Whacha Doin' Back There?

There are many problems with nursing homes. Some of them smell, some of them are full of staff that doesn't care at all about the patients, some are so crowded that it's hard to walk down the hall, and some have all these problems. But regardless of how nice or icky a nursing home is, they always have one patient who spends all day wailing. There's a guy at a place in Santa Rosa who shuffles around in his PVC chair asking everybody to help him. That's pretty creepy. And I went to a place today where a guy wailed in such a consistent monotone manner that I was tempted to harmonize with him.

In the same facility there was a guy who liked to walk around behind people and stand very close to them without actually making physical contact. It wasn't like he was sneaking up on anyone. He decided he would stand behind me and had to walk in front of me before he could circle around to my back. When he was satisfied with his performance, he moved on to somebody else. It was very strange.