DAD AGAIN

ONE DAY I WAS SITTING HERE AT MY KEYBOARD WRITING STUFF WHEN I HEARD DAD IN HIS BATHROOM YELLING LOUDLY AND TALKING THE SAME WAY, I THOUGHT WE HAD A HOME INVASION DURING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL , WELL I RAN TO HIS BATHROOM TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND I SAID "WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?"
HE SAID "DON'T INTERRUPT, I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT ...I WAS TALKING to MYSELF"

MORE MADNESS! AFTER THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE WAS PUTTING TOGETHER HIS PUZZLES OR JUST HANGING OUT, HE WORKS THINGS OUT ALOUD HAHHA. REMINDS ME OF KIDS IN SCHOOL WHO HAD TO READ EVERYTHING ALOUD OR THEY WOULDN'T GET IT. NEVER MIND THAT THEY DISTURBED MY THOUGHT PROCESS WHICH DOES BEST IN A QUIET PLACE. ALL THROUGH COLLEGE I ALWAYS WROTE MY PAPERS AFTER THE KIDS WERE IN BED AND DAD TOO. I WROTE SOME PAPERS THAT WERE REALLY GOOD. MY PROFS ALWAYS SAID I MADE A
THESIS OUT OF EVERY ASSIGNMENT. I LOVED TO WRITE AND LINK THINGS TOGETHER IN A FUN WAY. WHEN I WENT TO WORK AT MY JOBS MY SOCIAL ASSESSMENTS READ LIKE NOVELS EVERYONE ENJOYED THEM, WELL.... THEY TOLD ME SO IS HOW I KNOW. I LOVED TO PROBLEM SOLVE WITH CLIENTS AT WORK .ITS A FUN AND CREATIVE THING TO DO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I MISS MY WORK SO MUCH , I HAVE LITTLE PROBLEMS TO SOLVE NOW I'M RETIRED. I PAY BILLS AND ARGUE OVER MISTAKES IN THEM MY ONLY PROBLEM SOLVING LEFT TO ME ANYMORE.
I CAN NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHEN I DECIDED TO BECOME A SOCIAL WORKER...I WAS IN COLLEGE AND I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY AFTER JUNIOR COLLEGE I HAD 65 UNITS MOSTLY IN TH SOCIAL SCIENCES THAT'S WHAT WAS MOST FUN, I HAD TO TAKE BIOLOGY AND A FEW SCIENCE COURSES AND A MATH ONE, BUT OTHER THAN THOSE I WAS FREE TO TAKE GOOD STUFF I TOOK ART HISTORY I TOOK ART AND I TOOK PSYCH AND SOCIAL STUDIES MOSTLY SO WHEN I GOT TO THE UNIV. I WAS ASKED TO DO A WORK STUDY PROGRAM FOR Three units OF COURSE I SAID YES, WELL I SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING THIS I DRAGGED MY KIDS ALONG AND MY HUBBY TOO WHEN HE WAS WILLING WE WENT ON EXCURSIONS WITH MENTAL PATIENTS THAT REAGAN WAS DUMPING OUT OF STATE HOSPITALS WITH A PROMISE THAT THEY WOULD BE WELL SERVED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE WERE DOING THE TRANSITION WORK FOR THAT. the promised programs never happened Reagan was a LOSER then when he became president he dismantled all the states' mental health hospitals . I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT. NOW ALL MENTAL PATIENTS END UP IN PRISONS AND THAT WAS WHERE I WORKED WITH THEM IN MY LAST YEARS OF MY PROFESSION.
NOW PEOPLE WONDER WHY MENTAL PATIENTS ARE WANDERING AROUND HOMELESS AND SICK ON THE STREETS AND NOBODY WANTS THEM AROUND AND WHEN THEY COMMIT A CRIME... LIKE THIS ONE...
A MENTAL PATIENT WAS DUMPED FROM ONE COUNTY TO ANOTHER IN HOPES HE COULD GET SERVICES THERE, HE WAS A SCHIZOPHRENIC MAN ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD AND HE WANDERED INTO A HOUSE WITH THE KITCHEN DOOR OPEN AND HE WENT IN AND MADE HIMSELF A CHEESE SANDWICH, NO ONE WAS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT THERE, BUT THE FAMILY CAME HOME AND FOUND HIM SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE EATING, AND THEY CALLED THE POLICE, HE WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY OF A HOME THAT WAS INHABITED AT THE TIME. HE GOT LIKE 4 YEARS PRISON TIME FOR THIS. A SICK MAN WITH NO MEDICATION WHO WAS DELUSIONAL AND HALLUCINATING. PRISON MIND YOU. IF THAT WAS MY SON OR YOUR BROTHER YOU WOULD BE AGHAST! BUT HE WAS POOR AND HAD NO FAMILY WITH DEEP POCKETS AND FANCY LAWYERS. A THROWAWAY HUMAN BEING. PUNISHED FOR BEING HUNGRY AND GETTING FOOD AS BEST HE COULD. I WONDER WHAT JESUS WOULD DO?