Prison Break

This entry's a couple of days late but hey, I do have a life.

I believe this started when Logan joined us for lunch which eventually led to his story about his grandma who he calls once in a while for a quick chat. Grandma apparently has a bad memory as whenever she finishes her chat with Logan, she hangs up and forgets that Logan's still waiting on the line to talk to his mom.

Which led to Jared's story about their visit to Kate's grandmother who's been recently forced assigned to the local retirement villa.

As they were going about, Jared noticed two senior citizens trying to figure out how to open the access gates that littered the compound. Evidently, an old man on a mobility scooter was trying to get in and another on his walker was trying to go the other way. Like an antiquated game tug-of-war, one of them was struggling to pull and the other one was straining to get the gate to go his way.

Now I won't judge and tell you how easy it is to open a gate but I'm sure when I get to that age I might find it hard to work it all out, specially if another annoying person in a mobility scooter is trying to pull it the other way.

They were going at it for a couple of minutes when Kate finally caves in and says. "Why don't you go down there and help those two people with the gate?"

"Another chance to prove that I'm a real man." Jared thinks to himself, as he struts toward the two helpless citizens. "This should be no easier than polishing of a 20 piece KFC bucket."

He promptly comes up and proudly shows them how to work the pull on gate. "...and this is how you work this out gentlemen" he says, pulling the latch up and swinging the door with ease.

I could just imagine scooter boy breathe a huge sigh of relief as he rolls in and goes about his way.

Meanwhile, Jared was a bit puzzled as the other geezer on his walker seem to have quickly increased his hop as if in a hurry. The man must have noticed Jared's puzzled look as he says "I'm just going out for a walk son." punctuating it with a reassuring wink.

With that said, Jared let's the old man go about his way. Walking back though, he realised that it must have been a bad idea to let the man out. He then decides to go directly to reception and report the incident.

He barely finishes explaining himself when one of the shriveled female residents shrieks "Richard's making a runnah!!!"

I burst out laughing at this point as it just gave me an odd image of an elderly man hobbling across the lawn trying to make a break for it screaming "You'll never get me suckers!!!"

Well, unfortunately, the escapee didn't really go that far. Jared mentioned that he only went halfway across the lawn before a couple of interns tackled him to the ground.

Ah, I would have given anything to see the man's expression on his quick bid for freedom.