While on a road trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, they left the restaurant and resumed their trip. As they were leaving, the elderly woman unknowingly left her glasses on the table and didn't miss them until they had been driving about twenty minutes.
By then, to add to the aggravation, they had to travel quite a distance before they could find a place to turn around to return to the restaurant to retrieve her glasses.
All the way back, the elderly husband became the classic grouchy old man. He fussed and complained and scolded his wife relentlessly during the entire return drive. The more he chided her, the more agitated he became. He just wouldn't let up one minute.
To her relief, they finally arrived at the restaurant. As the woman got out of the car and hurried inside to retrieve her glasses, the old geezer yelled to her..."While you're in there, you might as well get my hat and the credit card."
This coming week is National Mental Health Care week.
You can do your part by remembering to contact at least one unstable person to show you care.
Well ... my job is done. Your turn.
But really, have you ever done this? I sure have. Usually though we go back to the place and I realize I had whatever I had thought I left behind in my purse the whole time.
Today I was wracking my brain, trying to remember whose chart I needed from our one office. For the life of me, I couldn't remember and thought I had put it on a post-it but couldn't find it in the 20 some post-its in my pocket. So I started going through every chart when I got sidetracked with another patient. Then hubs wanted the labs from another patient so I went to the computer, opened up IE when my email pops up with messages. I peeked in and saw the email I had sent to myself to remind me (been trying to do that since I either lose or try to launder the post-its all the time). Now I have to remember to check emails for my post-it reminders. **sigh**
