I had a friend who stayed with an older, blind, hard of hearing man to help him with his daily activities. One day, I was there, in my friends room, playing video games, and the old man said something, and my friend replied to him in a very nice way, "I will get to it very soon, but I have to think about it."

All of a sudden, the old man came around the corner, as fast as he could and screamed--"Don't call me a crazy nut!"

He was always doing stuff like that, he had a hair trigger...you could be really nice to him, and he would misunderstand you, and go off, and it would take forever to get him calmed down...

...now that I am getting to be an old man, I understand a bit