I got to thinking. The worst thing about "granny panties" is that supposedly they are what grandmothers wear, and therefore they are taboo. Certain shoes have been dissed on What Not to Wear because, as Stacy London says, "Those are the kind of shoes my grandma would buy." Then there's that talking-book commercial I see on TV sometimes, in which a woman says, "My first thought was, are you kidding me? My *grandmother* listens to books!"

Maybe it's because I'm a grandmother myself now, but I just don't understand. What is so bad about Grandma that, whatever she does, we should be duty-bound to do the exact opposite?