I spend a fair portion of my weekends at my parents - they are well into their 80s now and Mum has "memory issues" (because we aren't allowed to call it by the D word in Dad's world, because people write people off if they say that word).
This has put Dad into the position of carer, and he does it as well as he is able - but Dad does have some frugality issues that border on him calling his children crazy about expired food etc.
I mean, I have to give him he is still alive, but I think part of that is because Mum did pay attention to such things for a large portion of it.
He recently ran out of pepper for the table. Rather than buy some more pepper, he figured that Mum had many spices in the cupboard unused since - well, in some instances since the 1970s (because everyone knows that spices don't go out of date *).
He figured Paprika would work, since it added some colour to what was being seasoned and sounded like pepper.
Inevitably, his paprika ran out - I did pull him up and make him buy pepper in preference to his next choice - Nutmeg...
I don't think that his sense of smell or taste are all that crash hot these days.
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But how easy it makes Christmas shopping! Get him an commercial size can of black pepper!
from Paprika to Nutmeg is quite a jump. thank goodness you made him buy pepper.
You might be right about the sense of taste -- especially between paprika to nutmeg! I think maybe an updated spice selection might be on the Father's Day gift list! And I have to say, when you wrote this -- "I mean, I have to give him he is still alive." I laughed out loud. SO true on so many levels for so many things!
Oh, my. Pepper to paprika would work, but nutmeg?? I agree with Jeanie. Get him an assortment of spices for Father's Day!
Not a bad idea!
Yes - I was happy to overlook Paprika - Nutmeg not so much.
He often uses that phrasing with his "namby pamby" children
I don't think that he needs a whole collection
Nutmeg instead of pepper? I think you are right about the sense of taste. Can you check with his doctor if this is old age or maybe something else? I hope it is just a quirk and nothing more.
His main old age symptom of getting grumpy at adult children combined with the lack of consistent medical care in the town in which they live leads to a lot of "let sleeping dogs lie" response to various foibles.
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