Elderly people losing their filter

[MushyMushy]

My grandmother lived in nursing home her last few years, and she became meaner than a snake to anyone not in our family. We were in the elevator with her and it stopped on another floor. A woman with a walker tried to get on and my grandmother saw her coming and hit the "door close" button! I quickly hit the "door open" button and let her on. The woman very pleasantly said "Hello Frances, I see you have your lovely grandchildren visiting you today" So what does my grandmother say "Yeah, and they are here to see ME, not listen to you babble".

I seriously wanted to die of embarrassment.

That's awful, but it really cracked me up for some reason!

Have you ever seen the Catherine Tate Show? One of her characters, "Nan," sounds just like that.

 

[Serena]

My dad's side of the family, not all of them, but too many, are really prejudiced. I manage to avoid those conversations most of the time. They know I don't approve and try to behave when I am around, but sometimes it wouldn't work.

Anyway, my dad is normally pretty quiet and didn't really participate in those conversations, at least not in front of me. Well, with him taking me back and forth to work this last month. He has shocked me several times, with his prejudiced and his anger. He gets road rage fast.

 

[powellrj]

It does not bother me at all...they have lived LONG AND HARD and they can say whatever they want...

LOL, then you have more tolerance than I have. Until you have been to a crowded concert for you children and have one of your parents yell in a loud voice, "sit your fat a** down, we can't see" or "don't you own a mirror to see how bad that you look before you leave in the morning?" You just want to die. We get there really early and sit very far away from other people and that way we can keep them occupied so they don't notice those around us!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Geriatric Neurologist appointment might be a good place to start.

 

[daughtersrus]

My dad was like this for many years. It began when he was pretty young. He had several severe strokes when he was young and just wasn't the same after. I complained about it a lot but now I would give anything to tell him to think before he speaks. Dad died 20 months ago and I still miss him. I still have the last message that he left on our answering machine. I usually erased the rude messages but for some reason, I decided not to erase that one. I had no idea that if would be his last and that he would be gone less than a week later. Now I wish that I had a whole machine full

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My DM has decided that at the ripe old age of 69 that she is old enough to say whatever she wants and to heck with anyone else.

She recently told my younger Dsis that her new hair cut/color looked like a wig they would sell to cancer patients. It really upset Dsis (obviously). She spent the rest of the day asking all the kids in the family what they thought of her haircut. My poor DD had the common sense to say "I really like it. It looks good on you." Poor kid got in the car later and asked if she needed to go to confession for lying. She told me that she really didn't like the color (she went from brunette to a very light blond) but that she could tell her aunt was upset and didn't want to make it worse. What a good kid!! When a 9 year old has more common sense than a woman 60 years older than her its ridiculous.

I feel your pain Mushy!! No advice for you though.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

...My poor DD had the common sense to say "I really like it. It looks good on you." Poor kid got in the car later and asked if she needed to go to confession for lying. She told me that she really didn't like the color (she went from brunette to a very light blond) but that she could tell her aunt was upset and didn't want to make it worse...

Then again, your Dsis is going to walk around looking ridiculous and only her mother cared enough to warn her...

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Then again, your Dsis is going to walk around looking ridiculous and only her mother cared enough to warn her...

It doesn't look that bad but after 40 years or being brunette it's going to take the rest of us more than a couple of days to get used to it. But I do get what you're saying.

The reason my other Dsis and I didn't like it is because it really aged her. She went from a young, cute style to "mom" hair. You know the style, short, cropped close to the head and kind of feathered back. Okay, it was MY mom's hair but now on my LITTLE sister. Just different but not altogether bad. And I never thought wig!!

But I did chuckle at your comment.