A Learning Experience

I traveled home yesterday to spend the day with my Grandmother. I just decided to take my Saturday and spend it with her.. for no particular reason... just because. We went to Pine Mountain and ran a few errands. We visited the cemetary to see my grandfather. We had a nice lunch at her favorite place in town with my Father. We visited her house and picked two grocery bags of pears off the trees in the yard. We visited a friend of hers down the street. We visited with the neighbor. It was a good day for the most part... unless you factor in the crying spells that seem to be happening all too often these days. And the lack of ability to make a simple decision. Or having to eat my lunch and half of hers because she picked out TWO massive fried chicken breasts from the buffet and ate only ONE. This is a bad habit she has of getting too much food and then wanting me to "help" her eat it... this seems to be some sort of bad wiring she has that she is "helping me out" by sharing her plate with me. Who knows... all I do know is that I was so full after that meal that I could hardly walk out of the restaurant much less take a deep breath at the same time. What I do know is that the more I hang out with the "elder" crowd, the more I learn that I do not want to get old... older folks are obsessed with who died and who is sick and whether or not their bowels have moved... what the weather is doing and how I am feeling today... they always assume I am tired all the time... and every one else on the road are a "bunch of crazies out there"... folks shouldn't drive after dark... that is when the "bunch of crazies are out galavanting around"...the list is never ending... We did make it to one dollar store for her to browse in but did not make it to Wal-Mart... that exciting shopping trip will happen after her next appointment with the doctor. I am looking forward to that...seriously.