" THE PERFECT JOB "

LATELY MIKE HAS BECOME SUPER FRIENDLY WITH EVERYONE.  THE OTHER DAY A COUPLE OF LADIES WERE TRYING TO PUT SOME CHAIRS THEY HAD JUST BOUGHT AT PUBLIX INTO THEIR CAR'S HATCHBACK.  MIKE WALKS OVER AND TELLS THEM THEY NEED TO PUT THEM INTO THE FRONT SEAT, WHICH OF COURSE THEY WOUND UP DOING WITH HIS HELP.  THEN HE PROCEEDS TO START CLEANING ALL THE LEAVES AND DIRT FROM THE HATCH BACK OF THEIR CAR.     I'M LIKE HONEY NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL THAT STUFF? WELL HE OF COURSE PUT IT IN THE TRASH BIN IN FRONT OF PUBLIX, AND I GAVE HIM A HAND WIPE TO CLEAN HIS HANDS.  THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING HE DOES THESE DAYS.  HE GREETS EVERY BODY HE SEES WITH "HELLO, HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY"?  THEN WILL ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION WITH COMPLETE STRANGERS.  THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE WE GO-WHERE EVER THERE ARE PEOPLE.  AGE MAKES NO DIFFERENCE-HE WILL TALK TO ANY ONE MOVING INCLUDING YOUNG CHILDREN.  I'M SERIOUSLY THINKING OF GETTING HIM A JOB AT WALMART AS AN OFFICIAL GREETER!!!
THEN THERE IS THE TALKING IN HIS SLEEP AS OF LATE.  HE WILL SAY SOMETHING AND I WILL THINK HE IS WIDE AWAKE UNTIL I REALIZE WHAT HE IS SAYING MAKES NO SENSE.  LIKE LAST NIGHT FOR INSTANCE.  HE SAID CLEAR AS A BELL THAT THERE WAS A BURGLAR IN OUR HOME. I TOLD HIM WHAT MAKES HIM THINK SO (OR AT LEAST I THINK THAT'S WHAT I SAID) AND HE REPLIED "YOU TOLD ME THERE WAS".  THEN I SAID GO BACK TO SLEEP HONEY THERE IS NO BURGLAR IN OUR HOME. THEN MIKE SAID "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM"?  SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO KEEP FROM LAUGHING AT SOME OF THIS STUFF HE SAYS OR DOES-IN FACT I DO QUITE OFTEN.  I THINK THAT'S WHAT IS MAKING THIS JOURNEY SO MUCH EASIER FOR ME.  MIKE COULD NOT BE ANY HAPPIER.  HE IS TOTALLY UNAWARE THAT ANY THING IS WRONG.  HE KNOWS HE HAS ALZHEIMER'S, BUT THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO TAKE AWAY ANY JOY FROM HIS LIFE.  IN FACT HE HAS MADE MINE SO MUCH RICHER BY HIS NEW PERSONALITY.  HE SAYS THE THINGS I WISH HE WOULD HAVE SAID YEARS AGO.  LIKE WHAT A GOOD WIFE I AM.  CAN YOU BELIEVE HE HAD NEVER IN ALL OUR MARRIED LIFE SAID THAT TO ME UNTIL THIS MONTH??  HE IS MELLOWED OUT, AND IS GENTLE, AND KIND.  I WILL LOVE EVERY MOMENT OF THIS AS LONG AS IT LAST, AND THEN DEAL WITH WHAT EVER COMES NEXT WHEN IT GETS HERE.  HOPING YOUR WEEKEND WAS SUPERB, JUST ME