I haven't told the social worker about that person who might be having a new ritual lately. He's not just doing that, he's also getting himself in everyone's way and going much slower in the damned wheelchair.

I think he's faking. He's just doing this crap where he can get in the way so that everyone eventually sees him. Just trying to get SSDI I'm sure. Same story with his foot, and you have to be especially stupid to willingly twist and injure your own foot just to get in a nursing home. I'd love to know what his mother is faking. (She's here too, unless they sent her home.)

It reminds me of, I think, the Jabberwocky when the beggar is sawing off his limbs to get more charity. (Movie, late 1970s.)