Sunday, August 22, 2021

Revenge With a Side of Rocks

While in the Laundry Room on Saturday, talking to a resident I’ve never seen before — even though she tells me she’s lived here for three years, I asked if she’d gone to movie night.

Her response was to laugh — long and hard.

Once she stopped laughing, she said — with a smirk on her face, “No one did …. except my neighbor and his wife”.

From this resident’s obvious enjoyment of the Tyrant’s failure, I’m deducing that his carrying on with movie night, rather than telling the couple the event was cancelled due to lack of interest, has residents laughing behind his back. He’s become a joke.

When people in power lord it over others who, for one reason or another, feel they can’t speak up/fight back, those powerless ones find other less hazardous to themselves ways to exact revenge. Silence and non-participation is one such effective measure.

However, the Tyrant may have found a way to break down some of the wall that’s between himself and residents. The Baker tells me he’s bringing bingo back.

These old people love them some bingo. So, they will undoubtedly put aside their dislike and participate.

Even the Baker, who opted out of everything some time ago, long before the pandemic shut activities down, said she planned to participate.

And get this … not only is the Tyrant bringing bingo back, he’s planning on being the Caller.

I too enjoy bingo, but I’m not desperate enough to lock myself into the community room, with a group of residents when the pandemic is nowhere near over, plus have to look at the Tyrant’s deceitful face, listen to words coming out of his lying liar’s mouth.

Besides … doesn’t he have more important work to do?

I’ve not run into Jan — the painted rock maker, in some time; however, I have seen her latest work in and around my area, which consists of smooth oval rocks with bible verses.

I captured photos of three. 

Matthew 11:26

Joshua 1:9

Proverbs 14:30

You will note there is not the usual polish on my nails in those photos. I'm such a girlie girl that I  actually feel naked when not wearing polish but, in the process of giving my nails a breather, I didn’t want to take a chance on the rocks being taken as souvenirs before I got polish on and could get a photo fully dressed.

I'm impressed at how neatly Jan managed to script on these rocks.

At any rate, I didn’t have to worry about someone removing the rocks before I could polish my nails and take a proper photo, because I confiscated two of the three to add to my collection right after I captured those photos.

I'll have to let Jan know, so she'll know they're in appreciative hands, not tossed.

The two I confiscated go well with my nails — now freshly skittle polished, don’t you think?


19 comments:

  1. I do like Bingo. I actually went to Bingo at one of the Casino's here with a friend when our daughter's were in 1st grade and we had a few hours to spend. I do like your painted nails. They are pretty.

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    1. Bingo has changed so much over the years. Now there's fancy combos .. corners, L's, T's, etc. The few times pre-pandemic when I'd join the seniors, I had to have a resident tutor me.

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  2. Your nails are gorgeous, such unusual colors! Do you do them yourself?
    My friend in FL lives in a senior development. The first time she went to Bingo there she got called out for talking! She never went back until the next year when she noticed they were advertising for a caller. She decided to do it, she said " I'll be the person calling people out for chatting!"

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    1. I prefer going to the Spa Nail Salon, but their work is so boring that, when I get a hankering for something different, I do my own nails. Talking in bingo is considered a cardinal sin. Since your friend couldn't stop talking, sounds like Caller is the perfect job for her :-)

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  3. Your Nails always look Fabulous, the Skittle Nails go well with your new Scripture Rock Collection and I'm sure she'll be Delighted they went to an Appreciative Home. As for the Activities, a Shame that the Tyrant is so disliked that he's ruined participation that might be helpful to some of the Residents that might be lonely, shut-ins usually, don't have much to do that would be recreational and enjoyable to them. My Mom loved all of the Activities at her Long Term Care Facility, my Brother volunteered to be the Caller at Bingo... only they Jazzed the Game up a lot, so it wasn't like regular Bingo and they Won Vouchers to trade in for whatever was in this little Store the Volunteers stocked and created to make it more interesting. Mom enjoyed the camaraderie and socialization, she'd lived Alone for so many Years, so in some ways, it was better for her having so many Friends at her Facility than when she lived Independently and rarely got Visitors and didn't get out much at all near the end due to Mobility Issues. Sometimes when we'd visit her, she was so busy she'd tell us she didn't have much time before we'd have to leave because a favorite Activity was starting that she didn't want to miss. *LOL* That always made me glad that she was enjoying her Life there, even tho' her Health and the Dementia were causing her to require a level of Care only a place like that could provide to her.

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    1. The idea of your mom being so busy that you had to cut your visit short made me smile. Us seniors used to do our own thing, didn't need management but, since my buddy Apache left the building, there's been no one willing to take up the reins or it may be the pandemic has caused the seniors to be comfortable with themselves, no need to go anywhere do anything, except sit back and laugh at the Tyrant.

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  4. Good for you for sticking to your convictions regarding the Tyrant. At the last place I worked, Bingo was very popular - do NOT interrupt!
    I've never been much for nail polish myself - too lazy I guess. But I know if I'd had a daughter, I would've totally painted her nails! Yours are very cool.

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    1. I wasn't in attendance, but was told by the Baker that there was a huge bruhaha at bingo because someone was talking. When reprimanded, the guy went off yelling, cursing. She said that pretty soon others chimed in and it ended with everyone yelling at everyone. So yes, "do NOT interrupt" is serious business.

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  5. When my friend in FL was reprimanded for talking she didn't know it was forbidden! She shut right up and was embarrassed. I think she will enjoy being the caller again once things start up. She was one of the unlucky people who was totally vaccinated months ago, in a two person bubble with her next door neighbor for 18 mths and had all groceries delivered and yet got Covid. She was in hospital for 6 days , the unvaccinated dying all around her. Sent home (on oxygen, she lives alone) in an ambulance and the ambulance driver told her he did not believe in the vaccine. She could not understand it!

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    1. Amazing how some people think that just because they do not believe is a protection against reality. I had someone just tell me that all the deaths reported in the news is blown out of proportion, just a ploy to scare people into getting vaccinated. That's too bad about your friend, but the vaccine worked in that she survived.

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  6. My grandmother's bingo story. Years ago, late in the 19th century, she and a girlfriend amused themselves the seaside hotel their families were staying at, by messing with the Bingo Night prizes. The prizes were donated by the bingo crowd and were in small gift-wrapped boxes. Grandma and her friend wrapped a box of seashells and put in on the prize table. Then they sat back to enjoy the fun. "Of all the nerve!" "Who could be so cheap!" "This is outrageous. Someone needs to be kicked out of the game."
    etc etc.

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    1. LOL, but seriously ... I'd have thought a box of seashells a great prize.

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  7. I thought you might like this - posted today by John Gray
    https://disasterfilm.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-lion-king.html

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    1. Yes, JanF. I read John daily, saw that. Also saw that giant cup of Starbucks coffee on the desk. LOL. That 2nd clip about other people's stressors reminded me of when that crazy boss Joyce said something so egregious that I had to set the record straight. When Joyce did not show up for a meeting because she was distressed over putting her cat down, I defended her to meeting attendees who were upset at being inconvenienced over what they said was "just a cat". When my coworker's husband died of cancer, she took off work and Joyce expressed how disappointed she was that the coworker did not tough up and come to work. I told Joyce, "You took off when your cat died". She didn't like it, but I was so visibly upset at her callousness that she knew to go back into her office and close the door. LOL.

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  8. I love the nails, when I was in high school having different colored, pastel nails was all the rage.

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    1. Seems retro is all the rage again.

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    2. I think it's a wonderful and simple idea to cheer people up in this horrid times. I always smile when I seen someone with beautifully finished nails.
      For myself, I am too lazy but I do enjoy other people's!

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