Some humor...when gen x hits/moves into the assisted living and nursing homes

[Anonymous]

For fun, we’ll have a push button phone with a long cord in the main room, preferably behind a door that can be shut on the cord - signaling to everyone: DO NOT ENTER.

We will insist upon wood-paneled refrigerators, electric stoves and charcoal grills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was making my kids lunch and asked my husband if he remembered eating or seeing kids eat bologna & cheese, spaghetti-os, or Campbells soup in a thermos. My kids would never eat such things.

Nobody knows my guilty pleasure about every other month is a can of spaghetti-is from Walgreens. My teen son caught me and tried them. He loves them. I remember hearing them on a stove as a kid .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll be guzzling Fresca and eating Steak'Um sandwiches while watching Eight is Enough reruns in my overused Bennetton sweater . . .

My sister! Is this you Beth?

Man, she loved herself some steak-ums and Benetton 😀. Also the Limited v-neck sweaters worn backwards.

[Anonymous]

I love it! I worked in a nursing home where music from the 30s, 40s and 50s ruled, and I’ve wondered what it’ll be like for our generation. Your vision sounds good to me!

[Anonymous]

In every generation X nursing home there will be at least 20 Jennifers, maybe at least 14 Mikes and a good handful of Johns.

[Anonymous]

"What's your damage, Heather?" as an elderly lady slowly moves away from the group on her Hoveround.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"What's your damage, Heather?" as an elderly lady slowly moves away from the group on her Hoveround.

“She had a brain tumor for breakfast.”

*pause*

“No, really. It’s in remission though.”

[Anonymous]

We’ll drive the nurses crazy by pranking them with our call buttons. “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

When they serve fried eggs, we’ll say, “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.”

When they serve oatmeal, we’ll say “It’s the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.”

When they serve cold cereal, we can say

1) Who stole me Lucky Charms?
2) Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!
3) Kid tested, mother approved
4) Give it to Mikey, he’ll try anything!
5) I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
6) Tastes grrreat!
7) Follow my nose. It always Knows!
8) Snap, crackle, pop!
9) The breakfast of champions


As we blow our noses into hankies, we’ll sing, “The touch, the fee-ee-eel of cotton in our lives.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ll drive the nurses crazy by pranking them with our call buttons. “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

When they serve fried eggs, we’ll say, “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.”

When they serve oatmeal, we’ll say “It’s the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.”

When they serve cold cereal, we can say

1) Who stole me Lucky Charms?
2) Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!
3) Kid tested, mother approved
4) Give it to Mikey, he’ll try anything!
5) I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
6) Tastes grrreat!
7) Follow my nose. It always Knows!
8) Snap, crackle, pop!
9) The breakfast of champions


As we blow our noses into hankies, we’ll sing, “The touch, the fee-ee-eel of cotton in our lives.”

LOL! Recognized it all. At breakfast we will sing "the best part of waking up is Folgers in our cups!" At luck I will open my veggie burger sandwich and yell "Where's the beef?" for the hundredth time as staff roll their eyes and then I will laugh so hard at myself I snort out my Dr. Pepper. "I'm a Pepper, she's a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?" Someone will point out I am drinking a Coke and I'll start singing "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I'd like to buy the world a coke..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have given this a fair amount of thought actually and assume board game and puzzle rooms will be replaced with gaming chairs, wide screens and NES systems.

That’s not really gen x.

[Anonymous]

Clap on, clap off, the clapper!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clap on, clap off, the clapper!

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clap on, clap off, the clapper!

Yes!

Yes! They will install the clapper in every room. And we can request chia pets for decor! Cha cha cha chia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have given this a fair amount of thought actually and assume board game and puzzle rooms will be replaced with gaming chairs, wide screens and NES systems.

Also Dungeons and Dragons!

This - there will be all-day D&D sessions instead of bingo!

[Anonymous]

Veteran nursing care staff who have been there for both the Boomers and then Xers will comment on how easy we are. We don't feel entitled to anything because life screwed us so many times. We won't complain.We were latch key kids who's parents only brought up to the Dr, with a broken arm if the school also noticed we were incapacitated. (Until then they said to stop crying or they'd give us something to cry about). They will also laugh at how many of us have tattoos and throw in cuss words. They will ask us to share our feral childhood stories.