Crackers
Hanky Girl came over for dinner last night. She told us this story about her mom:
Hanky is an only child. Her mom was getting old, had some dementia and couldn't hear. She refused to get a hearing aid. But finally she relented. They spent over $4,000 for the hearing aids, of course not covered by insurance.
Her mom wore them one day and then they got "lost." They looked everywhere. Hanky figured her mom had just inadvertently flushed them or something. They were never seen again.
Until her mom died a few weeks ago. The funeral home gave her mom's effects to Hanky Girl. She looked into a little pocket in the purse where her mom kept her crackers. There were the hearing aids, covered with cracker crumbs.
So the moral of this story, children, is...what, exactly?
posted by DAK @ 10:22 AM
3 Comments:
This is such a wonderful story. Hanky Girl's mom was keeping them safe... just where she could find them!! Or not!!
I guess we can't force people to do what we want them to do, right? Great story!
@Finch—You've pinpointed the element that makes me love this story so much. Ms. Dorothy (aka my mom) did tuck those hearing aids into a very safe place. It just so happened to be so safe that none of us—including Mom herself—ever thought to look there.
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