These Grandparent Stories Remind Us That Grandparenting Only Gets Better With Age


16. The Old Rice Trick

A Nokia phone was destroyed
Estimated cost to replace: $20 on eBay
A person on X, formerly known as Twitter, says this was a costly miscommunication between her and her grandfather. But she should never have assumed Grandpa knew what she meant.

She spilled water on her flip-phone (who still uses a Nokia, by the way?) and asked her grandpa to put it in rice to revive it – an old, but effective trick.