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Every Wednesday when I was 16, I\u2019d change into a nice button-down and my best jeans after school. Then I\u2019d ride my bike on the path between our house and my grandmother<\/a>\u2019s outside Meadville, Pennsylvania. Exactly at four, Grandma Honeybunch\u2014we always called her that, though I don\u2019t know why except that it fit her sweetness\u2014would pull her dark green Dodge Stratus sedan into the dirt driveway.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi, Kyle!\u201d she would call out, trying to hide how worn out she was from a long day on her feet at the chair factory. \u201cIt\u2019s our date night! Give me a few minutes to get ready.\u201d I waited in her living room, fiddling with the Nintendo console<\/a> I knew she practiced on so she could beat me. Grandma Honeybunch loved her bragging rights!<\/p>\n

Out she\u2019d come in a flowered print dress, her short, curly gray hair freshly brushed, wafting in a cloud of the perfume she wore just for the occasion. \u201cWhere\u2019s my purse?\u201d she\u2019d ask, absentminded as usual, and I\u2019d retrieve it from under the table or between the couch cushions.<\/p>\n

Then we were off, with me behind the wheel of the Dodge so I could log 100 adult-supervised hours for my license. Our biggest adventure had been when I drove us to St. Louis for a family reunion<\/a>, windows down, the wind blowing through our hair, as Grandma Honeybunch tried to navigate, something she wasn\u2019t too good at.<\/p>\n

Most Wednesdays we headed to Taco Bell or KFC in Meadville, me tootling along well under the speed limit. Sometimes we\u2019d splurge and dine at Cracker Barrel in Union City.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d just started trying to woo the ladies, so one night I asked Grandma Honeybunch, the most ladylike of them all, to teach me to be a gentleman. Her generation was, after all, much more romantic and polite than my own. I hurried to open her car door, then escorted her to the restaurant, where I again held open the door. \u201cPerfect,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I pulled out her chair, then took my seat. \u201cNapkin in the lap,\u201d she reminded me. \u201cThen wait to hear what the lady is having before you order. That way you\u2019ll know you have enough money for the bill.\u201d I followed her instructions to a T. The waitress beamed at us. \u201cNow on to the proper silverware etiquette<\/a>,\u201d Grandma Honeybunch said, \u201cstarting with the salad fork.\u201d Over our meal, she teased me about girls. \u201cI see you have your eye on Susan at church.\u201d<\/p>\n

I blushed. \u201cWhat should I do to make her like me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe sure to ask her how she\u2019s doing,\u201d Grandma Honeybunch said. \u201cAnd smile a lot. Let her see you\u2019re a happy person<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I paid the bill, leaving the tip Grandma Honeybunch instructed, and drove us to church, where I\u2019d go to youth group and she to Bible<\/a> study. Before we went in, she dug into her big black purse. She pulled out a pack of Wrigley\u2019s Spearmint gum and offered me a stick, our ritual.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is more important than fresh breath,\u201d she said, holding out her hand for the wrapper, which she crumpled into her purse. Sometimes she\u2019d pull out the gum at a random moment, never failing to take the wrapper, which cracked me up.<\/p>\n

I did end up dating Susan from church, with Grandma Honeybunch\u2019s full approval, though it didn\u2019t last. Even after I got my license and my own car, my grandmother and I continued our Wednesday date nights, but once I graduated and got busy with college and a part-time job, I didn\u2019t have Wednesdays free. I still spent as much time with her as I could, regularly losing at Nintendo by then.<\/p>\n

The Thanksgiving I was 22 and she was 67, Grandma Honeybunch left my aunt\u2019s house after dinner to go home. Hours later, the police called. They\u2019d pulled her over hundreds of miles away, in Ohio. She had no idea how she\u2019d gotten there.<\/p>\n

It was a shock for all of us; she had always been so absentminded that we\u2019d missed the early signs of her Alzheimer<\/a>\u2019s. We knew we couldn\u2019t let her drive anymore; I took her car. Driving the Dodge was never the same, though, without my grandmother by my side, steering me right in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

By the next year, Grandma Honeybunch was forgetting to eat. Our family made the difficult decision to put her into a memory care unit at a nursing home<\/a>. It broke my heart to visit her there, as she went from knowing who we were to becoming totally unresponsive. She passed away 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t found the right woman yet, but when I do, I know Grandma Honeybunch will be with me in spirit to offer a stick of Wrigley\u2019s. Sometimes the smallest things<\/a> we remember make the biggest difference in life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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