My Day at the Retirement Center

This was my second trip to the retirement center to help the older peeps.
I felt like I was repeating myself all day about the whole…”This is your email…this is your internet….Click here…this comes up…now you try it.”
You know what? THEY.DID.GREAT. I mean Tony the Tiger GREEEEEEEAT!

I also learned some new things too.

I learned how to smoke a cigarette without a filter.
I learned that you DO NOT say no to an old woman offering you cookies and ‘pop’.
I learned that it takes a half hour to package your own sausage.

I think the lesson I learned most today is old people are really lonely. This one guy was sleeping on his couch when I showed up. I asked him what he wants to get out of being a computer owner and he said, “I’m all alone. I sleep all day and every day is exactly the same as the last.”
He had pictures on his coffee table of him and his wife that was taken probably 25 years ago. He had a picture of his son that was clearly taken in the 80’s. They were big 8 x 10 photos sitting on this tiny coffee table in front of him. It was obvious that he just sat and stared at them every day. There was another of his granddaughter. It broke my heart. I asked each one of them if they had kids and if the kids lived far away. They all had kids and they all lived within a hundred miles of them. I asked if they got to visit with them often and there was that moment of complete silence and then they would say, “Ohhhh well, he’s real busy.”

Mother’s Day is Sunday. Just a reminder. I think I might go buy a bunch of flowers and make a trip over to say hello. I ain’t too busy.