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  • Old People

    August 26, 2009 — With 377 words & Read — Labelled as: Story
    Good things are worth waiting for some say.
    Jane was one of those people that lived by that line.
    But she was still waiting for her chance of having a better life.
    Now 84 and a widow living in a retirement home.
    Worry not, she never liked her husband but she does love her kids even though they rarely visit her.
    For a strange reason she never stopped believing she would get her big break in life.
    When she tells her children they tell her the only big break for her will be dieing and going to heaven.
    Not listening to a single word they say she keeps her hopes high.
    Life is boring in the retirement home as she describes it at best it’s like ……..
    She likes going outside but because shes become old and her legs and back did too
    it was hard to walk so she has to stay in a wheelchair.
    When she wants to go outside she needs a nurse to assist her, but most of the times they are too busy.

    It was a beautiful autumn day even for her considering she had seen about 7560± autumns days before.
    But none of the nurses could take her out, so out of nowhere she felts so angry she started screaming that she wanted to go outside and that the place was like a prison.
    The nurses told her to be quiet, and another voice behind her told her not too.
    It wasn’t a voice in her head but of another senior, a man.
    He asks her if he could take her for the walk as it could make them both feel much better.
    She accepts and he pushes her wheelchair outside into the garden and walks around.
    They take a break from walking and rest near a bench.
    He asks her what her name is and she answer its Jane.
    ‘Jane huh, than I’ll be your Tarzan.’ he laughs.
    You as the reader probably figure this was a very bad joke, well imagine hearing it for over 80 years straight..
    He apologizes for the weak joke and introduces himself as Joe, which makes them both laugh without using any jokes.
    They talk each day for hours and both share the common bad life, Joe too was still waiting for his big break.
    Until he met Jane, “Better late than never” he said, and she agreed.
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