Funny: Percy Sledge and Bang- Zoom..!

The4thOne

Got Ma's phone set up and I tipped her daytime CNA to set her IPAD up to stream Weds Bible Study and Sunday church. Mom is a former Pastor, and can still quote a scripture or three, and rip off a prayer like nobody's business.  When the phone was installed, I called to see if all was well. She can get calls in, but can only make local calls. My brothers swear I did that because I am in NC and they are in NJ. (Subliminally - they may have something there.  I'm not sayin' but I'm just sayin').  When I called Weds I asked if her 'other daughter' (she adopts everyone) set her up for bible study.  In a voice that was thoroughly miffed. 'Lee, she call herself showing me all of the stuff this thing can do.  I asked her to put on Percy Sledge and she didn't know how to do that. Then I told her to put on Ralph Kramden, you know I need to watch my Honeymooners.  She couldn't find that either.  I looked at her and said, 'well what the hell do I need this for if I can't get my shows and listen to my music.  I know the Bible, I need to hear some Percy.  I told her, Bang, Zoom, to the moon Alice!'  Well, we died laughing for a good 10 minutes.  The funny thing was since Mom forgets then repeats so much, that became a running joke for the past couple of days and we laugh all over again.  

These windows are blessings  I got a tee-shirt made to take on my next visit, with Ralph Kramden doing 'Bang Zoom, to the Moon Alice!' on the front and a picture of Percy Sledge holding a mike with 'When A Man Loves A Woman' on the back  which he sang to her at the Continental Ballroom in Newark on her 23rd birthday.  To know my mother, you have heard that story at least 50 times!

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M1

Great story, thanks for sharing!  When my 90 yo grandmother (Presbyterian ministers wife) had cataract surgery, the doctor asked her if she missed reading her Bible. She looked at him and said "I know my Bjble. I miss my newspaper."

Sjodry

The4thOne,

I also have a funny Alexa story. I had been working with my mom for several weeks when she was in independent living, on Alexa commands like tv volume, turning the tv on/off. She was doing okay with it. Then in August of last year, she fell and re-broke her left hip.

Of course she fell in a spot (at the end of the bed) not near the phone or the help button on the wall. When I got to the ER, she was wound up and ruminating about how she had to scream for help for hours before anyone heard her. And then she said to me in her distinctly southern drawl, “AND Sandy, do you know that I yelled for Alexa, and she didn’t do a DAM_ thing!!”

Bless her heart..she finally remembered how to work the darn thing..but we had not gotten to that lesson yet! You just have to laugh!  

Thank God for moments of levity in the midst of this journey!

Take care.

Sandy

P.S. If you haven’t, you should Google and watch the (SNL - Sat. Night Live) Alexa skit. It is hysterical!

Stuck in the middle

Reading the Bible is cramming for final exams.  If you've kept up all semester, you don't need to cram.  IMO

The Honeymooners was the best tv ever made.  My favorite was the time Ralph was a contestant on "Name That Tune."  Funniest thing ever.

The4thOne

Stuck in the middle:  LOL! That episode has provided our whole and total family an inside catch phrase.  Anytime we laugh about not knowing the answer to something, we say 'hummina, hummina,  hummina, uhhh Ed Norton..'  

Sjodry:  Yes, as hard as this journey is, there are some moments when we have to laugh.  I can think of a few, and still smile at some of the ridiculous things that would come out of my mothers mouth, even times when she was mad and 'going off'.  Sometimes, when we would repeat them back to her 'like really, Ma', she would even laugh, even as she denied saying it. 

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Sjodry

Thanks Victoria 2020, for adding the link. Sometimes I am tech-challenged on my iPad to do this!