I volunteer at a senior home on Wednesday afternoons. Boring? Not at all! It's pure entertainment.
I do respect my elders but it's really hard not to laugh in these situations. The staff thinks it's funny too but we all understand that
one day we will be old too than we can entertain the younger generations.
The people are so kind and interesting too.
First of all I work with this gentleman in a wheelchair he calls himself "Bill" and this woman with dementia seriously thinks Bill is her husband. She grabbed the wheelchair away from me took him to her room and said "He's MY husband!" and slammed the door in my face. She thought I was hitting on him.
There is a woman who has a stuffed cat in her room and thinks it's a real cat that has been stuffed.
One of the women said "I was sleeping in bed one night and saw someone in the nude with a wrinkly butt. So I checked in the mirror to make sure my but wasn't as wrinkly."
One woman thought the Beatles slogan on my shirt was Morse code.
Last time I was there a woman had a strap on her wheel chair (To keep her down and out of trouble becuase she keeps calling 911) She asked me for a small knife
first by luring me in and asking if I want a chocolate. She said "If you want to be beutiful you must find me a knife"
Theres a man who walks VERY fast that it's a hazard and constantly pushes the high security code door to get out. He has Alzheimer's it's sad cause a year ago he was with it and showed me a fainting photo album of his about his life as an animal scientist and pictures of the log cabins he built.
I aways take my utility knife of my belt and put it in my pocket becuase I read in the Volunteer orientation booklet that items even loose jewelry can be a a
weapon. People have had there big hoop earrings tugged out of there ear lobes. Same with really long hair.
My hair is only shoulder length so I'm safe. I only wear watches,wrist bands and rings as jewelry that can't be grabbed and I never keep earrings in anyways becuase they piss of my sensory of touch overload. So I know I'm safe and made sure with myself that I'm not wearing anything that can be a weapon.
My mom's freind who used to be chef there and had a urine bottle thrown at her and she cried about it becuase it was her first day working there.
She had a heavy encyclopedia thrown at her head too.
I never cry when they be nasty to me becuase I know it's not intensional.
It's interesting volunteering so I will post my interesting stories in this thread.