Sue, her balance may be going. My grandmother fell (at 83, IIRC) and faceplanted and broke her nose and got two black eyes. She had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing, and at 96 (tomorrow!) she's still toodling around but with a walker.
I don't know if that anecdata is helpful or more worrisome, but it's something to consider.
That's scary and frustrating, Sue. I hope she'll see her doctor. She also could have had a mini stroke.
My mother goes to doctors and has tests, but I'm not convinced she really tells them what's going on.
Matt, have you seen it done voluntarily? I would put that into a different category, I guess?
Participants were smiling and laughing in the photos I saw, so I assume it must have been voluntarily although alcohol was probably a factor. Note that the version I've seen was the 5th one listed at Urban Dictionary.
Apparently mother is not happy right now with the state of things.
I need to go home so I can call her and see if she'll be honest with me. It's so hard from long distance, because it's easy to lie on the phone once every three days.
I mean, I know because I do it myself.
Unrelatedly, whoa, a Gizmodo author got himself banned for being an offensive doucherag to commenters. There is some right in the world.
Way to go BGE. They just implemented a new site for managing your account, billing, etc. First, it takes them a week to verify your bank account. FINALLY, I get notice that it's been verified. I try to sign in and..services are temporarily unavailable, please check in later. This PLUS it keeps asking me to upgrade some microsoft silverlight beta thing multiple times through out (and I say no) with each page load. Implementation FAIL.
I finally seem to be getting my swim times back. I think. I hope.
Does Happy dance
After standing in line for half an hour inb order to return equipment, I am free of Comcast once and for all, and then I came home and had a working washer and dryer and a working garbage disposal, thanks to Juliana's M.
Does more Happy Dance.
My boss just came by my desk to talk to me.
AND I WAS HERE. The phones aren't even on anymore. Jesus, woman. Go home.