Grandma Thelma & Kin On Bad Decisions: Questionable Wisdom, Family Stories, Useful Nonsense

Everybody makes bad decisions. Some people learn from them. Some people buy a boat while they're supposed to be getting spark plugs. Welcome to Grandma Thelma & Kin, where common sense, family history, questionable judgment, and a lifetime of watching people do things they absolutely knew better than to do all meet on the same Southern porch. In On Bad Decisions, Grandma Thelma and the rest of the family take on impulse choices, ignored warnings, bad advice, doubling down, emotional decisions, foolish spending, other people's influence, admitting when something didn't work, and figuring out what to do afterward. Along the way, there are boats, trailers, questionable home-improvement ideas, workplace disasters narrowly avoided, family arguments, Cousin Wayne's disturbingly specific rules for situations nobody wants explained, and more than a few decisions that seemed perfectly reasonable right up until they weren't. These aren't lessons delivered from a lectern. They're original bits of Southern folk wisdom, family stories, absurd comparisons, miniature cautionary tales, and painfully recognizable observations about the ways ordinary people talk themselves into foolishness-and occasionally back out again. Funny without being mean, warm without getting syrupy, and useful underneath all the nonsense, Grandma Thelma & Kin on Bad Decisions is for anyone who has ever said It'll probably be fine, How hard could it be?, or the most dangerous sentence in the English language: I've got an idea. Pull up a chair. Thelma's got stories.