Seniors Behaving Badly …. Again Part 2

After today's workout, I stopped by the market and, as I was leaving, passed a customer wearing a mask — protection against Covid.

Arriving back at the complex, I saw a resident, out walking her dog, while wearing a mask and surgical gloves.

Other than those two signs of the time, this area has been very chill about getting into a panic. There was still toilet paper and hand sanitizers on shelves at the market, and the prices seemed normal.

After putting what few things I’d picked up at the market away, I checked into the Community Room expecting not to see bingo getting ready to begin — because of what Next Door Neighbor had revealed about trouble at last week’s session.

SURPRISE … the room was full, it was business as usual, except Apache was not in attendance.

The Baker was in the kitchen, preparing snacks for the seniors, whereupon I said, “You’re not supposed to be in the kitchen”.

I looked over, saw she’d also baked cupcakes, and said “Didn’t the doctor put you on rest, tell you not to do anything?”.

“I know, but I’m upset, need to keep busy”.

“Upset over what happened last Thursday?” asked I.

She began laughing hysterically and said, “No. That was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”

The who what why of it is that Big Friendly Guy was talking with the resident who’d made the X-rated cupcake, the same resident who’d given an unsolicited lap dance to Apache at a previous bingo session. I need a name for her, as she’s likely to appear in the blog quite often, so let’s call her “X-rated”.

At any rate, Big Friendly Guy (BFG) and X-rated were supposedly talking loud during the bingo game, and another resident told them to be quiet.

The Baker said she heard “be quiet”, but said others heard it as “shut up”.

Whether “be quiet” or “shut up”, BFG took offense (although he himself appears to have been in the wrong for carrying on a conversation while numbers were being called), shot straight out of his chair and began yelling at whomever it was told him to shut up.

A woman in a wheel chair chimed in and said something to BFG about his talking having made it difficult to hear numbers called.

BFG ran straight up to the woman in the wheelchair, got up close and personal in her face and went off on her. Whereupon, The Baker tells me the entire room went nuts. Everyone got involved and there was yelling from everyone at everyone.

Apache tried to quiet everyone down saying that if all the arguing didn’t stop, it was going to cause him to get in trouble (because he’s in charge of bingo). No one listened, so Apache said he wasn’t doing bingo any longer, packed up all the prizes and walked out.

With no prizes on the table, no one to call the game, people still arguing, folks began leaving BUT, because one of the seniors had cooked soul food (as the session was titled “Black History Bingo”), and there was food in the oven, seniors began entering the kitchen, opening the oven, started taking food — making plates to take with them straight from the oven.

Baker said it was insane, out of control and, from start to finish, the funniest thing she’d ever seen, as she stood in a corner and stayed out of it.

Community Manager happened to walk into the room to see how bingo was going, saw the melee, quieted everyone down, and announced that, beginning April, he’d be taking bingo over.

GREAT! Another job that’s not his, when there’s more job-specific things he should be handling.

“You should have taped it”, said I to the Baker.

“I thought about it”, said she but not to worry because the Community Room video tape got it all. Community Manager reviewed the tape and had a talk with BFG.

I looked over to where BFG usually sits and saw he wasn’t present today.

I doubt Community Manager banned BFG from bingo. Community Manager is not the hardline type to ban anyone, so I'm assuming BFG has made the decision to be done with the seniors and with bingo.

I don’t think Apache is as forgiving as the Baker, so he’s probably done with it as well.

Besides once again being in the kitchen, cooking/baking for the seniors against doctor's orders because she's the forgiving kind, the Baker said she's doing it to keep busy. Her husband is not doing well and she doesn’t want to think about it.