something weird happened this morning

[minxnim]

when i was going to the library. i have to walk about 4 really long blocks to get there (about ten minutes) and cross eastern parkway at a rotary called Grand Army Plaza. eastern parkway is a 4 lane highway.
so i am on the wrong side, and about to cross when the bus lets off this REALLY decreptic old woman in a wheelchair and just ditches her there on the sidewalk in the blistering wind. she asks me if i can wheel her across to the farmer's market... and i tell her 'actually, it's set up right back there' and point to where it is, visibly, with all its tents and FARM PRODUCE. she says 'no, over there' pointing to the completely other side of the rotary. so i say, 'are you sure you want to go over there and not to the farmer's market right there?' (pointing again) and she says 'forget it!' and starts furiously wheeling herself into the middle of the fucking rotary, barely being missed by about 4 SUV's. i couldn't catch up with her! what a fucking nightmare.

SHEESH.

 

[minxnim]

i'm still all fucking shaken about this!

 

[ImNoHippy]

All events have meaning. Ask yourself why did this happen? Was it a coincidence? Perhaps your non-local consciousness can provide answers.

 

[minxnim]

she is my own astral projection.
in spirit i am a fierce wheelchairing woman.

 

[avi]

this relates the mindspell's NY thread I think

 

[Steve]

old people + drugs ?

 

[Baliset]

drugs?

 

[0sm0se]

That is a weird old person story but I daresay my story is a little weirder though less completely random. While volunteering in the transport department of the local hospital, I was instructed to move a woman from the Nuclear Medicine facility back to her room on the floor. I was also warned that she had an EXTREMELY advanced case of osteoporosis, like she would shatter like glass when it meets a speeding brick. All the same I was instructed to be very cautious and gentle. So I find this woman on her strecher and the first thing I'm supposed to do is check the chart so I know what room she is going back to. The stretcher was parked against the wall and the chart was lying next to her on the side towards the wall at about her chest level. So I reached for the chart as I introduced myself to the woman as is normal and as I grasped the chart, she sprang from her semiprone position and BIT ME. Not only did she bite, but she latched on. Luckily, I remembered about the osteoporosis and though I was actually bleeding, I couldn't jerk my arm free because it might have broken her mandible (lower jaw) while tearing out all her teeth, which in her state might have killed her. So instead, I called for help and someone came out of Nuklear Medicine and sedated her, but I still had to wait until after she went unconscious to get my arm free. After that I had the wounds cleaned and disinfected, I then had to move her anyway, which was a little unnerving as see muttered endlessly while unconscious. The preceding story is why I believe in euthanasia.

 

[avi]

okay, that one totally wins.

for now.


I know preppy can one-up that shit if she wanted to

 

[xfer]

you should've pinched her nostrils shut!

 

[0sm0se]

Dude, and snap her nose, prompting a massive lawsuit?

 

[xfer]

you needn't bend/snap bone or cartilage to seal someone's nostrils. trust me on this one. MUAHAHA!

 

[minxnim]

my lord i won't even try to up that because it should stand on its own as yet another example of how helping people can just ruin your fucking life.

 

[The Dope]

So this explains the unnatural fear of old folks, huh?

 

[minxnim]

i dont have a fear of old people... do you mean osmose?

 

[azal]

I only hate select old people.

for example, old fat women in the bus with large bags of vegetables who rub their fat tits on your back for the entire duration of the ride.

 

[minxnim]

i think, overall, i have a more cool time around old people than i do people my own age. but, like all things that breathe and move around, some people (of all genres) can be a pain in the neck.

 

[lizard]

I knew a girl in college who worked in a VA hospital and she said some of the old guys who lived there full time would throw turds at her.

 

[minxnim]

i volunteer at a VA hospital twice a month. no shit throwing tho.

 

[lizard]

I interviewed at one once, the personnel officer told me that I would have to be able to deal with eccentric behavior from some of the institutionalized veterans but I didn't get the job so old guys didn't throw bedpan contents at me.