PLEASE DON'T CALL ME A SHUT-IN!

      The other day a  lady, that  I assisted at the Burg Grocery, mentioned she was taking a meal from the deli to a "shut-in."  I hadn't heard that term for a long time and for some reason it struck me wrong.

      I mentioned to her that I really didn't care for that term and it was one of those old fashioned phrases that, thankfully, you don't hear much any more. I know she didn't mean anything by it, but, it just sounded so cold and uncaring to me.

       I hope someday, if I am unable to get out on my own, that somebody  will say instead that they are going to visit a friend, Dennis, and they are taking him his favorite lunch!!