Exercise - Not My Arm

Not my arm. Hanging on the left or right arm of the able individual is hell. It's hell for the parent, when
they can't stand-up solidly and move about without having another person for stability. I understand, it's not
their fault, and I send out report cards with A+'s, gold and silver stars just for the guts and courage for
attempting to take a longer walk. I've done it for two years, since I did notice the body lilt-tilt what leaned to
the left a bit more than level, mostly from being hung on to out of pride and companionship. Nevertheless, not
hang on my arm, anymore.
Therefore, I supplanted my arm in Wal-Mart and other stores that have shopping carts. I find the
shopping cart to be the perfect trainer for the next move up in freedom and mobility for myself as much as the
mom. Now this thought has a good deal of self-preservation in it as I now can roam away, while she reads the
labels. I can be back in a second or two to pull down from the top shelf a product, or lift the heavy canned
foods into those low, way down places in the shopping cart.
I'd really like to know, if there are enough cute, little double stacker mini shopping carts available for
the maturing population in my future? Someone ought to give the heads up to the massive package stores that
not all cart sizes suit the shopping efforts of the seniors or even the middle-agers. It's truly hard to bend over
and lift all those products in the shopping basket out at the check out.
It's my arm again; one-handed lift out, swing and park on the moving belt for the check out. What
happened to those high carts with end that opens up for the checker to pull all the items out of the cart while
they ring them up? I would like those back please!

Listening - Fireside Tales

Now it just depends on which group you belong to:

1. I remember watching black and white TV - only
2. I remember having a color TV without a remote control
3. I remember have a color TV with a remote control
4. I only have had cable/satellite TV my entire life

This locks you into how you will listen when the elder tells their childhood stories of growing up,
dating, mating for life, and all the rest of their young, and mid-life experiences.
Why how? #1 = Black & White Only persons, have a more vivid imagination. The color the tale with
their own memories of that era, because they still can remember things like street cars, the corner grocery and
party line telephones.
#2 - Color TV without a remote recall the hey-day of canned hair spray, kitchen blenders, toaster ovens
and asbestos flooring in the home kitchen with a wall phone.
#3 & #4's will have trouble with words alone.

Did you ever notice how, where and why you listen to the parents tales of their past? If you can get
them to open up, note the situation, the room color, the place outdoors, the other persons present, the holiday
event that allows the elder to open up. Also, notice most of all how much patience you have with their
storytelling.
Feel entranced, angry, impatient, comparative, longing for those options?
I watched President Kennedy's funeral on a black and white tube TV that was in a well-crafted cabinet
with a 78 & 33 r.p.m record player and speaker built-in. Quite the 'entertainment center' of its era.