I just witnessed an upsetting scene. I was in the UPS store and a woman in a wheelchair, probably in her late 80s , small and hard of hearing, speaking loudly and unable to really understand what the clerk was saying, could not find her Visa card. She was confused and kept asking the clerk to repeat and kept saying in a very worried way that she left her credit card at T mobile. She asked her nursing assistant or caregiver to help her, and the caregiver was slow and very very unhelpful and uncommunicative. This woman was holding up the line. She even called the store where she thought she left her credit card and w was told the clerk there had returned it and placed it in her wallet. So then there was more of an ordeal as she and the complacent aide were going through the wallet again. The other people standing on line, clearly people well over 40 years old, were smirking and giving each other looks that were meant to ridicule and judge this poor old woman. I looked at her and thought if this were my grandmother my heart would be broken. And I looked again and thought this could be me 25 years from now, dependent on some very ineffective minimum-wage home health care assistant. No one in the store seemed to care that this woman was trying very hard to retain her dignity in her old age. I stood there and cried and looked at one of the people who was laughing at her and said , its going to be you and me soon enough. I am very very upset not by the fact that as we age we become less capable but by the fact that average people find someones struggle funny and annoying and my goddamn heart is broken.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:46:16 +0000
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