AARP shows its true colors

[Anmar]

lol warph,  between golf and drinking, i bet sitting around and calling me names is the highlight of your day.

[Diane Amberg]

I want to know what Warph does as a volunteer at the hospital and which one? I'm really interested.

[Warph]

Why..... why are you so interested

[Warph]

Why.....? ....why are you so interested

[Diane Amberg]

And why are you so suspicious?  We have lots of volunteers here at the hospitals who do everything from washing backboards and helping the ambulances get ready to return to the street to reading to kids, working at the gift and flower shop to escorting patients and family where they need to go, to taking book carts around. Excuse me for being interested...never mind ya old sour puss!

[Warph]

And why are you so suspicious?  We have lots of volunteers here at the hospitals who do everything from washing backboards and helping the ambulances get ready to return to the street to reading to kids, working at the gift and flower shop to escorting patients and family where they need to go, to taking book carts around. Excuse me for being interested...never mind ya old sour puss!

Suspicious   Now what makes you think I'm suspicious, Diane   And why are you calling me a sour puss   You pretty well covered some of the things we volunteers do.  It is about the same in all 50 states.   Nine of us here where I live have been doing this one day a week for the past 3 1/2 years.  No big deal.... we all enjoy it. 

[Diane Amberg]

Sheesh Warph, you know I'm just poking at you. I really am interested, but you're too crotchety and suspicious to share with me.
    I'm very grateful for the hospital volunteers. I benefited from them for years. I'll always remember one old fellow at the ER who always cleaned up for us while we were giving our patient reports to the staff. He'd clean the back boards, replace cervical collars, make up the cot with fresh linens, replace whatever supplies he could and generally fuss over us to make sure we were treated well. He died a few years ago and we still miss him. He considered what he did his job, and would be offended if someone didn't let him do it.
Plus my sister in law is thinking about doing some volunteering at the Mayo Clinic (AZ) which is close to them.

[Warph]

I have used Mayo as a pt. in the past and I can tell you, they are "choked" with volunteers, old and young alike.  Snerdly just told me that they are not taking applications now until feb. 2010 so she better get in line.

[Diane Amberg]

 She's not there to stay yet. They have two places. One here, one in Fountain Hills. It may be a year or more before she gives up her successful real estate business here. Her husband has closed his practice and is enjoying goofing off for the time being.