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I Make Fun of Old People Because.... · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the WDYM.
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  SPEAKER_00: The What Do You Mean Podcast?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, everyone gather around and listen to one of Hamilton's best podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: No research to back this up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_01: The quick answer is because they drive me crazy.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: If you're reading the title of this episode, it's it's it's because they drive me crazy.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I refuse to be driven crazy by old folks, right?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um work at one of these places called a rehab center.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, rehab center, old, old community, old folks retirement home, whatever you want to call it, right?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, don't work there unless you learned how to laugh or enjoy that time when you work there.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's you gotta understand, as I'm trying to um tell you, like they drive you crazy based on some of the things that they say and do and actions and smells and all these things will drive you crazy if you work at a retirement center, if you work at a rehab center, if you work with the elderly.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: And you gotta understand that, yeah, they're on a decline and all that stuff.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: But this is some things, some things that just like dude, what what what do you mean?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Case in point, I I'm gonna share three stories.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: And and mind you, and mind you, that um I could probably do a whole podcast on my three years at a retirement home, at a rehab center, dealing with the elderly.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: I can probably go on and on and on with the funny stories just with that alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that'll be funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna do three stories that are sticking out in my head and uh have recent recent visits with uh with our people at the elderly home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um that just you case just if you hear it out, let me know what you think.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me know what you think when you hear these stories.
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  SPEAKER_01: Case in point number one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the first one, we're gonna call this one Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_01: White.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_01: White was not happy with our with our beef stew.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had beef stew one day, and Miss White was like, you know, we when you deliver food off, when I deliver food off, or when I should say our servers deliver food off, we do everything that they ask us to do, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: For example, uh we drop off the tray, say, Hey, Miss White, um, here's your beef stew, and we take the lid off and, you know, unwrap silverware, put the tray in front of them so it's easy for them to reach and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we we show the beef stew to Miss White, and she gets this like frown on her face, like she just don't want the beef stew.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's right, and that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mind you, that they do fill out their menus a day ahead, at least at my facility we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: We try to say a day ahead.
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  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, they take their menu, fill out what they want, and then we take it and we make it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't like your beef stew, Miss White?
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: What else can I get you?
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, Well, um I'll be satisfied with a grilled cheese.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, You want a grilled cheese?
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And case in point, I do repeat myself at least two or three times.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they understand that they are getting grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, Miss White, do you want a grilled cheese?
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  SPEAKER_01: She says, Yeah, I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you want that grilled cheese on wheat or white bread?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: She says, White bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so you want that grilled cheese for you coming up right up.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: I've said it three times: grilled cheese, grilled cheese, grilled cheese.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I run back to the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And before, before I go to the next resident and drop off their mail, I want to make sure that resident has everything they need.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, there's no way you can call me back.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no way to say, hey, uh, culinary didn't do this or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't go to the next customer until this one customer is satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I go back to the kitchen, bring in the grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: I, you know, it's all in a dome and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: I put the plate in right in front of her, take the dome off, and uh, like, Miss White, here's your grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: She looks at the grilled cheese, she's all excited, she's rubbing her hands together, so oh boy, I ain't had a grilled cheese since 1999.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or some crazy thing like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They always say, they always refer back to the old school days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's fine, you know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_01: I can understand that.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's like, well, she looks at it, she's like, well, I I thank you for bringing the grilled cheese, but but but but but I'm like, but but but but but but what?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what you said you wanted.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's like, well, uh, I do I do appreciate you going to get the grilled cheese for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But um, I like turkey on my grilled cheese.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: I said, oh, you like turkey on your grilled cheese?
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: She said, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, why didn't you say that beforehand?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, I like turkey on grilled cheese too.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Who doesn't like a hot turkey and grilled cheese sandwich, right?
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: But no, you called, you told me to go get you your turkey, your grilled cheese sandwich.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now I go get you your grilled cheese sandwich, and now you want me to go put some turkey on it.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: So now I gotta go back to the kitchen for the second time, and I got more trays to deliver, but I gotta make sure you're good.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I ask her again, so you sure you want some turkey on the grill.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: I say just like her too, you want some turkey on this grilled cheese?
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  SPEAKER_01: She said, Why yes I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't even know I'm making fun of her right in front of her face because right now I'm I'm upset.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: You could have got this like three, four minutes ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now I gotta go back to the kitchen, heat up some turkey, put the turkey on your grilled cheese, right?
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not making you a new grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna eat up some turkey and put it on your cheese, your sandwich, because you know messed up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go back to the kitchen, warm up some uh some turkey, right?
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Come back, open her sandwich, put the turkey on cheese.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Now the sandwich is cut in half, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Miss White, there's your turkey on your grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she said, oh, thank you, baby.
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  SPEAKER_01: I so love uh hot turkey and grilled cheese sandwich.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, well, me too.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you could have asked for this way back in the beginning.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, it's okay.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then before I leave, I said, is there anything else I can get for you?
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, I said, Oh, Lord, are you kidding me?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I said, Yes, Miss White.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what's the problem?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, uh, you know, if you can cut it in quarters, I'd appreciate it.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, Lord, Jesus.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe now I gotta cut your freaking sandwich.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay, Miss White, I got you.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna cut this sandwich hard.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Now, now again, I'm I'm I'm not trying to go crazy here.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just trying to get out of the situation because now I'm not going back to the kitchen, right?
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna use her knife, cut her sandwich into quarters, and move it.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I was, I'm cutting, I'm cutting real aggressively.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you I'm hitting the plate and go ting, ting, ting on the plate, and I'm cutting a sandwich for her.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: But I cut the sandwich for her.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Miss White, is there anything else I can get for her?
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: She said, No, baby.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: And she goes and eats her grilled cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: Suppose I'm assuming she does, right?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: So when I go back, here's the kicker with this.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I go back and pick up trays, I go to Miss White's room, only one piece of that quarters is eaten.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she's up there sleeping bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, ooh, I wish, ooh, I wish.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'll go all this way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get you your grilled cheese, put the hot turkey on it, cut it in corners for you, and you don't fell asleep, ate one piece, and fell asleep.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I can't, I can't believe you.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, this is what I think of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sick of it.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sick of it.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta be kidding me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I ran twice back to the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Only if you'd eat a quarter.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, again, elderly, might not have the appetite.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: I get it.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, why didn't you just ask for that in the first place?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's one case.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another case is is our repeat customers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our repeat customers are people that come to visit the rehab center two to three times within a year plus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like in over a year, you might come visit the now.
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  SPEAKER_01: I understand I work at a rehab center.
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  SPEAKER_01: They might get surgery, and I get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you come back because maybe great service and great nursing staff, great culinary team, great food.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything adds up for your visit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's fine.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: So this repeat customer is this is her third visit within the calendar between the calendar year, right?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so her first two visits were fine.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, she would ask for um a can Coke.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I mean, we have Coke on the fountain, but she really wants that can coke.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: I guess we could do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can we can supply that.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: This visit, it was a can coke each time.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um no problem, I could do that, right?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: So every time she would order food, it'll be a couple bites, and then she's done.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on top of that, it would be a couple bites with a whole bunch of sides.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: For example, she would get a salad with four sides of dressing.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: Four sides of dressing for a salad, and it was a full, it was a full chef salad.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: I get it, but four?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, I only got so much supplies.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: You want four.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I can do that.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I would bring the four sides of dressing.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: She would take three bites and it's like, I'm done.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I haven't even left the room yet.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: And you're already telling me you're done.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, You okay?
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: You you you feel?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I'm just not feeling it.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, now remind you that we get the tickets the day prior.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know you got a salad.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: You take three bites and you're done.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's fine.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: Again, elderly, may not have the appetite.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: I understand, right?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: So her breakfast was the same way.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: She will order breakfast, but she would sleep right through it.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I try to be boisterous and loud when I come into these people's doors.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: I knock hard, I think I do a three-knock and I say your name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blue, I got your breakfast for you.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blue, I got your breakfast for you.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: You ready to eat?
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: Just try to get them up and excited.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: And 80% of them knocked out sleep, and they sleep with their mouth open, everything.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Just like, oh have you ever walked in somebody and see their mouth wide open from sleep?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: You just, oh, that don't look good.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: So she's mouth open sleep.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Mrs.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Blue, I got your cereal, your frosted flakes, your two things of orange juice, and some milk and hot tea.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Tell me why she's asleep.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: She is knocked out sleep.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay, in these situations, I leave the tray close by.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, hopefully they wake up.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's that.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: So again, again, I remind you that I am loud.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: I am purposely loud when I come in.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: So you hear me coming in.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she doesn't wake up.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: I come by, and at the end of breakfast, I'm coming by to pick up the trays, and now she she's waking up.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Mind you, this was almost like an hour and a half ago.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Now you you you you you awake?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Miss Blue, uh, you finally woke up.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Yes, baby.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, can I get a refreshed tea?
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, uh, okay, you know, granted, you you didn't eat you didn't drink your tea prior.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's fine.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's perfectly fine.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: I go, go get some hot water, a new tea, uh, same teabag, because she has a teabag in there, hot water, come back up, get drop off the hot water.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, oh, okay, and uh, can you give me some ice for my orange juice?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, again, this is my second trip back to the kitchen.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: You can do, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: You can do all this in one fell swoop.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: You can do, hey, you know, I just woke up, can I get a hot, fresh tea, a cup of ice for my orange juice, and you know, uh new milk for my cereal.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's one, two, three.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: I could come back and bring you three items, no problem, right?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: That that doesn't happen with the elderly people.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I gotta go back and get ice for orange juice.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, fine.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: Go back, get the ice, come back.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, oh, do you do you have any lemon for my for my tea?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Miss Blue, are you gonna send me down to the kitchen for the third time because your stinking butt don't forgot to ask me for lemon the second time or the first time I went down there?
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Yeah, I I can't have hot tea without lemon.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Miss Miss Blue, we ain't got.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't win ghetto.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: We ain't got no lemon, but I got lemon juice.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, oh, that'll do.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I run back tickets third time, drop off the lemon juice, and then I'm free.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: But do you see the pattern here?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: I understand that you're old.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I signed up for this.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I understand you're old and you're in the decline, but you ain't that old.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Miss Blue was not that old.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Trust me.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I go get her things, and you know, that's the end of that story.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: The last one had nothing to do with me getting like repeat orders.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Mbutu Yeah, you heard that.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Mbutu was an African.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: So when he came in, he was he was he was real cool.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: He was real cool.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: African guy.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: He goes, hey, excuse me, sir.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: He be like, hey, I don't eat red meat.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, no problem.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I do eat chicken sometimes, but I do like fish.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have any fish?
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Mbutu, I got fish for you.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: I got a whole bunch of tilapia.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I like tilapia, but not every day.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, Mbutu, what do you like?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: You like salmon?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I love salmon, Michael.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have any salmon?
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I can get you some salmon.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: Just be patient with me.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: While we serve you tilapia, I'll order salmon.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: It'll come in on Thursday, and we got you.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I got you.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: You are the man.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm glad you think I'm the man.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's what he would say.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, you, Michael, you are the man.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I would serve him uh, you know, eggs in the morning and all that stuff.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: And in the morning, he wanted tea a special way.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Michael, I said, yes, I'm buttons.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: He said, uh, I would like to have tea with brown sugar.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Can you do that for me?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, no problem.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: I got you.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people want you want, you know, sugar substitutes and all that good stuff.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: We can get you some tea with brown sugar.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I can do that.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's easy.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, but but Michael, I wanted to let you know.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: I want it in my special cup.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Your special cup?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yes.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: Put my tea in my special cup.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: So, Mbutu, I got you.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: Just give me the cup.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was a big old cup.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I'll put uh two bags of tea and two two bags, two um two bags of brown sugar, put it in there.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: He'll be like, Thank you, Michael.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Guess what?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: You are the men.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, you know, you keep saying that, but you know, I'm like, I I appreciate that.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I I silently appreciate that because, you know, you don't get that many compliments from from the residents too often, but he like you always say, You are the men.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: So on days that I I get two days off, thankfully, you know, and I come back and come back on a Monday, and he is he's panicked, like, where have you been?
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Umbutu, I get days off too.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: He said, wait, you get days off?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, I don't I didn't I did not allow you to have days off.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: He's kidding, of course, but I'm like, you know, I I have not gotten no service like like you do, because you are the man.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: I said, thank you, Umbutu, but I need my days off too, you know.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, okay, I understand.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: You need to get me my tea.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's like he's ordering me around.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, and I don't like that.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, uh, you want to order me around, umbutu?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Well, I just want my tea.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay, got you.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: Go get you, go get the tea like normal.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, guess what?
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: My family has brought me food and it's in my refrigerator.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Say, can you pull it out and warm it up for me?
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Say, Mbutu, if that's what you want for breakfast or lunch, I can do that.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I go to his fridge, open the fridge, and that's the worst-smelling fridge I've ever had.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you, old people forget when they put stuff in the fridge and it spoils and milk and fruit that they want to eat for later and all that stuff.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: It spoils, gets rotten in the refrigerator, and it stinks.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: This food, ladies and gentlemen, is not rotten.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's not.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is just, I'm assuming, African food.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: I look at it, one looks like a crepe, like a uh buckwheat style crepe, and it smells absolutely horrible.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I'm like, mm boottu, covering my nose.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what which what do you want to eat?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: He said, give me the one buckwheat rep.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I open it up and there's like fish in it.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, I'm like, oh, about to throw up on this man's food.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: He said, you go with the microwave and warm that up for me.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, Mbutu, I got you.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I feel like I swear to God, I feel like he's ordering me around.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I go, warm up his food, and drop it off to him.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: And guess what he says?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Michael, you are the man.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, Umbutu, I am the man.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I serve him for weeks, weeks, weeks, weeks, weeks, weeks.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: And towards the end, uh his family comes and says, Thank you for taking care of my dad.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, thank you.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: They sound normal, like they sound like normal Americans.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, thank you for taking care of my dad.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: He, you know, he was well worried that he couldn't eat here and his stomach was giving him, he's had a stomach issues when he first came in.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, we really appreciate what you've done for him.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you know, I think this is the same customer care I give to all my people.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't have nothing to worry about.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'll take care of him like he's my dad.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: He said, okay.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: So his last day, his last day, he's like, Michael, come here.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, umbutu, Mbutu, what you want?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: He said, hey man.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: He said, hey, I am leaving tomorrow.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: Let me have your phone number.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: You want my phone number?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: He said, yes.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: I want to see how you're doing later in life.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: I said, well, you like some kind of Nigerian prince?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna give me some money?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: He said, he's like, no.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: But I want to know how you're doing after I leave here.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said, uh, Mbutu, it's against company policy to give out phone numbers because we don't want you harassing me or me harassing you.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is not a good image.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a good image, Mbutu.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Oh, okay, I understand.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: But do you have email?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, Mbutu, what did I just say?
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: I said, we cannot exchange any information.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's against company policy.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's look bad in a company.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: If I start texting you, say, hey man, I took care of you, I need$20.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: That can happen.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, okay, Umbutu.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, okay, I understand, Michael.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Don't forget, you are the men.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Mbutu.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: No, you are the men.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: And he taught me some uh Arabic saying for like good wishes, good way.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: I wish I could remember what he said, but those are just three stories from a from an elderly, like a rehab place.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I say that I say that because you got to laugh with these people.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: You have to laugh because there's some actual good stories that come from them.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like one example of a good story is um uh one lady uh she is having problems with her legs, right?
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: She's trying to rehab facility, and she I think she says she had fiber, my jowl.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the medical person when it comes to definition, but basically she always says her legs feel like they're on fire.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, she's like slow, you know, upset, crying, just upset every day.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: And in fact, um she just started to turn around.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: She she she thought it she thought it was something more serious, like actual cancer, right?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, we've been talking to her every day.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: I get to learn her name, get to learn her story, and you know, she's super into Jesus, and you know, I'm not gonna be the one to say, you know, don't say that, you know.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: So recently she's gotten good news about her legs, and they're gonna be doing a surgery soon that the for for hopefully for um to help her get along.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so she comes to me and says, Guess what, Michael?
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like the other day, she comes, guess what, Michael?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: I said, What's up?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta give her name uh uh let's keep the colors going.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Miss Purple.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Say, Miss Purple.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Say, what's going on?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Um, I stood up for three minutes today.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh my god.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now when she came in, she need help putting socks on, she need help putting shoes on, she needs help with everything from the waist down, right?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: She said, guess what?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I stood up for three minutes.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, those are the stories, those are the memories that we got that makes us like that's worth all the trouble I go through with Miss White, Miss Blue, and Umbutu.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: But Miss Um Umbutu wasn't bad.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like Miss Miss, I think I called her Miss Purple, Miss Violet, whatever.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um that she's getting like the right therapy to walk around and uh the right therapy to get her legs back under her, so to speak.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: And she seems so so much happier now because of the and then I'm gonna take a little credit for it for the I do uh for the the social socializing with it with these people, getting the food because when they come in, they don't want to eat.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, you know, I'm not hungry.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you gotta eat something, Miss Purple.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta eat something.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: You can't be cooking all this food and wasting it.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Eat half of it.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: You want a pizza?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Eat half of it.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Try to encourage them.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: You want this, my you want this shake?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Drink half of it.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Drink something.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have to eat something to get your strength back because you're not gonna stay here forever.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'll tell them, well, you ain't gonna stay here forever.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'll put you to work in the kitchen if we need it, because we need help.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Trust me when I say that.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: We need help.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: But uh lately, she she's been getting she's been getting better.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, Miss Purple, you know, I'm I'm I'm happy to see your journey, you know, you getting better and all that good stuff.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: And uh hopefully soon you'll be out of here.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I always say, it's a funny thing, when people leave, I always say, one, it's graduation day because you are graduating to do something bigger and better than staying here at a rehab center.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: And secondly, I always say this.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: I say, I never want to see you again.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: Not in a negative way.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to see you here in a rehab rehab facility again.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to live your life and do better, and I hope I never see you again.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: But if I see you at Kmart or Walmart, Kmart, oh my god, if I see you at Walmart, say hi to me.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Be social and all that good stuff, and be uh that's the part of the rehab that is good.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like I get to be that that last person that says, hey, you're doing a good job.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Keep up the good work, and uh, I never want to see you again, but when I do see you, I want to see your smile.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I want to say say hi to me.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, these are three stories from the rehab center.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Just three today.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: I could probably do this all day, literally.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host Michael Gillespie.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna hit this treadmill real quick.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: I got a crap ton of more stories to go through.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: So that being said, we'll bring this up to an episode to an end.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out, Girl Scout.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out, boy Scout.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.