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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
(21,998 posts)I love your dad, too.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Wishing him well!
Trueblue Texan
(2,420 posts)Yonnie3
(17,421 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
(62,382 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
(17,981 posts)But you have to give your Mother credit. She told the truth in a few short words!
murielm99
(30,717 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
(22,462 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)tavernier
(12,369 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
(28,769 posts)yay Dad
FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)I havent used the word asshole this much in my entire life!
True Blue American
(17,981 posts)For myself I have not cussed this much in years. My family would be shocked.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,993 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
(9,901 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)buttons because I love every one of the stories.
kag
(4,078 posts)Precious!
beastie boy
(9,236 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
(19,558 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.