About 4 months back. An elderly couple were at the
pharmacy next door. When the man came back to the
car he could not find his wife. We searched the parking
lot, all the buildings, the police were called.
I felt so sorry for him, he was so lost, and frail looking.
The police were scanning the surrounding area's. I
decided to walk the 1/2 block up to gas station to see
if she was there.
I went in asked the clerk if she had seen an eldery
heavy set women. She told me she had not seen her.
On the way back, I was almost to the street. A police
car whipped in. He rolled down his window. I could tell
by the look on his face, he thought it was me. I quickly
told him she was not in the store. I was not about to
give him the chance to ask me if I was her.
Saying that, when I got to work today. There were black
streamers on the door to my office, flyers saying
MISSING Have you seen this women with a picture of me
also mistaken for granny. She is lost can you find her.
Pictures of old women all covered my office. a Cautions senior
moment in progress toped my monitor.
So happy birthday to me(granny) by the way I am not that old
but apparently I look like it. I just recently colored my hair
again, in hopes people would stop thinking my deer hunter and
princess were my grandchildren..
Oh the women is fine. Her husband had left her at a yardsale.
Someone there had taken her home. What was even worse it was 2
yardsale stops before the pharmacy.
7 comments:
Happy birthday, "old" (snicker) friend! ;-)
I'm glad they found his wife! That policeman must need glasses because I KNOW you don't look older than me, and we're nowhere near "granny-age". :)
Gotta tell you a story...I had to make a roadtrip to get my transcripts from Stillwater and Tahlequah for my Calif. license. I could have had them mailed, but I was restless and needed the roadtrip. Anyway, I took Matt with me, of course. As we entered Stilwater, I made the mistake of commenting that I probably wouldn't be able to find the dorm where I lived for awhile, or the house that I rented with a crazy person, but I could always find where I needed to go by first going to the bars near campus. Strangely enough, those are my point of reference for everything in Stillwater. Then, when we went to Tahlequah, as we drove up to the campus and past the bars where the students hang out, I made a couple comments to Matt, like, "Wow, they changed that bar into an auto body place," or "Look, they changed the name of that bar to The Lab." Matt looked at me with great admiration and said, "Wow, mom, do you know where ALL the bars are in Oklahoma?"
Well, I didn't want him to, you know, think that was cool, so I tried to tell him that binge drinking was never a good idea. To illustrate that, I told him about a time when we were at the church and we decided to go back to Brooks for more refreshments. For whatever reason, I was driving one car and K was driving the other and it turned into a race. I had got a headstart and was in the lead. It was night and for no reason other than seriously impaired judgement, I turned off my headlights and K did the same. I came to my senses in time to turn the lights back on and see just in time where they were working on the road and had left a huge hole, at least 4 feet deep, in the road with only a sawhorse with some reflective paint on it blocking the hole. I swerved in time to miss the hole, but I was scared to death K wasn't going to see it because he had his lights off. I tried to find a place to turn around so I could shine my lights on it, so he'd see it, but the road was too narrow.
K hit the sawhorse and flew over the hole landing on the other side. Had he been going at a normal rate of speed, he'd probably landed nose first and he and all the occupants of his car could have been killed. Of course, had he had his lights on, he'd have seen it.
Matt said, "So the moral of the story is to drive really fast while you're drunk?"
(sigh) Where does he get this smart alecky side? Anyway, I said, (as dramatically as possible) "No, the moral is that drinking can impair your judgement. We're lucky any of us survived that night."
His response? "Yeah, but what a great story!"
Help.
Thanks ER for respecting your
elders..ha.
Crystal, where the heck was I?
I do not remember that. I do
however remember being in K's
car when he turned off the lights.
Scared the crap out of me.
Then there was the time we were
in MJ's jeep on the bank of the
pond, about to go into the water.
He was trying to drop the clutch
with out us rolling into the pond.
The top was off. It did not accure
to any of us to just get out, until
he got the jeep back on flat land.
Yea that judgment thing was really
missing..
Happy Birthday! It may be belated, but it's still sincere! :)
Honestly, I don't know where you were that night. You could have been "resting" in the back seat. I don't remember all the people who were there that night, but I do remember we decided to call it a night after that.
I think K scared the crap out of all us at least more than once....:)
Thanks tech. Hey while you are
here. I am hoping to start a
family new letter. If you have
any ideals let me know. you
can get my email from crystal.
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