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throughout the program i've been making our suite bathroom interactive by posting questions on the inside of the stall door with a pencil attached so that we can all share our insights while we poop.  last week's question was "if you could trade places for anyone with a day, who would it be?"  i then posted my own answer, which was my grandmother's neighbor at the nursing home.  one of my girls wrote next to that, "MORBID?"  this is where our interactive stall fun turned into a day-by-day argument about the intricacies of gerontological care.  i told the mystery writer that it wasn't morbid, because mrs. lampson would get another day of youth and i'd gain understanding.  she asked me what i would be able to understand.  i wrote that i would be able to understand her point of view so that i could then help her and others like her.  this is when, and this is what really gets me mad, the girl wrote back, "whatever."

this is why i want to go into elderly care.  i'm afraid there aren't enough people out there to actually give a shit about our senior citizens.