It is funny.....until you get old

Yesterday my Aunt E's toliet overflowed.  Not funny.  The telephone conversation between she and my mom, funny.  But not to my mom at the time.

Aunt E:  my toliet is overflowing

Mom:  what you want me to do?

Aunt E:  there is water all over the place

Mom:  have checked to see if the water is still running?

Aunt E:  huh?

Mom:  take the top off the tank and she if it is full of water yet.

Aunt E:  yeah, it's full of water

Mom:  have you tried the plunger yet?

Aunt E:  the plunger?

Mom:  yeah, the plunger

Aunt E:  will that do any good?

Mom:  yes, it will help the stuff to go down.

Aunt E:  ok

Mom:  did it work?

Aunt E:  what do you mean?

Mom:  was there a loud girggle and a swosh?

Aunt E:  yes

Mom:  then it worked

Aunt E:  I never knew a toliet could over flow like this.  Has yours ever overflowed?

Mom:  why yes.

Aunt E:  well you never told me!

Mom:  well I just didn't think it was news worthy enough to pick up the phone to tell you the toliet is overflowing.

Aunt E:  there is water all over the place.

Mom:  get the mop.

Aunt E:  mop?  I have this cloth......

during the conversation mom sends dad over to Aunt E's to see what is going on and if she needs help.  Dad comes home and said all there was for him to do was to get the water out of the floor.  Aunt E was using the same rag to soak up some water then ring it out in the sink, then use the same rag to do that again, and again.......

What have we learned here?  Either my Aunt E has never had an overflowed toliet in her life (which I find hard to believe), she is just out right dim, or her mind is going. 

Mom didn't think any of this was funny.  I told her to step back from it for a second and think of what was said:

I didn't know a toliet could overflow.

A plunger will help?

A mop?

And she finally agreed it was somewhat funny.  Now don't get me wrong I am not making fun of my aunt -- it is just that the whole thing was funny.  My aunt is something like 75-76 so you would think in all those years she would have learned that a toliet can overflow, a plunger just might help, and that yea, a mop will soak up water.

The sad thing is to think that as some of us age our minds don't work quite the way they used to.   And for family members of people like that if you don't find something funny in what is going on you will be depressed over things that you have no control over.  So yeah, Aunt E's stopped up toliet was funny.