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Skriven 2007-05-19 05:27:08 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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Hi Michael        5/19/07 4:10 AM

ml-> Report on an emetic food. My father now gets meals on wheels,
ml-> one of which I may have described earlier.

Shirley and I deliver Meals On Wheels about twice a month.  It's about the
only volunteer work I do any more.  The meals here are made at the County
Home.  I've never tasted one, but they usually smell good.  I would guess
that they are not gourmet but the folks are generally right at the door
waiting for  Shirley.  [g]   Once in while if we change our route the
Office will get a call as some old timer fears they were left out.

We generally have 9 or 10 stops, with ten to fourteen meals.  MOW offers to
pay mileage, but we have never turned in a request.  Tho' at the price of
gas now we should!

The only downside is s rather sickening feeling when someone doesn't answer
the door.   Several times we have had to search a home, and that is a very 
uneasy feeling.   So far it has been false alarms with the people just not
home. or soundly asleep in a chair.  If the house is locked we call the
Office and let them take care of it.   They ask people to call if they will
not be home, but......you know how us old folk are.  [g]

The food is given to us in a hot carrier of piled up "TV Dinner" and the
cold stuff [milk, bread, juice] is in a labeled bag in one or two coolers. 
We hjave had 14 hot meals crammed in the hot carrier, and with the two hot
wax heaters in each side it is really crammed and hard to get out.  I use a
big wide hamburg lifter to lift the pile of dinners to get to the right
name. Some of the dinners are special,,,,. low salt, or diabetic, etc.. 


Burt 
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