Elderly Residents...aren't they cute!

I have several elderly residents on my property that are such a joy to talk with. They are fun, active and have a lot of spunk. Sometimes too much spunk.

Several years ago, I had one of these overly spunky resident. She made myself, the staff and other residents laugh and was loved by many.

She also had a crush on my maintenance man! He was 40 and she was 75. She would cause something to go wrong with her unit, just so he would come "visit".

With every work order, she would bake him something or make him something. He would come back to the office wearing a new scarf or carrying a plate of chocolate chip cookies.

Then one day, he came back from her apartment wearing and carrying nothing. So I asked him if he had made her mad or something and he said "no". He didn't make any other comment or anything else, so dropped it for the moment.

Later that day before he left, I asked him if everything was okay because he seem to have been down in the dumps all day.

He sat down in the office and said he didn't want to get her (this resident) in trouble, but he didn't think he could go over there again, alone anyway.

It seems that this spunky 75 year old really had the hots for him. She had put candles all over her apartment and when he came through the door, she wrapped herself around him and kissed him on the lips!

My maintenance man said he had turned around and left right after he peeled her off of him. I told him he should have told me earlier and that from now on I would go with him so that I could keep her busy.

I did this a couple of times and then on one work order visit, she sat me down and wanted to know if I was jealous of her and if I was afraid she would take my man away from me. I told her the maintenance man was not my "man" and the reason I was coming with him was because she could not behave herself when he came alone.

She said, "I knew it. I'm too much woman for him. I guess I will have to keep baking him things."

And then she looked at me at said, "You know that is the way to a man's heart." I said I heard that before.

She promised not to throw herself at him again and she promised to be a good resident when he was near.

He finally started going to her apartment alone again and she did behave herself. Of course, the fact that the maintenance man had an uncle that he fixed her up with didn't hurt.