In accordance with the prophesy.

With a laugh, she further advises: "Get a bunch of rubber duckies and make sure one of them can't swim."

that quacked me up

...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Chariset: ...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Summary:

Woman gets home from trip
Woman takes bath, can't get out of tub
Everyone thinks she is somewhere else and not until later go make sure she is okay
She uses duck to drink water from since she can't get enough water by cupping her hands.
Happy ending.

She would have been really panicking if she had lost her Froggy.

/ribbit
//ribbit

scruffy1: Happy ending.

So, she used the ducky for something besides a drinking cup, huh?

/Aisle seat.

scruffy1: Chariset: ...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Summary:

Woman gets home from trip
Woman takes bath, can't get out of tub
Everyone thinks she is somewhere else and not until later go make sure she is okay
She uses duck to drink water from since she can't get enough water by cupping her hands.
Happy ending.

Wouldn't take too much of that before the water wasn't drinkable.

She should have had life alert.

Chariset: ...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Then you best not think about the fact she probably had to poop at some point in those 3 days.

That's the problem with taking baths: Everything starts out all warm, nice, and relaxing -- which leads to obligatory fapping. Then, of course, you're completely farked. Do you ruin a good post-fap/warm water snooze by standing up, or do you continue to lie in your own floating fap-sauce?

/Throw in a sailor rubber ducky, however, and you've just got another Saturday night at the ole' fun-house.

Dear god, can you imagine how pruny she must have been after three days?

If anyone in my family ever gets to be that age (none have since I was a very little girl) I will be sure to check on them regularly.

Goddamn. Where the hell were her kids? Her grandkids?

Even if grandma isn't dying in a bathtub...give her a phone call. And your grandad (if you are lucky enough to have one). Your mom too. And your dad. Or whoever was there for you when you were little.

rmz 2009-06-07 04:43:26 AM
Dear god, can you imagine how pruny she must have been after three days?

Damb you, Did NOT WANT THAT IMAGE

This is actually the perfect opportunity to ask a question I've been wondering about: Is there a period of time after which it becomes dangerous for the typical person to be immersed in water?

Assuming you have access to food, a toilet, etc. at some point does the water damage your skin cells?

She had sex with it?

GENETICBAGGAGE: rmz 2009-06-07 04:43:26 AM
Dear god, can you imagine how pruny she must have been after three days?

Damb you, Did NOT WANT THAT IMAGE

Damn you all to Hades.

/ Going for a wash, need to clean.
// Not a bath.
/// [shudders]

/Approves

GENETICBAGGAGE: rmz 2009-06-07 04:43:26 AM
Dear god, can you imagine how pruny she must have been after three days?

Damb you, Did NOT WANT THAT IMAGE

MOAR

Oh wait, this is fark....

Throughout the ordeal, she repeatedly replaced the cold bath water to stay warm.

I can imagine there was another reason to replace the bath water frequently...3 days worth of bodily waste?

The rubber duck was ok, but she would have preferred a rabbit and fresh batteries.

What do you call a 90 year old woman that sat in the bath for 3 days?

...stew.

//ba dum tssh.

antialias: If anyone in my family ever gets to be that age (none have since I was a very little girl) I will be sure to check on them regularly.

Goddamn. Where the hell were her kids? Her grandkids?

Even if grandma isn't dying in a bathtub...give her a phone call. And your grandad (if you are lucky enough to have one). Your mom too. And your dad. Or whoever was there for you when you were little.

you might want to RTFA before posting.

You would think the HERO tag would be more in order since it was the rubber ducky that saved her, after all.

Curious:

you might want to RTFA before posting.

It is kinda long and blocky. I couldn't read the whole thing

They make special types of bathtubs for older people to avoid something just like this. If I had the money, I'd buy one for my mother (she's almost 80.) She has a fear of something like this happening to her, or of falling and breaking her hip.

Because if you can't even take a bath without worrying about dying, your quality of life goes right down the drain.

antialias: If anyone in my family ever gets to be that age (none have since I was a very little girl) I will be sure to check on them regularly.

Goddamn. Where the hell were her kids? Her grandkids?

Even if grandma isn't dying in a bathtub...give her a phone call. And your grandad (if you are lucky enough to have one). Your mom too. And your dad. Or whoever was there for you when you were little.

As it explained in the article, which you clearly didn't read, this woman is very active and often away from home; they called repeatedly, but her phone was out of reach and they assumed she was out at bingo or with friends or something, as that was pretty standard for her.

The daughter got increasingly more worried regardless until finally she came over.

If I couldn't reach my grandpa for a week I'd assume he was at the bar with his buddies, out for a walk, whatever. Luckily he lives in an assisted living home for that reason-- he's so active, no one would think anything of not hearing from him for a while. This is completely understandable and she has very caring family members-- I probably wouldn't worry until it had been over a week.

Before reading the article, I was guessing that a fall was what caused her to be stuck in the tub. In fact, she skipped the buffet and had only an egg and half a waffle for breakfast causing her to be TOO WEAK to get out of the tub.

That's awesome. I won't stand up in the tub for fear of slipping, now I'm going to have to load up on waffles before a good soak to eliminate that possibility.

rmz: Dear god, can you imagine how pruny she must have been after three days?

That.

this is why my 81 year old mother only ever uses the shower stall.

Rubber ducky, giver of life!

i am waiting on Pocketninja to weigh in on this.

Sue Johanson saves the day again!

On a semi-related note: I have a diver buddy who was lost at sea when the fishing boat he was on caught fire. Luckily he had his wetsuit packed with his other gear. He was found two days later floating in the ocean, alive.

The wetsuit had to be...uhhh...surgically removed.

I bet that wasn't the only time she's squeezed a sailor to get a drink.

i would have let the water out of the tub instead of keeping it full with warm water.

I don't want to think about those kinds of wrinkles.

Uchiha_Cycliste: Chariset: ...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Then you best not think about the fact she probably had to poop at some point in those 3 days.

There! That's what I always interject into these threads! Whenever some guy is stuck some place for several days, like a heating vent or something, the first thing I think of is "That guy crapped himself and pissed himself at least a half dozen times." (Seriously. First thing I think of.) So if I'm going to be stuck somewhere for three days a tub sounds fairly OK, 'cause I can get rid of my waste down the drain. It's not all squishing around inside my trousers.

Squidgilum: Uchiha_Cycliste: Chariset: ...uh...

No. I'm not reading that story. The headline gave me the most horrific mental image and I can't bear the thought that it might be correct

Then you best not think about the fact she probably had to poop at some point in those 3 days.

There! That's what I always interject into these threads! Whenever some guy is stuck some place for several days, like a heating vent or something, the first thing I think of is "That guy crapped himself and pissed himself at least a half dozen times." (Seriously. First thing I think of.) So if I'm going to be stuck somewhere for three days a tub sounds fairly OK, 'cause I can get rid of my waste down the drain. It's not all squishing around inside my trousers.

Actually no... she probably had to piss a number of times because she was keeping hydrated... but she'd only had a light breakfast and no lunch or dinner... given her age she probably was constipated as all hell without her prune juice and Metamucil.

/yes, my mind went there too....

Ok... so let's set a mental image for everyone.

A 90 year old woman.
Naked.
In a bathtub.
With a rubber ducky.
Drinking her own dirty water to stay alive.

/I bet the last drops of water in the tub was the grittiest.

Curious: you might want to RTFA before posting.

Basiorana: the article, which you clearly didn't read

Heh. Busted.

I posted that after I took a sleeping pill. Sorry for the whargarbl.