On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:27:53 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:
> "Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:lko7c5-3v1.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:51:58 -0400 in
>> 65bu27F2enectU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Robibnikoff"
>> <witchypoo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> "Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> snip
>>>>
>>>> Why do people think there are "checks from the government"?
>>>>
>>>> Reservations are among the most impoverished places on the planet,
>>>> not just the US but EARTH, yet people think there are "checks". Where
>>>> the hell does that idea come from?
>>>
>>> Um, I dunno. Do you want me to wake him up so I can ask him? :(
>>
>> Lessee... if he's even remotely like me when it comes to being waken
>> from a deep sleep, my answer would have to be along the lines of:
>>
>> "Oh hell no!"
>
> No problem! I took your sound advice and let the sleep dog lie ;)
>>
>> (My mother woke me up recently with an absurdly late phone call about,
>> of all things, her computer. Next day, she remarked on my, ahem, being
>> "grouchy". I asked, "In your 46 years of knowing me, when *was* the
>> last time you recall I was a pleasant person on being waken from a deep
>> sleep? Hmmm?")
>
> Hey, better than the phone call I got 3:13 a.m. Saturday morning from my
> mom claiming that she heard my dead father screaming for help. I still
> can't believe that after she hung up on me, she called the cops. Oy
> vey.
Oh, the joys of having elderly parents with dementia. About a week after
my mother died, my father called the police one morning to say that he
had a burglar in the house. When the police arrived, he told them that
the burglar had turned out to be a nice young lady, and was having
breakfast with him. He led the police to the kitchen, where there were
indeed two places laid at the table. He then proceeded to introduce the
police to the non-existent burglar, whom only he could see. About a week
after that, he had the first of a series of strokes, and spent the
remainder of his life (about six months) in a series of hospitals and
nursing homes.
--
John F. Eldredge -- john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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