Grandma's Visit

 Grandma's Visit is the eight episode of the first season of At Home With Karen.

Summary
Karen gets the opportunity to meet Steve and Joe's paternal grandmother, Ruth, when she comes up for a visit.

Story
One day, Steve, Joe, Fred, and Zuma were playing Go Fish on the patio.

"Got any threes," Steve asked Fred.

"Go fish," said Fred.

As Steve went to take a card from the deck, Daphne came outside.

"Steve, Joe," said Daphne, "your grandmother called."

"Cool," said Joe, "what'd she say?"

"Apparently," said Daphne, "Holly told her about Karen, so she's coming by to meet her."

"Nice," said Fred, "it sure would be nice for Karen to meet her."

"Yeah," said Steve, "Did she say when she'd be here?"

"At some point this afternoon," said Daphne.

"Okay," said Fred.

Later that afternoon, when Karen got off the school bus, she walked up to the house, and was surprised when she saw a black 1987 Harley-Davidson Fatboy with a green flame pattern parked in the driveway.

"Whose motorcycle is that," Karen wondered.

Karen found out soon enough. When she went inside, she saw an elderly woman wearing a dress version of Steve's shirt, glasses, and brown shoes sitting between Steve and Joe on the couch.

"Who's that," asked Karen.

"Karen," said Steve, "this is me and Joe's grandma, Ruth."

"Nice to meet you, Ruth," said Karen.

"Nice to meet you too, Karen," said Ruth.

"So that's your motorbike that's parked outside," asked Karen.

"It is indeed," said Ruth.

"Cool," said Karen, "Hey, do you know my best friend Lucy's grandpa?"

"You mean Albert," asked Ruth, "Yeah, he's one of my poker buddies."

"Nice," said Karen.

"Anyways," said Joe, "what sounds good for dinner, Grandma?"

"Oh, anything, really," said Ruth, "I'm starving!"

"Okay," said Joe, "how about pizza from Pizza Planet?"

"Sure," said Ruth.

Joe then got out his cell phone and placed a delivery order for a large cheese pizza and an extra large pepperoni pizza. While they waited for the pizza to arrive, Ruth took out a photo album to show Karen.

"This is packed with memories from when these two whippersnappers were growing up," said Ruth.

Steve and Joe looked at each other and blushed while Karen giggled. The first photo Ruth showed Karen was a photo of the entire Burns family at Steve's graduation ceremony from Jerry Lewis High School.

"Nice," said Karen, "you must've looked good in that cap and gown, Steve."

"I sure did," said Steve.

Ruth then turned back some pages to show Karen a photo of a younger Steve with his and Joe's father, Steve Burns Sr., and a younger Ruth. Steve Jr. was holding up a large Northern Pike.

"That's from when I was your age," said Steve, "We went to Idaho for a fishing trip."

"Cool," said Karen.

Ruth then turned forward to show a younger Joe in the driver's seat of his and Steve's 1974 Volkswagen Thing, holding up a driver's license with his name and photo on it.

"And that," said Joe, "is me when I got my license."

"Awesome," said Karen.

Ruth continued showing Karen more photos until the pizza arrived. After they ate, they watched The Muppet Show on TV.

"This was our Dad's favorite show growing up," said Joe.

"Nice," said Karen.

A while later, it was time for Ruth to go home, so she hugged and kissed her grandsons.

"See you at Thanksgiving," said Steve.

"Same here," said Ruth.

Karen, Fred, Steve, Joe, Zuma, and Daphne waved to Ruth as she got on her bike and roared off into the night.

"Man," said Karen, "that sure is one nice lady."

The End