I'm thinking maybe I should keep my mouth shut more often. After taking my mom to her latest teeth cleaning appointment, I made some offhand remark about how she needs to keep her remaining teeth because that's the only thing her false teeth can attach to (she doesn't have enough jaw bone left to attach false teeth to). Later that same evening, her false teeth mysteriously disappeared. After ransacking her apartment and putting out an all-points-bulletin to the staff, we had to conclude that they had somehow disappeared in the trash.
Then, a couple of days ago, I asked mom how she was coming along with the exercises that the physical therapist had assigned her. "Oh I haven't been doing them," she said. "Why?" I asked. "I just didn't feel like it." she answered. So I said that if she didn't do her exercises, I wasn't going to take her to my house for events or to my daughter's or anywhere, because it was just too much work to try to get her in and out of the car and to the location, etc. She looked thoughtful. So, today, I dropped by to give her some things she had requested and she says, "Someone took the exercises out of my room." I looked everywhere and they were nowhere to be found. Must. Keep. Mouth. Shut.