“Mary, we can’t let your mother eat at the dining table any more,” the nurse informed me.  When I looked surprised, she continued, “She keeps interfering with the people sitting next to her.”
Pam further explained that Mother would reach over to the next person and try to cut their meat, spoon food from a bowl onto their plate, butter their bread, etc.  She seemed to be treating them as though they were children to be fed.  Maybe they did need help, but they usually didn’t appreciate Mother’s help.
So this led to anger from Mother’s neighbors.  There hadn’t been food fights yet, but …read more