Phil Perrin
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My dad is 95 now and his wife is 92. He lives quite a ways away, so I only get to see him a couple times a year
Mom is 91 and her husband is 90. They live about an hour away, so when we’re in town we see her every other week
There’s always something to be done around her house, sometimes something simple, sometimes not so much
We got her a basic flip phone so that if she goes out and something happens, she can call for help. Or if she loses power, she can call still
Not sure how many times I’ve told her that if she gets a call to just open it to answer and to close it when she’s done.
We’ll be talking and she’ll tell me that her cell phone is “broken”. I’ll tell her over the phone how to restart the phone so that it works again
The latest thing has been their house phones. My stepsister bought them new cordless phones and Winn installed them. Almost right away, she was complaining that they weren’t working
Now, she didn’t say anything while Connie, my stepsister, was visiting a couple weekends ago nor when Pammi and I were visiting before then. I’d asked several times if the bases were plugged in. Oh yes, was her response
Pammi and I went out today to get our mail and to check the phones. The first thing I did was to check and see if the main base was plugged in.
Sure enough, the phone cord was plugged in, but the power cord was nowhere to be seen! Winn had no clue where it was!
Luckily, the old phones were the same brand, so I used that to plug it up. Lo and behold, we have phones! I checked all of the handsets and they were working perfectly. Imagine that!
My siblings and I have a text thread that’s been going on for a couple years now. It’s almost all “Guess what mom did now!”
Bless her, she is our mom, but wow! Some of the stuff she says and does just blows our minds!
Mom is 91 and her husband is 90. They live about an hour away, so when we’re in town we see her every other week
There’s always something to be done around her house, sometimes something simple, sometimes not so much
We got her a basic flip phone so that if she goes out and something happens, she can call for help. Or if she loses power, she can call still
Not sure how many times I’ve told her that if she gets a call to just open it to answer and to close it when she’s done.
We’ll be talking and she’ll tell me that her cell phone is “broken”. I’ll tell her over the phone how to restart the phone so that it works again
The latest thing has been their house phones. My stepsister bought them new cordless phones and Winn installed them. Almost right away, she was complaining that they weren’t working
Now, she didn’t say anything while Connie, my stepsister, was visiting a couple weekends ago nor when Pammi and I were visiting before then. I’d asked several times if the bases were plugged in. Oh yes, was her response
Pammi and I went out today to get our mail and to check the phones. The first thing I did was to check and see if the main base was plugged in.
Sure enough, the phone cord was plugged in, but the power cord was nowhere to be seen! Winn had no clue where it was!
Luckily, the old phones were the same brand, so I used that to plug it up. Lo and behold, we have phones! I checked all of the handsets and they were working perfectly. Imagine that!My siblings and I have a text thread that’s been going on for a couple years now. It’s almost all “Guess what mom did now!”
Bless her, she is our mom, but wow! Some of the stuff she says and does just blows our minds!
