I talk to old people sometimes, regularly in fact...

but have you ever been in a situation where it's been 2 hours, and they're not even telling stories, it's just mundane bullshit about how they picked out a pumpkin over and over again, but they don't even stop to take a breath, they just keep going and going. Yeah, how do you tell a miserable, lonely, old person that you just really have to go because frankly I don't feel like wasting hours of my life acting as Xanax?

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I worked with alzheimers and dementia patients, so I know exactly what you mean. I remember being shocked when I found out the history of some of them. One person had been a Congressional aide and worked for a famous politician. When working with people who have dementia, they have very sharp memories for anything that happened in their childhood, so you should always ask them questions about their childhood.