Speak up! Dress up!

At the residence is a nearly-monthly Town Hall and at this, The Town Hall March 26-12, monthly meeting, there was a goodly crowd of twenty residents talking to the Chief and the Executive chef. I am promoting the use of a TYY phone for one severely impaired, (read DEAF), person who cannot use a telephone and is constantly calling for repairs, You would think he would know by now that he cannot hear telephonic communications. Our staff seemed never to have heard about TYY, but I hope one will call the telephone company and inquire. Hearing loss is a great problem for most of us.
And then there are the men who are shirtless: one new fellow wears only an undershirt, and he is really out of place in the community. His table-mate wears the same dark t-shirt and jeans, day in and day out. I had become accustomed to one old lady who wears an overcoat to hide her nightgown. She does not eat with us in the one, large dining room, but wanders through to pick up something to drink at the drink station. But one eccentric is enough. Residents at the drink station make our executive chef crazy. Fluids get spilled and he does not want us in there. The table service can be slow, so that some (myself included) don't have patience to wait.