Mom is standing here in the living room with one bare foot and a sock on the other...
Mom: I need my shoes.
Me: They're in your room.
Mom: What?
Me: Your shoes are in your room.
Mom: (crying) My shoes are gone.
Me: No, they're in your room.
Mom: (looking outside) What's that?
-quiet-
Mom: It's green and brown and it's moving.
-quiet-
Mom: I need my shoes.
Me: They're in your room.
Mom: Where'd my shoes go? They were right there.
Me: Would you like me to go get them?
Mom: NO! There aren't any shoes in there.
Me: I will get them if you want.
Mom: NO! I'm supposed to have shoes!
-looking under the dining room table-
-sitting on the couch-
Mom: I see 3 real ones. That's all I see. I got nothing.
Me: Would you like me to go get your shoes?
Mom: In my shoe? What's in my shoe? I don't have a shoe. Oh, wait, I have a half of one. I like them.
Me: Go in your room and get your shoes.
Mom: That's not fair to you. I don't have any dirt because they took it away from me. That's why my brothers and sisters aren't home.
-goes to her room-
Mom: Are my shoes in here? They were one day. That's why they took them away from me. I'm scared now. I'm scared. I'm so hungry.
-I go into her room. Pick up the pile of shoes that don't belong to her and hide them in the hall closet. I go back in and hand her a sock and a pair of shoes.-
-She comes out and sits on the couch in the living room.-
Mom: What's this? Why are there so many? I don't have any shoes. Why is there only one sock? Where are my shoes? Thank you for this. Why is there only one sock? I can't wear just one sock.
Me: Put the sock on your foot.
Mom: I don't have anything on my foot! Oh! Okay. I have a pair. But where are my shoes?
Me: They're right beside you.
Mom: What is?
-she leaves the room-
-comes back-
Mom: I found my feet.
-leaves the room-
-I can hear her mumbling... scared, hungry, please, shoes-
-She comes back and brings a sock.-
Mom: It's not fair. I only have one sock.
-She folds it up and shoves it in her pants-.
-She picks up the shoes and sets them down neatly beside her feet-
Mom: Where are my shoes?
Okay, I'm gonna wrap this up. I could go on but, yeah, why? Darn it. I just looked over there and she is taking her socks off. And back to the beginning we go...lol
Fast forward... the shoes are on and the next conversation begins:
Mom: I am so hungry. I haven't had anything to eat for 3 days. Did you have breakfast?
Poor Mom, poor you all :( Such a horrible disease to reduce people to less than children's mentality and reasoning.
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