For Senior Citizens

[j.sabourn]

A row of bottles on my shelf
Caused me to analyze myself.
One yellow pill I have to pop
Goes to my heart so it wont stop.
A little white one that I take
Goes to my hands so they wont shake.
The blue ones that I use a lot
Tell me I'm happy when I'm not.
The purple pill goes to my brain
And tells me that I have no pain.
The capsules tell me not to wheeze
Or cough or choke or even sneeze.
The red ones smallest of them all
Go to my blood so I wont fall.
The orange ones, very big and bright
Prevent my leg cramps in the night.
Such an array of brilliant pills
Helping to cure all kinds of ills.
But what I"d really like to know
Is what tells each one where to go !!

Theres always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

JS

[j.sabourn]

Seniors and Computers.

As we Silver Surfers know, sometimes we have trouble with our Computers. Yesterday , I had a problem , so I called in Georgie, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control, and asked him to come over.
Georgie clicks a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away , I called after him " So, what was wrong ? He replied it was an ID ten T error.
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired " An ID ten T error ? whats that ?
Georgie grinned haven't you heard of an ID ten T error before.
No I replied.
Write it down he said , and I think you"ll figure it out.
So I wrote down IDIOT
I used to like Georgie the little sh#t head.
JS

[John Arton]

J.S.
That reminds me of a furbar I made, when as a Cadet, I was doing time in the engine room and in the control room,. by the air start lever to turn the m/e over before pushing the fuel lever, there was a Indicator panel for various functions related to the M.E. On one, that had a red cover, it was labelled L.O. 10K.
Now I had figured out that L.O. stood for Lubricating Oil (for the M.E.) but could never figure out why such an in-engineering term as I O.K. should be used in a place like an engine control of, at that time, a modern and pretty sophisticated tanker. Eventually after days of puzzling over this apparent error I plucked up courage to ask the 3rd Engineer just what "Lube Oil I O.K. " meant. This was around 1300 and we had just finished filling in the noon engine log book. It took until at least 1615 (when the 3rd had handed over to the 2/eng) before he stopped laughing but of course the 2nd Eng. then took over after been told the reason why the 3rd was laughing so much.
By evening time the bloody ship knew about my gaff and it was months before they stopped making me the butt of all jokes regarding signage.
rgds
JA

[j.sabourn]

An Old Mans Perspective...
I'm not saying lets go out and kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying lets remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.
I changed my car horn to gun shot sounds, people move out of the way much faster now.
You can tell a lot about a womans mood just by her hands. If she"s holding a gun, she"s probably very unhappy.
I don't like making plans for the day, because the word premeditated gets thrown around in the courtroom.
I didn't make the Gym today that makes 1,500 days in a row.
I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
Dear Paranoid people who check behind the shower curtains for murderers. If you find one whats your Plan??
Everyone has a right to be stupid, politicians just abuse the privilege.
Old age is not as bad as I thought. Its a good feeling when you don't give a hoot anymore and you feel happy just to wake up in the morning.

When I was a boy my Mother would send me down to the corner shop with 2 bob, and I"d come back with 5 potatoes, 2 loaves of bread , 3 bottles of milk, a hunk of cheese, a box of tea and 6 eggs. You cant do that now, too many security cameras.....JS

[happy daze john in oz]

There I was in the pharmacy the other day and on the counter a 'Webster' pack. It did look inviting with pills of all different colors and day marked when to take them.
So having hada good look I went next door to the lolly shop and bought a bag of M and M's. Same colors and take when ever you like.