My Mother My Bouncy

[shadeaux]

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 My 82-year-old mother just told me what happened to her on Christmas Eve...

Over the last three weeks, my mother has complained over the phone to me about how she just couldn't get in the mood for Christmas this year. She didn't want it, she didn't care for it, she just wanted it to be over. We talked about it, with me reassuring her it would come -- but it never did.

Then, on Christmas Eve, she went out to do some last minute shopping. Since she did not want to worry about her purse, she decided to carry all of her cards in the pockets of her jeans. In one front pocket, she put her driver's license and medical ID card. Then she took a one hundred dollar bill, wrapped it neatly around two credit cards and stuck them in her other front pocket. While shopping at the first stop, she decided to buy something for $2.01. That's when she noticed her one hundred dollar bill was missing. She retraced her steps; she dug in her pants over and over, but she just couldn't find it. She was baffled. The cards were still there, only the $100.00 was gone. Frustrated and bewildered (how in the world did that happen? It was neatly wrapped around the cards!!!), she went ahead with her shopping.

Next, she headed to Walmart for some kitchen staples -- flour, sugar, etc. She said the lines were very, very long. While standing there, thinking about what could've happened to her money and feeling the financial loss, she noticed a tiny, elderly woman in a shopper's wheelchair at the neighboring checkout. The checkout attendant was taking things OUT of the shopping bags and removing them from the purchase. My mother noticed that it was all food to make a Christmas dinner --the same kind of things that my mother was purchasing. Only it wasn't just a couple of items -- it was the whole dinner. When the cashier's total finally reached a sum which the woman could afford, there was very little left. My mother leaned over and asked the attendant why she was removing the items. "Because she doesn't have enough money to pay for them." My mother looked at the lady, bent over in her chair, and said, "Please ring them back up, I'd like to pay this woman's bill." My mother said her decision held up both lines as the items were re-tallied. No one said a word of complaint. They all watched as the items were given to the woman. The woman beamed a toothless grin at my mother and thanked her. My Mother smiled back and said, "I hope you have a very Merry Christmas." In that moment, my mother was awash in the Christmas spirit. She felt the tears well up in her eyes and she felt so grateful.

That evening, while getting undressed, the hundred dollars fell out of my mother's pocket.

 

I think I saw this movie only the 82 year old mother was walking with a cane, wearing support stockings and carrying a purse that looked like a suitcase.

Now, who goes grocery shopping and gets things they know they can't afford ?   A moonbat.  As if.   

[Ralph Wiggum]

Ugh, zero bongs.

DUmmies, a hint.  At least make the bouncies entertaining and/or "moderately" believable.

[jukin]

Doubt it happened but if it did clearly the mother was not a Liberal. A Liberal would make someone else pay the old lady's bill, never themselves.

Never heard these stories of not being able to afford Christmas dinner during the Bush prosperity years.

DUches, it will only get worse if 0bama is reelected. You know it deep in your hearts that 0 ain't the guy to make socialism work either.

[franksolich]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

[shadeaux]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

I did not want to ask this because I'm no fashionista. The older ladies I see wear knit and cotton. Linen maybe, no jeans.

Someone ask Peg.  She would know.   

[GOBUCKS]

Why did she say 82 years old?

Obviously the DUmmy's mother is nadin, and she's not that old.

[Tucker]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

Damn. You beat me to it.

OK. I'll make my second point then.

When are their bouncies going to have themselves as being the benevolent party and not just a third person?

I'm starting to see a shift.

[Ogre]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

I'll play your game Sir, a fictitious one?

[Carl]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

How many would basically shrug off losing a 100 dollar bill without having the entire store looking for it first.

[Tucker]

How many would basically shrug off losing a 100 dollar bill without having the entire store looking for it first.

If she were a DUmmy worth her weight in rubber balls, she would have had strangers replacing the lost money.

What was she doing in a Walmart anyway?

[GOBUCKS]

Why does anyone have $100 bills?

Unless you're a drug dealer, you have to make a special effort to get them from a teller, but why would you?

I used to know a couple of guys who carried a few, but that was just to flash, because they're a pain in the ass to spend.

It seems to me that carrying $100s is really a trailer-trash kind of thing to do, like wearing a gold chain, or a pinky ring.

[thundley4]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

Uh Frank, my aunt is in her 90's and will wear jeans while working in her garden or picking apples or berries.  Of course on the holidays she always wears a  dress.

[JakeStyle]

I did not want to ask this because I'm no fashionista. The older ladies I see wear knit and cotton. Linen maybe, no jeans.

Someone ask Peg.  She would know.   

CalPeg has real fashion sense when it comes to pants, Link.

[Traveshamockery]

CalPeg has real fashion sense when it comes to pants, Link.

Pants?  What pants?  I couldn't take my eyes off of her bright red lipstick which makes her face look very lovely, don't you think? 

 

[Tucker]

CalPeg has real fashion sense when it comes to pants, Link.

His adams apple is showing.

[JakeStyle]

Pants?  What pants?  I couldn't take my eyes off of her bright red lipstick which makes her face look very lovely, don't you think? 

 

And her mouth is wide open in every picture she posts, it's just creepy.

[vesta111]

Why does anyone have $100 bills?

Unless you're a drug dealer, you have to make a special effort to get them from a teller, but why would you?

I used to know a couple of guys who carried a few, but that was just to flash, because they're a pain in the ass to spend.

It seems to me that carrying $100s is really a trailer-trash kind of thing to do, like wearing a gold chain, or a pinky ring.

I will not accept a $100.00 from even a bank, two $50.00 bills perhaps but never $100.00.    Reason, that size bill is a heart breaker in case of loss.   One year two people in my area both at the same bank were issued those bill and they turned out to be fake.

Impossible I thought when the first victim yelled foul, but then when a Fireman got the next one, same serial number from same bank weeks later I wondered if both had gone to the same teller.

Lots of hankie-pankie goes on in banks, I cashed my check at a small bank in Maine and 3 hours later the bank called to ask if I had received $600.+ extra in the envelope [ drive through].    What a joke, did they think I would not have noticed all that extra money ?    The caller insinuated that I was a crook and was lying when I laughed and said, I wish I had.   This has bothered me for years, I have been called every name in the book EXCEPT that of being dishonest.

[diesel driver]

Uh Frank, my aunt is in her 90's and will wear jeans while working in her garden or picking apples or berries.  Of course on the holidays she always wears a  dress.

My mom is 80, and she wears jeans quite often.

[JohnnyReb]

Why does anyone have $100 bills? because I sold something (not drugs ) and he paid in $100 bills.

I used to know a couple of guys who carried a few, but that was just to flash, because they're a pain in the ass to spend. Ain't that the truth...no matter how many times it's been marked with one of those specials pens, they do it again, then hold it up to the lights and then wrinkle it up and pick at until finally they decide to take it...sheeesh, I could have swept the floor and worked off the price of whatever I was buying faster.
 

[vesta111]

My mom is 80, and she wears jeans quite often.

Hubby bought for me and Mom these things called PaJama Jeans ----as seen on TV at Wallmart.

Day or Night wear, very odd but I may never go back to regular Jeans again.  They fit in the right places and  are so comfey in the cold.   I have no idea what these will wear like in the summer, if they will be too hot or stretch from multi washings.   I refuse to use them for night wear, have to compaire notes with Mom on day time wear, a blouce and jacket and they may look most fashionable.

Just waiting until they make these for MEN, no butt sag.

[AprilRazz]

Okay, what 82-year-old woman would be caught wearing jeans?

My great aunt is 84 and still wears her Levis. Of course she does not act her age at all and is a real pistol. Raised in the mountains of Virginia she will still outwork most men.
We were up on the mountain a few months ago at a cousins house that you could not get to unless you have a vehicle with some decent ground clearance. The dirt roads being what they are. I offered to give her a ride down in my lifted jeep that she had been eyeballing most of the day.
I had a squealing teenager in the passenger seat the whole way down she loved it so much.
They don't make them like that anymore.

[Karin]

Raised in the mountains of Virginia she will still outwork most men.

Yeah, women like that will wear jeans until the day they die. 

At the picture thread, Pig deliberately posts a picture of her hair.  "Here's a pic of my hair!"     But what's up with those pants?  She's wearing Ugg boots with them. 

The fatal flaw in the story is the fact that she casually went about shopping after noticing the money was missing.  $100 is a lot of money, unless she's one of those godawful, evil 1%ers who light their cigars with $100 bills.  Come to think of it, I can see CalPig doing that, in her California mansion. 

[Evil_Conservative]

Why does anyone have $100 bills?

Unless you're a drug dealer, you have to make a special effort to get them from a teller, but why would you?

I used to know a couple of guys who carried a few, but that was just to flash, because they're a pain in the ass to spend.

It seems to me that carrying $100s is really a trailer-trash kind of thing to do, like wearing a gold chain, or a pinky ring.

Jerk. 

[GOBUCKS]

Jerk. 

Uh oh! Someone's got a pinky ring!

[Evil_Conservative]

Uh oh! Someone's got a pinky ring!

Honestly, the only time I get $100 bills is for Christmas or birthdays.  I hate having them because, like others stated, no one likes to take them.  Money is money to me, but I understand why some businesses don't want the risk.  So the money goes to the bank.