I don't wait on lines!" he said.

My mother replied. "Those are nice. You do those with Magic Marker?"