Last Decemeber I was making myself a cup of hot tea. I have these awesome huge red coffee mugs in my kitchen that I was using. I am really the only one who ever uses them...so... it surprised me when I came upstairs to see my FIL(with alzheimer's) pouring a beer into my red coffee mug- luckily he pulled a fresh one and it wasn't the one my tea was is- so no biggie.
But, FIL didn't finish his beer before dinner, so the mug came to the table with us. After dinner we had Christmas cookies for dessert. FIL takes a drink of his mug and says:
FIL:ugh- this coffee is cold
Gnat: that's not coffee, its beer, taste it- what is it?
FIL(takes drink): coffee. I need to warm it up
Gnatno, its beer, not coffee, we don't warm up beer
FIL: I have to warm up this coffee(walks to kitchen)
Gnat(follows him): Look in the mug- what does it look like?
FIL: beer
Gnat: taste it.
FIL(takes drink)
Gnat: what is it?
FIL: coffee- ugh its cold.
(this goes on for another minute before I finally give up and help him warm up his beer)
we go back to the table for dessert and he takes a drink of his hot beer
Gnat: How is your beer?
FIL: the coffee is good!
The moral of the story is: find humor in all that you can- we all enjoyed a good laugh and FIL was totally unaware he had done anything funny and just sat eating his cookies and drinking his hot coffee..er I mean hot beer.
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