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My ailing father - 93 years old, a victim & defeater of Nazism, a right-wing Orthodox Jew - was asked by the physician in the emergency room, seeking to ascertain his cognitive state:
"Who's the President?"
My dad: "You don't want to know".
Jeez, I love my dad.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)I love your dad, too.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Wishing him well!
Trueblue Texan
(2,440 posts)Yonnie3
(17,479 posts)He said, "That jerk*, Bush is still the president, but not for long."
* He might have used a bit stronger term, memory fails me.
Edit to add: He had just turned 94 years old.
rurallib
(62,445 posts)She was asked that question in early February - when memory was really coming and going - and she said "that son of a bitch."
She seldom uses words like that.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)But you have to give your Mother credit. She told the truth in a few short words!
murielm99
(30,760 posts)a buttass. She did not live long enough to see this travesty. She died at ninety-one.
My brother had a stroke some years back. When they asked him who was President, he said defiantly, "Al Gore."
The nurse told him he was just fine.
Maraya1969
(22,495 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)tavernier
(12,398 posts)Asked by ICU nurse, who was the president, he said, We dont have one.
And he was not a bit confused.
Love them both!!
barbtries
(28,811 posts)yay Dad
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)I havent used the word asshole this much in my entire life!
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)For myself I have not cussed this much in years. My family would be shocked.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,374 posts)we tease each other , and when they ask me who is prez ill use the line we dont have one . brill .
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)buttons because I love every one of the stories.
kag
(4,079 posts)Precious!
beastie boy
(9,419 posts)...I can only hope to come up with something as brilliant!
He should charge the hospital staff for making their day!
May he live til 120!
herding cats
(19,567 posts)My response to being asked if I knew who was President by the first responder was, I wish I didnt know. His reply was, thats good enough for me.