The Old Folks Home

[CSolis]

heyyyy now whatch them obit's, I check them every day just to make sure I ain't here, and him being there is possible was big ship

I've taken to the same practice as you and my grandmother. She always checked the obits first thing while drinking her coffee. She said as long as her name wasn't there she was in good shape.

 

[CSolis]

No, no! No jelly, gag! Just peanut butter and pickles. Don't blame me, mom used to pack pnut butter n piggle sam'ches in our lunches when we were kids. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Are you saying you are a bent twig?

 

[microchick]

My mom used to say the same thing. The day she died I checked the paper for her death notice and said, Hey Mom! You made the papers.

It's evening, @silverhair67? Dang! I've been awake since way before the time I'm used to getting up. I'll never catch up.

 

[silverhair67]

gotta get dinner didn't notice the time

 

[CSolis]

My mom used to say the same thing. The day she died I checked the paper for her death notice and said, Hey Mom! You made the papers.

It's evening, @silverhair67? Dang! I've been awake since way before the time I'm used to getting up. I'll never catch up.

Only thing I ever heard about me being in the newspaper was my dad saying "No one ever took out an ad saying you were bright"

 

[pennyJo1960]

Just 4 here check again not yet I am off cleaned the coops 14 eggs today!

 

[CSolis]

While all my other cousins and brother were off getting degrees in nuclear science and other various fields, I was the only space cadet... Always had my head in the clouds!

 

[bruceha2000]

heyyyy now whatch them obit's, I check them every day just to make sure I ain't here, and him being there is possible was big ship

You knew a lot of guys on the ship, could be he was a friend or acquaintance of yours ... or in this case, not. At one point, the company I worked for had 8,000 people at the plant where I was. People would find out I worked there and ask "do you know". Um, usually not.

Was talking to my ground beef farmer's market friend last week, got to WWII. He knew someone who coincidentally came across his brother (the guy's brother, not my friend's) on the beach on D-Day. Somehow, and thankfully, they both managed to make it home safe.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Blue! Are you pregnant?

Sounds like something a preggers woman would ask for at two o'clock in the morning. Honey, I'm craving peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches and please toss some pickles on it for me will you?

It would take a miracle! No jelly on my PBnP, thanks!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Are you saying you are a bent twig?

Not any more, that was over 50 years ago. Now I'm a solid, twisted old tree.