On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:32:32 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>Gloria P wrote:
>
>> When I was doing my airport volunteer shift a few weeks ago one of the
>> cleaning people (Hispanic, legal) stopped to chat. He asked if we got
>> paid for the job (no) then asked why I was there when I should be
>> home, "taking care of your husband".
>
>What on earth made him think you wanted his opinion on that
>subject?

My boss' father is considerably older than his mother. They both
emerged from WWII Germany by very different, if similarly scary,
paths*, emigrated to Israel, then to the U.S. He is in his mid-80s and
what I would call very "old" 80s while she just turned 70, IIRC. He
has become quite fragile and attention seeking. She actually gives
aerobics instruction twice a week at a senior center, which along with
her weekly mah jong hen party, is about the only time she has to
herself. When it looked like the senior center was going to curtail
its instructor staff, his *only* response was, "Good. Now Esther can
stay at home and take care of me like she should."

*She spent the entirety of her schooling in Germany in a Catholic
girls' school "disguised" as a Catholic. Even she didn't know she was
Jewish until the family emigrated to Israel.

OB: Esther makes about the best potato latkes I ever had.

--

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"

-- W.C. Fields

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