Never a dull moment around here... At 12:00 A M I took a couple of Tylenol P M (that's right, this old Grandma is still a bit sore from kayaking with the babies) so I could get some rest. I laid down at 12:30 and was just dosing off when my phone rang...The most interesting thing to me about that situation is that I didn't have that 'sinking Mommy feeling' when I heard it, I had that 'oh my gosh daughter in law feeling' and immediately wondered what Ruth was up to...My feeling was correct, it was Stan from Corinthians saying that he could not get Ruth to go back to her room and that she was yelling in the halls and knocking on residents doors. He asked if I could come and try to calm her....I told him I would be right there...Important observation...It is a lot harder to quietly find stuff in the dark and to get dressed when you have just dozed off after taking Tylenol P M...
I pulled up in the parking lot at 1:00 Am to two police cars parked in front of the entrance...oh my goodness, oh my goodness...Stan let me in and apologized for calling so late.He said that Ruth had called the police...OH MY GOODNESS...He said she was so agitated and he tried to get her to just go back to her room but she wouldn't go. He said she kept yelling at him to ,"Sit back down behind that desk." I just kept saying I was so sorry. He said that he was there yesterday when Mike went over AGAIN to look at Ruth's T V but that she kept telling him that it was her husband who came by....hehehehe Mikey boy...We turned the corner and the officers were coming out of her room. They said they had gotten her back in her room(she had knocked on doors until one of the residents had let her in to keep her quiet) and that they had calmed her down.... I said ,"thank you so much." They asked if I had a key to get in and I told them no but Ruth opened the door right then and asked what was going on. She saw me and just waved her hand while telling me to come in , she needed to talk with me. It was like it was the most natural thing in the world for me to be there at 1 in the morning...
For more than 4 hours Ruth chattered away. She couldn't remember what got her so agitated. She couldn't figure out how I got in the room. She was so grateful to the nice young lady who let her in and saved her life...Ruth's take on the story was...She remembered that she went down about midnight to get Stan to set her clock to the exact time his was set at..she didn't know why she did that...she didn't know what happened next but when Stan stood up to come around the desk(my guess would be he did that to fix her clock) she realized how stupid she was to talk to this strange man because she had no idea who he was ( she has seen him many times)...she said he then told her to go to her room..now Ruth's little mind went into overdrive and she decided that he wanted her to go to her room to' rape her or do God knows what else'. She said she decided to become as loud and belligerent as possible as she thought her life was in danger...she said she knocked on door after door to try to get in to someones apartment...once she got in one, she decided to call the police so they could 'handle Stan'...It was a mess...Over and over, I explained what Stan's job is...she said I didn't know what his job was and that I was just plain wrong about him having any right to tell residents what to do...whatever... she finally calmed down...we chatted about birthin babies...women's roles in a home...kids decisions being their own choices and on and on...I told her about 4 times that I really had to go...I left about 5:15...she seemed fine...
Cindy called at about 10:00 A M to let me know that her brothers mother had called and needed toilet paper and tissues...we decided to be tough(HAHAHA) and have Cindy call her back and tell her to take the bus...I didn't answer my phone when she called...I tell Cindy about last nights fun...we are both at a loss as to what to do..can it get any worse..why yes little ladies, I am sure it can...Mike comes home early...we decide to just go buy her another T V today and take her some T P, kleenex AND Tic Tacs...last night Ruth reminded me how STUPID we were to get her such a HUGE T V and how stupid we were to not take back the messed up one sooner SOOOO we bought her a 27 inch one this time...When we got there Carla said she had been on the war path all morning and that the residents she was approaching would just shake their heads and walk away...what to do , what to do...She opened the door and ushered us in...She was so confused about the process involved in getting the new T V...we kept telling her that we just stopped by Walmart and bought another one....she just couldn't grasp the idea...She was sitting on the bed chattering away about how stupid it was that we bought the big one, how she HATED the letters HD on the T V as it just meant that you were trying to act important...chatter, chatter, chatter...Mike got it working as quickly as he could...She was thrilled with the smaller T V, she said she likes things smaller, it is not so pretentious...she said the picture is much better...it is perfect( Oh God, PLEASE let it stay perfect)...Mike told her we had things to do (HMMM, that would be Cracker Barrel)...she said how much she appreciated all we do...she seemed happy...as we left Mari asked how she was doing and laughed and said she couldn't believe she called the police. I explained what Ruth was thinking.She said she would get Michelle to go by and talk with her to be sure she was O K...they really are so great...We just want Ruth to calm down so they don't kick her out,we could never duplicate where she is living for what we are paying....
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