okay more on jackson’s senior center based off this post:
- it started as just miss shirley and her best friend darla wanting to live together and asking maria if she could maybe find a house for them to settle in together instead of living apart
- before this, mama shirley and darla would have to walk five houses each way to see each other for afternoon tea, which just won’t do. mama shirley is 92 and darla is 90 now, and both of them are too old to be have to walking that much everyday, mama shirley tells maria. she quickly and vehemently agrees
- maria has the idea of fixing a house up for jackson’s senior citizens to live in if they’d like to. it takes a lot of unnecessary convincing to get the council to dedicate one of jackson’s best houses to a maximum of five people, but maria gets it done. they pick one of the few houses that are placed in the farther back part of jackson, near the farm and the daycare center, so that it can be far-reaching from the entrance of jackson
- the first people to movie in are shirley and darla, who share a room on the second floor (thanks to tommy replacing the stairs in the house with a reliable ramp with a wall-attached handlebar)
- gary moves in not long after he breaks his left hip while herding the goats. he likes that the house is designed to be wheel-chair access and far away from most people in town. he also likes it because he can be close to darla, who he has feelings for, but nobody knows about that except for tommy and joel
- mr. wilson moves in on maria’s insistence that he’ll get hurt if he continues to live alone and try to do everything himself. his name is harold, but he insists that anyone younger than him calls him mr. wilson on account of maintaining a respectful distance. he’s a grumpy, gruff old asshole that reminds joel more of bill than bill himself, but he’s also known to do anything and everything maria tells him with only a small amount of grumbling. somehow, she convinces him to move in after he accidentally sets his kitchen on fire trying to make himself a pocketknife (which?????? maria still doesn’t have an answer for????? why harold was trying to do that????)
- last but not least is sandra dee, jackson’s oldest and most enigmatic member. nobody really knows where she came from or what her story is: she’s the only one of jackson’s seniors that managed to get to town on her own, arriving to town at 94 about a year after its founding with nothing but a backpack and three handguns. she clamed to be sandra, but they’re not entirely sure if sandra dee is her real name. she hums songs from musicals all the time and has expressed that grease was always her favorite. at least once a month she requests to go hunting with patrol and gets mad when maria tells her no
- senior center tea: shirley and darla have longstanding beef with sandra dee because she always cheats at cards during game night, shirley knows about gary being sweet on darla but is lowkey jealous about it because SHE is sweet on darla, and everyone thinks mr. wilson has a thing for maria but he actually told her in confidence last month that he is actually sweet on gary. mama shirley and mr. wilson can’t STAND each other
- tommy calls the seniors the jackson five. all of them call him thomas. he and joel bring them all basic living supplies at least once a week, but are known to be around there pretty often
tsym for anyone having interest in this pls feel free to add anything u want!!
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anyways does anyone want a review of me going back to smoking. my review is that is fun for people who live alone the rest of us need to stick to edibles
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We got a dominos pizza back in town for the first time in like... Over 15 years? It's been at least a decade since the last chain (pizza hut) went out of business and unless the cheap deals give it infinite longevity I can't see it sticking around long. There's like five local pizzerias within 2 miles, and at least three more within 5. The pizza may be significantly worse than any of the local places but it is also significantly cheaper. They're also still struggling to find employees which is funny with decor like this:
Like huh maybe if you didn't treat your employees like zoo animals you'd have better luck. Just a thought.
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Does anyone else get random pains in like the side of their neck and down into their shoulder ??? Just like randomly ?? And not just a shock of pain like it just shows up out of no where but then it just lingers.
Also on a similar note does anyone just feel like a whole bunch of neck and shoulder pain when they get high ??? Like normally I don’t feel neck pain or shoulder pain regularly but if I get high it’s there for hours. Like until the high wears off and it’s so bad that it makes me want to cry and it’s hard to hold my head up and no matter what I do, even if my head is resting back of I’m laying down flat, nothing helps. Does anyone else experience that and know a way to get it to stop ????
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