Nursing Homes

I've been in maximum security prisons

(as a consultant). A prison

-- people with dead eyes and

Intimidating looks; doors that won't

open until the one behind it closes.

I always thought that it was the

most depressing place in the world.

Wrong!

My mother-in-law is in a nursing home

-- a very good one. At age 91, she has

an artificial knee

an artificial hip

a broken hip fixed with screws

and is a stroke victim.

-- and she is one of the best of the lot.

People staring off into space or

babbling or looking as thin as

Holocaust survivors.

"God, let me the fuck out of here."

It's more depressing than a prison

because

I know that I will never go to prison.

~John F. McMullen