Games Senior Citizens Wish They Didn't Have to Play

I have senior citizen parents, one pair in their seventies and one pair in their nineties, their brothers, sisters, my grandparents and all of their friends. Daily frustrations that I hear from them and that I've encountered have inspired this article. Most of the anecdotes are real, but a bit dramatized, just for the fun of it.

1. Best Pill Opener Game

I came home one day to see my father finished opening his prescription drugs. He take ten different prescription drugs, all with child proof tops, meaning no one in humanity can open them. On his worktable was his list of types of openers and what he concluded:

a) Hammer-works well, just divide the resultant prescription drug powder into equal piles and store in your day to day compartment. He has four of these, one for each week, they're mounted on the wall. He's afraid if he gets another prescription on that the wall will collapse under their weight.

b) Vise wrench-ask a neighbor to hold one end of the prescription drug container

c) Screw driver-doesn't work to pry so hammer through the bottom prescription drug container

d) Band saw-cut near the top of the prescription drug container, avoid your fingers

e) Blow torch-works well, verify prescription drugs are heat tolerant

The sad thing was my father started to cry when I gave him the mailing envelope with his new supply of prescription drugs. But don't worry, he's got a new list of openers starting with wire shears, glass cutter...

A third variant occurs when the dosage for the prescription drug is too high so the pharmacy provides the guillotine to cut them in half. See game 3 to better understand.

2. Co-Pay A Day Game