Well, its been a while since my last post. Mostly because I have the most amazing post to…post but I can’t get pics to upload to my blog at present. So while we wait for the awesomeness of the post to come, might I regalled you all with a few antidotes from my workplace.

I work in an assisted living home, and needless to say these old folks are pretty darned funny.  Here are a few highlights from the last few weeks.

• I went to take a package to a woman’s room. Upon approaching her door, I saw a pair of underwear hanging from her door handle. I didn’t go in because in my generation a tie on the door knob meant “Do not enter” so I wasn’t sure if the under-roos were a kind of warning about what might be going on inside the door..

• A woman  came up to me the other day and said “I don’t want to talk to you ever again.” As she turned to leave my desk, she said, as an afterthought, “you’re so lovely.”

• I took someone to a dentist appointment the other day. About every two minutes the lady would ask me, “where are we going?”. I’d tell her we were headed to the dentist and she’d say, “Oh, well, I’m glad you know where you’re going, because I sure don’t.”. This same conversation repeated itself until we completed the half hour ride.

• A cute old man likes to sit on his walker and push himself around the lobby…backwards. As he scoots around he usually bumps into chairs, people, and other walkers.

• We have a few really nice, plush chairs in the lobby accompanied with wonderful throw pillows. Every morning, a dear, confused lady takes all the pillows out of the lobby up to her room. Every afternoon, I head up to her room, ask her to tell me a story, and while she’s talking I throw the pillows out in the hall and them return them to their rightful place.

• There are plenty of other funny moments but I’ll close with this one. We have a gentleman resident who makes Swedish meatballs every year at Christmas and sells them to other residents. A woman bought a few of his wares a couple days ago. On the subject line on the check she put, “for Bill’s balls”.

That’s about all I can think of at the moment but believe me, quirky times abound by the droves everyday in this wonderful place.

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