3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

I agree with Babs and Jude - looks like a swell place to sit and be quiet.

Sweet shot!

So the lonesome chair is planning an elopement?

Again - DARNED swell!

A familiar profile . . .

Now THIS is sweet! :-)

Needs an organ transplant . . . . . =8-o

Swell details! :-)

Very swell. :-)

I have to say that the other option has a tad more of a visual punch to it . . . =8-o

The devil you say! Why, that must have been extremely nerve-wracking.

The lovely and surly Surly Girl wrote, "if you stop believing in the basic humanity of people, what have you got left? "

Poking, whining, and self-righteousness? ;-)

Just a guess, mind you.

Big ED wrote: "Bad days make you want to eat your own liver. "

Before someone else gets to it first. ;-)

Almost makes you think that ALL people, even staff, might be human, eh? I have always wondered why anyone would do this sort of work, and am shocked and impressed by the good care that the majority of staff, under what could best be described as combat conditions on a bad day, give to the majority of patients/clients/ individuals. Staff endure high stress, low control, low pay, low respect, bizarre/regressed behavior, and always the ever-present threat of being sniped at by self-righteous outsiders who don't have a clue and would probably react MUCH more harshly if their own pure selves were in the same situation. Until you have been bitten, had urine and feces thrown at you, had your hair pulled out in clumps, and had to dodge flying pieces of very large, very heavy furniture, there isn't a person alive who can predict how s/he will react. As always, the shock isn't that abuse occurred/occurs - the shock is that as little of it happened/happens given the constraints under which staff are forced to work and the people who live in these places are forced to live. Change the system and you'll probably get a change in behavior. Sit at your computer and call people names without getting off your butt and all you do is help maintain the system. Get out there and help or please quit whining and groaning.

Or at least, to quote Ashleigh Brilliant one more time, "If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to." :-)

And you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make him/her think. :-)