One of our mentally challenged men shares my initials CW. I can usually stand his conversation, but he was something else this morning. Much of his behavior was fairly typical it was just too much. He usually starts his conversations by calling some one by name to try and get their full attention. I was the nig winner today. “You know Clyde, I just wish I could wiggle my nose,” a very common part if his daily speech. He is enamored with Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.
This morning he was calling Samantha from Bewitched Sam. Few knew whom he was talking about. This agitated him more than usual. He continued to say, “You know, Sam, Sam, Sam!” One of the ladies figured it out and tried to explain it was a TV show. Everyone there should have figured it out since he either wants to twitch his nose or snap his fingers to have his apartment cleaned. We know he won’t use elbow grease.
That was only the beginning. He interrupted four more times with the same thoughts and called my name each time. It was getting hard to focus. He paid no attention to the rest of the conversation. He quickly moved on to explaining the bus schedule by route number ones which ones have changed their stops. Everyone at the table drives their own car. He then moved on to taking about Johnny. Understand now, all his comments were interruptions of an on going conversation of how and why our maintenance man was fired. This interested all of us busybodies. We all wanted CW to just be quiet.
When he brought up Johnny he put me over the edge. I admit my breakdown was somewhat premature. I can usually last longer but he was picking on me and I could not follow the conversation I wanted to follow.
“No one cares about Johnny and his truck. I cannot follow the other conversation. Do you even know that there is another conversation?”
“But Johnny is going to come by with his truck and take me over to Sally Ann (Salvation Army) for lunch. I’m going to ride in the back of the pickup.”
“You are?”
“Do you know that it is illegal to ride in the back of a pickup?"
“Yes, I do so why are you going to ride there?”
“Johnny says it OK.
“Johnny is wrong.”
“He’s going to help me get a girlfriend.”
“CW, could you be quiet awhile so we can have an uninterrupted conversation.”
That comment did not stop a thing. He kept going and going and going. The Energizer bunny! I finally left and believed that was it for the day.
We had our first outdoor BBQ on Thursday night.
In the process of eating, Chas decided to go to the other building it see if anyone was on the dining room. We had been eating there for the past two months. He got half way to the other building when CW jumped out of a chairs and started yelling obscenities and threatening that he was going to beat Chas ass to a pulp. That would be a lot of pulp. Chas is big.
It was clear CW was off his meds. I went to try and get him to stop screaming. He said Chas was interfering with him getting a girlfriend. He was sitting on the porch trying to pick up a passing girl. Fortunately, none were passing. Lucky them!
2 comments:
My gosh! Is it safe having this man around? What would have happened to Chas if you had not been there to intervene?? This doesn't sound very good for everyone. Keep us posted!!
It isn't good but it is going to take more than a threat to get him out. He will have to actually do some and not just threaten. The police came around today to talk to both the men. Then the office called to check on them. If a decision has been made we don;t yet know what it is. He seemed to be back on his meds today. All we relieved.
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