CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD. Pt. 1

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My wife and I decided to use one of our Christmas gift cards at ‘Red Lobster’ today. As we were escorted to our booth, we walked past an older lady with the most shocking blue hair imaginable, sitting with two people whom I assumed to be her husband and adult daughter. 

After we were seated for a few minutes, and the waitress had taken our order, we heard a retching sound coming from the general area of the ‘blue lady’s’ table. However, a partition separated us from them, and I could not be sure who or what was emitting the noise.

Suddenly, I heard a female voice saying, “No, no, no, no, no.” (And “no, no, no, no, no”). 

And after the ‘no’s’ continued, off and on, (mostly on) for the next 6-8 minutes, I was just about ready to tear my hair out. (If I had possessed any that I might have torn out).

Of course, I wondered about the status of the ‘blue lady,’ and the two who sat with her, and I surmised that one of the two women was mentally ill, and the other was her care giver, and involved in some semblance of correction. 

In years gone by I would have immediately asked the waitress for my bill, and a box for my uneaten food, and made my way out the front door of the eating establishment. And it occurs to me that the two variables which have offered me some degree of patience and understanding in such a case are my decades of work as a family counselor, and (on a slightly more personal basis) my experiences with, and empathy for my mentally-ill daughter. 

Speaking of experiences, following are a couple of poignant stories to which I have been exposed during my tenure on the good earth.

(to be continued)

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 48. Copyright pending

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