Stories tagged “elderly”
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Breezy Chair
The balloons were a good start. They gave the chair that nice floaty feeling. If my joints weren’t creaking I might still be tying the buggers, but this one’s better anyhoo. I put my cane in the holder and chucked my newspaper under the tun...
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Old Ladies
Fear’s house is second on my Meals-on-Wheels route. She lives just two doors down from Hope. I wish they’d talk to each other — they have a lot more in common than they think — but Fear says Hope is a “stupid old bat,̶...
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Duck
There he was. The old man shuffled to his bench in the park perfectly on schedule, and the scene was set. The picturesque pond was full of lily pads, frogs, and swimming ducks. Next to it, a big shady tree threw its umbrage over the same bench the man ...
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Mrs. Emmet and the old .45
Remember the last time you were kind to an old person? Probably not because… well, you have never been kind to an old person. Jack Reordan was famously unkind to old people. We called him the Mom-and-Pop Killer. As a senior community officer, he ...