{"id":176,"date":"2021-02-26T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendirank.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:40:07","slug":"swinging-seniors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/swinging-seniors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swinging Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/the-move-part-1\/\">Moving<\/a> my <a href=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/the-move-part-2\/\">parents<\/a> into their <a href=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/the-move-part-3\/\">apartment<\/a> was a hurdle in a race I\u2019m still running. The next hurdle? I needed my parents to be happy in their new digs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was not a small task set before me. When the last place you\u2019ve lived was your home of 48 years, the next place had best be prepared to bring it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the responsibility for being happy with the independent living community lay with my mom. If Willie is happy, then Indy is happy. If Willie is upset, Indy wants Willie to do whatever it takes for Willie to be happy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Indy goes where Willie goes. She\u2019s home to him. She\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie is far less romantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM-258x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM-768x893.png 768w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM-300x349.png 300w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM-850x988.png 850w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.17.55-PM.png 872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie &amp; Indy. January 18th, 1969.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were things I could do, though, to stack the deck. Willie, for example, was concerned that us kids would no longer just drop by, as we had when they lived in our house. It was the house we all grew up in. We thought nothing of walking in whenever we were in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, no. None of us ever walked in on them doing it. Like I said, Willie isn\u2019t big on romance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-257x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-877x1024.png 877w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-768x897.png 768w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-300x350.png 300w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM-850x992.png 850w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.18.34-PM.png 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ummm&#8230;..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The apartment, however, was not our childhood home. Would we still have that level of comfort? Would we still just pop in? Willie strongly believed unannounced visits from her children were about to be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So one day, not long after the move, I found myself in the old neighborhood. My errand done, my car automatically set out for my childhood home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t my house anymore. I don\u2019t think the young couple now living there would appreciate me waltzing through, a beer from their fridge in my hand as I called out for my daddy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I pointed my car towards my parents\u2019 new home. Indy once told me, as a young adult moving from our house, that I could always come home again. But I\u2019d never come <em>home<\/em> again. It was time I started listening to him, top to bottom. I couldn\u2019t go home again. But my parents are home for me. That should be what matters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They had to buzz me in when I arrived. If they were doing it they had plenty of time to avoid being caught.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.19.20-PM-300x123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.19.20-PM-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.19.20-PM-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.19.20-PM-850x350.png 850w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.19.20-PM.png 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sampling of items I found while I moved Indy &amp; Willie. Left to right: one of my nieces\u2019 barrettes, a 60th birthday card although it had been 15 years since anyone turned 60, a scalpel that accidentally made its way home with my mom &#8211; who retired from nursing 7 years ago, an Allen wrench, a broken knife. We won\u2019t talk about the magenta carpet or what appears to be supplies for a failed murder plot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But this little gesture of mine was just a wine tasting. Willie, on the other hand, was busy buying the vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For this to be home, she first needed the apartment blessed. A pastor friend of hers was only too happy, blessing the apartment during a friendly visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This, Willie asserted, did not count. For the blessing to count, we all had to be present. Willie. Indy. Me. My husband and kids. My brother and sister. Their children. My brother-in-law. My aunt and uncle. My cousin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked about this being a two-bedroom apartment, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie\u2019s next move was signing Indy up for the Men\u2019s Oyster Group. The Men\u2019s Oyster Group spends one evening a month at a local restaurant, sampling the oysters and each other\u2019s company. I asked Indy if he liked oysters. I couldn\u2019t recall him ever eating one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Indy does not like oysters. I don\u2019t know if Willie knew or even cared. I do know that when my dad ordered a dish that was not oysters the Men\u2019s Oyster Group explained such radical thinking was not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>And Willie? She took a job manning the front desk on Friday mornings. Stop by the Friday evening happy hour and you\u2019ll find Willie bartending. The food and sundries in the lobby caf\u00e9 are supplied by Willie. The apartment\u2019s newest board member? You guessed it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My parents have date nights at the building\u2019s movie theater. I was told the entire plot of <em>Second Chance<\/em> starring Jennifer Lopez. I was told how much Indy loves rom-coms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s a rom-com?\u201d said Indy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One day, my dad introduced me to a neighbor from my parents\u2019 hallway. She had a fascinating history, Indy explained. It included fleeing from a civil war and a childhood in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie huffed. It seems this woman had told my mom that she is the leader of their hall. Well, Willie hasn\u2019t been led by anyone in her life and she sure as hell wasn\u2019t starting with this lady, civil war or no. Willie explained she had begun polling the other residents in their hall and did I know what they said? This lady wasn\u2019t THEIR leader, either.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie feels she\u2019d be a much better Leader Of The Hall than this lady.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie is probably right. After all, she told Indy he loves rom-coms and oysters. Look at how well that turned out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willie and Indy also joined the building\u2019s pinochle group. This pinochle group is basically the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Very_Bad_Things\"><em>Very Bad Things<\/em><\/a> waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never seen that movie, get on the stick. Pretend I\u2019m the leader of your hall and do what I tell you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pinochle group, in what I hope is not a euphemism, requires players to swap partners. One of these players gets very angry when his partner plays poorly. We\u2019ll call him Angry Indy because he has the same name as my dad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was visiting the apartment one day when a resident knocked at the door. He had come, he explained, to apologize for his bad behavior at pinochle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was all ears for this. I mean, more in tune to this conversation than any episode of <em>Daredevil<\/em>, <em>Picard<\/em>, or <em>Orphan Black<\/em> put together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With his departure I rounded on my dad. \u201cWas that Angry Indy?\u201d\u00a0 I breathed, excited by this self-aware apology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. That\u2019s someone else from pinochle,\u201d Indy explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wait. <em>Another<\/em> dude from pinochle had been acting up?! What the hell was going on with this pinochle game?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The months wore on. Indy and I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksteadyboxing.org\/\">boxed<\/a> on Wednesdays. Willie and I visited Friday mornings, chatting as she worked the desk. The kids and I decorated for Christmas. The old men in the lobby told me I was pretty. Willie told me I came over too much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One day, eight months after the move, I was taking my leave after one of my too-frequent visits. Willie was walking me to the elevator. I take the stairs, but she doesn\u2019t know that. She\u2019d think I was crazy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the hallway, she told me how happy she was. How for the first time, maybe in her entire adulthood, she could breathe. Being in the apartment had freed my parents from a house they could no longer care for properly. It had freed up money they had used to travel. Promise me, she said. Promise me, if I get sick again, you\u2019ll do what you did before. You\u2019ll fight for me. You\u2019ll save me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in that moment, I was relieved. I was proud. My parents were happy. They\u2019d put their backs into it. They\u2019d made this a home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was also leaving. The Leader Of The Hall lady was fast approaching. She was upset with me because I hadn\u2019t been bike riding since I had my children. I don\u2019t need the ire of the self-proclaimed ruler of hallway C, second floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I get enough of that from her successor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM-768x838.png 768w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM-300x327.png 300w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM-850x928.png 850w, https:\/\/wendirank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-25-at-7.20.00-PM.png 876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">God, let this be a picture of my parents doing the limbo. 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