cannot GRANT on newly created self (DROP USER me; CREATE USER me; GRANT .. TO me)

MariaDB [(none)]> show create user;

+--------------------------------+

| CREATE USER for root@localhost |

+--------------------------------+

| CREATE USER 'root'@'localhost' |

+--------------------------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> drop user root@localhost;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> create user root@locahost identified by 'sugar plum fairy';

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all on test.* to root@localhost;

ERROR 1133 (28000): Can't find any matching row in the user table

MariaDB [(none)]> select version();

+-----------------+

| version()       |

+-----------------+

| 10.2.38-MariaDB |

+-----------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)