E.G.A.D.!

Just arrived home from the store after a lengthy run-in with a very angry elderly lady whom I  will refer to as E.G.A.D.  'Evil Granny Against Depends'. 
I was limping my way through the store when a german lady in her 80's came up to me and started ranting about the organic food that I was about to purchase.  She was quick to inform me that it's "just another way to rip people off" and that "organic means people shit in a hole and grow veggies out of it and the extra dollar they screw you for the 'organic' label is for the shit". 
O.k., I have to admit that I was laughing a bit but she really was quite good at ranting and the next bit I really did agree with.  She said that she didn't trust doctors anymore because they are all out to rip you off (cheers to that!) and that the last time she went the doctor charged both her and medicare $109 to clip her toe-nails (too much information, but I had to agree with her). 
I'm not sure if it was my evident crip status or her need to rant but then went on to complain that older people have to 'pee-pee' all the time and that the adult diapers are too expensive so she said, "go get a cheap roll of paper towels and wad it up and put it 'down there' and it's much cheaper and they're not ripping you off for those expensive pads and diapers". I'm not making this stuff up!  She was a hoot and I have to admit she had a point.

Comments

[marmiteboy]

Great story Mumpy,

I aspire to be a mad, shouty old bloke when I grow up;-)

I'd be really good at shouting random nonsense at unsuspecting people in the street. It'll be fun. Even more fun if you're a crip.

[Gimpy Mumpy]

Yes I really do seem to encourage all sorts, I do smile at everyone so perhaps that is it. When the lady I wrote about's voice got louder and louder and everyone was looking at us while she's shouting "pee-pee" and more I didnt' know whether to laugh, worry if she was really alright (did she drive there?!) or tell the folks off for staring. Never a dull moment :)

[The Angry Gimp]

Wow. I thought I had some great stories about wacky people coming up to me and telling me random things, but this story takes the cake! Bwaahaahaha!

This lady makes some valid, although shaky and entirely unneccessary & TMI, points.

It sounds like you have the freak magnet as well. I don't know if it's the chair or the fact that I smile at strangers or what, but all kinds of people will come up to me and tell me just about anything out of the blue. It's really strange. Just today someone in the elevator at work started crying at me about how she had lost her food assistance card. (I helped her find it, she had dropped it in the lobby)