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**AFpheonix** · 11-11-2006, 07:31 AM

That always makes me sad when I get people in who are obviously suffering from Alzheimers or some other organic brain disease, and they're not getting the help and support they need.

Although, some of them are ornery little buggers that run off and come here for some reason, too. There's one little old lady who always wears waaaay too much makeup, and always wears snowboots, even during the summer. She comes in about once a month or so, and asks for distilled water. I always tell her exactly where it is, she goes, looks, can't find it, comes back and swears up a storm that she hates this store and that she wishes there was a Fred Meyer's nearbye. She puts sailors to shame. Sometimes I physically walk her to the item location, and she's fine then, but if I can't leave the pharmacy for whatever reason, hoo boy, lookout....

**friendofjimmyk** · 11-11-2006, 03:07 PM

I always try to assist an elderly person when it looks as if they need the assistance. Then there are those that are off their rocker that just make helping the elderly a teeth pulling task.

When I worked at Acme Clicks back when I was 19, I worked in the Domestics department. I was coming back from break and saw this frail little old man wandering around looking lost. I asked if he needed any help. Ooo boy, he did. But he was pleasant about it...just very confused...then I could tell why...he had this list that his wife gave him that was so cryptic I was flabbergasted. A few things she had on there: [to the best of my recollection]

$1.19 Box of paper
[discovered she wanted a brand of kleenex tissues that sold for $1.19 - thank god the prices hadn't changed]

white paste
[toothpaste]

mergin
[margarine]

He didn't know what some of it meant until we happened to walk past it and he would declare, "Goodness, that's it!"

I was with him for at least 30 - 40 minutes.

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