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  • 9 May, 2009 at 5:12 pm #12966

    ForumHostPB

    I’ve just returned from the supermarket where I spotted a ‘tin rattler’ collecting money for Parkinson’s disease sufferers.

    As I watched her shaking her tin in front of passers by, a sudden thought occurred to me…………..

    ……….have you ever noticed that Parkinson’s disease collectors seem to rattle their tins with far more vigour than collectors for other charities?

    9 May, 2009 at 5:13 pm #396567

    Chocolate

    Did you give the poor woman some spare change????

    9 May, 2009 at 5:25 pm #396568

    toybulldog

    dunno

    But charity collections for the Blind are a wonderful opportunity for getting rid of those pesky foreign coins.

    8)

    11 May, 2009 at 9:24 am #396569

    jen_jen

    Hmmmmm……I have two friends with Parkinsons so seeing the humour but also mildly upset by it.

    BTW, did you know that if you shake a collection box at people you can be charged with demanding money with menace? :shock: A policeman told me that when I was at a supermarket collecting for our local breast care unit…..I told him to go ahead and charge me, the unit could do with the publicity as it was in danger of shutting down, I shook my tin a bit more and he just looked down at my chest region and smiled……don’t know why :wink:

    11 May, 2009 at 10:07 am #396570

    ForumHostPB

    You were very lucky that he didn’t charge you with “being in possession of breasts in a public place with intent to cause a breach of the peace” or perhaps (if it was a male collector) “being in possession of an offensive weapon”.

    Anyway you were lucky it wasn’t a collection for Altzheimer’s …….. “Please give generously for …….erm ……..erm ……. well please give generously anyway!”

    11 May, 2009 at 10:10 am #396571

    kent f OBE

    Maybe some coins escaped out of the tin whilst u were shaking it and jumped down ur chest area :lol: :lol: :lol:

    11 May, 2009 at 11:10 am #396572

    jen_jen

    Or maybe it was my lowish cut tshirt, my ample blessings and my enthusiastic tin-shaking….. :lol:

    11 May, 2009 at 11:37 am #396573

    Bat

    My dad recently lost a very dear friend of his to alzheimers. He served with dad in the police force for nearly 20 years and in the end he didn’t know his wife of over 30 years, his kids or who or where he was.

    Dad was asked to read at his funeral which was held in a huge church with many of his friends and former collegues there to pay their respects. He was a fine man.

    11 May, 2009 at 1:09 pm #396574

    Fi-Fi-

    I looked after someone for 10 years after they went blind. It was heartbreaking to see someone who led such an active life become so dependable on other people.
    I am now a qualified sight support officer for the blind and work as a volunteer at the local hospital eye clinic.

    11 May, 2009 at 1:32 pm #396575

    jen_jen

    I guess that’s the trouble about making jokes about any illness, there will always be someone around who has seen that illness affect someone they care about….but then isn’t joking about it how we cope with it? When my friend was dying of cancer, some of our most hilarious conversations and jokes were about her illness….and I wouldn’t change that for the world, it was how we coped with it all.

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