My Classmates Spent Years Laughing at My “Lunch Lady” Grandma – Until My Graduation Speech Made Them Fall Silent
My Classmates Spent Years Laughing at My “Lunch Lady” Grandma – Until My Graduation Speech Made Them Fall Silent I’m 18, and I graduated from high school last week. People keep asking me what’s next, but honestly, I don’t know how to answer. It doesn’t feel like anything’s started. If anything, it feels like something ended too soon, and the world forgot to hit “play” again. Everything still smells like the cafeteria — like warm rolls and cleaning spray. Sometimes I think I hear her footsteps in the kitchen, even though I know better. My grandma raised me. Not part-time. Not through shared custody. Not “she helped out sometimes.” I mean, she was it. The whole deal. She became my mother, my father, and every support beam in my life after my parents died in a car crash when I was little. I don’t remember the crash. Just a few flashes from before. My mom’s laugh. My dad’s watch ticking on the steering wheel. A song playing low on the radio. Then it was just my grandma ...