Don’t let old people ruin your holiday. Come to the ER for the "YaYa Yeet" (alternately known as the Pop Drop), an annual event where you can abandon your elderly relative and troubles with us!
I forced myself to read the entire item. Oh yes, it brought to my mind Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal.” Each example you provided, initially was processed as fiction…then, due to an awareness of “man’s inhumanity to man”…I processed the entire set of near-criminal deeds as real.
On another level of low-life activities, the General Manager of a car dealership once warned his sales force to be alert to a tradition of a Christmas season woman who would arrive to “test-drive” a Dodge Grand Caravan. He reported that people will actually scam Dealerships for family Christmas shopping with the whole family due to the roominess of a Grand Caravan. After copying her driver’s license, she was given the keys & walked to the Caravan she wanted to drive. She returned about 4 hours later. She was found at the back of the lot, with her 5 companions, transferring too many gifts & people into her raggity, old sub-compact car. She handed the key to a salesman.
We have all read the stories of “pet abandonment” & your satirical/true story pokes and jabs the conscience-less persons who form such thoughts in their cold hearts.
May you encounter only warm-hearted people at the ER this year who bring only genuine patients through your doors & remain for the duration.
I need to get new holiday traditions like this to be mainstreamed.
Sadly, a month later is when our cancer centers are the busiest.
When did grandpa turn yellow?
How long has Aunt Miriam been coughing up blood?
I don’t know but I have to go back home tomorrow. Can you call me with an update? 😔
I forced myself to read the entire item. Oh yes, it brought to my mind Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal.” Each example you provided, initially was processed as fiction…then, due to an awareness of “man’s inhumanity to man”…I processed the entire set of near-criminal deeds as real.
On another level of low-life activities, the General Manager of a car dealership once warned his sales force to be alert to a tradition of a Christmas season woman who would arrive to “test-drive” a Dodge Grand Caravan. He reported that people will actually scam Dealerships for family Christmas shopping with the whole family due to the roominess of a Grand Caravan. After copying her driver’s license, she was given the keys & walked to the Caravan she wanted to drive. She returned about 4 hours later. She was found at the back of the lot, with her 5 companions, transferring too many gifts & people into her raggity, old sub-compact car. She handed the key to a salesman.
We have all read the stories of “pet abandonment” & your satirical/true story pokes and jabs the conscience-less persons who form such thoughts in their cold hearts.
May you encounter only warm-hearted people at the ER this year who bring only genuine patients through your doors & remain for the duration.