How long does a string of bad luck last?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

When was the other week? If you mean last week, then I'll bet you five bucks someone else from there croaks soon, or else did right before those two.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

What did you do in a nursing home? I'm guessing kitchen.

 

I can barely stand to walk through the doors of a nursing home. The docility drives me mad. If old people actually surfed and threw parties like on tv, it would be ok, but they just sit there.

Kitchen, primarily, but the entire staff there were either larger middle aged women with back and knee problems, or tiny hillbilly girls my age. I was often called to duty to help move an exceptionally large resident, or if a guy/someone tall was necessary for something.

 

One instance I remember was this crazy old woman shrieking for some person named "Father Don," which we assumed was a religious figure, obviously. Well, she wouldn't shut the fuck up about it, so one of the RNs is all "Hey, father don, c'mere a minute.." to me..so I walked over, did that cross business the catholics are about to her, and she immediately was silent.

 

Most geriatric folk do indeed just sit there, though some are stark raving mad, and amazingly strong. The atmosphere in a midwestern nursing home is more a forlorn religious wait for death.