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Living the American Dream
we, we as the servers would think of these old people as people without families where their families just left them to die in these homes. But I know it's not like that because you just can't take care of an older person because it's just so much work. But to us, that's what it felt like. And it was just— they were so— I almost felt like they were mistreated. I don't even know.
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Let me clarify, I didn't mean to make light of AIDS. I just didn't know a lot of people had AIDS that are 80.
Oh yeah, I mean, I feel like, I feel like that's like when it was— I don't know, I don't know. Regardless, um, I used to work at a retirement home. That was my first and only like real job. And, um, yeah, it was, it was a horrible experience.
These—
we, we as the servers would think of these old people as people without families where their families just left them to die in these homes. But I know it's not like that because you just can't take care of an older person because it's just so much work. But to us, that's what it felt like. And it was just— they were so— I almost felt like they were mistreated. I don't even know.
I go walk in to see my mother-in-law. She just went into a retirement home. And, and literally, a guy the other day, he— I walk in and he just looks at me, reaches his hand out, long fingernails, grabs my shoulder and goes, help me. Yeah, shut Yeah, like, I h…
He was like, help me.
And the nurses just can't go to him all the time. And I walked right up and he's like, oh my God. Yeah, it's hard.